Director, Natural Resource Management /Remote

WHO WE ARE
Come grow with us! If you are a passionate change agent who thrives in a collaborative, entrepreneurial and inclusive, culture committed to operational excellence, we would like to meet you.

At Resonance, you get immediate hands-on experience alongside our clients as we work to build sustainable, positive impact. Our teams are autonomous and self-sufficient. You get to weigh in with founders and leaders on how to drive change and grow the movement while growing the company.

Resonance is an award-winning, Certified B Corporation consultancy that delivers market-based solutions to address the world’s toughest challenges. We enable a variety of donor, commercial, and investor clients around the world to catalyze lasting impact. Resonance seeks to catalyze large-scale social, environmental, and economic change by fostering new and dynamic forms of collaboration. We do this by fostering public-private partnerships, facilitating sustainable investment, and providing deep analytical insights in frontier markets.

 

 

OUTCOMES / ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Partner with leadership and Business Development to support and grow NRM new business by: surfacing and recommending opportunities, leading proposals, and/or serving as a proposal chief, technical lead, contributor, or reviewer, identifying and tracking relevant opportunities; leading decisions on whether to pursue NRM new business opportunities; mentoring staff; and working closely with the Business Development team and other stakeholders to ensure the delivery of quality proposals.
• Partner with the PDU and other sectors to ensure high technical impact across the portfolio, leverage and develop capabilities and resources within the broader GS team for new business efforts, and promote mechanisms for shared learning and healthy habits among project teams.
• Achieve sector annual business development and revenue growth goals; contribute to the creation and execution of company capture plan
• Lead strategy and design during capture and proposal development processes, providing guidance and vision to proposal teams and serving as Proposal Chief and/or technical writer
• Lead the growth of the sector’s technical visibility with key stakeholders, practitioners, and donors with an eye towards identifying and engaging promising partners for collaboration and innovation through thought leadership activities; including, but not limited to, penning op-eds; serving as a technical panelist, and identifying topics and convening technical fora/ensuring Resonance participation in relevant fora.

• Develop, introduce, lead, and refine technical approaches, methods and tools that leverage Resonance’s service offerings (partnership/PSE, innovation, innovative finance) within the NRM sector and, those that integrate with other sectors (green/blue economies), and that align with Resonance’s mission and values
• Oversee and deliver technical excellence across the company and ensure high client satisfaction in all NRM projects
• Ensure that the NRM sector’s projects are environmentally compliant and implement activities in accordance with best natural resource management practices
• Support Resonance’s thought leadership through blog posts and articles, public presentations, attending and speaking at relevant conferences, etc.
• Develop and manage client relationships with development implementers, donor agencies, commercial customers, foundations, NGOs, and others
• Identify, develop and uplift existing technical project tools and approaches that can be incorporated into the larger technical area

• Supervise a team of high performers with expertise in NRM and private sector engagement
• As a member of the ELT, be emotionally intelligent and lead by example, fostering an environment that is collaborative and conducive to growth, respect, equity, and thought leadership. Lead by example and inspire staff in the sector, promoting professional development and creating a positive working environment that encourages productive relationships, creative problem-solving, and high performance.
• Set, implement, and ensure that each team member meets strategic, long-term goals and objectives for the department
• Lead team development, performance against strategic goals, personnel management issues, wellness and staff spotlight to promote recognition of individual and team efforts.
• Support home office team, in-country Project Directors and Chiefs of Party, traveling to country offices to visit programs and provide support, visibility, guidance, and reinforcement where safe and appropriate.
• Champion Resonance’s Core Values (Thriving Together An Entrepreneurial Mindset Transformative Results Thoughtful Innovation Integrity Lived ) in the NRM team’s management approach and encourage upward feedback and management.
• Enable and support organization in driving social, economic, and environmental impact.

REQUIRED EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Advanced degree in natural resource management, economics, international development, business administration, or related field
• 12+ years of project management experience in the international development or business context
• 10 years of business development experience, including writing technical proposals and leading proposal teams.
• Successful track record of winning USAID and other donor-funded NRM business
• Demonstrated track record in facilitating cross-sector collaboration, preferably for international companies, NGOs, donors or foundations operating in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and/or the Middle East
• Experience building and leading high-performing teams
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills. Ability to travel up to 30% on short notice
• Eligibility to work in US

TRAVEL EXPECTATIONS
Ability to travel up to 30% on short notice.

 

WORK ENVIRONMENT & PHYSICAL DEMANDS
This position operates in a professional office environment, and routinely requires the use of standard office equipment such as computers, phones, printers, photocopiers, and filing cabinets.

The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

 

As a part of the responsibilities for this job, the employee is required to communicate, detect, converse with, discern, convey, express oneself, and exchange information orally and in writing with others. The employee must be able to remain in a stationary position, sitting at a desk for prolonged periods, move or traverse inside the office and facilities; operate, activate, use, prepare, inspect, place, detect, or position computers and other office equipment, such as a calculator, copy machine, furniture, and computer printer. The employee must be able to make substantial repetitive motions of the wrists, hands and fingers. The employee must be able to lift and move up to 15lbs at times.

 

Eligibility to work in US.

 

The Equal Employment Opportunity Policy of Resonance is to provide a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity or expression, and sexual orientation) parental status, genetic information (including family medical history) political affiliation, military service, age, veteran status, disability, or marital status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. These protections extend to all management practices and decisions, including recruitment and hiring, appraisal systems, promotions, training, and career development programs. Consistent with these obligations, Resonance also provides reasonable accommodations to employees and applicants with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs, observances, and practices.

 

Resonance believes that employees should be provided with a working environment which enables each associate to be productive and to work to the best of his or her ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment based on any of the above-mentioned characteristics.

 

We expect and require the cooperation of all employees in maintaining a discrimination and harassment-free atmosphere.