Consulting Director – Medical Surgical
Vizient, Inc
California Executive Director
The Nature Conservancy
full-time
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Location: California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $310,000 - $350,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Lead the California program as the senior leader and conservation strategist for a large, complex business unit in The Nature Conservancy.
- Hybrid position located preferably in Sacramento, San Francisco, or Los Angeles.
- Focus on fundraising, driving innovation, and people management; lead a team across conservation, science, policy, fundraising, finance and operations.
- Collaborate with peers across the Pacific Division in a leadership team that shapes strategy, development, and execution of cross-boundary efforts within the division and globally, including financial and/or human resources.
- California program has protected 1.4 million acres, 5,000 miles of streams, and 3.8 million acres of ocean habitat; aims to increase pace, scale, and effectiveness of conservation.
- Serve as primary spokesperson for TNC in California to internal and external audiences, including donors, media, government agencies and staff.
- Lead fundraising collaboration with global philanthropy team and executives to raise transformational gifts for TNC’s work.
- Approximately five direct reports and 300 staff; budget of $100 million; six offices across the state.
- Routine travel up to 40% across California, Pacific region, nationally and globally.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Graduate degree (preferred) in business, law, natural resource management or other relevant field and 10-12 years of senior level experience with an international conservation organization, or equivalent combination.
- Experience in leading and managing a large multi-disciplinary team, including managing senior level leaders.
- Experience in evaluating and/or negotiating complex, high profile or sensitive agreements.
- Experience working with the politics, society and environmental community of California and the Pacific.
- Experience communicating with and presenting to diverse audiences including donors, board members, employees, outside partners, or equivalent.
- Experience in fundraising, including cultivation of major donors.
- Multi-lingual skills and/or multi-cultural experience appreciated.
- Proven experience to engage, motivate, lead, set objectives for a team of professionals.
- Ability to foster an environment of creativity and professional growth in a complex, multi-cultural environment.
- Excellent contacts throughout the state.
- Experience dealing with challenges, identifying important issues and conceiving and implementing strategic initiatives.
- Superb communication and presentation skills; ability to persuasively convey the mission of TNC programs and priorities to diverse groups, including donors, partners, Board members and others who are critical to the organization’s overall prosperity.
