Senior Program Director, Marine Ecosystem Repair

Ocean Visions seeks a Senior Program Director to provide strategic leadership and vision to our cutting-edge work in the marine ecosystem repair program. The Senior Program Director will report to the CEO, work very closely with the Chief Scientist, manage a Program Officer, and work collaboratively with all other Ocean Visions staff and its programs. Work will include continuing to build and operationalize the Arctic Sea Ice Restoration Research Fund, managing the Fund’s first RFP, developing a research framework, organizing the provision of direct technical support to inventors, expanding and strengthening broad-based international support, participating in design and execution of a global innovation prize on Arctic repair, strategizing focal areas for the program, and raising funds. The role requires a person with relevant subject matter expertise; a high degree of creativity; an affinity for innovation and emerging technology; excellent analytical skills; high leadership ability; large amounts of energy and drive; and a proclivity to build relationships, and to identify and engage key actors and institutions. We seek someone both bold and thoughtful, and who is comfortable moving forward with uncertainty.