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Executive Director
Washington Resource Conservation and Development Council
Job Announcement
Position: Executive Director
Reports to: Board President
Location: Must be located in Washington State and able to be in the Yakima office as needed for Operational Oversight. Minimum 2-3 times per month.
Salary: $90,000-$95,000/year. Full-time, Exempt.
Benefits: Health Benefits for employee; Vacation, Sick, Holiday. Travel from Home Office.
Organization:
The Washington Resource Conservation and Development Council (WRCD) serves to empower communities by equipping them with the tools, resources, capacity, and connections necessary to adapt to a changing world. Current programs support place-based leadership in community wildfire adaptation, landscape, and salmon habitat restoration. We do this by partnering with local organizations and state and federal entities to support community-based initiatives with facilitation, project management, technical assistance, training, planning, grant-making, fiscal sponsorship, community building, and working to resolve identified policy issues.
In establishing our 2022-2025 Strategic Plan, WRCD focused on 4 key areas:
1. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Inspire, enable, and cultivate a shared culture of conservation that includes all community members.
2. Programs: Maintain and invest in quality programming.
3. Organizational Capacity: Develop capacity and build for the future.
4. Marketing and Communication: Radically increase awareness and knowledge of WRCD—who we are, what we do and why, and how and who we partner with.
Position:
WRCD is looking for the next Executive Director. This individual provides strategic leadership, works with the Board of Directors, staff and partners, develops fundraising strategies, as well as overseeing day-to-day operations, and fiscal and organizational management.
Our Executive Director has experience in rural Washington communities and engages in partnerships to leverage opportunities and support partners and staff in accessing resources to meet their program goals.
Successful candidates will have:
• Work experience and/or a bachelors degree in resource management, restoration, nonprofit management, or other similar training.
• Ability to manage staff, board, and empower the community to engage in projects that impact the lives of individuals in rural and rural-urban interface communities.
• Experience with the successful implementation of diversity, inclusion, and equity values that enhance the work culture and community engagement.
• Strength in fundraising, grant writing, grant management, and state, federal, and foundation funding models.
• Ability to develop budgets, analyze financial reports and funding streams, and provide transparent reporting to the board and community.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate to a wide variety of audiences in writing and speaking.
For more information and the full job description, please visit: https://apptrkr.com/5649407
Application Deadline: September 24, 2024