Hours: (4-days, 32 hours/week)
Location: Green America’s office in Washington, DC
Salary: commensurate with experience and Green America’s salary structure
Benefits: medical, dental, sick days, holidays
Reports to: Co-Executive Director of Green America
Deadline: May 21, 2015

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Successfully launch the Center and guide the success of the Center’s various working group programs.
2. Establish the Center strategically by leading the Center’s planning/goal clarification process, ensuring the development of clear action plans, and ensuring strong program evaluation processes.
3. Lead fundraising for Center programs. Work collaboratively with the Executive Director, CEO/President, Development team and Program managers to raise grant funds, major gifts and participant fees to meet the Center’s financial goals.

Other Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Ensure that working group programs are effectively and efficiently engaging participants and successfully meeting the priority goals of the programs.
2. Develop new and unique ways to improve operations of the Center and to create new opportunities for innovative industry transformation.
3. Ensure learning is converted into “knowledge capital” for Green America, including how to successfully launch and manage working groups and shift markets toward sustainability.
4. Test and refine a number of existing and new strategies for catalyzing transformational change toward sustainability.
5. Develop and manage the Center’s annual budget.
6. Hire and oversee the work of Center staff (Program Managers and Project Coordinators) and contract researchers and facilitators as needed. Foster teamwork by working cooperatively and effectively with others in the organization to set goals, resolve problems, and make decisions that enhance organizational effectiveness. Positively influence others to achieve results that are in the best interest of the organization.
7. Serve on Green America’s Senior Management Team and help to oversee Green America policies, ensure departmental communication and coordination, and address strategic issues for the organization as they arise.

Qualified Candidates must have the following skills and qualities: Passion and skill for identifying fresh, high-leverage opportunities for transitioning industries toward sustainability.

• Demonstrated success in fundraising from foundations, donors, and earned income programs.
• The ability to understand and converse competently about complex supply chain issues with a broad range of stakeholders, and to provide useful frameworks for analysis and action on key supply chain issues.
• Strong strategic planning and leadership skills, with 5+ years of senior management experience and experience managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Proven program management skills, including strategy and operations.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to developed trusting relationships with senior executives and high-level leaders across sectors.
• Strong financial management skills, with experience managing at least a million dollar budget.
• Masters degree.

Ideal candidates will also have the following skills and qualities:

• A compelling combination of confidence and humility that fosters confidence among the Center’s various stakeholders.
• Ability to rapidly develop new strategies and ideas in a quickly changing environment.
• Advanced collaborative leadership skills including advanced facilitation, ability to hold the center for divergent views, and the ability to manage polarities.
• Negotiating experience and the ability to move groups both quickly and collaboratively on key priorities.
• Strong research and writing skills.
• Strong speaking skills.

How to Apply:

Send cover letter and resume to F. Teplitz at CenterSearch@greenamerica.org, Green America, 1612 K Street NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20006

No calls, please.

Green America is an equal opportunity employer.