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WHO WE ARE
Climate Action Systems is a not-for-profit organization uniting efforts to resolve the climate crisis by creating a powerful network of impact. Our Planet app is a platform that connects its users with people, ideas and resources to help them make progress towards their climate goals. Our mission is to reverse climate change in a single generation through the connective and catalyzing power of Planet. Our focus is on community activation—creating effective collaboration among disparate groups and individuals pursuing a climate goal that none can reach alone.
THE OPPORTUNITY
We are seeking our first Executive Director! As the fourth member of our founding team, you will lead us from our initial app development and pilot phases, to Planet’s expansion as a transformational climate action tool worldwide.
Who you are: You are both an inspiring and powerful visionary, and a wildly effective manager. You can paint the future, while also attending to the minutiae that make this canvas come to life. Through your profound people-skills, you actively grow our network of users, advocates, and funders in each and every interaction. As an experienced leader, you define success across two vectors: one external and one internal. Externally, you chart an ever-iterating-course towards Planet’s global impact on the climate crisis writ large. Internally, you are laser-focused on developing the health and sustainability – both in human and fiscal terms – of Climate Action Systems as an organization.
What you love, and what you do so well: You hit the ground listening. Learning is one of your favorite pastimes, and you prefer close collaboration and walking in the unknown alongside your team, to setting a fixed path solo and ensuring your colleagues follow it. You take great joy in networking and storytelling, and you bring individuals and organizations into Planet’s orbit through your compelling articulation of Planet’s power and potential. You are flexible, able to rapidly adapt your thinking and your actions to emerging demands, and while you have a strong sense of direction, you feel comfortable managing in quick iterations. You are not troubled by the challenge of addressing a very nascent market, but invigorated by its openness and possibilities.
In this role, you thrive in the following major buckets of work:
Leading Our Organization: You enjoy building and running a new organization as a collaborative and agile endeavor. You feel comfortable in a nonprofit context, and you are fluent in its operations. You focus on innovating to make an impact.
In particular, you:
Raising Our Funds: You know how to cultivate supporters and formalize financial commitments to our organization. You genuinely enjoy connecting with potential funders and helping them first understand, and then support a new kind of breakthrough solution to the climate crisis that makes an impact in an unusual way.
In particular, you:
Leading Our People: You have exceptional emotional intelligence in both in-person, and virtual settings. You understand adult development, and you know how to build healthy and productive teams. You hold your staff to clear and high expectations, and you provide the structured supports and conditions necessary for these expectations to be met.
In particular, you:
Building Our User Base: You are a spokesperson, skilled in explaining new possibilities, and inspirational in narrating what is possible. You introduce the potential and the power of Planet in every virtual and in-person context and configuration, from one individual user to global networks.
In particular, you:
While these may seem like modest practices, they are at the center of our shared human condition, and when enacted, they empower us to be the most generative versions of ourselves.
LOCATION
Wherever you please! Climate Action Systems is an entirely remote organization.
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
Climate Action Systems offers a competitive salary and benefits package. Our benefits include medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and life insurance; a 403(b) plan, including an employer match after 1 year of service; 20 days of paid holiday/vacation time as a first-year employee; 10 sick days; time off to vote; and leaves of absence in compliance with federal law, as well as the employee’s local and state laws.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
Climate Actions Systems is fiercely committed to diversity, equity and inclusion as an organization, and as an essential part of its mission to catalyze positive climate action for individuals and communities across the globe. We are building a diverse team that shares our values, and we strongly encourage candidates from historically marginalized and historically under-represented groups to apply.
TO APPLY
To apply, please upload your resume and cover letter to our Google Form Application here: https://forms.gle/Yitu3bqx2NYyj2n66