The Environment Portfolio at The Pew Charitable Trusts

For more than 30 years, Pew has been a major force in engaging the public and policy makers about the causes, consequences, and solutions to some of the world’s most pressing environmental challenges. Our environment work spans all seven continents with more than 250 professionals working at the local, national, and international levels to reduce the scope and severity of global environmental problems, such as the erosion of large natural ecosystems that contain a great part of the world’s remaining biodiversity, and the destruction of the marine environment. Pew’s global environmental program focuses on science-based, nonpartisan, and sustainable solutions to help protect the planet and people. We work in partnership with governments, Indigenous rights holders, intergovernmental organizations, non-governmental organizations, local stakeholders, scientists, and other researchers to advance public policy so that nature and communities can thrive.

Since 1990, Pew has worked in North America, South America and Australia to protect large and critically important terrestrial ecosystems, including rivers and other freshwater resources, coastal temperate rainforests, interior mountain ranges, the northern boreal forests, Australia’s Outback, and Chilean Patagonia. We work to ensure these natural systems remain bountiful, functioning, and resilient, providing essential ecological services such as clean air and clean water, sustenance and food security for local communities and more broadly for the welfare of current and future generations. Our work relies on the sciences of conservation, sociology, biology, and economics to advocate for practical and durable solutions to the loss of biodiversity.

In the sea, reforms to how our oceans are managed are essential to address overfishing, pollution, and loss of habitat. Pew began its oceans program in the United States, focusing on ending overfishing and protecting fragile marine habitat. Starting in 2005, Pew’s ocean conservation program expanded around the world and played a significant role in reforming marine fisheries management in the European Union and on the high seas and creating large scale marine reserves around the world. Our work is grounded in the best available science and pursues domestic and international conservation measures that are long-term and provide permanent, durable protections for marine ecosystems. We also work to address systemic threats to the ocean, including from plastics, over-and-illegal fishing, seabed mining, and climate change.

Protecting Australia’s Nature

Australia is the only nation on Earth that also spans a continent. Because of its isolation over many millions of years, Australia is one of 17 nations in the world to be considered “megadiverse” because of its exceptional biodiversity. In 2007, Pew began its conservation work in Australia, and as our program matured, we formed partnerships with First Nations communities and local conservation partners to advance place-based protections. Pew is a results-oriented organisation. Our work in Australia has led to the declaration of the world’s largest network of marine parks, the doubling of Outback land protected in Australia’s National Reserve System and secured over $1 billion in funding for Indigenous land management. While efforts have expanded Australia’s terrestrial and marine protected areas, the ecological health of Australia’s landscapes is threatened by a range of pressures, including invasive species, habitat loss, overfishing, water extraction and climate change. Australia’s key environmental indicators continue to decline, including the conservation status of threatened and endemic species. Pew’s Protect Australia’s Nature team and our partners have a continental focus, aiming to extend protection to critical terrestrial, marine and freshwater systems.

Position Overview
The manager, Protecting Australia’s Nature, is responsible for leading Pew’s work in Western Australia on protected areas, river protection and land restoration; and supporting work on marine protected areas. Working with the project director (terrestrial), the manager is responsible for developing and driving the implementation of the campaign strategies which will deliver the project’s deliverables—including sizeable, high-quality protected areas, land restoration through market and other means, protection of the Martuwarra Fitzroy River, and development of Indigenous conservation and land management opportunities. The manager also contributes to the broader objectives of Pew’s Protecting Australia’s Nature program, time permitting.

The manager is based in Pew's Perth office, is eligible for up to 60% telework, and reports to the project director (terrestrial), Protecting Australia’s Nature.

Responsibilities

• Supervise and mentor direct reports; manage work of contractors.
• Manage multiple Protecting Australia’s Nature campaigns in Western Australia including engagement with State and Commonwealth Governments where required.
• Contribute to National campaigns for protected areas, river protection and land restoration as part of the national campaign leadership team.
• Develop and implement campaign strategy; deliver campaign results in accordance with the project’s goals.
• Coordinate with the other relevant campaign leads.
• Develop and manage project budgets.
• Develop and maintain partnerships.
• Develop and implement political strategy.
• Manage campaign communications and undertake media as needed.
• Contribute to relevant elements of the management of the Protecting Australia’s Nature program as needed.
• Collaborate across other campaigns in the Protecting Australia’s Nature TOP to add value to the broader Australia program.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required.
• At least 8 years of applicable experience in the state and national level advocacy. This includes experience in the design and implementation of campaigns aimed at solving conservation needs. Strong knowledge on protected areas, biodiversity conservation and management, environmental advocacy, and working with Indigenous communities in Australia.
• Minimum of two years of previous direct people supervisory experience required including experience managing performance management process for direct reports and providing career development advice and counsel.
• Significant experience with developing and leading campaigns, and a track record of campaign success.
• Good judgment, able to make decisions, justify recommendations, and be responsive and clear with consultants, colleagues, direct reports and partners. Successful experience in creating campaigns that produce measurable results. Able to inspire and effectively coach staff and contractors.
• Able to set short- and long-term planning goals in line with program strategy. Ability to develop and manage campaign budgets. A task-oriented style, with focus on achieving clear and ambitious goals. Demonstrated ability to meet multiple deadlines across campaigns by being organized and able to prioritize well. Able to develop and move campaigns forward with a high degree of independence and autonomy.
• Ability to synthesize information rapidly and to determine the right time and nature of intervention. A strong commitment to producing measurable results.
• Experience managing and implementing well-researched communications strategies across all platforms. Strong written and oral communications skills. Adept at facilitation.
• Good interpersonal skills; able to develop and manage respectful, productive relationships with colleagues, direct reports, consultants, partners, and others relevant to the role. Excellent listening skills. A good understanding of how to manage by influencing others and the ability to read nuances of meaning accurately.
• Exhibit skills of diplomacy. Able to work productively with a wide array of people, cultures, sectors, and institutions that have different perspectives and objectives. A track record of identifying potential partners, cultivating relationships, and generating interest and support for a cause.
• Strong management expertise and experience with both managing individuals and teams with a particular view to setting clear work programs, building capacity, team building, and fostering a healthy culture.

Travel
Travel is required periodically throughout Australia and occasionally to The Pew Charitable Trusts office in Washington, D.C. (consistent with Pew COVID-19 safety protocols).

Application Process

Please click the application link/button and follow the instructions to send a CV and cover letter to the attention of Human Resources.

Applications to close on 8 March 2023.

The Pew Charitable Trusts is an equal opportunity employer, committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Pew considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to age, sex, ethnicity, religion, disability, marital status, sexual orientation or gender identity, military/veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.