Vice President & Chief Scientist-12033
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the world’s leading conservation organization, seeks a Vice President and Chief Scientist to lead our Conservation Science Program and the organization’s global conservation science efforts. The VP & Chief Scientist articulates WWF’s vision and shapes WWF’s agenda for conservation science, working with a core team of 30 scientists and collaborating with a global network of more than 400 WWF scientists. S/he leads development of cutting-edge scientific approaches to conservation and promotes our science-based work to a wide range of audiences, serving as a lead spokesperson for the organization. A member of the organization’s executive team, the VP & Chief Scientist oversees our Conservation Science Program, ensuring that it is a center of excellence that delivers cutting-edge research and technical assistance to WWF’s worldwide conservation programs, as well as to the broader conservation community. S/he ensures that the organization’s priority programs and strategies are grounded in sound science and fosters an innovative, forwarding-looking approach to conservation.
The successful candidate will be a visionary and strategic thinker with outstanding research and field conservation credentials. We seek a leader who understands and values WWF’s core science-based work, including the biodiversity and ecology of terrestrial and aquatic systems, the economics and ecology of ecosystem services, and the social science of human-nature interactions. We need a demonstrated team leader and motivator who can galvanize and synthesize work across disciplines and geographies, and who will challenge the organization to stay on the leading edge of conservation science. A Ph.D. strongly preferred with at least 15 years of experience, including at least 10 years successful experience leading efforts at the intersection of science and conservation.
About WWF
One of the world’s most trusted and respected non-governmental organizations, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) www.worldwildlife.org is the largest network of multinational conservation organizations in the world. WWF works in 100 countries and is supported by 1.2 million members in the United States and close to 5 million globally. WWF acts at every level, from local to global, to ensure the delivery of innovative solutions that meet the needs of both people and nature.
WWF-US is the largest legal entity of the WWF global network, encompassing the organization’s work in the US, Latin America, and parts of Africa and Asia. It also serves as the home for the global organization’s science, commodity markets, and forest & climate conservation functions, as well as its engagement with US-based entities including multinational corporations, the US government, the World Bank, and many others.
WWF in the United States collaborates with its sister organizations in the $600+ million WWF network to pursue a set of ambitious and far-reaching global initiatives. Since 1985, the WWF Network has invested over $1.165 billion in more than 11,000 projects in 130 countries. WWF in the United States is an independent organization, and plays an important role in WWF’s conservation programs that exist all over the world. The WWF Network is committed to building a future in which human needs are met in harmony with nature. WWF’s goals are to conserve biodiversity in the world’s most outstanding natural places, restore populations of key critically endangered species, and reduce humanity’s impact on important natural habitats.
AA/EOE Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. To submit cover letter and resume please visit http://www.worldwildlife.org/careers, job #12033.
The successful candidate will be a visionary and strategic thinker with outstanding research and field conservation credentials. We seek a leader who understands and values WWF’s core science-based work, including the biodiversity and ecology of terrestrial and aquatic systems, the economics and ecology of ecosystem services, and the social science of human-nature interactions. We need a demonstrated team leader and motivator who can galvanize and synthesize work across disciplines and geographies, and who will challenge the organization to stay on the leading edge of conservation science. A Ph.D. strongly preferred with at least 15 years of experience, including at least 10 years successful experience leading efforts at the intersection of science and conservation.
About WWF
One of the world’s most trusted and respected non-governmental organizations, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) www.worldwildlife.org is the largest network of multinational conservation organizations in the world. WWF works in 100 countries and is supported by 1.2 million members in the United States and close to 5 million globally. WWF acts at every level, from local to global, to ensure the delivery of innovative solutions that meet the needs of both people and nature.
WWF-US is the largest legal entity of the WWF global network, encompassing the organization’s work in the US, Latin America, and parts of Africa and Asia. It also serves as the home for the global organization’s science, commodity markets, and forest & climate conservation functions, as well as its engagement with US-based entities including multinational corporations, the US government, the World Bank, and many others.
WWF in the United States collaborates with its sister organizations in the $600+ million WWF network to pursue a set of ambitious and far-reaching global initiatives. Since 1985, the WWF Network has invested over $1.165 billion in more than 11,000 projects in 130 countries. WWF in the United States is an independent organization, and plays an important role in WWF’s conservation programs that exist all over the world. The WWF Network is committed to building a future in which human needs are met in harmony with nature. WWF’s goals are to conserve biodiversity in the world’s most outstanding natural places, restore populations of key critically endangered species, and reduce humanity’s impact on important natural habitats.
AA/EOE Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. To submit cover letter and resume please visit http://www.worldwildlife.org/careers, job #12033.
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