Senior Leadership Development Coordinator

Senior Leadership Development Coordinator

Location: Colorado

Work Schedule: Non-exempt, Full-time

Deadline for submission: June 17, 2024

Conservation Colorado is seeking a Senior Leadership Development Coordinator based in Colorado who will be responsible for developing and running leadership development training programs that elevate the leadership of people from disproportionately impacted communities.  You will work closely with the Leadership Development Manager and the full Protégete team.

About Conservation Colorado

As the largest statewide environmental organization in Colorado, we work to protect our state’s climate, air, land, water, and communities. We play a unique role in Colorado as our work focuses on organizing communities, influencing decision-makers, and electing conservation-minded leaders. The Protégete program is focused on building Latine leadership and engagement on environmental issues and is fighting to make Colorado a national leader on climate action, conservation, and environmental justice. We believe that achieving racial, social, and environmental justice are critical to our mission.  You can learn more about our mission here.

What You’ll Do

This position reports to the Leadership Development Manager and plays a vital role in building the next generation of environmental and climate leaders by expanding the reach of the organization into disproportionately impacted communities.  This program makes it more possible to develop leaders from historically marginalized identities that will help pass strong environmental policy and to build long lasting  and deeper community partnerships to support our issues across the state.  The work can evolve over time, but it contains these areas of responsibility.

Climate Justice Leadership Academy

• Create materials for and facilitate dynamic trainings for our Climate Justice Leadership Academy (CJLA) for emerging Latine and BIPOC environmental leaders across the state.
• Work with the Strategic Partnerships Manager, Government Affairs Team, Organizing Team and other Conservation Colorado staff, as well as partners, to recruit participants for these trainings. 
• Serve as an ambassador for the CJLA, promoting its uniqueness and value to potential participants, partners, and funders.
• Work with the organizing team to ensure CJLA and other activist trainings are aligned, including bringing other Conservation Colorado staff into trainings and curriculum development as appropriate.
• Help to formulate community input and feedback processes that will help identify needs to expand CJLA.

Data & Administration

• Create a system for on-going communication with program participants so people can stay engaged in our work.
• Help connect training program graduates to key positions with allied partners and decision-making spaces to advance their leadership goals.
• Along with the Data Manager, create data collection structures and use them to report on progress and to make data-informed decisions regarding our work.

In addition to your regular responsibilities, all staff are expected to participate at some level in organizational priorities including taking part in election-related activities, and committing to organizational efforts around equity & inclusivity.

Qualifications

This position is a great opportunity to help make progress on some of the most pressing environmental issues facing Colorado by helping to build environmental leadership capacity.  To do any of our work, our staff need to be natural relationship builders, have the resilience to handle tough situations, have excellent problem-solving skills with a results-focused orientation, bring an equity analysis to the work, and be highly collaborative. For this position, fundamentally, we want someone who loves connecting with people and who has the drive to take our work to the next level. More specifically, you will have or be most or all of the following:

• 2+ years of experience in training, facilitation, community outreach or curriculum development.  Creating and running trainings is the primary work of this position. Experience teaching, organizing, running group sessions, particularly if it involves moving people to harness their own power and take action, fits here.
• Well organized and detail oriented.  Success of the training program relies on great project management and being able to effectively manage time and set priorities while making sure nothing falls through the cracks.  
• Strong communication skills.  Clear, concise communication is critical to be able to communicate effectively with a range of different constituents such as youth, migrants, Latine and BIPOC audiences, and white professional spaces.  You will need to be an engaging presenter and able to present complex information clearly.  Being fluent in Spanish & English is required; other languages welcome. 
• Skills to bring together different stakeholders.  Being able to convene different groups across demographic, geographic and other differences is essential to the success of the Climate Justice Leadership Academy.  Removing barriers to participation, establishing trust across groups, and bringing groups together through a process are necessary.  As is understanding the role your own social identity plays in how you show up in these spaces.
• Motivating Others.  You can motivate other people to take part in the program by connecting their issues to the work we do and you can articulate the power of people to influence decision makers.  You need to be able to meet people where they are at and adjust your methods/plans accordingly.

This position does not have an undergraduate education requirement. This is a full-time job, with some weekends and evenings work required, but can be offset by taking off hours during the regular work day.

Compensation and Benefits

The full-time salary range for this role is between $55,000-68,000 based on a wage analysis across the organization and new staff rarely starting at the top of the range.

We provide high-quality health insurance and a strong benefits package that includes a SIMPLE IRA retirement plan with a match, at least 30 days of vacation & holidays in addition to six physical & mental wellness days in your first year, and parental leave and a sabbatical program. Please note that as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization, Conservation Colorado employees are not eligible to participate in the Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.

This position does require in-person work in the form of meetings with community members and holding trainings in person as well as regular in person staff meetings.  Therefore we do require our staff to be vaccinated against COVID. We have embraced a hybrid work model and this position does not have a set requirement for time spent in our office, though everyone is welcome to work in the office 100% of the time if they prefer.

We are committed to building a more diverse and inclusive organization and conservation movement to fully represent and engage all Coloradans and to build as powerful a movement as we can. Recruiting staff that better reflects Colorado is a priority and we encourage applicants from all cultures, race, ethnicity, geographies, political affiliation, sexual orientations, gender identities, and all other identities represented in Colorado or protected by law. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

To Apply

If this job speaks to you please click here to submit a cover letter and resume and answer a few short questions. If you have a disability and need accommodation or assistance with our online application process, please tell us how we can help by calling us at 303.333.7846.

We provide high-quality health insurance and a strong benefits package that includes a SIMPLE IRA retirement plan with a match, at least 30 days of vacation & holidays in addition to six physical & mental wellness days in your first year, and parental leave and a sabbatical program. Please note that as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization, Conservation Colorado employees are not eligible to participate in the Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.

To Apply

If this job speaks to you please click here to submit a cover letter and resume and answer a few short questions. If you have a disability and need accommodation or assistance with our online application process, please tell us how we can help by calling us at 303.333.7846.