From jvickery@iatp.org Mon Oct 2 11:47:09 2000 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id LAA110396 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 11:47:05 -0700 Received: from mail.iatp.org ([208.141.36.66]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id LAA08151 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 11:47:04 -0700 Received: from enagsa ([208.141.36.102]) by mail.iatp.org (Netscape Messaging Server 3.62) with SMTP id 149; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 13:46:46 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20001002134603.00838430@mail.iatp.org> X-Sender: jvickery@mail.iatp.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 13:46:03 -0500 To: consbio@u.washington.edu From: "John Vickery" Subject: Vac. Anncmt, NFWF, Midwest-Miss. R Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Vacancy Announcement National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Regional Director, Midwest and Mississippi Valley Region Summary: The Regional Director occupies a senior management position within the Foundation, and manages the Midwest and Mississippi Valley Region. The Regional Director will represent the Foundation for all regional contacts and activities and will be responsible for planing and implementing all regional programs including grant making. The Regional Director is also responsible for managing the regional budget, and regional fundraising efforts, supervising staff and ensuring that regional activities are coordinated with, and contribute to, national program efforts of the Foundation. Duties and Responsibilities · Supervise the work of others, including those responsible for grants management and regional fund-raising. · Achieve regional and national fundraising goals. Ensure funding proposals are completed and meets with potential donors. Assist the national development staff to identify potential donors for national scale fundraising efforts. · Develop and manage regional budget in coordination with relevant national and regional staff. · Coordinate project selection regionally and as a member of national team that selects projects for funding. · Research and write documents on current natural resource conservation issues and the Foundation's past, present and future involvement. · Develop and manage cooperative agreements, memoranda of understanding, letters of agreement, and contractual agreements on behalf of the Foundation (with appropriate coordination with administrative staff and legal counsel). · Participate in "national" program management through reviewing project proposals and participating in national steering committee meetings. · Communicate with local, municipal, state and regional representatives of federal agencies regarding project selection and developing new programmatic opportunities for the Foundation. Serve as the lead at the Foundation on agricultural issues. · Build regional Congressional and constituency support for the Foundation, represent the Foundation at local meetings with Congressional representatives/staffs and coordinate same with national office. · Make presentations to local, municipal, NGO, state and federal agencies, etc. representing the Foundation's local and national programs. · Ensure high quality of "service" to local grantees, agency partners, donors, etc. · Provide support to Foundation Board of Directors including: making presentations on regionally-based projects and Partnership Office efforts at Board meetings and serving as quality control for all regional Board Book submissions. · Develop and manage programs that generate alternative sources of revenue such as management fees and resource damage awards. Education and Qualifications A masters degree preferred in a field related to fish, wildlife or plant conservation. A minimum of 5 years work experience with either private natural resource conservation organizations, state or federal wildlife agencies, or Congressional experience working with natural resource agencies. Experience dealing with business, private or corporate sector. Experience managing a multi-staff office and fundraising strongly desired. · Excellent research, writing and oral communication skills. · Knowledge of natural resource conservation issues and policies on a state, regional, and national level. · Demonstrated computer and writing skills. · Knowledge of the appropriations and other legislative process helpful, but not · Ability to travel regionally and nationally, often with little notice. · Ability to work with others at many levels, in small groups and intersector and interagency situations. Location, Salary and Benefits The Position is currently available and will remain so until filled. Position will be located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Salary is commensurate with experience and abilities. Excellent benefits package. To apply, please send a cover letter and resume to: Regional Director National Fish and Wildlife Foundation 1 Federal Drive Ft. Snelling MN, 55111 .