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Vermont Land Trust. | ||||||||
| Categories: |
Fundraising/Development
Finance/Accounting Executive/Management | ||||||||
| Travel Required: | None | ||||||||
| Job Type: | Full Time | ||||||||
| Preferred Degree: | Masters | ||||||||
| Experience Required: | 4-5 years | ||||||||
| State/Province: | VT - Vermont | ||||||||
| City: | Montpelier | ||||||||
| Salary: | $70,000 to $80,000 | ||||||||
| Job Description: |
Vermont Land Trust seeks candidates for a new Vice President for Enterprise and Finance in our Montpelier headquarters.
The Vermont Land Trust (VLT) is a high-performing, statewide land protection organization with forty-two employees. We have conserved more than 500,000 acres in 1,700 ownerships since our founding in 1977. VLT is among the most successful land trusts in America, considering our conservation accomplishments, the talent of our staff, and quality of our systems, organizational governance and development, and the creativity of our programs, especially in the community and working lands sectors of our work. To learn more about VLT’s history, accomplishments and programs, please explore VLT's website. We now aspire to increase the organization’s strength in business acumen and strategic financial management, and to bring those perspectives onto the VLT Management Team. We currently have gaps in the areas of financial and investment management, but we also need to bring a business enterprise lens to many elements of our work. This memo describes key VLT needs both to cover gaps and to advance our organizational effectiveness, provides some detail about key functions, and describes the personal/professional characteristics we have in mind. Key VLT Needs Served by a Vice President for Enterprise and Finance Enterprise Development & Management: Several VLT programs should be managed as business enterprises (with financial and non-financial objectives), and a growing number of VLT operating sectors would benefit from a business planning or enterprise lens. In the former category I put:
Other operating areas that would benefit from a business lens include our general policies regarding cost recovery (project billing, etc.), our project-specific budgeting systems, and work we might do in the area of carbon markets, and community renewable energy. Financial Management: VLT lacks the sophistication and the experience to provide both near-term trend and financial analysis necessary to the management of our operating budget, and longer-term strategic thinking about the changing economic climate and necessary change/evolution in VLT’s business model. Investment Management: Our Director of Finance is good at the execution of investment strategies but lacks strategic perspective/capacity. This causes one key VLT Board member to be our de facto chief investment officer. This area needs special attention because of market volatility, the increasing disconnect between The Vermont Community Foundation's strategies (where our stewardship endowment is housed) and VLT’s ability to execute a “mirrored” approach with our own assets, a pending re-examination of SR investing choices, and a parallel discussion of “local investing” opportunities. Other Management Roles: This is a Management Team position. Depending on the successful candidate’s skills and interests, and those of current Management Team members, the new VP may also take on other organizational operating, supervision and/or management roles. Enterprise Management and Business Analysis:
Financial Management (including supervision of the Director of Finance):
A more detailed description of these functions follows:
Qualifications and Characteristics MBA and (preferably) undergraduate degree in a field relevant to VLT’s work. 4+ years of experience in a for-profit enterprise/entrepreneurial setting, or non-profit setting where the work was clearly a related or unrelated business enterprise. Preference given to business enterprise experience in a field related to VLT’s work such as forest products, agricultural products, recreation, renewable energy production, carbon, etc. We seek candidates adept at, and with hands-on experience in strategic thinking, business and financial planning and direct enterprise management. Commitment to land conservation essential, but no land conservation experience required. Knowledge of and associations with Vermont helpful, but not required. History of working in a cross-disciplinary team setting preferred. Compensation: $70,000 to $80,000 depending on experience, qualifications and organizational fit. To apply, please send your letter of application and resume by February 24, 2012 tosearch@vlt.org. VLT is an Equal Opportunity Employer. | ||||||||
| Post Date: | 01/31/2012 |
