Officer, International Boreal Conservation Campaign (Campaign Strategies)

The Pew Charitable Trusts is driven by the power of knowledge to solve today's most challenging problems. Pew applies a rigorous, analytical approach to improve public policy, inform the public and invigorate civic life.

We are an independent nonprofit organization – the sole beneficiary of seven individual trusts established between 1948 and 1979 by two sons and two daughters of Sun Oil Company founder Joseph N. Pew and his wife, Mary Anderson Pew.

Our work lays the foundation for effective policy solutions by informing and engaging citizens, linking diverse interests to pursue common cause and insisting on tangible results. Our projects encourage efficient, responsive governments – at the local, state, national and international levels – serving the public interests.

With offices in Philadelphia, Washington, DC, Brussels and London and staff in other regions of the United States as well as Australia, Pew provides an exciting learning environment and the opportunity to work with highly talented individuals. We are a dynamic, rapidly evolving organization that values creativity and innovative thinking and fosters strong teamwork with mutual respect.

The Environmental Portfolio at the Pew Charitable Trusts

For the past twenty-five years, Pew has been a major force in educating the public and policy makers about the causes, consequences, and solutions to some of the world's most pressing environmental challenges. Our environment work is focused on reducing the scope and severity of three major global environmental problems:

The use of fossil fuels and other energy sources that damage the environment and increase the concentration of greenhouse gases in the planet's atmosphere;

The erosion of large terrestrial wilderness ecosystems that contain a great part of the world's remaining biodiversity; and,

The destruction of the world's marine environment.

Pew has worked in the United States and Canada since 1990 to protect vast stretches of unspoiled wilderness and more recently expanded our land conservation efforts to Australia and Chile. Pew has also become one of, if not the, largest group of marine policy professionals in the world, working to reduce the scope and severity of various activities that are having a detrimental impact on the health of the world's oceans. Each year many tons of fish and other marine life are removed from the world's oceans due to harmful fishing practices and to the lack of appropriate regulatory controls that allow overfishing and habitat destruction to continue.

Pew began its oceans program in the United States, focusing on ending overfishing and protecting fragile marine habitat. Since 2005, Pew's ocean conservation program has expanded around the world and has played a significant role in reforming marine fisheries management in the European Union and on the high seas. Pew's work is grounded in the best available science and our goal is to reverse the decline of ocean life and the habitat on which it depends. Our work uses a systematic, rigorous approach through the application of the latest science-based conservation standards to establish catch limits and to put in place other measures to protect or restore populations of marine life ranging from sharks and tunas to penguins and whales.

Our current efforts in the Western Hemisphere are focused on implementing ecosystem-based fisheries management practices in U.S. waters, protecting marine wildlife and habitat in the Arctic Ocean, achieving clean energy and climate adaption policies at the federal level, and designating new wilderness protected areas, parks and wildlife refuges on land.

Campaign Overview

Over the past two decades, Pew has played a prominent role in working with state and regional partners, local communities and public officials to preserve wild and biologically diverse public lands in the United States, Canada and Australia. The International Boreal Conservation Campaign (IBCC) is a Trusts Operated Project working in Canada and internationally to centrally manage and support the Trusts' boreal conservation efforts with its partners, including Ducks Unlimited, Inc. and Ducks Unlimited Canada, the Boreal Songbird Initiative, the Indigenous Leadership Initiative, environmental organizations and progressive corporations.

Position Overview:

The Officer will initiate, plan, implement and evaluate strategies for and coordination of regional IBCC campaigns in British Columbia and other jurisdictions in western Canada. IBCC campaigns in British Columbia are ramping up new, multi-year efforts and other western Canadian jurisdictions may launch in the coming months. The officer will also closely coordinate the efforts of Pew's IBCC with its Alaska boreal project. It is expected that this position is for a term period through March 31, 2018, with the possibility of an extension pending the success of the program, funding sources and board decisions on continued support.

• Work closely with the Director, Regional Campaign teams and strategic partners to develop and aggressively pursue winning advocacy campaigns in British Columbia and other jurisdictions in western Canada:
• Provide campaigning expertise to help regional campaign teams plan, develop, implement, and evaluate their strategies, including strategic plans for communications, media outreach, constituency outreach and organizing tactics.
• Assess and analyze political landscape in key jurisdictions;
• Integrate and ensure effective, coordinated, collaborative partnerships among the campaign's strategic components and partners (e.g. science, communications, indigenous leaders, conservation groups);
• Continually assess the effectiveness of campaign strategies and work with campaign leaders and partners to refine and improve it;
• Identify, engage, and effectively mobilize new strategic allies and partners;
• Work with communications team to develop communications strategies that deploy traditional and non-traditional media to support campaign goals;
• Assist in drafting, editing and preparating of campaign materials (e.g. letters to public officials, news releases, reports) as needed.
• Oversee and assist with special projects as determined in conjunction with the campaign Director.

Requirements

We are seeking an experienced campaign or advocacy professional who has a proven track record of success in advancing policy campaigns.

• A bachelor's degree required and progressively responsible experience in issue advocacy and/or political campaigns, advanced degree preferred;
• Eight years of applicable experience. Experience developing and implementing sophisticated campaign plans and strategies that shape public policy strongly preferred;
• Excellent networking skills;
• Proven record of securing policy wins;
• Ability to lead and work within a diverse team to accomplish project goals;
• Action-oriented, entrepreneurial, adaptable, and innovative approach;
• A high level of cultural sensitivity and awareness;
• Proficiency with Microsoft office programs, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Preferred:

Familiarity with conservation issues;

Knowledge of or experience working in Canada.

Travel:

This position will be based in Seattle, Washington and will travel internationally to Canada several times per year and to our headquarters office in Washington, DC several times per year.

Compensation:

Pew offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Pew is an equal opportunity employer.

Pew is an equal opportunity employer.

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