Director of Conservation Partnerships

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🦌 Connecticut, Maine, +11 more states – Remote

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💵 $85k - $100k / year

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NWF International

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1 - 10 employees

🤝 Non-profit

📚 Education

🌍 Social Impact

Non-profit • Education • Social Impact

NWF International is a U. S. -based 501(c)(3) nonprofit conservation organization that works to protect wildlife, habitats, and natural resources through advocacy, education, habitat certification, and community engagement. It operates programs addressing climate, water, lands, environmental justice, and wildlife conservation, and publishes educational content (including Ranger Rick) and resources for families, educators, and supporters while fundraising and mobilizing volunteers and supporters.

📋 Description

• Cultivate and maintain partnerships with a cohort of NWF affiliate organizations • Serve as a bridge between NWF and affiliates, ensuring two-way communication • Connect affiliates with NWF subject-matter experts, scientific resources, and federal policy teams • Facilitate affiliate-to-affiliate partnerships and peer learning • Identify funding opportunities and shared national-state funding options • Convene stakeholders across NWF departments and program teams to co-design initiatives with affiliates • Support or lead regional, programmatic, and operational affiliate convenings, committees, and work groups • Advise and coach affiliate leaders, boards, and staff on organizational health and resilience • Support organizational and board development, strategic planning, prioritization, and financial management • Provide best practices and capacity-building opportunities on governance and sustainability • Maintain a regular presence with affiliates through virtual and in-person engagements • Facilitate relationships between NWF board members and affiliates • Cultivate diverse NWF board recruitment pipelines • Ensure affiliate participation in NWF governance and annual leadership meetings • Develop innovative approaches to address affiliate priorities and increase capacity • Provide strategic consulting and execution support for campaigns, fundraising, strategic planning, equity and justice, and operational scaling • Evaluate affiliate bandwidth before program initiatives, grant awards, or sub-awards are finalized • Strengthen collaboration and coordination across NWF teams and affiliates to advance conservation outcomes

🎯 Requirements

• Demonstrated proficiency in building and maintaining authentic partnerships with a diversity of individuals and organizations • Experience facilitating coalitions or networks highly prized • Strong communication skills • Experience working with nonprofit organizations • Understanding of nonprofit governance, operations, communications, and fundraising principles • Ability to manage work independently and proactively identify opportunities and solutions • Strategic thinking and prioritization skills • Ability to balance multiple projects simultaneously • Foundation in environmental, environmental justice, and/or conservation principles and practices through educational background and/or professional experience in conservation, science, public policy, or a related field • Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills • At least ten years of professional experience • Executive-level emotional intelligence • Adaptability to different affiliate sizes, capacities, and maturity levels • Conflict mediation and advocacy skills • Commitment to equity and responsibility to marginalized people • Empathy and social skills • Passion for and commitment to NWF's mission and values • Must reside in or within an adjacent state to the Northeastern or Mid-Atlantic United States, within the region extending from Maine to North Carolina • Periodic travel to affiliates and national/regional meetings expected • Ability to understand, analyze, and apply complex information, policies, and concepts • Ability to exercise sound judgment, problem-solve, and make decisions amid ambiguity or competing priorities • Ability to maintain focus and manage multiple tasks or workstreams • Ability to operate standard office equipment and virtual conferencing tools • Ability to communicate and exchange information in person, by telephone, and electronically • Ability to read, review, and produce written and electronic documents

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible scheduling • Vacation starting at three weeks accrual based on a full-time schedule • Unlimited wellbeing time • Half day Fridays • 11 holidays • Paid winter break from December 25 to January 1 • Up to 16 weeks of fully paid Family and Medical Leave • Low-cost health, dental, and vision insurance options • Outpatient mental health covered at in-network rates • Therapist available at no cost • Pet insurance and discount perk program • Annual wellbeing allowance • Retirement plan with immediate match and vesting • Annual year end retirement contribution • Tuition Reimbursement • Adoption and Surrogacy assistance • Pet adoption stipend • Student Loan management • Fully remote work environment