VP, Engagement

Job Overview

Living Future is a non-profit organization whose mission is to catalyze the transformation toward communities that are culturally rich, socially just and ecologically restorative. Our flagship program is the Living Building Challenge, the world’s most ambitious and holistic performance standard for resilient, healthy, and green buildings. Living Future offers other certifications, transparency labels, education, and events that enable organizations and individuals to communicate their commitment to a healthier world.

We believe that the building industry can shift dramatically far faster and more radically than many assume. We also believe that the industry can and should address ecological impact, social impact, health impact and cultural impact as intersecting issues. Living Buildings are beacons for change, data points for skeptics, inspirational stories for young people, and test beds for innovation. We seek to affect change in the building industry by envisioning a living future and showing it’s possible to embody that future in practice and policy.

STATUS:
Full-time, exempt

REPORTS TO:

CEO

The Vice President of Engagement at the International Living Future Institute (Living Future) is a key leader who leads the strategy and vision for engagement with our movement, overseeing a diverse team and set of programs and serving as a key relationship-builder for the organization. Overseeing the Engagement Team is a role that focuses on creating and maintaining programs that effectively engage individuals and organizations in the mission and philosophy of Living Future while ensuring revenue growth and operational efficiency.

The Engagement Team is composed of leaders who manage our Membership Program, Education Program, Events, Ecotone Publishing, and Marketing, and who work in collaboration with the other Teams at Living Future (Buildings, Materials, Just, and Operations) to help advance progress toward a regenerative built world.

The VP of Engagement is accountable for strategy, execution and revenue generation for our Engagement programs including marketing (website, social media, etc), an 800-1000 person annual conference, a growing international membership community, an online education program, and a small publishing house. The role is also a key external ‘face’ for the organization, managing key client relationships and ensuring their continued engagement (philosophical and financial) in our programs.

This role also sets and is accountable for the Engagement Team revenue and expenses, tracking that budget and providing elegant and accurate reporting of Team impact and financial metrics to the Living Future team including the Board of Directors. The VP of Engagement will be responsible for maintaining active and effective relationships with key external stakeholders including some of our largest clients, other aligned non-profits and professional associations.

The VP of Engagement is also a member of the Management Team for Living Future, which is the core leadership team of the organization.

Overall strategic and operational responsibility for the organization’s community operations including recruitment and retention of community members, member services, professional development, volunteer opportunities, and events.

• Lead the annual corporate membership and sponsorship outreach effort, playing an active role in relationship building with key clients while organizing and tracking an inter-team approach to corporate engagement.
• Create and maintain strategic partnerships that grow our base and help Living Future community members grow their regenerative work and engagement with the movement.
• Leverage our community to create and iterate on our engagement strategy by effectively co‑creating and engaging clients as we consider adjustments to our engagement programs.
• Serve as an eloquent and knowledgeable spokesperson for the organization at industry events and in strategic conversations with stakeholders.

• Provide proactive strategic momentum for Engagement programs through business planning and…