{"id":54248,"date":"2024-09-13T13:10:13","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T20:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/?p=54248"},"modified":"2024-09-13T13:10:13","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T20:10:13","slug":"job-executive-director-washington-resource-conservation-development-council-yakima-wa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/job-executive-director-washington-resource-conservation-development-council-yakima-wa\/","title":{"rendered":"Job: Executive Director, Washington Resource Conservation &amp; Development Council (Yakima, WA)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/washingtonrcd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Washington-Resource-Conservation-Development_horizontal.png\" alt=\"Washington Resource Conservation &amp; Development Council - logo 3\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\">Executive Director<\/h1>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%\">\n<p><strong>Salary<\/strong>: $90,000-$95,000\/year<\/p>\n<p><strong>Schedule: <\/strong>Full-time, Exempt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location<\/strong>: Must be located in Washington State and able to be in the Yakima oAice as needed for Operational Oversight. Minimum 2-3 times per month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Application deadline:<\/strong> September 24, 2024<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonrcd.org\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Website<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonrcd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/WRCD_FinalPD.pdf\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Position Description<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/WRCDedapp\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Apply<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/washingtonrcd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Washington-Resource-Conservation-Development_logo.png\" alt=\"Washington Resource Conservation &amp; Development Council - circle logo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Organization:<\/h2>\n<p>The Washington Resource Conservation and Development Council (WRCD) serves to empower communities by equipping them with the tools, resources, capacity, and connections necessary to adapt to a changing world. Current programs support place-based leadership in community wildfire adaptation, landscape, and salmon habitat restoration. We do this by partnering with local organizations and state and federal entities to support community-based initiatives with facilitation, project management, technical assistance, training, planning, grant-making, fiscal sponsorship, community building and working to resolve identified policy issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In establishing our 2022-2025 Strategic Plan, WRCD focused on 4 key areas:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: inspire, enable, and cultivate a shared culture of conservation that includes all community members.<\/li>\n<li>Programs: Maintain and invest in quality programming.<\/li>\n<li>Organizational Capacity: Develop capacity and build for the future.<\/li>\n<li>Marketing and Communication: Radically increase awareness and knowledge of WRCD\u2014 who we are, what we do and why, and how and who we partner with.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Position:<\/h2>\n<p>WRCD is looking for the next Executive Director. This individual provides strategic leadership working with the Board of Directors, staff and partners, develops fundraising strategies as well as overseeing day-to-day operations, and fiscal and organizational management.<\/p>\n<p>Our Executive Director has experience in rural Washington communities and engages in partnerships to leverage opportunities and support partners and staA in accessing resources to meet their program goals.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Responsibilities:<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Resource Development:<\/strong> The Executive Director is the lead fundraiser for WRCD. Currently, 90% of funding comes from local, state, and federal contracts and grants.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Analyze organizational capacity and gaps to achieve goals. Implement a plan for diverse and sustainable funding.<\/li>\n<li>Increase coordination, collaboration, and integration across programs and projects, both internally and externally.<\/li>\n<li>Retain an engaged and knowledgeable staff by increasing staffing capacity and achieving a more balanced workload.<\/li>\n<li>Advocate for local, state, and federal agreements and contracts.<\/li>\n<li>Work with Program Teams on grant identification, development, and reporting including evaluation metrics and reimbursement reports.<\/li>\n<li>Evaluate the organization for individual donations and engage the board in process of building a fundraising program to include: annual giving, major donors and planned giving options.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Staff Management:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Staff includes: Strategy and Partnerships Director, 4 Program Managers; 3 support staff representing over 50 years of experience with restoration and wildfire adaptation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Provide support, guidance, and direction to enable staff to successfully implement programs.<\/li>\n<li>Build a staff culture respectful of all diversities and geographic service areas.<\/li>\n<li>Maintain all documentation for hiring\/firing\/evaluating staff.<\/li>\n<li>Provide annual reviews and professional development opportunities to grow and retain staff.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Operations:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Serve as the point of contact for all business functions of WRCD including finance, operations, and facilities.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Work directly with the bookkeeper and contracts staff to maintain a system of reimbursements and billings for all restoration and adaptation projects.<\/li>\n<li>Fiduciary contact for state reports, insurance, contracts, tax filing and audits.<\/li>\n<li>Provide all updates to the board of directors and grantors on all projects.<\/li>\n<li>Develop strategic initiatives and implementation plans with the board of directors for successful growth of the organization.<\/li>\n<li>Oversight of fiscal sponsorships.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Board\/Community Relations:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>engaging board and partners in the work of WRCD encouraging advocacy, engagement, and strategic visioning.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Engage community members\/partners in ongoing dialogue on the importance of WRCD work.<\/li>\n<li>Maintain board meeting schedule, committee schedule, nomination schedule.<\/li>\n<li>Build strategic planning process including implementation strategies and tactics for successful implementation.<\/li>\n<li>Expand partnership opportunities, as available, across Washington state.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Qualifications:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Work experience and\/or a bachelor\u2019s degree in resource management, restoration, nonprofit management, or other similar training.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to manage staff and board and empower the community to engage in projects that impact the lives of individuals in rural and rural-urban interface communities.<\/li>\n<li>Experience with the successful implementation of diversity, inclusion, and equity values that enhance the work culture and community engagement.<\/li>\n<li>Strength in fundraising, grant writing, grant management, and state, federal, and foundation funding models.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to develop budgets, analyze financial reports and funding streams, and provide transparent reporting to the board and community.<\/li>\n<li>Demonstrated ability to communicate to a wide variety of audiences in writing and speaking.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Application information:<\/h2>\n<p>Nonprofit Professionals Now is pleased to be working with WRCD on this key leadership position. All applications need to include a resume and cover letter and will be reviewed by the application deadline.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Submit information to:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/WRCDedapp\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/WRCDedapp <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b>September 24, 2024<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10410,"featured_media":34097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[14,15,210],"tags":[4,220,32,33,7208,7,377,234,6658,6666],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54249,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54248\/revisions\/54249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}