Executive Director

The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA) is made up of members, volunteers, a board, and staff in Utah and across the United States who share the common goal of preserving Utah’s remaining desert wild lands, known collectively as America’s redrock wilderness. Since 1983, SUWA has been the only organization working full-time to defend America’s redrock wilderness from oil and gas development, unnecessary road construction, rampant off-road vehicle use, and other threats to Utah’s wilderness-quality lands.
SUWA’s bold mission is to permanently protect 9.5 million acres as Congressionally-designated Wilderness. SUWA has learned that success requires: • Tenacity: Taking on big goals and creating the capacity to survive multi-year legal and political fights.• Impact: Nationalizing our work by building a Protect Wild Utah movement, mobilizing volunteers, and organizing support both in Utah and nationally.• Risk Taking: Aggressive action creates opportunities. Be bold. When in doubt, lead from the front. Being flexible and nimble when making decisions and prioritizing resources.• Subject Matter Expertise: Exhaustively researching, mapping, groundtruthing and monitoring proposed wilderness lands. Being flexible and nimble when making decisions and prioritizing resources.
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The Executive Director plays a crucial role in SUWA’s success by working with the Leadership Team to ensure that SUWA has the capacity and strategy to achieve its mission of protecting the redrock wilderness. This leader is passionate about protecting public lands and is a fearless and enthusiastic champion of SUWA’s mission, vision and values.

SUWA is looking for a candidate who demonstrates an unwavering passion for SUWA’s mission and the lands that the organization seeks to protect! This individual will have progressive leadership and management experience ideally gained while working at an environmental advocacy organization. The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate the ability to operate effectively within a nonprofit governing environment, including a proven expertise and track record in fundraising and nonprofit management. This person must have strong verbal and written communication skills that translate into effective communications across a variety of platforms and should demonstrate an ability to navigate a political environment at the local, state, and national levels. The successful candidate, ideally, will have experience working with both the Department of the Interior and federal elected officials on Capitol Hill.

This experienced individual will continue to sustain an organizational culture of teamwork, mutual respect, and one that encourages diverse viewpoints; they will grow a culture that defines and establishes quality work operations and processes while advancing SUWA’s mission. This is a high-profile position, requiring a dynamic and persuasive individual who will motivate and mobilize both internal and external audiences to support SUWA’s work. This individual must demonstrate success in cultivating authentic relationships with a wide range of constituencies, including SUWA members, other nonprofits and partners, tribal leaders, elected officials, and government agencies.

$160,000 and $175,000 annually