Deputy Chief Of Staff

Are you passionate about making a difference for biodiversity and people? Are you an innovator and excited to develop sustainable, locally-led solutions and the processes to achieve them? Join Legado and help create the future of integrated approaches with a group of internationally recognized biologists, social scientists, development experts, and conservation entrepreneurs with opportunities to advance and learn at a global scale.

The Organization

• We’re a U.S.-based nonprofit currently working in Mozambique, Northern Kenya and Peru (and growing).
• Our goal is to support a locally-led system for sustained collective action that fosters adaptability and resilience for meeting current and future challenges..
• Legado is a women-led, global nonprofit that works alongside Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs) in places important for biodiversity to ensure they have the tools, resources, and partnerships they need to design and implement solutions of their choosing that benefit both their communities and landscapes—an outcome we call Thriving Futures.
• We are a values-driven workplace and align our work and team culture around living legacy, connecting human-to-human, seeing everyone as a leader, creating a culture of integrity, and using transformation as a strategy.

The Position

This position will be full time (40 hours/week). The Deputy Chief of Staff will work both independently and collaboratively with local and international teams. The position will be as follows: organizational support (55%) strategy and development (30%), operations (25%) and a suite of unicorn-like abilities to catalyze legacy to create Thriving Futures (100%). Note this role has scope to grow to Chief of Staff and/or Director of Operations in the first 6-12 months.

Key Competencies

• High capability to work agilely and dynamically
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to operate as both a generalist and a specialist
• A talent for high-level and strategic thinking, synthesizing complex information, and communicating complicated information in a straightforward way
• Comfort with quantitative and financial analysis and detail orientation
• Entrepreneurial small team passion and commitment including the commitment to work at all levels from small to large to accomplish goals and projects
• The ability to work efficiently and effectively and help teams get projects over the finish line

Experience Requirements

The ideal candidate has a selection of the following in that they meet at least one, and ideally more than one, of the following criteria:

• A minimum of 5 years in fundraising and communications in social impact organizations
• A minimum of 5 years in leadership roles and experience managing remote, culturally diverse teams
• A minimum of 5 years experience in the development and/or conservation sectors with a preference for a background in social change organizations

In addition, all candidates should have:

• Impact-driven with capabilities to communicate impact to different levels of stakeholders
• 5-10 years of progressive responsibility during which candidate demonstrated a high degree of initiative and experience being a generator of projects and programs
• Education in a relevant field with a preference for an advanced degree
• Willingness and ability to travel internationally, as needed, to help drive Legado’s work and partnerships
• Robust experience in organization financial management and budgeting to manage multiple programs into an institutional budget across 20 staff and $1.5 million operating budget.
• Fluency in English; fluency or proficiency in Spanish and Portuguese is highly desired
• Deep experience cultivating and stewarding partnerships and donors alongside formal and informal grant and proposal writing

Salary

Annual salary will be commensurate with experience and range from $50,000-75,000 with benefits including medical, life, disability, and 401K.

Location

The Deputy Chief of Staff will be based at a home office and must be available to work on US Central or Eastern time (GMT-4 or GMT-5) in addition to meetings and coordination with Legado’s global team (there is some flexibility on meeting times). Work on some weekends or evenings may occasionally be required to help monitor program activities or coordinate with partners. There may be opportunities to travel to events in the US and to program sites in Kenya, Mozambique, Peru and others.

Why Should You Apply?

• Exciting, combination of an entrepreneurial start-up and a strong mission and values-driven culture
• Ability to demonstrate long-term, in-demand skills from the role in future social impact organizations
• Deep learning and professional development with ED mentoring and working across the experienced SLT
• Ability to work remote
• Excellent opportunities for professional growth and advancement
• Opportunity for promotion based on performance during first year
• Innovative and fun team atmosphere where everyone brings a diverse skill set to a diverse working environment
• Competitive comp

Interested?

For more information please see the Deputy Chief of Staff hiring page for full details and the Legado Deputy Chief of Staff .

To apply, please send:

1. A cover letter expressing interest and a description of relevant experience. The cover letter should also detail why you think a Thriving Futures approach is needed to create systemic change
2. A curriculum vitae
3. The names and contact information of two or more references

Applications should be emailed to Leigh Schumann ([email protected]) and Majka Burhardt ([email protected]), by August 25, 2023. Applications sent only through LinkedIn or without all required materials will not be reviewed.