What are the responsibilities and job description for the President position at Western Energy Alliance?
Summary: The President leads Western Energy Alliance, a dynamic membership-based trade association that advocates on behalf of the upstream oil and natural gas industry in the West.
Duties and Qualifications:
- Provides strong, effective leadership of the Alliance; efficient operations; sound financial management; and a healthy, constructive work environment.
- Sets the strategy and direction of the Alliance’s advocacy work and membership engagement, and conducts budgeting, planning, and fundraising to maintain and grow revenues.
- Maintains effective relations with member companies and the governing Board of Directors and Board of Advisors to ensure all Alliance work effectively supports their needs and builds a strong membership base and collaborative community in the West.
- Guides comprehensive policy, regulatory, and legal strategies to effect meaningful change in the Alliance’s core competencies of federal public lands, tribal lands, air and water quality, environmental analysis, wildlife, cultural, and other natural resource issues. Navigates the ever-changing national and regional political climate.
- Cultivates positive relations with Congress, federal agencies, western states and counties, tribes, and other key policymakers and stakeholders such as industry and business groups; conservation organizations; academia; etc.
- Possesses knowledge and relations with the Department of the Interior and Environmental Protection Agency, primarily, and familiar with related laws such as the Endangered Species Act, NEPA, Mineral Leasing Act, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and Federal Land Policy and Management Act.
- Serves as the primary spokesperson and demonstrates thought leadership.
Reports to: Chairman of the Board of Directors
Location: Denver, CO
Salary and Benefits: The salary range is $225,000 - $275,000 based on relevance of experience, with bonus potential up to 50%. Minimum of fifteen years of relevant leadership and policy experience required. Benefits package includes health, dental, and vision coverage; life and disability insurance; immediate vesting of employer matching 401(k); hybrid work environment with schedule flexibility; paid time off.
Submit resume to jobs@westernenergyalliance.org.
Salary : $225,000 - $275,000