GLOBAL RECRUITMENT SPECIALISTS

Accountabilities/Responsibilities

• In conjunction with the COO, direct the program work of IFAW, ensuring alignment with the organizations' mission and strategy.  Ensure ongoing programmatic excellence and documented successes.
• Ensure that key project outcomes and/or policy, advocacy and legislation are evaluated and leveraged for maximum community and organizational impact.
• Develop, budget and implement cohesive and integrated program and strategic action plans for the success of the programs.  Identify critical priorities and key strategies.  Assure the communication of the plan and priorities to IFAW staff and consultants worldwide.
• Work closely with the EVP on implementation strategies through the country and regional offices.
• Coordinate and lead integrated worldwide campaign and program teams; provide guidance and direction to team leaders and staff and assure that teams and groups are appropriately staffed and developed with required levels of skill and expertise to achieve results by aligning individual goals and objectives with campaigns and projects.
• Work collaboratively with the Executive Staff, Program Directors and Country Directors to measure and manage program goals and objectives.
• Provide leadership and guidance to the effective use of scientific expertise and research in activities designed to achieve program goals.  Assure the development of valid and powerful scientific arguments in support of IFAW legislative, regulatory and international trade strategies and in the development of a body of knowledge that promotes the understanding of the relationship between consumptive use and species-survival.
• Provide management direction to incorporate legal expertise and counsel into program and campaign activity, working to ensure that international treaties, trade agreements and international and national regulations ensure maximum protection of wild animals and habitat and that illegal trade practices are identified and curtailed, where possible.
• Lead the achievements of IFAW's program goals through the identification of opportunities for funding external bodies and individuals to leverage scarce resources to address the current threats of increasing commercial exploitation, international trade and habitat protection.  Fundraising is an important task for senior management at IFAW.
• Work closely with the VPs of Communications and Philanthropy to integrate communications and fundraising activities in support of campaign initiatives worldwide, assuring that messaging is timely, proactive and is best positioned to achieve IFAW's program objectives.
• Manage relationships with partner NGO organizations.
• Serve as a member of the IFAW's Leadership Team; participate in the strategic and operational planning for the organization.

Job Requirements

• Advanced level degree preferable with focus in wildlife policy, science, economics or the environment.
• Proven track record in political advocacy with experience in conservation or animal welfare issues
• Experience in and knowledge of international and national politics and political processes.
• Good working knowledge of other NGOs in conservation or animal welfare community.
• Proven senior-level managerial and leadership skills with minimum 10 years high-level management experience in an international organization; a management style that promotes delegation of authority.
• Superior organizational capabilities; ability to effectively set priorities and manage a demanding and complex workload.
• Ability to supervise and co-ordinate on-going projects and to collaborate with other researchers and organizations.
• Experience with budget processes and setting budget priorities.
• Superior written and verbal communication skills; ability to communicate and work effectively and appropriately with political leaders and staff from various cultures.
• Fluency in English and a second language preferred.