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Director, North America Forest Priority

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Reference 12550  (Please mention Stopdodo/Environment Jobs in your application)
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Location Montana - America North
Town/City The selected candidate can reside within the TNC Western Division (AK, AZ, CA, Canada, CO, HI, ID, MT, NM, NV, OR, UT, WA, WY) or at the World Wide Office in Arlington, VA.
Type Fixed Term and Permanent Roles
Status Full Time
Level Senior Level
Deadline 15/11/2010
Company Name The Nature Conservancy
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Directory Entry : The mission of The Nature Conservancy is to preserve the plants, animals and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive.
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IMPORTANT:  This Advertiser has requested that applicants MUST be National Residents / Valid Work Permit-holders.  Other applicants need not apply.

 


ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
The Director of North America Forest Priority is a senior level conservation position within the North America Region and a member of the North America Leadership Council.  S/he is responsible for oversight and implementation of the Conservancy’s North America Conservation Region’s (NACR) forest priority and strategy to improve ecological management and restoration of America’s federal forests. The goal of this strategy is to restore forest health and resilience to the approximately 200+ million acres of federal forests in the US, via expansion and focus of the Conservancy’s extensive on the ground federal forest restoration efforts, coupled with federal policy and budget changes and significant increases in public and private funds available for restoration efforts. The federal forest strategy will utilize a two-pronged approach in achieving its goals: testing and/or demonstrating large-scale federal forest planning and restoration solutions on a set of geographically and politically dispersed landscapes across the US; and building a broad, diverse coalition of committed stakeholders focused on improving existing federal forest policies and budgets.  Close coordination with leadership and staff of the U.S. Forest Service, both regionally and nationally, is anticipated.

The Director must be effective in working both internally and externally to achieve the Conservancy’s federal forest goals. The Director will work internally to harness the strength of the organization through building cross-cutting teams, partnering very closely with state programs, and coordinating with US Government Relations, NACR Science, philanthropy, and marketing and communications.  The Director provides strategic leadership for execution of the federal forest management business plan including; personnel management, problem solving, and priority setting.  S/he serves as a key contact to federal forest managers within US Department of Agriculture (USDA), US Forest Service (USFS) and the Department of Interior (DOI), other conservation and forest resource organizations, foundations, the timber industry and the academic community.  S/he plays a leading role in donor identification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship from a donor perspective for the program.  This position includes one or more of the following functions:

• Works with a well-represented Conservancy leadership team to refine conservation goals for this N. American priority/initiative, develops additional forest strategies to meet the Conservancy’s federal forest conservation goals, and builds organizational support for the action needed to achieve success;
• Develops and provides strategic leadership to a national implementation team for the federal forest strategy that effectively analyzes and utilizes the demonstration landscape successes and failures to ensure a compelling case for policy and budget reforms to accelerate the pace of restoration; builds an effective coalition that supports ecological management and restoration of federal forests and the necessary public policy and budget reforms; and develops and markets the federal forest policy and budget reform agenda;
• Builds strong alliances with external partners to wage national campaigns for improving the management and funding of  America’s public forests;
• Sustains and improves the Conservancy’s role as a major conservation partner with USDA and Interior, emphasizing partnership to restore America’s public forests;
• Coordinates with the Conservancy’s marketing/communications team to use media to influence key decision makers and build the coalition of support for the federal forest strategy;
• Coordinates with the Conservancy’s conservation campaign team to develop a campaign plan and use of strategic communications to achieve campaign objectives;
• Coordinates with the Conservancy’s U.S. government relations team to develop/maintain effective relationships with elected officials and inform/motivate positive action on relevant budget and policy priorities;
• Develops key partnerships with public and private organizations to widely communicate and share forest restoration solutions and best practices for federal forests;
• Negotiates complex and innovative solutions with government agencies, major institutions, and landowners to conserve and restore high profile, federal forest landscapes; and
• Helps TNC state programs develop and implement cutting-edge conservation strategies for high profile federal forest landscapes.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• BA/BS degree and 15 years experience in conservation practice or equivalent combination of education and experience;
• Strong understanding of the ecology, natural ecological processes (fire regimes), and stresses of North America’s forested ecosystems (especially western forests);
• Experience designing, implementing, and directing complex or multiple projects of strategic importance involving multiple states and regions, managing finances, supervising multidisciplinary professionals, and coordinating the work of multiple teams and/or initiatives;
• Experience working with current trends and practices in landscape scale ecosystem restoration including fire restoration and forestry practices;
• Experience in partnership development (for profit and non-profit partners, community, government) in multiple states and regions; experience with high-level conservation contacts;
• Experience with certain aspects of fundraising: including identifying forestry donor prospects and donor cultivation; and
• Understanding of methods and standards of forest and biodiversity information systems and initiatives (e.g. LANDFIRE, Forest Inventory and Analysis, and NatureServe).
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