Director of the Sustainability Indicators Program

RP is looking for a leader to build the practice and reputation of two of Redefining Progress’ signature measures, the Ecological Footprint and the Genuine Progress Indicator, and to radically expand the scientific inquiry and relevance of our indicators work. Over the last decade, the measures have entered the lexicon of the debate over social and environmental sustainability and are increasingly being considered in policy-making contexts as vital direction-setting tools. RP is growing its research and scientific advocacy to support the quality and usefulness of the measures around the world.

The Director will work with leaders in the international, domestic, and local arenas to ensure that the messages from RP’s indicators work are understood and used in key policy-making contexts. The person who will succeed in this position is an impassioned, creative, self-directed team player with a solid professional background and advanced management, quantitative, and communication skills.

Responsibilities:

• Building, maintaining, and enhancing RP’s signature measures: the Ecological Footprint and the Genuine Progress Indicator
• Developing new applications for the use of the measures in varied contexts
• Expanding the international reach of the Footprint to new audiences and decisionmakers
• Reaching out to members of the scientific and Footprinting communities
• Working with partner organizations to build effective Ecological Footprint applications
• Participating in program fundraising efforts, including proposals to government scientific agencies and foundations
• Supervising research associates, interns, and contractors

Necessary qualifications:

• PhD preferred, or Masters with extensive research experience, in the environmental sciences or closely related areas
• Previous exposure to interdisciplinary projects preferably in areas of environmental studies, global/international affairs, and social justice
• Extensive writing experience, as well as publications in peer-reviewed journals
• Familiarity with database management, SQL, and other data management languages and interest in quantitative work
• Some experience with fundraising
• Interest in teaching and public speaking
• Good networking skills, effective interpersonal communication, and good supervisory and team-building skills

Salary commensurate with experience, plus full benefits package.

Please submit a letter of interest, résumé, writing samples, and salary history to Sustainability Indicators Search, Redefining Progress, 1904 Franklin Street, 6th floor, Oakland, CA 94610, indicatorsearch@rprogress.org or fax (510) 444-3191. All pages of the application should be double-sided to conserve paper.

Redefining Progress is committed to diversity in the workplace. Women and people of color are strongly encouraged to apply.

Redefining Progress (RP) works with a broad array of partners to shift the economy and public policy towards sustainability.

RP does this in three ways:

• RP measures the real state of our economy, of our environment, and of social justice with tools like the Genuine Progress Indicator and the Ecological Footprint
• We design policies-like environmental tax reform-to shift behavior in these three domains (economy, environment and equity) towards sustainability.
• We promote and create new frameworks-like common assets-to replace the ones that are taking us away from long-term social and environmental health.