Deputy Director – Upper Missouri Waterkeeper
Are you passionate about Montana’s rivers, clean water, and community engagement? Do you have the leadership skills to drive impactful change? Upper Missouri Waterkeeper is looking for a dynamic and experienced Deputy Director to develop broader outreach to our communities, membership, and decision-makers, and to increase our capacity to take on new projects and important water resource issues. This position reports to the Executive Director.
ABOUT UPPER MISSOURI WATERKEEPER
Upper Missouri Waterkeeper is a 501(c)3 water justice organization working across the 25,000 sq. miles of Montana’s Upper Missouri River Basin for fishable, swimmable, drinkable water and community health, including the communities of Great Falls, Helena, Bozeman, and Dillon. We protect water, wildlife, and community health across this headwaters basin through a combination of bold legal action, strong science, and creative, grassroots engagement to further justice, government accountability, and environmental progress.
DEPUTY DIRECTOR POSITION SUMMARY
The Deputy Director will work with our full-time staff, Board of Directors, members, stakeholders, and partners to manage ongoing and emerging local and regional strategies for water resources protection, and to develop and implement grassroots and decision-maker education and engagement strategies. These strategies typically dovetail with many of Upper Missouri Waterkeeper’s signature strategies – including policy, legal action, targeted communications, civic engagement and field organizing – into one cohesive package of tactics designed to achieve our mission. Key foci of the Deputy Director position are advocating for sound solutions to a range of environmental threats, and developing and maintaining relationships with members, grassroots and grasstops leaders, and decision-makers. The ideal candidate will have a demonstrated commitment to environmental protection and community organizing experience in developing policy and direct-action at the local and state levels.
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