Director, Community Building

Director, Community Building

The Director, Community Building will be responsible for regional efforts to educate, engage and activate existing Audubon chapters and members while expanding the sphere of influence of the Audubon network in New Mexico and Arizona. The Director, Community Building will be responsible for developing partnerships and providing education, training and capacity-building opportunities, tools, and mechanisms to build the connectedness, capacity, diversity, and size of the Audubon network in the region.

The Director, Community Building will oversee programming at the Randall Davey and Rio Salado Audubon Centers in Santa Fe and Phoenix respectively, in collaboration with the Center Directors at these centers, with a goal of building and managing culturally resonant programs and messages that address community needs and connect to actions positively contributing to the conservation of our region's birds and the spaces they need to thrive.

The Director, Community Building will collaborate closely with the Senior Director of Policy to successfully engage our bipartisan network and conservation partners for successful policy campaigns and conservation leadership. They will oversee the development and delivery of Audubon's community engagement and community science programs with a specific goal of reaching new audiences and diversifying our membership to be fully representative of Arizona and New Mexico communities.

As a senior leader on Audubon's Southwest team the Director, Community Building will work with the Executive Director to direct operations and strategy to achieve maximum conservation impact in Arizona and New Mexico.

This is an on-site position located at one of our Audubon Centers either in Santa Fe, NM or Phoenix, AZ.

Compensation: $95,000 – $107,000 / year

Essential Functions

• In alignment with Audubon's Community Building milestone strategy, lead the development and execution of Audubon's community building strategy in Arizona and New Mexico, identifying and achieving strategic priorities related to center operations, network engagement and community education.
• In partnership with Audubon Southwest Executive Director and Policy Director, provide overall strategic guidance to Audubon's Southwest team, connecting and aligning actions and outcomes across community building, policy and advocacy, and habitat delivery programs to maximize conservation impact.
• Engage with Community Building Milestone initiative teams (Community Chapters, Conservation Action Centers, and Next Gen) to coordinate on strategy and shared projects, ensuring that Southwest regional efforts align with and contribute to Flight Plan Milestones.
• Responsible for hiring, mentoring and supervising the education and engagement teams, including overseeing the recruitment and training of seasonal educators, volunteers, and interns leading to effective and impactful programming
• Work closely with the Center Directors in the region to oversee and guide programming towards achieving Flight Plan milestones.
• Establish assessment tools for measuring and evaluating program effectiveness and provide frequent reports on outcomes to the Executive Director.
• Cultivate and maintain effective partnerships with key stakeholders including, but not limited to, community organizations, other state Audubon offices and chapters, educators and school administrators, National Wildlife Refuge and National Parks employees, tribal entities, partner biologists and other specialists. Additionally, developing new partnerships that leverage Audubon's conservation and education outreach into broader and more diverse communities.
• Serve as a spokesperson for Audubon Southwest as needed.
• Along with the other members of the senior leadership team, responsible for fundraising and helping to secure donations. Effectively and enthusiastically communicate the case for support of the Center's program at community and fundraising events.
• Manage annual program budget and provide required financial reporting to the Executive Director, to include analyzing cost/revenue information against programmatic goals.
• Enhance existing sources of earned income,…