Director of Operations

The Radix Ecological Sustainability Center is hiring a Director of Operations.

We are an ecological literacy and just sustainabilities advocacy non-profit organization based in the South End of Albany, New York. We maintain a one-acre demonstration site of regenerative tools and technologies including gardens, food forests, greenhouses, honeybees, aquaponics, composting, and more that are designed to teach urban residents, with a particular focus on youth, how to have greater local access over essential resources.

Our programs include the “Ecojustice Associate” afterschool/summer youth employment program, farm tours for elementary school children in the Albany School District, the South End Biocultural Diversity Forest, the Community Composting Initiative, the Atmojustice air monitoring program, the River Regeneration and Renewable Remediation program, and more. Staff includes our current executive and educational directors, an administrative assistant, a garden/farm share coordinator, youth educators, food scraps collectors, and youth staff.

Our values include working for ecological regeneration, equity, and social justice in the South End community and beyond. Inside the nexus of food, climate, and environmental justice, we work for all city residents to have access to healthy food, habitats, water, and air regardless of income, simultaneously examining and critiquing how systems of power and privilege may otherwise prevent this.

Responsibilities

• Team Supervision
• Regular communication with staff members
• Scheduling
• Payroll approval
• Annual performance reviews
• Benefits/PTO administration
• Recruitment of new members as needed

Program Management

• In consultation with staff members currently running programming, write up/formalize/ document operational processes and procedures and reporting deliverables for the following programs:
• Ecojustice Associates Youth Employment
• Community Compost Initiative
• Albany Central School District Educational Programs
• Farm Share
• Internships
• Provide administrative support to program operations
• Program evaluation

Grants Management and Reporting

• Collect deliverables data for grants
• Prepare regular reports for funders
• Payroll and expense allocations
• Assist with preparation of annual report

Work with Executive and Educational Directors to Maintain Organizational Financial Stability

• Donor management
• Grant identification and application
• Accounting administration/oversight
• Annual fundraising appeals

Qualifications

• MPA or equivalent; or 5+ years non-profit directorial administrative experience
• Computer skills: Quickbooks & Excel
• Experience working with diverse audiences
• Attention to detail
• Ability to be flexible with unexpected situations
• Self-direction
• Trauma-informed perspective
• Sense of humor!

Salary dependent upon experience – FTE $55,000-$70,000/yr. Health and vacation/PTO benefits.

PTE for the right person would be considered.

Please send resume and cover letter to:

Stacy Pettigrew, PhD, MS

Executive Director

stacy@radixcenter.org