Job title:

White Oak Initiative - Executive Director - Remote

Location:

Central or Eastern Time Zones

Terms:
Reports to:

Full Time
White Oak Initiative Executive Committee

About us:

American white oak (Quercus alba) is a tree species currently occupying more than 104 million acres (about the area of California) of public and private forestland across much of the eastern and central United States. Not only do white oak forests support extensive plant and animal biodiversity, white oak is also among the most commercially important hardwoods, generating billions of dollars annually and supplying necessary material to industries such as furniture, flooring, cabinetry, and wine and spirits.

The White Oak Initiative is a diverse coalition of partners committed to the long-term sustainability of America’s white oak forests as well as the economic, social, and environmental benefits they provide. Partners include white oak-dependent or interested industries, trade associations, landowners, conservation organizations, agencies, universities, and non-profits.

About the Role:

Reporting to the Steering Committee, the Executive Director (ED) will have overall strategic and operational responsibility to ensure programmatic and staffing excellence, financial well-being, strong and growing programs, and execution of its mission to empower all to fully contribute. The Executive Director is both the lead administrator of the White Oak Initiative and a key facilitator for the implementation of White Oak programs.

Responsibilities:

Leadership & Management

• Ensure ongoing programmatic excellence, rigorous program evaluation, and consistent quality of finance and administration, fundraising, communications, and systems; recommend timelines and resources needed to achieve the strategic goals.
• Actively engage and energize White Oak Initiative’s diverse committee members, partnering organizations, and funders. Develop relationships with stakeholders engaged in white oak conservation across its full range, and act as a key spokesperson for the White Oak Initiative.
• Develop, maintain, and support a strong Steering Committee; serve as ex-officio of each committee; seek and build Steering Committee involvement with strategic direction for both ongoing projects as well as opportunities for new or expanded work. Advise the Steering Committee on organizational structure and governance.
• Inspire, encourage, and influence regional efforts to conserve white oak.
• Lead, coach, develop, and retain the Initiative’s efficient, high-performing team.
• Ensure effective systems to track progress, and regularly evaluate program components, to measure successes that can be effectively communicated to the Steering Committee, funders, and other constituents.
• Oversee white oak grant deliverables and funding, ensuring consistent mission support. This includes supervising and leading the development and monitoring of budgets, as well as management of grant agreements, subawards, and external contracts, working in partnership with the White Oak Initiative’s fiscal sponsor to ensure rigorous compliance with federal policies.

Fundraising & Communications

• Expand revenue generating and fundraising activities to support existing program operations and expand programs for increased impact and lead the proposal writing process as needed.
• Deepen and refine all aspects of communications—from web presence to external relations with the goal of creating a stronger brand.
• Use external presence and relationships to garner new opportunities to achieve the Initiative’s goals and objectives.

Planning & Performance

• Prepare accurate and timely analyses that capture and communicate financial status and performance trends.
• Lead the annual planning, organization, and direction of the White Oak Initiative’s operations and programs to make progress toward the 100M acre goal.
• Partner with the Initiative’s fiscal sponsor to develop and implement consistent expense accounting policies, procedures, and operational reporting and metrics.

Candidate requirements:

What’s attractive to the right candidate:

• Advanced degree in a natural resources field preferred
• Minimum of 10 years of senior management experience
• Proven leadership, coaching, and relationship management experience.
• Track record of effectively leading a performance and outcomes-based organization, coalition or program(s).
• Ability to point to specific examples of having developed and operationalized strategies that have had measurable impact.
• Demonstrated success fundraising with public and private funders.
• Excellence in organizational management with the ability to coach and supervise staff, manage, and develop high-performance teams, set and achieve strategic objectives, and manage a budget.
• Past success working with a Board of Directors (or similar, e.g. Steering Committee) with the ability to cultivate existing relationships.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; a persuasive and passionate communicator with excellent interpersonal and multidisciplinary project skills.
• Action-oriented, entrepreneurial, adaptable, and innovative approach to business planning.
• Ability to work effectively in collaboration with diverse groups of people.
• Passion, idealism, integrity, positive attitude, mission-driven, and self-directed.

• You have the unique and exciting opportunity to work with amazing colleagues, partners and landowners to help connect forest landowners with technical and financial assistance to better steward their land and achieve vital landscape-scale conservation impacts.
• Your contributions and leadership will be appreciated. Our staff is passionate, dedicated and good at what they do, and will be deeply grateful for your efforts to create and preserve an environment that is both fun and fair.
• We offer a flexible work environment that respects your life outside of work.
• Salary is commensurate with experience.
• AFF offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits package.

Contact us to apply
We know there are great candidates who may not check all these boxes, and we also know you might bring important skills that we haven’t considered. If that applies to you, don’t hesitate to apply and tell us about yourself.
https://www.forestfoundation.org/who-we-are/people/careers/

We are committed to creating a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status or any other basis protected by law.

Job Type: Full-time

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