Description
Location: Remote (40)
Full time
Requisition ID: JR863
About Audubon
The National Audubon Society is a leading nonprofit conservation organization with 120 years of science-based, community-driven impact, dedicated to protecting birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow. Birds are powerful indicators of our planet's health, acting as sentinels that warn us of environmental change and inspire action. Audubon works across the Western Hemisphere, driven by the understanding that what is good for birds is good for the planet. Through a collaborative, bipartisan approach across habitats, borders, and the political spectrum, Audubon drives meaningful and lasting conservation outcomes. With 800 staff and over 1.9 million supporters, Audubon is a dynamic and ever-growing force committed to ensuring a better planet for both birds and people for generations to come. Learn more at www.audubon.org and on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @audubonsociety.
Position Summary:
The Vice President, Conservation Action, Chapters builds and advances Audubon's strategy to connect and equip hundreds of community and campus chapters to contribute meaningful, measurable impact toward the organization's strategic plan. Reporting to the Managing Director, Community Building, the Vice President collaborates closely with leaders across the organization to co-design plans to successfully implement and scale impactful strategies with local chapters. The Vice President cultivates strong relationships with key external leaders, coalitions, and partners and will serve as an important fundraising partner with Development.
Compensation:
Salary range based on geo-differentials:
$143,000 - $160,000 / year = National
$160,000 - $181,000 / year = Alaska, CA (not San Francisco), Connecticut, D.C., Chicago, Oyster Bay, NY
$178,000 - $201,000 / year = NYC (not Oyster Bay), San Francisco, Seattle
Essential Functions
Establish and advance Audubon's community and campus chapters priorities, strategies, and tactics and work closely with conservation leaders to design implementation plans to deliver impact at scale toward Audubon's strategic goals.
Effectively guide, manage, and support systemic transformations considering all stakeholders' diverse needs and perspectives that will empower and equip chapters to make stronger contributions to Audubon's strategic goals.
Manage a team of direct reports, through establishment of work objectives and priorities, reviewing and revising these objectives, focusing on Audubon's community and campus chapters strategies and overseeing cross-division teams and communities of practice to deliver on chapter initiative outcomes.
Serve as a natural partner with Development on fundraising for Community Building and chapters priorities and support a culture of philanthropy across the team and organization.
Manage the community and campus chapters cost center, and provide Conservation leadership with recommendations on resource needs and allocations to achieve chapter plans across the organization that meet Community Building goals.
Accountable for ensuring tracking, measurement, and reporting of chapters work toward organizational strategic goals.
Play a key role in organizing the biannual Audubon Leadership Conference, under the leadership of the Managing Director of Community Building and in partnership with Conservation leaders, chapters, members, and partners.
Drive adoption of Audubon's Values and Conservation Principles within the team and across chapters work.
Serve as an internal and external thought leader on community building and chapters, providing analysis on issues, solutions, and trends and developing new ideas and approaches to meet community building goals.
Build and maintain enduring relationships with key chapter and community building leaders and partners. Elevate Audubon's leadership and profile with external leaders, coalitions, and partners.
Ensure that all Audubon financial standards, operating policies, programmatic commitment, and legal/statutory requirements are met.
Support a culture of philanthropy, including public funding efforts.
Collaborate with colleagues across the Americas including through joint planning and execution of shared priorities.
Maintain and foster culture of safety.
Other job-related duties as assigned.
Qualifications and Experience:
15+ years of experience in programmatic, volunteer management, community organizing, and/or grassroots engagement in a federated or matrixed organization, including at least 5 years in a management/leadership role. An equivalent combination of education and experience will also be considered.
Demonstrated capacity for strategic decision-making, aligning choices with long-term organizational goals, and considering the broader impact on the organization's mission and vision; competence in making timely decisions even in complex or ambiguous situations.
Documented success in fundraising and willingness to engage as a natural partner to Development staff on fundraising efforts is required.
Proven ability to build and lead a diverse team of staff and supporters.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills are essential.
Experience, discipline, and focus in business planning and budgeting required. Demonstrated success with project management and/or operational experience is necessary.
Experience engaging and successfully cultivating diverse community partners and stakeholders required.
Knowledge of and experience with best practices and current trends in nonprofit volunteer management, grassroots development, and leadership, and/or governance strongly preferred.
Willingness and interest to consider hemisphere-wide opportunities and better integrate those into the existing work.
Proven ability to oversee an array of projects simultaneously, and lead through influence as much as through formal authority. Skilled in collaboration, team building, delegation, and transparent, consultative management.
Deep commitment to building a culture of workplace excellence is a must and a willingness to lead through organizational change is necessary for success.
Ability to spend time with staff in person, as needed. Willingness to travel out of state and internationally, as needed, and work occasional nights and weekends, when necessary. Willingness to travel up to 25% of the time.
Ability to maintain a high level of integrity, transparency, and an interpersonal style that creates the ability to connect genuinely with people at all levels and from varied backgrounds.
Commitment to Audubon's organizational values of care, collaboration, change, integrity, impact, and innovation.
National Audubon Society Competencies: This role will also be accountable to apply and develop the following competencies.
Building Trust: Take actions that give others confidence in your intentions and see you as a truthful and reliable person who follows through on promises and commitments.
Coaching: Guide and develop individuals within the organization, nurturing their professional growth and enhancing performance for the future.
Decision Making: Make decisions based on comparative data and input from various sources, incorporating diverse viewpoints and insights for a holistic understanding.
Leading and Facilitating Change: Be effective in guiding, managing, and supporting organizational or systemic transformations, including considering diverse needs and perspectives.
Strategic Leadership: Demonstrate creative problem-solving skills and articulate strategic vision to help team members and the organization achieve long-term goals.
EEO Statement
We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic outlined by federal, state, or local laws. We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible hiring process for all candidates.
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The National Audubon Society protects birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow, throughout the Americas using science, advocacy, education, and on-the-ground conservation. Audubon's state programs, nature centers, chapters, and partners have an unparalleled wingspan that reaches millions of people each year to inform, inspire, and unite diverse communities in conservation action. Since 1905, Audubon's vision has been a world in which people and wildlife thrive. Audubon is a nonprofit conservation organization.
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