Audubon Executive Director Audubon California/Vice President Pacific Flyway San Francisco Bay Area, CA Full Time

About the Organization For more than a century, Audubon has championed the protection of birds and their habitat. Audubon’s mission is to conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats, for the benefit of humanity and the Earth’s biological diversity. With nearly 700 staff, 23 state programs, 465 local chapters, 43 centers and sanctuaries, and close to half a million members throughout the United States, Audubon achieves its mission by engaging people in bird conservation on a hemispheric scale through science, policy, education, and on-the-ground conservation action.

In the fall of 2011, Audubon adopted a new strategic plan to renew the organization’s focus on the biggest and most important opportunities for addressing critical threats to birds and their habitat. At the core of this plan is a focus on flyways: Each year, more than 10 billion birds use major flyways to travel up and down the continent and to points beyond. Underneath these flyways are migratory rest stops and the homes for non-migratory birds that are critical to birds’ survival. These places form a web that represents the richest veins of biodiversity across the Americas. They are the tipping point places that connect people to birds and ecosystems—and where birds thrive, people prosper. By mobilizing and aligning Audubon’s unparalleled network of chapters, centers, state programs, and Important Bird Area (IBA) programs to focus on the four major migratory flyways in the Americas (Atlantic, Mississippi, Central, and Pacific), the organization will bring the full power of Audubon to bear on protecting common and threatened bird species and the critical habitat they need to survive. Within each flyway, Audubon will sharpen its focus on the most critical species and places, working only where there is a theory of victory for delivering measurable conservation impact at scale. As part of BirdLife International, Audubon will join people in more than 100 countries working to protect a network of IBAs around the world, leveraging the impact of actions they take at a local level. Critical to Audubon’s conservation success will be engaging a growing and more diverse audience to take conservation action.

Executive Director Audubon California/Vice President Pacific Flyway Audubon seeks an Executive Director of Audubon California who will serve concurrently as Vice President of the Pacific Flyway within the national organization. The ideal candidate is a visionary leader, accomplished fundraiser, and exceptional manager, who is dedicated to conserving and restoring natural ecosystems for the benefit of people and biodiversity. He/she will build on Audubon’s rich history and enhance its contributions to conservation in California and throughout the Pacific Flyway (Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington)—one of Audubon’s four newly established Flyway programs. The Executive Director/Vice President will be responsible for fundraising, strategic planning, and managing programs and initiatives related to the Pacific Flyway and Audubon California.

With a budget of $6.8 million and 50 staff, Audubon California is Audubon’s largest state program. California also represents the most critical segment of the five-state Pacific Flyway as it hosts the largest, most diverse concentration of birds in the United States. About 80 million of California’s 100 million acres are open space, agricultural land, or rangeland. Within that expanse are 145 IBAs, essential habitat for breeding, wintering, and migrating birds. As Executive Director/Vice President, the successful candidate will be responsible for harnessing California’s state and national leadership on environmental issues for birds along the Pacific Flyway. Through a series of innovative, targeted efforts in the areas of conservation,

policy, and citizen engagement, the organization will secure California’s legacy as a vital home for birds. The Executive Director/Vice President will report to the national organization’s Chief Conservation Officer and work closely with the Audubon California state board. He/She will supervise Audubon’s Alaska State Director, the Director of the Seward Park Audubon Center in Seattle, WA, and all Audubon California staff, including a Deputy Director who will be hired following the placement of the Executive Director/Vice President.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities The Executive Director Audubon California/Vice President Pacific Flyway will perform the following and other duties as assigned:

As Executive Director of Audubon California • Serve as Audubon’s leader in California, effectively and passionately articulating and implementing Audubon’s goals and strategies in the state. • Lead Audubon California’s annual fundraising campaign through a strong and well-supported development team, including staff and board members, and significant personal efforts. • Continue to develop a dynamic and diverse California state board and build, manage, and maintain a strong team of experienced and professional staff leaders. • Expand Audubon’s current work on private lands conservation in California and beyond by identifying strategic opportunities for partnerships with landowners, agricultural interests, and agencies. • Assume overall responsibility for fiscal management of the California state program, including setting financial goals, analyzing results, and taking corrective actions. Ensure that Audubon California meets all financial standards, operating policies, programmatic commitments, and legal requirements. • Further engage California’s extensive and diverse population in Audubon programs through outreach efforts in hiring, volunteer leadership opportunities, internships, communications, and other avenues. • Expand upon Audubon California’s reputation as a leading conservation voice in the state and be recognized as a conservation leader by federal and state executive and legislative branches and by the news media.

As Vice President of the Pacific Flyway • Serve as leader of the Pacific Flyway conservation team, spearheading the completion and long term implementation of an integrated flyway conservation plan and associated marketing, development, and communications plans in coordination with state programs, chapters, and Audubon centers throughout the Pacific Flyway. • Provide leadership to collaborative fundraising efforts to benefit priority projects in the Pacific Flyway. • Help chapters, centers, and sanctuaries realize their potential for conservation engagement within the larger organization’s Pacific Flyway infrastructure. Implement targeted conservation projects that secure vital habitat for millions of birds. • Ensure that Audubon remains science-based, working closely with scientists and resource managers in government agencies, academic institutions, and the private sector. • Collaborate with the Vice Presidents of the Atlantic, Mississippi, and Central Flyways, as well as Audubon’s national executive team to coordinate initiatives across the Flyways for maximum conservation effect, align each Flyway’s efforts with Audubon’s national strategic goals, and ensure

the full power of Audubon is being brought to bear on the most critical issues in bird and habitat conservation through the flyways framework.

Qualifications The successful candidate will have the following minimum qualifications: • Strong leadership skills, including an engaging and energetic demeanor and the ability to inspire and motivate staff, volunteers, donors, and potential partners • Experience as a senior manager, with 7-10 years of progressively responsible experience in private, nonprofit, or public-sector organizations, including 5 years at a management level with comparable staff and budget responsibilities • Ability to inspire trust, organize people into teams, and motivate them to work well together • Experience managing institutional growth and change highly desirable • Demonstrated success in fundraising and experience working with major donors and leading capital campaigns • Outstanding interpersonal skills, good judgment, and an ability to work with a wide range of individuals, volunteers, donors, and organizations at the local, regional, and national level • Team-building skills and the ability to work collaboratively and build coalitions with partners, including other environmental organizations, government entities, and for-profit businesses • Persuasive communication skills and an engaging intellect that leads by example • The highest level of personal and professional integrity and quality standards • Willingness and ability to travel routinely throughout the state and the Pacific Flyway, as required • Ability to analyze complex environmental and natural resource issues and identify positive, science- based solutions that can be advocated for successfully by Audubon • Knowledge and appreciation of California and its environment, its conservation history, and the role of science in developing conservation strategies, strongly preferred • Bachelor’s degree required, advanced degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience strongly preferred

Compensation and Benefits Audubon offers an excellent benefits package and a competitive salary that is commensurate with experience. This position will ideally be based in Audubon California’s Emeryville offices in the San Francisco Bay Area, but other locations in California will be considered.

To Apply To be considered for this position, interested candidates must follow the link below to submit a resume, cover letter, and salary requirements. CEA Recruiting is assisting Audubon with this search. Please direct all applications and inquiries to CEA Recruiting. This position will remain open until filled. http://www.ceaconsulting.com/what/position_details.aspx?client=CEA&jobId=181

Audubon is an equal opportunity employer.

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