Building & Grounds Director

Buildings & Grounds Director

Overview

Highlander Research and Education Center seeks a Buildings & Grounds Director (internally titled as Land & Place Director) to lead the Land & Place Department, collaborate on interdepartmental initiatives and procedures related to campus safety, maintenance, and development, and to further integrate Highlander’s mission and values into strategic and daily land & place-based operations. This role will be responsible for leading Highlander’s stewardship of its land-use vision plans for the 21st century.

In a typical day, you can expect to:

• Explore and recommend ways to advance Highlander’s campus initiatives for ecological sustainability, climate resilience, strategic adaptation, and informed decision-making regarding land and building use.
• Develop and utilize value-based land and place assessments to evaluate current land stewardship and identify necessary building maintenance.
• Meet with Land & Place staff, departmental leaders, and executive directors to discuss the department’s budget, construction progress, land visioning efforts, and maintenance assignments.
• Coordinate with contractors and consultants on current and upcoming building projects.

To be successful in this role, you need to have:

• Demonstrated understanding of and commitment to land-based movements for social change
• 3-5 years of campus and/or farm planning experience, including financial and capital project planning
• Experience working with building contractors, architects, codes and regulations personnel, and property insurance agents
• Able to integrate the values of land as a relative, land as holding memory, and land as critical to meaning-making into strategy, planning, process, and procedure

About Highlander

Highlander serves as a catalyst for grassroots organizing and movement building in Appalachia and the South. We work with people fighting for justice, equality, and sustainability, supporting their efforts to take collective action to shape their destiny. If you would like to be a part of this movement for change, we'd encourage you to apply today!

Compensation & Benefits

In addition to offering the Buildings & Grounds position an annual salary of $80,837.25 we encourage employees, their spouse/domestic partner, and their dependent(s) to take advantage of our 100% employer-paid healthcare plan offered through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee, a vision and dental plan offered through Guardian, and a Health Reimbursement Account to help cover eligible out-of-pocket expenses. Our benefits package includes an employer-sponsored life insurance policy, disability insurance policy, and a traditional 403b retirement plan. Highlander also encourages its employees to take advantage of their 24 days of paid vacation, 11 paid holidays, and a robust sick time policy each year.

Professional English proficiency preferred. Multilingual and English as a second language (ESL) applicants are strongly encouraged to apply!