Overview

Position Overview:
The Officer will manage project coordination and day to day project management working with the Director, IBCC. This will include overseeing work planning, tracking progress toward the campaign’s ambitious goals, and helping to ensure coordination among the partners. The Officer also will coordinate with other programmatic and operations units at The Pew Charitable Trusts and partner organizations. It is expected that this position is for a term period through March 31, 2018, with the possibility of an extension pending the success of the program, funding sources and board decisions on continued support.

Responsibilities:

Ensure that campaign work plans are developed, reviewed, executed and integrated with budget, fundraising, and program planning timelines and requirements.
Continually assess progress toward short-term campaign deliverables and long-range goals articulated in IBCC strategic planning documents and grant agreements, and work with IBCC teams to refine work plans as needed.
Assist and advise the campaign director as needed on matters of budget, fundraising, personnel, administration and operations.
Develop, maintain and oversee efficient and effective internal communications mechanisms and practices to ensure coordinated, cohesive operations and positive working relationships.
Contribute to and participate in tasks of the department as assigned. Participate in Pew-wide projects as requested.

Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred.
A minimum of eight years of related professional experience.
Experience developing, implementing and assessing political or issue advocacy campaigns.
Experience successfully managing consultants and coalition relationships.
Excellent written and oral communications skills.
Experience managing budgets and contracts.
Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to develop and manage productive relationships with staff, consultants, partners, and others.
A detail-oriented style with a focus on results. Ability to meet multiple deadlines by maintaining a high level of organization. Able to develop and move projects forward with independence and autonomy, yet working in a cooperative spirit in a multi-disciplinary team.
A high level of cultural sensitivity and awareness.
Proficiency with Microsoft office programs, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Preferred:
Familiarity with conservation issues;
Knowledge of or experience working in Canada.
Travel
This position will be based in Seattle, Washington and will travel internationally to Canada several times per year and to our headquarters office in Washington, DC several times per year.

Compensation
Pew offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Pew is an equal opportunity employer

About The Pew Charitable Trusts

For the past twenty-five years, Pew has been a major force in educating the public and policy makers about the causes, consequences, and solutions to some of the world’s most pressing environmental challenges. Our environment work is focused on reducing the scope and severity of three major global environmental problems:
The use of fossil fuels and other energy sources that damage the environment and increase the concentration of greenhouse gases in the planet’s atmosphere;
The erosion of large terrestrial wilderness ecosystems that contain a great part of the world’s remaining biodiversity; and,
The destruction of the world’s marine environment.

Pew has worked in the United States and Canada since 1990 to protect vast stretches of unspoiled wilderness and more recently expanded our land conservation efforts to Australia and Chile. Pew has also become one of, if not the, largest group of marine policy professionals in the world, working to reduce the scope and severity of various activities that are having a detrimental impact on the health of the world’s oceans. Each year many tons of fish and other marine life are removed from the world’s oceans due to harmful fishing practices and to the lack of appropriate regulatory controls that allow overfishing and habitat destruction to continue.

Pew began its oceans program in the United States, focusing on ending overfishing and protecting fragile marine habitat. Since 2005, Pew’s ocean conservation program has expanded around the world and has played a significant role in reforming marine fisheries management in the European Union and on the high seas. Pew’s work is grounded in the best available science and our goal is to reverse the decline of ocean life and the habitat on which it depends. Our work uses a systematic, rigorous approach through the application of the latest science-based conservation standards to establish catch limits and to put in place other measures to protect or restore populations of marine life ranging from sharks and tunas to penguins and whales.