The Arctic and Interior Alaska Campaign Director will develop and implement strategic campaigns to protect and enhance Alaska’s national parks while building a diverse, effective, and enduring network of national park advocates in Alaska. The Campaign Director will oversee campaign and programmatic activities across the 20+ million acres of national parklands in Arctic and Interior Alaska to protect park resources from mining and other development impacts, advocate for co-stewardship and co-management of parklands and wildlife in coordination with Alaska Native Tribes, strengthen relationships with Alaska Native leaders to promote equitable environmental outcomes, and engage in national policy efforts to provide adequate funding and resources to the national park system. Partners in these campaigns may include rural residents, remote gateway communities and local governments, tourism businesses and representatives, wildlife advocates, Alaska Native tribes and tribal members, and current and former military personnel. The Campaign Director will work closely with the other members of the small Alaska team, and cheerful cooperation and accountability to team members is a must.

Immediate Supervisor: Alaska Regional Director

Grade: O

Job Status: Full-time; Exempt

Location: Anchorage, AK

Salary Range: $105k – 113k, commensurate with experience.

Benefits: NPCA offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits package for this role including a four-day, 32-hour work week, paid vacation leave, paid sick leave, paid holidays, health insurance, flexible spending account, dental insurance, life insurance, vision insurance, retirement benefits, short- and long-term disability, and paid sabbaticals for staff after seven years of service. Learn more about our benefits at npca.org/jobs.  

Essential Functions:           % of Time

Other:  Promotes policies that are sensitive to the needs of a diverse workforce. Respects employees regardless of their position or background. Participates in developing department goals, objectives, and systems. Participates in administrative staff meetings, organization-wide meetings, staff committee meetings, training programs, and attends other meetings and seminars as designated by the supervisor. Assists in evaluation of reports, decisions, and results of department in relation to established goals. This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee in this position. 

Minimum Work Schedule: 32-hour work week. Flexible hours scheduled between 8:30am – 5:30pm, Monday through Thursday. Occasional weekend work is required for certain activities.

Travel: Regional travel required for meetings, events, and outreach (for instance, visits to parks to meet staff and local stakeholders and visits to Juneau to educate lawmakers and agency personnel).  National travel periodically required for national legislative lobbying and NPCA meetings and events in the DC area.     

Minimum Scope of Position: The Campaign Director will work with the Alaska team to build and implement strategic and successful campaigns to protect and fund national parks. The Campaign Director will be expected to take the lead on some campaigns, in particular NPCA’s efforts to protect Gates of the Arctic National Preserve and other Northwest Alaska national parklands from a mining road. The Campaign Director may co-lead NPCA efforts to convince Congress to appropriately fund parks and will also make significant contributions to NPCA campaigns where other colleagues are the lead. Campaigns will generally be designed to build a diverse and powerful set of advocates for national parks and the Campaign Director will be expected to play a significant role in the work to build advocates. The Campaign Director will work with Alaska staff, and may take the lead in some cases, on office comments, events, publications and other needs that arise.

Minimum Qualifications, Competencies, Skills, Education, and Traits:

• Significant success with strategic campaign management and project planning and implementation, from developing long- and medium-term strategies to implementing short-term tactics.
• Significant success in building strategic partnerships and managing coalitions
• Significant success in building professional relationships, working effectively on a team and with volunteers, supporters, allies and the public.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate multiple projects, handle details, work effectively under pressure with minimum to moderate supervision, to manage and meet deadlines, and to produce high quality work.
• BS/BA preferred with at least six to seven years of relevant experience.
• Knowledge of the Alaska state legislature and legislative process preferred, as is experience with environmental laws, particularly the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA), and Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA).
• Must be comfortable working collaboratively as part of a closely-knit team of professional colleagues.
• Professional presentation and excellent written and oral communications skills are essential.
• Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and effectively using the internet is required. 

Core Values: NPCA employees have pledged to live, honor, and own the organization’s Core Values. These are:

Commitment: We are passionate about NPCA and dedicated to achieving excellence through our work and mission. We seek to improve our performance by taking opportunities for professional and personal development and encouraging reasonable risk-taking and innovation. 

Inclusion: We value diversity of thought, background, experience, and opinion. We create a culture of empowerment by welcoming and encouraging meaningful participation from all people and promoting an environment that embraces different perspectives.

Integrity: We hold ourselves accountable to each other, our members and partners, and our mission. We evaluate the impact of our work and strive for honesty and transparency across the organization. We operate ethically in the organization's best interests. 

Respect: We collaborate in results-oriented teams based on trust and consideration for each other. We promote harmony between our work and our personal lives. We foster a healthy and positive workplace culture and work collaboratively with external partners.

Physical Effort and Dexterity:  While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear; taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply.

Physical Environment: Professionally casual office setting located in Anchorage, Alaska with travel to Alaska national parks and gateway communities and occasional travel to Washington D.C.

Employer’s Rights: NPCA reserves the right to revise this position description at any time.  The duties listed above are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment to the position. The job description does not constitute an employment agreement between the NPCA and employee and is subject to change by the NPCA as the needs of the NPCA and requirements of the job change. The above is in no way an exhaustive list of the requirements for the position.