Executive Director in Sheridan, Wyoming

Powder River Basin Resource Council

Job Title: Executive Director

Position Status: Full-time, exempt

Location: Sheridan, Wyoming

Position Reports to: PRBRC Boards of Directors

Compensation: $75,000 - $85,000

Powder River Basin Resource Council also offers the following benefits:

• 100% Employer paid health, vision, and dental insurance, flex time,
• Technology and wellness reimbursements
• 3% Retirement SIMPLE-IRA match
• Generous paid 23 days of vacation time
• 8 paid holidays
• Parental leave
• Paid professional development
• 3 - month sabbatical leaves after each five years of service
• End of service bonus plan at the completion of fifteen plus years of employment

Powder River Basin Resource Council is seeking an Executive Director to carry the organization into a new chapter of encouraging responsible development today ~ for tomorrow throughout the state with fresh energy and perspective. The ideal candidate will be ready to engage with the established grassroots membership who contribute to community organizing and to embrace our mission and history. This candidate will value consensus building and internal organizational cohesion, and will be innovative, strategic, and a problem solver.

Our new executive director will join a financially strong organization with a grassroots base and committed knowledgeable board members who work with the organization’s staff to advance our members’ priorities. We are excited to work with our new executive and rebuild our team. This is a time of growth and opportunity at Powder River.

Who We Are

Powder River Basin Resource Council is a respected and effective member-led organization established in 1972 working on behalf of Wyoming’s air, land, and water, its people and its non-human residents. Our commitments are to: the preservation and enrichment of our agricultural heritage and rural identity; the conservation of our land, water, air, and mineral resources consistent with the responsible use of those resources to sustain the web of life of which we are a part; and the education and empowerment of our residents such that each one of us can participate in making the decisions that shape our environment and our communities.

The Executive Director works closely with staff and Board of Directors and manages the responsibilities listed below.

Leadership and Values

• Building relationships of trust with staff, board, members, and allies.
• Creating with the board and staff strategic planning that engages our members and Wyoming’s residents to plan for the future.
• Envisioning long-term possibilities with a focus on goals as much as on tasks.
• Bringing community organizing values to our conversations along with strong facilitating skills and a commitment to building consensus.
• Honoring and promoting member-leaders as spokespeople for the organization and as visible leaders and voices for Powder River.

With the Board

• Reporting to and working as a partner with the board to ensure strong governance policies and fiscal health.
• Cultivating the development of an engaged board equipped with necessary information, shared understanding and analysis of issues, and ownership of the organization.
• Bringing policy recommendations to the board, engaging the board in strategic decisions.
• Preparing with the board chair meeting agendas and materials, the time and place of meetings, as well as assisting the chair in planning and facilitating meetings to encourage participation, open discussion, the freedom to question, and consensual decision-making.
• Ensuring that the board chair and board are conversant with ongoing issues and campaigns.
• Serving as liaison to board committees.
• Informing the board of management changes and areas where staff needs assistance.
• Implementing board decisions and communicating these to the general membership.

With the staff

• Ensuring equity in staff hiring, training, development, supervision, and dismissal.
• Developing with staff ongoing work plans and assignments.
• Delegating and sharing staff responsibilities.
• Overseeing practices to update staff structure when needed so as to strengthen internal relations to increase our impact and sustainability.
• Implementing personnel policies and conducting regular staff evaluations so as to mentor individuals and help them work as effectively as possible.

With financial matters

• Ensuring that the organization is fiscally sound and financially healthy.
• Preparing with the board’s finance Committee the yearly budget to ensure that financial resources are used appropriately and to monitor and report on the budget throughout the year.
• Overseeing the fundraising strategy to support sustainable funding necessary to carry out our work, including preparing and submitting grant proposals and reports.
• Coordinating with the office manager membership development and renewal;
• Ensuring that all activities maintain the organization’s 501(c)3 status.

With outside organizations

• Representing Powder River at the Western Organization of Resource Council’s staff meetings and trainings.
• Participating in professional development seminars and reporting to the board as to how such training can be used in the workplace.
• Speaking and writing on behalf of Powder River with members, Wyoming individuals and community representatives, government agencies, elected officials, and industry representatives.
• Guiding Powder River’s work at the state legislature.

Qualifications

Must be present for a candidate to move forward in the hiring process.

• Management experience: Can grow and manage staff, building internal cohesion, enabling collaboration, providing leadership coaching and staff development opportunities.
• Budgeting and financial management experience while also ensuring proper implementation of fundraising and accounting.
• Commitment to leadership development: Experience or demonstrated investment supporting, opportunities for self, staff, volunteers, and board members.
• Think strategically at the individual, team, organization, network, and movement levels to set and implement goals.
• Organizing experience: Experience and demonstrated enthusiasm for organizing around environmental issues such as minerals/ag/climate/conservation.
• Skilled communicator: Experience and enthusiasm for written and verbal communication; experience in grant writing, public speaking and event planning.

To Apply

Please send a cover letter, resume, 2-3 letters of reference, and 2-3 relevant writing samples to:info@powderriverbasin.org.

Paper copies may also be sent to:

Search Committee, Powder River Basin Resource Council, 934 N. Main St., Sheridan Wyoming 82801.

Timeline

We will review applications on a rolling basis. The position will remain open until filled.

For more information, please visit www.powderriverbasin.org.