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 NextGen) 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, including program revenue, camp and school program tuition. In addition, work with senior leadership team to identify and develop strategic partnerships for scholarship donations.

Prepare information for funder reports respond to education-related inquiries from donors, when needed.

Support a culture of philanthropy, including public funding efforts.

Collaborate with colleagues across the Americas including through joint planning and execution of shared priorities.

Maintains and fosters culture of safety.

Bachelor's degree in natural sciences, environmental education or related area and 10 years' professional experience developing programming. A similar combination of education and experience will also be considered.

Demonstrated understanding of environmental and outdoor education philosophies and best practices, as well as knowledge and appreciation of the people, values and current conservation and policy issues throughout New Mexico and Arizona.

Effective leadership skills, one able to think strategically and creatively, juggle multiple tasks, meet deadlines, and work in a dynamic environment.

An engaging and energetic demeanor and the ability to inspire and motivate staff, volunteers, and potential partners. Must have strong interpersonal and social skills, a positive attitude and good sense of humor.

Commitment to Audubon's organizational values of care, collaboration, change, integrity, impact, and innovation.

Experience fostering inclusive and collaborative work environments is valued.

A self-starter, one who is team-centric and willing to work in a flexible, non-structured environment.

Experience managing both paid education staff and volunteers.

Excellent organizational, writing and speaking skills a must, as well as strong oral and written communications skills in order synthesize and communicate technical and complex information to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Fundraising experience including, writing and overseeing grants, cultivating and managing individual donors, as well as foundations and other public agencies.

Technical skills including, proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, experience working with social networking techniques to build awareness and engage others, and comfort developing measurement and evaluation (M&E) methodologies for programs.

Ability and willingness to travel locally and out-of-state and be comfortable with working evenings and weekends as job demands. Must possess a valid driver's license.

Ability to work outdoors, in all weather conditions and on varying terrain, and the ability to occasionally carry field equipment with or without accommodation.

Spoken and written Spanish language proficiency is strongly preferred.