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General Profile of an ICLEI Director
Competencies and Characteristics
In addition to having strong and demonstrated management competencies and skills, an ICLEI Director is also a resourceful entrepreneurial manager “building out” a region within ICLEI’s membership network. Success in the Regional Director position will therefore require:
- High and sustained energy: the Director is both a sprinter and a long-distance runner;
- The ability to work in a fast-paced work environment with multiple parallel work streams;
- Strong people skills: the Director must be a relationship- and team-builder;
- A very clear and stable sense of strategic direction: the Director is a navigator who charts a logical course, aligns parties to the course, and helps them all stick to it;
- Ability to communicate ICLEI expertise: the Director is comfortable with technical issues and details, is able to understand the diverse technical work of ICLEI members and staff, and can communicate about ICLEI expertise to both technical and non-technical audiences in an accurate and compelling way.
Skills
The required management skills of the Regional Director position include:
- Team recruitment, development, and leadership, and human resources management;
- Fundraising and proposal development;
- Financial and human resources planning;
- Financial management and budgeting;
- Strategic partnerships development, contracting, and management;
- Sales, to grow both the size and engagement level of ICLEI’s membership within the region.
Qualifications for a Regional Director Include
- At least three years of senior management responsibility over a membership or professional association, or community-facing department of one of more of the following:
- A non-profit organization,
- A private company,
- A government;
- One or more successful career experiences as a senior manager overseeing the market introductions and growth of a new service or product in the non-profit or private sector;
- At least two years experience working directly with local government(s) in an elected office, professional staff position, or consulting capacity;
- A graduate degree in environmental science, policy, or management, or at least two years of senior professional experience in an related function;
- At least one senior professional position with direct annual grant and other revenue generation responsibility at the level of half a million dollars or more per annum;
- Excellent writing skills;
- Excellent verbal communication skills;
- Ability and availability for business travel on a minimum bi-weekly basis.
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