[Remote] Vice President, Conservation Action, Chapters

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The National Audubon Society is a leading nonprofit conservation organization dedicated to protecting birds and their habitats. The Vice President, Conservation Action, Chapters is responsible for building and advancing strategies that connect and equip community and campus chapters to contribute to the organization's strategic goals. Responsibilities • Establish and advance Audubon’s community and campus chapters priorities, strategies, and tactics and work closely with conservation leaders to design implementation plans to deliver impact at scale toward Audubon’s strategic goals. • Effectively guide, manage, and support systemic transformations – considering all stakeholders’ diverse needs and perspectives – that will empower and equip chapters to make stronger contributions to Audubon’s strategic goals. • Manage a team of direct reports, through establishment of work objectives and priorities, reviewing and revising these objectives, focusing on Audubon’s community and campus chapters strategies and overseeing cross-division teams and communities of practice to deliver on chapter initiative outcomes. • Serve as a natural partner with Development on fundraising for Community Building and chapters priorities and support a culture of philanthropy across the team and organization. • Manage the community and campus chapters cost center, and provide Conservation leadership with recommendations on resource needs and allocations to achieve chapter plans across the organization that meet Community Building goals. • Accountable for ensuring tracking, measurement, and reporting of chapters work toward organizational strategic goals. • Play a key role in organizing the biannual Audubon Leadership Conference, under the leadership of the Managing Director of Community Building and in partnership with Conservation leaders, chapters, members, and partners. • Drive adoption of Audubon’s Values and Conservation Principles within the team and across chapters work. • Serve as an internal and external thought leader on community building and chapters, providing analysis on issues, solutions, and trends and developing new ideas and approaches to meet community building goals. • Build and maintain enduring relationships with key chapter and community building leaders and partners. Elevate Audubon’s leadership and profile with external leaders, coalitions, and partners. • Ensure that all Audubon financial standards, operating policies, programmatic commitment, and legal/statutory requirements are met. • Support a culture of philanthropy, including public funding efforts. • Collaborate with colleagues across the Americas including through joint planning and execution of shared priorities. • Maintain and foster culture of safety. • Other job-related duties as assigned. Skills • 15+ years of experience in programmatic, volunteer management, community organizing, and/or grassroots engagement in a federated or matrixed organization, including at least 5 years in a management/leadership role. An equivalent combination of education and experience will also be considered. • Demonstrated capacity for strategic decision-making, aligning choices with long-term organizational goals, and considering the broader impact on the organization’s mission and vision; competence in making timely decisions even in complex or ambiguous situations. • Documented success in fundraising and willingness to engage as a natural partner to Development staff on fundraising efforts is required. • Proven ability to build and lead a diverse team of staff and supporters. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills are essential. • Experience, discipline, and focus in business planning and budgeting required. Demonstrated success with project management and/or operational experience is necessary. • Experience engaging and successfully cultivating diverse community partners and stakeholders required. • Willingness and interest to consider hemisphere-wide opportunities and better integrate those into the existing work. • Proven ability to oversee an array of projects simultaneously, and lead through influence as much as through formal authority. Skilled in collaboration, team building, delegation, and transparent, consultative management. • Deep commitment to building a culture of workplace excellence is a must and a willingness to lead through organizational change is necessary for success. • Ability to spend time with staff in person, as needed. Willingness to travel out of state and internationally, as needed, and work occasional nights and weekends, when necessary. Willingness to travel up to 25% of the time. • Ability to maintain a high level of integrity, transparency, and an interpersonal style that creates the ability to connect genuinely with people at all levels and from varied backgrounds. • Commitment to Audubon’s organizational values of care, collaboration, change, integrity, impact, and innovation. • Knowledge of and experience with best practices and current trends in nonprofit volunteer management, grassroots development, and leadership, and/or governance strongly preferred. Company Overview • The National Audubon Society protects birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow, throughout the Americas using science, advocacy, education, and on-the-ground conservation. It was founded in 1905, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is http://www.audubon.org.