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About Us
The Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability strives to create a future when humans and nature thrive in concert and in perpetuity. The school is made up of a three-part structure to drive global impact: Our academic departments and programs educate students and create new knowledge across areas of research that are crucial for advancing the long-term prosperity of the planet and people; Institutes bridge scholarship at Stanford and beyond, bringing multiple viewpoints to bear on urgent challenges; The Sustainability Accelerator drives new policy and technology solutions through a worldwide network of partners who work with our teams to develop solutions at a global scale. The school is dedicated to creating and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment, and to creating solutions that benefit all people, particularly those most affected by environmental damage and climate change.
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About the Role
Within SDSS, a new unit called External Education and Mobilization has been created. The mission for this organization is to harness the power of knowledge and education to inform and motivate change to achieve a more sustainable future.
The unit is seeking someone to define, drive, and lead the mobilization initiatives within this new organization. In this context, the definition of mobilization is the development and distribution of educational resources and solutions to inform and motivate behavior and actions on a global scale that will contribute to a more sustainable future for our planet and its population.
This role will be responsible for developing the strategy and goals for this initiative, building out the team necessary to achieve these goals, and leading the team to achieve the ambitious goals associated with this area. To fully address this opportunity, the Managing Director will have two principle areas of responsibility.
First, they will work with the SDSS departments, faculty, institutes, and centers as well as other schools within the University to democratize access to the insights, research, and teaching from all parts of the University. The goal of these activities is to help inform the world on the challenges and opportunities of sustainability as well as promote improved sustainability education globally. Towards this end, they will be responsible for the development of an effective distribution model for this content, sourcing and optimizing the content for distribution, and reaching millions of people with these knowledge offerings.
Second, they will work with external partners to develop and implement an approach to inform and motivate more sustainable behavior at the individual and community level at a societal scale. This initiaitve is unique in that it will focus not just on informing but on stimulating behaviorial change. The approach to this challenge will embrace the philosophy that change at scale requires an eco-system of organizations, innovators, and change agents that are all enabled to create or contribute to a wide array of public-facing solutions. The enablement is a result of the development of digital public infrastructure that is made openly available to reduce the effort necessary to create solutions and also encourage collaboration and sharing among solution providers. Towards this end, they will be responsible for collaborating with external partners to define the digital infrastructure, recruit the eco-system, and build out multiple high value digital application solutions that address key sustainability challenges.
Your Responsibilities will include:
To be successful in this position, you will need:
Education & Experience:
Bachelor’s degree and seven years of relevant experience in administrative and financial management, or combination of education and relevant experience.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
In addition, our preferred qualifications include:
The expected pay range for this position is $189,000 to $241,000 per annum.
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