National Wildlife Federation
Denver, CO
Hispanics Enjoying Camping, Hunting, and the Outdoors (HECHO) was created to help fulfill our duty to conserve and protect our public lands for future generations. We provide a platform for Hispanics to contribute knowledge and perspectives about public lands conservation issues, enhance leadership capacity of Hispanic leaders, and promote Hispanic cultural heritage and connections to nature. While our focus is on the protection of public lands in the American Southwest, our work has a national scope and impact. In 2017, HECHO joined forces with the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) through a unique and mutually beneficial relationship built upon values of inclusion and equity and a commitment to elevating underrepresented perspectives as part of our conservation missions.
To achieve our mission of empowering Hispanic leaders to engage their communities in the conservation of our nation’s public lands, we are seeking a Strategy and Partnerships Director who speaks conversational English and Spanish to work remotely from a state in HECHO’s core region—Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, or Utah.
Reporting to the HECHO Executive Director, the HECHO Strategy and Partnerships Director is responsible for providing strategic input to HECHO’s staff at federal, state, and local levels that will help guide HECHO’s advocacy work. This role is responsible for identifying, analyzing, and proposing winning strategies that help HECHO’s advocacy staff and advocacy network succeed. This role is also responsible for helping HECHO forge new relationships with advocates, organizations, elected officials and community leaders, and new partnerships with philanthropic institutions and individuals. The ideal candidate will also support HECHO’s staff in leadership development and campaign and project guidance.
Key Responsibilities:
Operate as a thought partner to the Executive Director to implement the strategic roadmap.
Help HECHO meet its annual goals by providing strategic guidance on goals, project and mission-setting.
Identify key strategic growth opportunities for HECHO and expand HECHO’s network of philanthropic partners.
Work with the HECHO staff to identify leadership-building opportunities and provide guidance on how to move key campaigns forward.
Serve as an advisor and connector with HECHO’s Policy and Advocacy Manager to identify key strategies and opportunities to move HECHO’s policy goals forward and attend meetings with administrative officials and other key decision-makers.
Work with HECHO’s Communications Coordinator to support the development and delivery of effective communication strategies that help HECHO meet its goals.
Serve as an ambassador and champion for HECHO in public-facing settings.
Serve as an advisor to HECHO’s New Mexico Senior Field Coordinator to help fulfill HECHO’s goals in New Mexico.
Support the Executive Director’s leadership for the HECHO team to assure projects and campaigns are achieving the desired outcomes.
Provide support to help fulfill HECHO’s goals in New Mexico and Arizona.
Carry out additional duties, as assigned
Qualifications:
At least ten years of professional experience
Demonstrated knowledge and experience with strategy-setting for conservation organizations
Familiarity of, experience with, and deep commitment to Hispanic cultural heritage
Strong knowledge on how Congress, the Executive Branch, state and local governments work
Familiarity with conservation issues, public land management agencies, and/or legislative and administrative processes
Experience supporting inclusive teams and multiple stakeholders to achieve shared goals
Understanding of non-profit management and operations
Conversational Spanish language skills preferred
Experience:
Proven success in managing, overseeing, or guiding a conservation organization
Demonstrated ability to effectively achieve conservation goals
Experience working with people from different backgrounds and ability to bring people together to work toward common goals
Experience working with multi-disciplinary teams to achieve results
Ability to collaborate, coordinate, and communicate effectively and efficiently with both internal and external partners
Ability to forge meaningful and long-lasting partnerships
Competency in skills needed to secure and manage philanthropic relationships
Demonstrated knowledge of Hispanic heritage, in particular cultural and historical connections to the land, air, and water, and ability to share knowledge in a culturally responsive way
Travel Requirements:
Occasional travel across the state of New Mexico and to Washington, D.C.
Salary Range and Benefits:
The salary range for this position is $80,000 to $90,000.
HECHO is a partner and program of the National Wildlife Federation. The National Wildlife Federation values work-life balance and a family-friendly atmosphere. Our paid time-off includes 3 weeks of vacation leave, open wellbeing leave, 10 paid holidays, 3 floating holidays, a week-long winter break, and additional leave options, per year. In addition, our benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision insurance, company paid life insurance, AD&D, short- and long-term disability, 16 weeks of paid FMLA l eave, 403b retirement plan with employer matching and annual contribution, adoption benefits, and flexible work options including telecommuting, non-traditional work hours, and compressed work weeks. Applicants are invited to learn more about National Wildlife Federation’s benefits package at https://www.nwf.org/About-Us/Careers .
Application:
Candidates should submit both a cover letter and resume.
We strive to increase diversity, equity, inclusion and justice (DEIJ) in all elements of our work and with our partners to support the interdependent needs of wildlife and people in a rapidly changing world. We recruit, employ, train compensate, and promote regardless of race, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity (including gender nonconformity and status as a transgender individual), age, physical or mental disability, citizenship, genetic information, past, current, or prospective service in the uniformed services, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Applicants are invited to learn more about National Wildlife Federation’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion at nwf.org/equity .
If you have a disability and require an accommodation or assistance with our online application process, please tell us how we can help by calling us at 703-438-6244.
The requirements listed in our job descriptions are guidelines, not hard and fast rules, and if you have 75% of the qualifications listed we encourage you to apply. Your experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work, which helps build the competencies, knowledge, and skills that translates directly to our openings. Applying gives you the opportunity to be considered.
If selected for this position, a background check will be conducted.
Hispanics Enjoying Camping, Hunting, and the Outdoors (HECHO) was created to help fulfill our duty to conserve and protect our public lands for future generations. We provide a platform for Hispanics to contribute knowledge and perspectives about public lands conservation issues, enhance leadership capacity of Hispanic leaders, and promote Hispanic cultural heritage and connections to nature. While our focus is on the protection of public lands in the American Southwest, our work has a national scope and impact. In 2017, HECHO joined forces with the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) through a unique and mutually beneficial relationship built upon values of inclusion and equity and a commitment to elevating underrepresented perspectives as part of our conservation missions.
To achieve our mission of empowering Hispanic leaders to engage their communities in the conservation of our nation’s public lands, we are seeking a Strategy and Partnerships Director who speaks conversational English and Spanish to work remotely from a state in HECHO’s core region—Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, or Utah.
Reporting to the HECHO Executive Director, the HECHO Strategy and Partnerships Director is responsible for providing strategic input to HECHO’s staff at federal, state, and local levels that will help guide HECHO’s advocacy work. This role is responsible for identifying, analyzing, and proposing winning strategies that help HECHO’s advocacy staff and advocacy network succeed. This role is also responsible for helping HECHO forge new relationships with advocates, organizations, elected officials and community leaders, and new partnerships with philanthropic institutions and individuals. The ideal candidate will also support HECHO’s staff in leadership development and campaign and project guidance.
Key Responsibilities:
Operate as a thought partner to the Executive Director to implement the strategic roadmap.
Help HECHO meet its annual goals by providing strategic guidance on goals, project and mission-setting.
Identify key strategic growth opportunities for HECHO and expand HECHO’s network of philanthropic partners.
Work with the HECHO staff to identify leadership-building opportunities and provide guidance on how to move key campaigns forward.
Serve as an advisor and connector with HECHO’s Policy and Advocacy Manager to identify key strategies and opportunities to move HECHO’s policy goals forward and attend meetings with administrative officials and other key decision-makers.
Work with HECHO’s Communications Coordinator to support the development and delivery of effective communication strategies that help HECHO meet its goals.
Serve as an ambassador and champion for HECHO in public-facing settings.
Serve as an advisor to HECHO’s New Mexico Senior Field Coordinator to help fulfill HECHO’s goals in New Mexico.
Support the Executive Director’s leadership for the HECHO team to assure projects and campaigns are achieving the desired outcomes.
Provide support to help fulfill HECHO’s goals in New Mexico and Arizona.
Carry out additional duties, as assigned
Qualifications:
At least ten years of professional experience
Demonstrated knowledge and experience with strategy-setting for conservation organizations
Familiarity of, experience with, and deep commitment to Hispanic cultural heritage
Strong knowledge on how Congress, the Executive Branch, state and local governments work
Familiarity with conservation issues, public land management agencies, and/or legislative and administrative processes
Experience supporting inclusive teams and multiple stakeholders to achieve shared goals
Understanding of non-profit management and operations
Conversational Spanish language skills preferred
Experience:
Proven success in managing, overseeing, or guiding a conservation organization
Demonstrated ability to effectively achieve conservation goals
Experience working with people from different backgrounds and ability to bring people together to work toward common goals
Experience working with multi-disciplinary teams to achieve results
Ability to collaborate, coordinate, and communicate effectively and efficiently with both internal and external partners
Ability to forge meaningful and long-lasting partnerships
Competency in skills needed to secure and manage philanthropic relationships
Demonstrated knowledge of Hispanic heritage, in particular cultural and historical connections to the land, air, and water, and ability to share knowledge in a culturally responsive way
Travel Requirements:
Occasional travel across the state of New Mexico and to Washington, D.C.
Salary Range and Benefits:
The salary range for this position is $80,000 to $90,000.
HECHO is a partner and program of the National Wildlife Federation. The National Wildlife Federation values work-life balance and a family-friendly atmosphere. Our paid time-off includes 3 weeks of vacation leave, open wellbeing leave, 10 paid holidays, 3 floating holidays, a week-long winter break, and additional leave options, per year. In addition, our benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision insurance, company paid life insurance, AD&D, short- and long-term disability, 16 weeks of paid FMLA l eave, 403b retirement plan with employer matching and annual contribution, adoption benefits, and flexible work options including telecommuting, non-traditional work hours, and compressed work weeks. Applicants are invited to learn more about National Wildlife Federation’s benefits package at https://www.nwf.org/About-Us/Careers .
Application:
Candidates should submit both a cover letter and resume.
We strive to increase diversity, equity, inclusion and justice (DEIJ) in all elements of our work and with our partners to support the interdependent needs of wildlife and people in a rapidly changing world. We recruit, employ, train compensate, and promote regardless of race, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity (including gender nonconformity and status as a transgender individual), age, physical or mental disability, citizenship, genetic information, past, current, or prospective service in the uniformed services, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Applicants are invited to learn more about National Wildlife Federation’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion at nwf.org/equity .
If you have a disability and require an accommodation or assistance with our online application process, please tell us how we can help by calling us at 703-438-6244.
The requirements listed in our job descriptions are guidelines, not hard and fast rules, and if you have 75% of the qualifications listed we encourage you to apply. Your experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work, which helps build the competencies, knowledge, and skills that translates directly to our openings. Applying gives you the opportunity to be considered.
If selected for this position, a background check will be conducted.
WildEarth Guardians
Rio Grande Basin (Colorado/New Mexico)
Are you a Guardian for Living Rivers?
WildEarth Guardians seeks a full-time Rio Grande Campaigner in our Wild Rivers Program to play a leading role in our efforts in Colorado and New Mexico to protect and restore a living Rio Grande. The Campaigner is a policy advocate and organizer who will build a movement that pushes federal and state agencies to rethink management of the Rio Grande and ensure climate resilience for both people and the environment. The Campaigner will work primarily in the Rio Grande basin in Colorado and New Mexico.
ABOUT WILDEARTH GUARDIANS
WildEarth Guardians (Guardians) is a west-wide nonprofit environmental advocacy organization headquartered in Santa Fe, NM with offices in Denver, CO, Missoula, MT, Boise, ID, Portland, OR, Seattle, WA, and Tucson, AZ. With a 30-year history of bold environmental action, we wage innovative legal, political, and grassroots campaigns to protect and restore wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and community health in the American West.
The Wild Rivers Program advocates for living rivers across the American West. With a focus on the Rio Grande, Colorado and Willamette River basins as key geographies, we work to safeguard clean water, revive dynamic flows, reform western water policy, protect imperiled fish, wildlife and plants, and restore healthy and sustainable aquatic and riparian ecosystems to support all life.
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Rio Grande Campaigner works closely with the Wild Rivers Program Director to rethink the water management and policy of the past and move toward a new future of Living Rivers. The Campaigner’s work is centered on the Living Rio Campaign with the goal of protecting and restoring dynamic flows in the iconic Rio Grande from source to sea and ensuring the river has a right to its own water. The Campaigner will implement legal and policy tactics to restore flows to the river, including strategies set forth in Guardians’ report Rio Grande: Rethinking Rivers in the 21st Century . A key responsibility of the Campaigner is to develop allies, build grassroots support, engage with Pueblos and other communities and mobilize voices for a Living Rio. The position is supervised by the Wild Rivers Program Director.
Principal Responsibilities:
Collaborate with the Wild Rivers Program Director to prioritize, develop, and refine strategies to achieve the goals and vision of the Living Rio Campaign.
In an effort to reform existing water law, management, and policy in the Rio Grande basin, coordinate and organize support for living rivers policies. Activities include providing testimony, creating education and outreach materials, and supporting interaction with Tribal leadership, members of the New Mexico legislature and administration, and members of Congress.
Form strategic relationships with new allies and expand recruitment and engagement of existing supporters regionally and nationally on Rio Grande and western water policy issues to increase our mutual power.
Build and maintain relationships with Rio Grande basin stakeholders working together to achieve our goals. This includes playing a leadership role in coalitions through regular (in-person), phone, and electronic communication.
Communicate our work to the public and the media—using visual, written and oral presentation skills—ensuring that messages around living rivers become the dominant frame for water management discussions.
Knowledge and Skills:
Passion for protecting and restoring rivers of the American West.
Strong relational skills (including ability to connect with and build coalitions with diverse stakeholders) and knowledge and understanding of communities and cultures in the Rio Grande basin.
Creative, self-starter with proven ability to work independently and collaboratively.
Commitment to community organizing and ability to work constructively with grassroots partners, including commitment to social change through building the capacity and power of Black, Indigenous, people of color and low-income people to change their communities and to participate directly in changing public policies.
Strong moral compass and ability to stand against the tide.
Strong organizational skills and an ability to succeed in a fast-paced environment with a full workload where it is necessary to balance multiple tasks and deadlines.
Integrity, kindness, sense of humor, and a healthy sense of outrage.
Additional preferred skills include, but are not limited to:
Three or more years of campaigning or grassroots organizing experience with demonstrated results.
Education and/or experience working with and empowering communities in the Rio Grande Basin or other similar communities in the Southwest.
Knowledge of and experience with regional, state and basin-wide environmental policy and politics (water and river policy a bonus).
Strong written and verbal communication, with mastery of social media platforms.
Bilingual (Spanish and/or Native Languages).
Compensation and Benefits :
WildEarth Guardians offers a friendly and flexible, team-based environment with an excellent benefits package. You have flexibility to select benefits based on your personal preferences, your family situation, and/or your financial objectives. Benefits include full health, vision, dental, life, and disability coverage, a 403(b) retirement plan with a 3% match, paid and un-paid health and family leave, a sabbatical policy, sick leave, three weeks paid vacation to start, and ten holidays including your birthday. Salary is negotiable based on experience.
TO APPLY
Please apply for the Rio Grande Campaigner position by providing a cover letter, resume, and three references through the web portal at https://wildearthguardians.org/about-us/careers/rio-grande-campaigner/ . Cover letters should communicate the applicant’s heartfelt commitment to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the American West. Applicants are encouraged to tell us who they are as human beings, why they care about this work, and why they are interested in this position.
Please submit applications by October 31, 2020.
No telephone calls, please. Only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.
WildEarth Guardians is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, class, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability, family/marital status, religion or other protected classes. We encourage applications from persons of color, women and LGBTQ+ candidates.
Are you a Guardian for Living Rivers?
WildEarth Guardians seeks a full-time Rio Grande Campaigner in our Wild Rivers Program to play a leading role in our efforts in Colorado and New Mexico to protect and restore a living Rio Grande. The Campaigner is a policy advocate and organizer who will build a movement that pushes federal and state agencies to rethink management of the Rio Grande and ensure climate resilience for both people and the environment. The Campaigner will work primarily in the Rio Grande basin in Colorado and New Mexico.
ABOUT WILDEARTH GUARDIANS
WildEarth Guardians (Guardians) is a west-wide nonprofit environmental advocacy organization headquartered in Santa Fe, NM with offices in Denver, CO, Missoula, MT, Boise, ID, Portland, OR, Seattle, WA, and Tucson, AZ. With a 30-year history of bold environmental action, we wage innovative legal, political, and grassroots campaigns to protect and restore wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and community health in the American West.
The Wild Rivers Program advocates for living rivers across the American West. With a focus on the Rio Grande, Colorado and Willamette River basins as key geographies, we work to safeguard clean water, revive dynamic flows, reform western water policy, protect imperiled fish, wildlife and plants, and restore healthy and sustainable aquatic and riparian ecosystems to support all life.
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Rio Grande Campaigner works closely with the Wild Rivers Program Director to rethink the water management and policy of the past and move toward a new future of Living Rivers. The Campaigner’s work is centered on the Living Rio Campaign with the goal of protecting and restoring dynamic flows in the iconic Rio Grande from source to sea and ensuring the river has a right to its own water. The Campaigner will implement legal and policy tactics to restore flows to the river, including strategies set forth in Guardians’ report Rio Grande: Rethinking Rivers in the 21st Century . A key responsibility of the Campaigner is to develop allies, build grassroots support, engage with Pueblos and other communities and mobilize voices for a Living Rio. The position is supervised by the Wild Rivers Program Director.
Principal Responsibilities:
Collaborate with the Wild Rivers Program Director to prioritize, develop, and refine strategies to achieve the goals and vision of the Living Rio Campaign.
In an effort to reform existing water law, management, and policy in the Rio Grande basin, coordinate and organize support for living rivers policies. Activities include providing testimony, creating education and outreach materials, and supporting interaction with Tribal leadership, members of the New Mexico legislature and administration, and members of Congress.
Form strategic relationships with new allies and expand recruitment and engagement of existing supporters regionally and nationally on Rio Grande and western water policy issues to increase our mutual power.
Build and maintain relationships with Rio Grande basin stakeholders working together to achieve our goals. This includes playing a leadership role in coalitions through regular (in-person), phone, and electronic communication.
Communicate our work to the public and the media—using visual, written and oral presentation skills—ensuring that messages around living rivers become the dominant frame for water management discussions.
Knowledge and Skills:
Passion for protecting and restoring rivers of the American West.
Strong relational skills (including ability to connect with and build coalitions with diverse stakeholders) and knowledge and understanding of communities and cultures in the Rio Grande basin.
Creative, self-starter with proven ability to work independently and collaboratively.
Commitment to community organizing and ability to work constructively with grassroots partners, including commitment to social change through building the capacity and power of Black, Indigenous, people of color and low-income people to change their communities and to participate directly in changing public policies.
Strong moral compass and ability to stand against the tide.
Strong organizational skills and an ability to succeed in a fast-paced environment with a full workload where it is necessary to balance multiple tasks and deadlines.
Integrity, kindness, sense of humor, and a healthy sense of outrage.
Additional preferred skills include, but are not limited to:
Three or more years of campaigning or grassroots organizing experience with demonstrated results.
Education and/or experience working with and empowering communities in the Rio Grande Basin or other similar communities in the Southwest.
Knowledge of and experience with regional, state and basin-wide environmental policy and politics (water and river policy a bonus).
Strong written and verbal communication, with mastery of social media platforms.
Bilingual (Spanish and/or Native Languages).
Compensation and Benefits :
WildEarth Guardians offers a friendly and flexible, team-based environment with an excellent benefits package. You have flexibility to select benefits based on your personal preferences, your family situation, and/or your financial objectives. Benefits include full health, vision, dental, life, and disability coverage, a 403(b) retirement plan with a 3% match, paid and un-paid health and family leave, a sabbatical policy, sick leave, three weeks paid vacation to start, and ten holidays including your birthday. Salary is negotiable based on experience.
TO APPLY
Please apply for the Rio Grande Campaigner position by providing a cover letter, resume, and three references through the web portal at https://wildearthguardians.org/about-us/careers/rio-grande-campaigner/ . Cover letters should communicate the applicant’s heartfelt commitment to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the American West. Applicants are encouraged to tell us who they are as human beings, why they care about this work, and why they are interested in this position.
Please submit applications by October 31, 2020.
No telephone calls, please. Only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.
WildEarth Guardians is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, class, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability, family/marital status, religion or other protected classes. We encourage applications from persons of color, women and LGBTQ+ candidates.