The Arctic and Interior Alaska Campaign Director will develop and implement strategic campaigns to protect and enhance Alaskas national parks while building a diverse effective and enduring network of national park advocates in Alaska. The Campaign Director will oversee campaign and programmatic activities across the 20 million acres of national parklands in Arctic and Interior Alaska to protect park resources from mining and other development impacts advocate for co-stewardship and co-management of parklands and wildlife in coordination with Alaska Native Tribes strengthen relationships with Alaska Native leaders to promote equitable environmental outcomes and engage in national policy efforts to provide adequate funding and resources to the national park system. Partners in these campaigns may include rural residents remote gateway communities and local governments tourism businesses and representatives wildlife advocates Alaska Native tribes and tribal members and current and former military personnel. The Campaign Director will work closely with the other members of thesmall Alaska team and cheerful cooperation and accountability to team members is a must.
Immediate Supervisor:Alaska Regional Director
Grade: O
Job Status: Full-time; Exempt
Location: Anchorage AK
Salary Range: $105k 113k commensurate with experience.
Benefits: NPCA offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits package for this role including a four-day 32-hour work week paid vacation leave paid sick leave paid holidays health insurance flexible spending account dental insurance life insurance vision insurance retirement benefits short- and long-term disability and paid sabbaticals for staff after seven years of service. Learn more about our benefits at Functions: % of Time
-Develop and direct campaigns to protect and enhance national parks in Arctic and Interior Alaska while achieving organizational environmental equity objectives. Tactics may include state or federal legislative efforts litigation grassroots and grass-top activism and effectiveand powerful communications at a state and national level. Implement campaigns in waysthat position NPCA to be a leader in large landscape conservation advocacy in the stateand nationally. Understand and manage campaign and program budgets. Steward donorsand foundation relationships in cooperation with Regional Director and Development staffspecific to funding opportunities associated with active campaigns. | 50% |
-Work with NPCAs communications team to design and implement earned paid and social media and other advocacy tools providing materials for NPCA publications to further our park protection park funding policy leadership and ally development goals. | 15% |
-Build and support meaningful and authentic strategic relationships with Tribal and business leaders tourism and economic development professionals local state and federal elected officials public lands partners recreation enthusiasts and the National Park Service. | 15% |
-Provide strategic oversight in development of other large-landscape and wildlife campaigns at NPCA coordinating closely with Wildlife Program and Alaska leadership to effectivelysupport campaign staff at various stages of campaign development and implementation. | 10% |
-Participate in and facilitate national-level policy development including participating inworking groups and coalitions including but not limited to wildlife environmental justice co-management and hardrock mining. | 5% |
-Play a meaningful role in keeping a three-person office running smoothly. This includessupporting the Regional Director in developing a vision goals and strategic direction for theoffice as well as mentoring other regional staff. Assist with planning and implementingevents and meetings including Regional Council meetings fundraising events and with purchase of supplies vendor and IT issues and logistical planning. | 5% |
Total | 100% |
Other: Promotes policies that are sensitive to the needs of a diverse workforce. Respects employees regardless of their position or background. Participates in developing department goals objectives and systems. Participates in administrative staff meetings organization-wide meetings staff committee meetings training programs and attends other meetings and seminars as designated by the supervisor. Assists in evaluation of reports decisions and results of department in relation to established goals. This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee in this position.
Minimum Work Schedule: 32-hour work week. Flexible hours scheduled between 8:30am 5:30pm Monday through Thursday. Occasional weekend work is required for certain activities.
Travel: Regional travel required for meetings events and outreach (for instance visits to parks to meet staff and local stakeholders and visits to Juneau to educate lawmakers and agency personnel). National travel periodically required for national legislative lobbying and NPCA meetings and events in the DC area.
Minimum Scope of Position: The Campaign Director will work with the Alaska team to build and implement strategic and successful campaigns to protect and fund national parks. The Campaign Director will be expected to take the lead on some campaigns in particular NPCAs efforts to protect Gates of the Arctic National Preserve and other Northwest Alaska national parklands from a mining road. The Campaign Director may co-lead NPCA efforts to convince Congress to appropriately fund parks and will also make significant contributions to NPCA campaigns where other colleagues are the lead. Campaigns will generally be designed to build a diverse and powerful set of advocates for national parks and the Campaign Director will be expected to play a significant role in the work to build advocates. The Campaign Director will work with Alaska staff and may take the lead in some cases on office comments events publications and other needs that arise.
Minimum Qualifications Competencies Skills Education and Traits:
Core Values: NPCA employees have pledged to live honor and own the organizations Core Values. These are:
Commitment: We are passionate about NPCA and dedicated to achieving excellence through our work and mission. We seek to improve our performance by taking opportunities for professional and personal development and encouraging reasonable risk-taking and innovation.
Inclusion: We value diversity of thought background experience and opinion. We create a culture of empowerment by welcoming and encouraging meaningful participation from all people and promoting an environment that embraces different perspectives.
Integrity: We hold ourselves accountable to each other our members and partners and our mission. We evaluate the impact of our work and strive for honesty and transparency across the organization. We operate ethically in the organizations best interests.
Respect: We collaborate in results-oriented teams based on trust and consideration for each other. We promote harmony between our work and our personal lives. We foster a healthy and positive workplace culture and work collaboratively with external partners.
Physical Effort and Dexterity: While performing the duties of this job the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger handle or feel objects tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop kneel crouch or crawl; talk or hear; taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision distance vision color vision peripheral vision depth perception and the ability to adjust focus. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply.
Physical Environment: Professionally casual office setting located in Anchorage Alaska with travel to Alaska national parks and gateway communities and occasional travel to Washington D.C.
Employers Rights: NPCA reserves the right to revise this position description at any time. The duties listed above are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar related or a logical assignment to the position. The job description does not constitute an employment agreement between the NPCA and employee and is subject to change by the NPCA as the needs of the NPCA and requirements of the job change. The above is in no way an exhaustive list of the requirements for the position.
Required Experience:
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