About Nature in the City
Mass Audubon’s Action Agenda maps a five-year blueprint for addressing the greatest conservation threats of our time – climate change, biodiversity loss, and the inequitable access to nature across our state. To address these issues in our most vulnerable communities, Mass Audubon has launched the Nature in the City Program (NITC), with a goal of increasing the number of healthy, vibrant green spaces – and access to them – for residents of under-resourced urban communities and communities of color. Through NITC program, we are collaborating with local partners to protect and, when feasible, activate twenty urban greenspaces over the next five years. This program aims to welcome people who have been historically underrepresented as collaborators in advancing environmental equity, fostering resilience to climate change impacts, and ensuring that we are closing the nature gap now and for future generations.
About This Position
The Senior Director, Nature in the City Program (SD) is a strong, experienced, dynamic leader who will implement and grow the Nature in the City (NITC) program in communities across the Commonwealth. The Senior Director is passionate about nature and the benefits it offers society – and has a proven track record of working with cross-disciplinary teams to accomplish positive and measurable conservation outcomes in urban settings. With strong skills in conservation project development and an exceptional ability to build authentic partnerships with local leaders, grassroots, and grasstops organizations, and government leaders towards a shared vision, the Senior Director will build a resilient, meaningful, community-supported network of greenspaces that provide access to nature for millions of our most historically excluded residents of Massachusetts.
The Senior Director will have significant management experience, cultural competency, political acumen, fundraising experience, initiative, flexibility, and a willingness to adapt and iterate to achieve success. Importantly, this position will draw on and gain support from the full extent of Mass Audubon’s staff, including policy and advocacy, land conservation and restoration, wildlife sanctuaries, education, and fundraising teams. This role will also be an important contributor in the implementation of Mass Audubon’s diversity, equity, inclusion, justice, and accessibility strategy.
This role works in the Conservation Division and will report to the Chief Conservation Officer. Success in this role will require collaboration with other departments across the organization to meet Nature in the City and Action Agenda goals. This position requires supervisory experience.