Director of Field Operations - The Alaska Wilderness League
The Alaska Wilderness League, the only Washington, DC-based conservation organization devoted exclusively to protecting Alaska’s wilderness, seeks to hire a Director of Field Operations to run its national field program.
Qualifications: BA or BS, 5-plus years of experience working at a nonprofit organization or on Capitol Hill or the equivalent. Knowledge of Congress and Administrative agencies, excellent written and oral communication skills, confident public speaker, strong leadership and motivational abilities, management experience, sense of humor, and ability and desire to work in
a team environment all essential.
Send: Resume, cover letter, a relevant writing sample, salary history, and three references to:
Search Committee
Alaska Wilderness League
122 C Street, NW, Ste 240
Washington, DC 20001
fax to 202-544-5197 or email jobs@alaskawild.org.
Salary & Benefits: salary commensurate with experience, health & retirement benefits.
Position Summary
The director of field operations provides leadership to the field staff and field programs in relevant States across the country. This individual is an effective manager who has a thorough and complete understanding of all of AWL’s campaigns and is able to articulately interpret them.
Primary Responsibilities/Functional Areas
Develop campaign plans – Prepare well-articulated campaign plans that implement AWL’s national legislative goals at the grassroots level, insuring that adequate work time and resourses are dedicated to the issues based on priorities set by AWL.
• Attend relevant meetings, monitor relevant list serves, and work with legislative director to know issue priorities.
• Write campaign plans for the field staff activities
Organize and mange the effective implementation of the campaign plans in the field - Establish and manage field staff priorities, including those of the coalition coordinator.
• Involve field staff members in development and review of campaign plans.
• Hold weekly telephone meetings—as a group and with individual field staff members—to address priorities, strategies, action steps, and achievements.
• Work with individual field staff members to develop and manage legislative, media, and member initiatives, establishing success measures and preparing action steps.
• Establish and manage reporting and record keeping protocols for all field staff activities.
• Participate strategically in field activities.
Build an effective field staff team that is well-trained, delivers consistent quality work, and is integrated into the AWL organization.
• Establish clear expectations and measures of success.
• Review and addresses training needs for each field staff member.
• Schedule required media trainings for field staff members.
• Be in the field as needed to manage and mentor field staff members.
• Review and assess field staff performance against work plan on quarterly basis.
Develop and manage coalition support plan in relevant states - Oversee the coalition coordinator and field staff members to ensure coalition goals are created and supported according to priorities set by AWL.
• Ensure that the Alaska Coalition Coordinator and members of the field staff collaborate effectively to create annual plans of action with benchmarks for priority Alaska coalitions.
• Ensure that plans are communicated to all concerned parties.
• Ensure that plans are implemented, achieving benchmarks on schedule.
Knowledge and Skill Requirements
• Significant experience is required in the following areas:
o preparing strategic campaign plans;
o managing national environmental campaigns;
o managing senior level, off-site staff;
o the grassroots environmental movement;
o legislative, media, and membership programs.
• Ability to express ideas articulately
• Experience in effective public speaking
• Ability to keep current and manage activities on multiple environmental issues.
• Demonstrated success in fostering strong teams
General Characteristics
• Collaborative, team-oriented management philosophy
• Highly motivated, demonstrates initiative and enthusiasm
• Strong listening skills
• Demonstrates ability to help others understand their strengths and develop professionally.
• Sensible, realistic and focused on practical solutions.
• Positive, polite, direct, open, communicative
• Efficient – taps and deploys resources economically and effectively.
• Demonstrates organizational skills – plans, schedules, prioritizes, anticipates, and builds scenarios.
Reporting Structure
• This position reports to the Legislative Director.
