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Conservation X Labs
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See open jobs at Conservation X Labs.See open jobs similar to "CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER" Schmidt Marine.Conservation X Labs seeks a passionate, visionary, and enthusiastic innovator, with strong strategic skills, to serve as our Chief Operating Officer. This is a hybrid role that will help us both strategically and operationally to meet our ambitious goal of preventing the Sixth Mass Extinction. This is a critical role at an important time in the history of Conservation X Labs and for the field of biodiversity conservation & climate change, and as such we are excited to find the perfect person to help us all succeed. As we are looking to build a 100-million-dollar organization in ten years that has global impact, we need someone with the skill set not only for today, but to create the foundation for the organization that we hope to become.
The ideal applicant will be a fast learner and highly adaptable, great with people, highly organized, and both process-oriented and strategic. They will be a self-starter, extremely detail-oriented, and have extensive management experience that transcends the work we do across innovation, technology, science, and conservation & climate change, in the field, in the lab, and around the world. We seek someone to partner with the organization’s co-founders, who can manage a large portfolio of responsibilities that will enhance and improve our organization’s operations, culture, and approach.
This is a new role for us to help oversee the day-to-day elements of running the organization, and for accelerating the professionalization of the organization and building the infrastructure for the next decade. We seek applicants who thrive in a fast-paced, highly adaptive, bureaucracy-free, creative start-up culture and can work well both individually with little guidance, as well as part of a team. We want people who like finding solutions to hard problems. We are an optimistic, passionate, forward-looking, and solutions-oriented global organization set to transform the approaches to solving conservation & climate problems. As such, possessing knowledge of conservation and climate change, innovation, and science & technology is a plus.
Conservation X Labs (CXL) is a technology and innovation company that creates and incentivizes innovative solutions to prevent the Sixth Mass Extinction. We develop new products in our labs, lead open innovation competitions to harness planetary genius, and empower talented innovators across disciplines to collaborate and revolutionize the future of conservation. We have worked across more than 70 countries, with a presence in Washington DC, Seattle, WA, and Lima, Peru. We are an optimistic, passionate, entrepreneurial, fun, and mission-oriented team working to radically improve the way we find and support solutions for conservation’s most wicked challenges.
If yes, read on…
This role thrusts you into the middle of one of the world’s most innovative tech-for-good companies driven by a bold mission to end the sixth mass extinction. You will be a key partner to the Co-Founders, and work alongside future leadership hires of a Chief Innovation Officer and a Chief Commercial Officer. You will help drive the core operations of the organization necessary for its proper functioning. Specifically, this position would oversee finance, HR (including recruitment and compensation), staff performance, DEI, planning of board & organizational meetings, management of CXL’s properties and equipment, field operations, insurance & risk, and our strategic engagement functions including media/communications, partnerships, and institutional advancement.
You will serve on and collaborate as part of the executive team to develop and meet company goals and plans while supplying expertise and guidance on projects and systems. You will also oversee the heads of all departments to carry out the organization’s goals and objectives.
This position will report to the CEO. This position is based in Washington, DC. It is expected to be a full-time position. We will consider other options for exceptional candidates.
We welcome applications from individuals who are excited to grow our unique conservation efforts that seek to leverage innovation, technology, entrepreneurship, and the talents of a broad community of innovators for conservation impact. We want people who seek the truth because, sometimes, traditional conservation is blind to it.
Strategic Operations
CEO Leadership Support
Strategic Planning
Board Support
Legal, Finance, and Risk
Development, Reporting and Impact
HR and Compensation Duties
Buildings and Equipment
Information Technology
Field Programs
Required:
Preferred:
The annual salary range is $145K-175K, depending on experience and qualifications. Health, dental, vision insurance, and a 401K match is provided. We do not track vacation or sick days subject to a specific limit. CXL is closed the weekdays between Christmas and New Year’s Day, plus all federal holidays. CXL is also committed to learning opportunities for its team by supporting professional development. This position will involve both regular domestic and international travel at least quarterly.
Conservation X Labs applies technology, entrepreneurship, and open innovation to source, develop, and scale critical solutions to the underlying drivers of human-induced extinction, whether in conservation or other fields. Conservation X Labs takes an approach to conservation that is technology- and innovation-focused, market- and scale-driven, and interdisciplinary. We believe this approach – one that addresses the underlying drivers of extinction rather than its symptoms, and one that takes a revolutionary over evolutionary approach – is the future of conservation, what we call Conservation 3.0. We source, develop, and scale new solutions through open innovation, directed engineering and technology development, product acceleration, and building the diverse community of solvers that will transform the field. Conservation X Labs operates as both a 501c3 non- profit organization and related a B-corporation.
Through our programs, CXL has supported over 121 innovative conservation technology solutions, from 67 countries, on 6 continents, funded them to the tune of 7.5M since 2017, and helped them raise $275,563,951 in additional investment.
We are seeking to build an organization of problem solvers, who are personable and highly motivated, hungry and enthusiastic, and are passionate about conservation and our mission. We want people who want to disrupt conservation in order to radically improve it. We are looking for those who have dared mighty things by trying a path that others have not chosen. We are looking for those who have failed but have learned from failure and risk, and whose faces are marred by dust, sweat, and blood. We are looking for those who like to experiment, to make things, to hack things, to test things, and to break things (particularly dogmatic approaches to conservation or technology). Finally, we are looking for kind, hardworking people who will enthusiastically devote their intellectual and creative energy to advance our mission, enjoy working on a team, are deeply entrepreneurial and self-motivated, and are driven by their passion.
CXL is committed to creating and cultivating a diverse workforce and inclusive environment where every employee and contractor has the right to work in surroundings that are free from all forms of unlawful or intentional discrimination. It is our policy to hire, promote, transfer, terminate, and make all employment related decisions without regard to race, creed, ethnicity, religion, national origin, sex, gender, or sexual orientation.
To learn more about our programs and mission, please visit our website: www.conservationxlabs.com.
Please send a resume and a cover letter that explains why you fit what we are looking for to daremightythings@conservationxlabs.org with “Chief Operating Officer – [Your Last Name]” in the Subject Line of the email. Relevant examples from your work history are very welcome.
Applications will be considered on a rolling basis until Midnight EST, November 13th, 2022.
Start date is expected January 9th, 2023, but flexible.
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