Job Opportunity: Metcalf, Environmental Program Director
Posted: October 18, 2013
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: PROGRAM DIRECTOR, ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM, TORONTO
The goal of the George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation is to enhance the effectiveness of people and organizations working together to help Canadians imagine and build a just, healthy, and creative society.
Across its 3 programs areas – sustaining the vibrancy of the professional performing arts, harnessing the benefits of living within the Earth’s environmental limits, and improving low-income peoples’ economic livelihoods and access to quality jobs – the Metcalf Foundation advances its mission through practice, policy, and collaboration.
Using grant-making programs to support initiatives and organizations that are modelling innovative approaches to intractable problems, the Foundation’s work begins and is rooted in community-based efforts at achieving tangible outcomes. It focuses on addressing existing challenges in new ways and is particularly interested in approaches that can serve as models for other communities or that show potential to be applied on a larger scale.
THE OPPORTUNITY
The Metcalf Foundation is seeking a new Program Director for its Environment Program. Our Environment Program, Prosperity in Balance, is based on the belief that it is possible to strengthen and preserve the integrity or our natural environment in tandem with a successful economy that allows individuals to flourish and communities to thrive. Metcalf is interested in understanding new ways of defining and realizing prosperity. We want to identify and support those doing new and innovative work to tackle the challenge of harmonizing environmental health and stability, with economic health and stability.
The Foundation’s three core strategies: fostering dynamic leadership, integrated thinking, and new ideas and practice underpin the Program’s three grant components:
• Reinventing Growth – invites charitable not-for-profits to propose activities that demonstrate how it’s possible to strengthen the environment and the economy while enhancing overall community wellbeing.
• Metcalf Green Prosperity Challenge – challenges Ontario universities to propose creative, practical and research-based activities that reduce pressure on the natural environment in southern Ontario while also fostering economic and social wellbeing.
• Sustainability Internships – provides opportunities for talented recent graduates to grow and develop within charitable organizations that are working towards improving the natural environment at the same time as building economically and socially healthy communities in southern Ontario.
Working collaboratively with the President and CEO, the Program’s Advisory Committee, staff, fellows, and community stakeholders, the new Program Director will build on the dynamic work that has been done, and is being done, in this Program and help the Foundation realize even greater positive impact on southern Ontario’s natural environment.
Reporting to the President and CEO of the Foundation, and as a core contributor to the Foundation’s team, the Program Director will have a broad portfolio of responsibilities, including daily management of the Environment Program; strategic oversight of the Foundation’s Innovation Fellowship; critical thinking about issues, goals, priorities, and granting practice; and acting as a collaborative catalyst to explore new ideas and new initiatives with leading thinkers and organizations engaged in environmental issues—seeking opportunities for greater impact i.e. research, outreach and liaison on behalf of the Foundation.
As a flexible and dynamic Foundation with an open-minded approach that values engagement in areas that are complex and murky and that works towards enabling people to share hopeful visions of the future, work and learn collectively, and think broadly in pursuit of comprehensive solutions, this is a unique and exciting opportunity to help shape and lead a notable philanthropic program with high potential to make a significant contribution to improving the sustainability of our region.
For more details on Responsibilities and Qualifications, refer to the job posting: Call for Applications – Environment Program Director
HOW TO APPLY
Interested candidates should send their application by November 15, 2013, 5:00 PM EST to info@metcalffoundation.com