Employment opportunities are always posted, so we invite you to return to this page. The Director, Natural Resources Management, will encourage more sustainable forms of agriculture and other natural resource use through the development of incentives and increased community participation in decision-making. The Director will assume management responsibility and provide intellectual leadership for the Natural Resources Management strategic objective. Senior management responsibilities include developing and implementing major research activities, building working relationships with key business, government and international organizations especially in developing countries, developing and participating in international working groups, providing policy advice, fundraising for projects, liaising with IISD Board members, and other activities as assigned. The Director reports to the Vice President.
Travel is required.
IISD is committed to equal opportunity. Compensation is competitive and will be commensurate with experience. Although we appreciate receiving all applications, only those candidates we wish to interview will be contacted. The Director assumes management responsibility for IISD's Strategic Objective on Natural Resources Management and will have Institute wide responsibility for the quality of inputs on this subject to all of the Institute's projects. In this role the incumbent will develop new initiatives and assist in identifying longer term directions related to sustainable natural resources management.