Executive Director; RAN

Rainforest Action Network (RAN) preserves forests, protects the climate, and upholds human rights by challenging corporate power and systemic injustice through frontline partnerships and strategic campaigns. With a budget of approximately $9 million and an international staff of roughly 50 (based from San Francisco to New York to London to Jakarta), RAN works toward a world where the rights and dignity of all communities are respected and where healthy forests, a stable climate, and wild biodiversity are protected and celebrated.

RAN accomplishes this through:

• Peaceful, direct action
• High-profile, direct communication
• Coordinated media and social media campaigns
• Highly researched and detailed reports
• Collaborative partnerships with allies and grassroots organizations
• Relentless follow-up to ensure promises are kept

RAN values diversity in race, class, gender, culture, and religion, and implements programs internally to ensure that staff, board, and activists understand and adopt anti-oppression principles . Additionally, RAN adheres to a policy of nonviolence .For more information about RAN’s history, culture, and philosophy, please visit RAN’s website .

RAN seeks a proven, passionate, and dynamic leader to advance its mission. The ideal candidate is a movement-oriented activist who is visionary, strategic, and able to expand upon RAN's strong reputation and successful history of real-world impact. This is a highly influential position in both the national and international environmental and human rights communities.

Primary Responsibilities

The Executive Director will perform the following and other duties as assigned:

• Oversee the planning, implementation, management, and evaluation of all aspects of RAN to drive the organization’s overall strategic direction toward achieving RAN’s mission.
• Effectively communicate RAN's values, achievements, and impact to internal and external audiences, including stakeholders, media, Board members, staff, and other organizations.
• Set and achieve fundraising targets by developing and maintaining collaborative relationships with major donors and philanthropic institutions that support RAN’s work.
• Develop and maintain effective, authentic, and respectful partnerships with key programmatic allies across the globe.
• Collaborate with senior leadership to sustain an organizational culture and structure that promotes highly effective work by fostering cooperation, communication, trust, equity, fairness, and inclusivity through direct feedback, transparent practices, collaborative work spaces, and choice points.
• Contribute to an inclusive work culture that encourages and celebrates differences.
• Ensure implementation of Board directives, attend Board meetings as a non-voting member, provide timely reporting of organizational activities to the Board, advise the Board on strategic decisions, and lead Board development efforts.
• Direct the preparation of the annual budget and ensure that the organization operates within budget guidelines. Oversee the development and maintenance of sound financial practices.
• Ensure RAN meets all its legal obligations and oversee all legal matters.

The successful candidate will have the following characteristics and qualifications:

• A demonstrated record indicating a passion for, and alignment with, RAN’s mission, vision, and values.
• Demonstrated success in managing complex organizations as a CEO or senior leader in a nonprofit setting.
• A strong communicator who is skilled in media and public relations strategy and comfortable with enthusiastically and persuasively representing RAN to external audiences.
• Exceptional visionary and strategic thinking skills to chart programmatic directions that result in clear operational goals. Leadership skills to facilitate and motivate the organization through intense multi-program, and multi-team planning processes.
• A nuanced understanding and experience with the dynamics of working with local, frontline, and indigenous groups and developing campaigns that create alliances with a variety of stakeholders.
• A record of commitment to racial justice and equity and an awareness and…