The Center for Collaborative Conservation at Colorado State
University is seeking an innovative leader and manager to become the
founding Director of the Colorado Conservation Exchange. The Exchange
Director will be housed in an office at the Center for Collaborative
at Colorado State University, and will have administrative support
from a part-time administrator that the successful candidate will
recruit. While based at the CCC, the position will be co-supervised
by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and the Center for Collaborative
Conservation (CCC). The mission of The Nature Conservancy is to
conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends. The Center
for Collaborative Conservation advances the art and science of
understanding and achieving conservation through collaboration to
sustain people and the natural communities they depend upon.
The Colorado Conservation Exchange is a nascent watershed investment
fund, which is an innovative tool to strongly accelerate investment
in watershed health and wildfire risk reduction in Colorado and
potentially across the American West. The Exchange builds on the
success of both previous and ongoing watershed health efforts, but
takes a more strategic, proactive and future-oriented approach. Our
goal is to dramatically accelerate on-the-ground restoration, gain
efficiencies by working across multiple watersheds, link across
public and private lands, and expand the pool of investors by
developing markets for ecosystem services like water quality, carbon,
and wildlife habitat. We are at the end of our design phase and now
propose to conduct a meaningful test of the Exchange, while also
further developing its market infrastructure and the critical tools
needed for full implementation.
The Colorado Conservation Exchange is currently hosted by the Center
for Collaborative Conservation, Colorado State University, Fort
Collins, Colorado. The Exchange is led by a Working Group, which
includes a diverse group of representatives from nonprofits,
government entities, private sector companies and a university.
To apply and view a full position description, please visit:
<http://jobs.colostate.edu/postings/16050?utm_source=Main+Conservation+Organizations+for+sharing+Announcements&utm_campaign=15d8de2dbf-Exchange+Director&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_87d184d8b2-15d8de2dbf->http://jobs.colostate.edu/postings/16050
CSU is an EO/EA/AA employer and conducts background checks on all
final candidates.
