Director Soil Health

NRDC is a nonprofit environmental advocacy organization. We use law science and the support of 3.1 million members and online activists to protect the planets wildlife and wild places and to ensure the rights of all people to clean air clean water and healthy communities. NRDC was founded in 1970 and our people helped write some of Americas bedrock environmental laws including the Clean Water Act and many of the implementing regulations. Today our team of more than 700 lawyers scientists economists policy advocates communications experts and others work across the United States and the globe from our offices in Beijing; Chicago; New Delhi; New York; San Francisco; Santa Monica; and Washington D.C.

POSITION SUMMARY
The Director of Healthy Soils serves as the manager and a thought leader for NRDCs Healthy Soils team. The Healthy Soils team also works in partnership with government affairs communications litigation and other departments to advocate for healthier soils in our agricultural system. The Healthy Soils team is a part of the Food & Agriculture Sector of the Nature Program. In addition to healthy soils the NRDCs Food & Agriculture sector works on food waste and on protecting pollinators from systemic pesticides. Recently the Healthy Soils team took on a new strategic focus on nitrogen overuse. Nitrogen overuse is a significant driver of nitrous oxide emissions a greenhouse gas approximately 300 times more powerful than carbon dioxide. It also drives biodiversity loss and water pollution contributing to significant human health threats. The teams campaign is in early development and is likely to include both a significant federal legislative and administrative advocacy campaign as well as specific state legislative and administrative tactics. The campaign may also contain a legal component. This is an exciting opportunity as the Director will play a critical role in shaping and executing NRDCs strategy as it is finalized and launched. In addition the Director will oversee the teams daytoday work help with fundraising guides communications efforts and manage all team staff. The Director of Healthy Soils reports to the Managing Director of Food & Agriculture.

To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the following essential functions:

• Develop lead and implement the Healthy Soils team strategy in collaboration with other team members including policy positions regarding the control of nitrogen pollution and related soils issues;
• Develop and execute multifaceted legislative administrative legal and communications campaigns at the state and federal level to achieve sector and team goals;
• Work to build and maintain relationships with partners coalitions and other stakeholders and meet regularly with decisionmakers to influence policy outcomes;
• Represent NRDC in public forums including administrative proceedings legislative committee hearings and media outlets;
• Author letters blogs reports briefs comments and/or other public facing communications materials to support the Teams advocacy;
• Manage direct reports to develop performance goals including those related to supporting sector priorities institutional DEI goals professional development goals and management (if appropriate); meet on a regular basis to ensure direct reports have clear and executable annual workplans and help manage their workflows to support both the achievement of those goals and a healthy worklife balance;
• Oversee staffs performance provide guidance and ongoing feedback; help resolve issues and provide coursecorrection when needed to enable each member to be fully successful; provide training as needed to staff while also working to continually improve and develop as a manager and mentor junior staff;
• Serve on the Food and Agriculture Sectors Leadership Team guiding the sectors strategy and engagement;
• Collaborate with other NRDC departments (e.g. Government Affairs Communications and others) to implement the Health Soils team strategy; and
• Provide input in the development of annual plans and budgeting processes to support the Healthy Soils team and the Food and Agriculture Sector; identify staffing consultant and other resource needs for major initiatives); and provide input for funding proposals and for reports to major donors and foundations.

The above list of duties is not comprehensive but generally demonstrates the types of matters under this positions responsibility. Other duties may be assigned.

Minimum Education & Experience:

• Bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent combination of education and experience required. Law degree or relevant graduatelevel degree preferred.
• 7 years of experience of legal and/or policy advocacy including experience managing teams. Experience leading state or federal campaigns preferred.
• 3 years of supervisory or people management experience
• Experience successfully building and navigating diverse teams and/or coalitions including developing consensus on policy issues and driving toward equitable positive outcomes.
• Experience utilizing and implementing equity frameworks and/or working with partners and communities to ensure equitable outcomes of policies and programs.

Skills Abilities Competencies

• Skilled in employee engagement team/coalition building and project and people management skills.
• Strong written and oral advocacy skills including the ability to communicate technical and analytical information in a clear and persuasive manner in a variety of public forums and in the media.
• Ability to travel to priority states or target areas for Healthy Soils work and NRDC U.S. based offices approximately 1015 annually.
• Commitment to NRDCs mission values and DEI principles.

NRDC is committed to advancing diversity equity and inclusion both in our work and in our workplace. We believe that celebrating and actively welcoming diverse voices and perspectives is essential to solving the planets most pressing environmental problems and we encourage applications from candidates whose identities have been historically underrepresented in the environmental movement.

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of race color religion gender gender identity or expression marital status sexual orientation national origin citizenship age disability veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local law. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

We offer competitive salaries excellent benefits and a supportive working environment. Salary is based on a nonprofit scale and is commensurate with skills and experience. Internal equity will be reviewed and considered to determine a final offer. For this position the salary range is $157000 to $180000.

NRDC operates under a hybrid work model. Employees are required to come to the office 8 days per month.

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