Managing Director, Global Freshwater Team
The Nature Conservancy seeks a strategic conservation thinker to
lead and manage its Global Freshwater Team. The primary focus of the
team is to reduce the impact of water infrastructure development,
reduce agriculture's footprint on freshwater resources, improve water
management for people and nature, and advance system-scale
conservation and management of great rivers around the world. The
Director is accountable for raising public and private funds to
support the freshwater team and its activities and serves as the
Conservancy's principal freshwater spokesperson to government
agencies, foundations, academia and partner conservation organizations.
Master's degree preferred w/15 yrs experience in freshwater
conservation or equivalent. Management, supervisory and budgetary
experience required; experience in motivating and chartering
interdisciplinary teams; experience in identifying, cultivating and
closing major donor gifts; experience in influencing, developing and
implementing conservation policy and plans; ability to build
partnerships in multiple countries; ability to work with current
trends and practices in sustainable water management and freshwater
conservation across global regions. Frequent travel inside/outside the U.S.
Visit <http://www.nature.org/careers>www.nature.org/careers and apply
to job #12992. Application deadline: April 15, 2011.
