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Administrative Assistant

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Director of Economics and Program Development

Conservation Strategy Fund (CSF) is seeking a talented professional for a senior position with potential for advancement. The job involves working closely with CSF’s president to develop, secure funding for, and oversee initiatives that fulfill CSF’s mission: Teaching people to use economics and strategic thinking to conserve nature. The ideal candidate for this job is an experienced, dedicated professional with a strong economics background and skills in crafting and promoting program ideas. The person in this position will be part of CSF’s analyst corps and therefore will share responsibility for seeing that projects adhere to high standards of quality and that CSF is deploying economic tools in the most strategic way possible to accomplish its conservation goals.

Qualifications

• Experienced economist or policy analyst with solid background in microeconomics, environmental economics and/or resource economics
• Experience developing proposals and interacting with foundations
• Excellent writing skills
• Poise in verbal communications
• Ability to discern “big picture” strategic priorities and trends in conservation
• Ability to work with teams of analysts
• Fluent in English and strong skills in one other language, preferably Spanish or Portuguese. Other languages, such as French or Chinese, would be a plus.

Duties

• Developing and securing funding for conservation economics analysis and training programs
• Overseeing and assuring quality of work performed by CSF technical staff
• Communicating program accomplishments to foundation partners and others.

To apply: Please click here to fill out the application form.

This position is based in CSF’s office in Sebastopol, in Northern California's wine country, one hour from downtown San Francisco, with great access to hiking, cycling and the coast.

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Administrative Assistant

Conservation Strategy Fund (CSF) is seeking a part-time Administrative Assistant. This part-time position is based in CSF’s Sebastopol office. The assistant will primarily support the work of the President and Communications Specialist, who are based in this office. However, CSF operates as one team spread over 7 locations in the US and South and Central America, and the assistant will regularly support other team members remotely, particularly the Finance and Training directors, who are based in Arcata, CA.

Responsibilities

• Maintain contact/donor database on a weekly basis, including records of staff, vendors, funding organizations, individual donors, colleagues, participants and instructors in the U.S. and abroad
• Work closely with the Training Director to help coordinate annual training course, including daily correspondence with applicants and attendees, gathering and organization of course materials, coordination of training site logistics
• Help coordinate fundraising events, including event invitation mailing, maintaining guest list, event logistics, coordination with host, presentation preparation, follow-up with Board Members and guests
• Assist with maintenance of CSF website
• Prepare monthly expense reports
• Manage Annual Report mailing, via mail and email
• Maintain mailing lists and handle mailings
• Assist CSF staff and consultants with travel arrangements
• Organize reference materials to support CSF researchers
• Update CSF web calendar
• Coordinate Board meetings and take minutes
• Troubleshoot IT problems, with outside experts where needed
• Ensure that office has adequate supplies and equipment
• Keep office clean and organized
• Maintain orderly files

Skills and qualifications

• Minimum two years of relevant work experience
• Computer experience and proficiency in MS Office applications
• Undergraduate degree
• Database management skills
• Spanish and/or Portuguese language skills a plus
• Experience or interest in international environmental issues and economics a plus

This position is available immediately, and is based in CSF’s Sebastopol office. Compensation is based on applicant’s qualifications.

If you are interested in this position, please e-mail your resume and a cover letter to:
courtney@conservation-strategy.org

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We are always looking for motivated and talented individuals to work with us as volunteers.

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