Jobs with Ecotrust
Ecotrust currently has three (3) job openings.
Development Manager
Senior Front-end Web Developer
Systems Administrator
Organizational Summary
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Ecotrust is dedicated to promoting sustainability for the rain forests of the northwest United States, Canada and Alaska. Ecotrust's programs and approach are based on the premise that economic, ecological and social equity systems are mutually interdependent: the triple bottom line. Founded in 1991 and based in Portland, Oregon, Ecotrust works in five programmatic areas: Fisheries, Forestry, Native Programs, Food & Farms, and Knowledge Systems.
Ecotrust is a casual, team-oriented workplace located in Portland's historic Pearl District. Compensation commensurate with experience.
Ecotrust is an equal-opportunity employer and seeks to promote diversity through its hiring decisions.
Position/Title: Development Manager
Location: Portland, OR
Posting Date: 1/24/2012
Application Deadline: 2/15/2012
Start Date: 4/1/2012
Ecotrust’s Development Manager will be responsible for managing our suite of development activities designed to increase and diversify revenue. This individual will be responsible for the coordination of our day-to-day fundraising efforts. S/he will work with the Director of Development on setting the overall strategic direction of the development efforts in conjunction with the development team and funding goals of the organization. The Development Manager will work with the Director of Development to identify and research new individual donor prospects, steward relationships with current donors, oversee our grant submission process and reporting, and identify and develop new funding partnerships.
The Development Manager will work closely with the Grant Writer & Manager and the Development Coordinator to ensure all communication with funders is submitted in a timely manner and of the highest quality. This person will oversee development department systems including record keeping, donor acknowledgement, and maintenance of the database. In addition, this individual will manage the annual appeal process and planning for donor events.
Roles and responsibilities:
- Manage the day-to-day aspects of the Development department to best achieve Ecotrust’s mission and strategic fundraising goals.
- Oversee the management of the grant proposal and reporting schedule, ensuring all deadlines are met and regular updates are provided to donors.
- Research grant funding opportunities and assist in proposal and report development; write/edit proposals in collaboration with program staff and the Grant Writer & Manager.
- Manage the execution of annual appeals, fundraising events, and other constituent building activities.
- Oversee management of Ecotrust’s database system (Raiser’s Edge) to ensure its integrity.
- Maintain an efficient, responsive development shop that serves the organization by helping to identify constraints, remove barriers, and position program and senior staff to excel in their fundraising efforts.
- Assist the development team in increasing revenue across revenue sources to create a diverse, sustainable funding profile for the organization and meet development goals for each program area.
- Assist in identifying potential new partnerships with corporations, foundations, and other organizations to help diversify funding opportunities for the organization.
- Strengthen and maintain the department policies and procedures.
- Assist the Director of Development, the Grant Writer & Manager, and the Development Coordinator in creating acknowledgement letters, reports, newsletters, and emails and ensure that donor communications are integrated with the look, feel and format of Ecotrust.
Knowledge and Skills:
- Exceptional written communication skills; ability to write clear, structured, articulate and persuasive proposals and reports.
- Demonstrated ability to quickly understand complicated subject areas, glean the critical elements, and the ability to communicate those elements to diverse audiences.
- Keen attention to detail, including strong editing skills and task management.
- Excellent interpersonal skills that allow strong working partnerships with program leads.
- Demonstrated ability to write “on deadline” and work with the project managers to ensure internal deadlines are met.
- Knowledge of fundraising information sources.
- Comprehensive knowledge of fundraising techniques and strategies.
- Experience with creating budgets and financial reports.
- Knowledge and familiarity with research techniques for fundraising prospect research.
- Demonstrated experience as strong contributor in team environments.
- An understanding of Ecotrust’s mission and exposure to the “natural model of development” or related models.
Qualifications:
- Enthusiasm for the mission of Ecotrust.
- Experience working in deadline-driven environments.
- 5+ years development experience with a record of success in managing the overall development process including: grant writing, annual appeal fundraising, prospecting and database management.
- Proven record of success in managing multiple projects and successfully working under pressure to multiple deadlines.
- Demonstrated expert skills in Microsoft Word, Excel, & Outlook.
- Experience working in Raiser’s Edge and excellent knowledge of database management.
- Excellent understanding of environmental, ecological and conservation issues.
- Good team player, flexible work style, and excellent interpersonal skills.
- Previous management experience in a non-profit environment is preferred.
This position will report to the Director of Development.
The position is full-time. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience; excellent benefits package including retirement plan match, medical and dental insurance, flexible spending account; life insurance and disability coverage provided.
Please send your cover letter, résumé, Ecotrust application (available on Ecotrust’s web site) and a writing sample to:
Director of Development
Ecotrust
721 NW Ninth Ave, Ste. 200
Portland, OR 97209
NO PHONE CALLS, PLEASE
Position/Title: Senior Front-end Web Developer
Location: Portland, OR
Posting Date: 12/27/2011
Application Deadline: open until filled
Start Date: Immediately
Summary
Ecotrust is seeking a senior front-end web developer to design and implement user experiences for our sophisticated software platforms and tools. You are a solid web developer with HTML, CSS, Javascript and graphic design chops. You excel at creating workflows that are intuitive and visualizations that illuminate. Positive client relations come easily to you. You appreciate being listened to and seen as an expert by your team. Wireframes, sitemaps and storyboards are well worn tools in your arsenal and you understand the importance of usability testing in refining your work.
Our development team uses a wide variety of tools and languages but our typical software stack includes Python and Django on the back-end and JQuery or Sencha on the front-end. We believe in using and releasing open source software. Advanced map interaction and analysis are commonplace in our tools and web cartography and chart design can become important roles for you. Mobile devices and tablets are also becoming prevalent in our work. We strive to use standard design patterns and technology within our applications but experimentation is encouraged at Ecotrust. We are early adopters and are often taking bleeding-edge technology and applying it in new combinations and to new domains.
Requirements
- 5+ years front-end web development experience
- Strong Javascript skills. Experience with JQuery or other client-side libraries
- Graphic design experience
- Client needs assessment and user experience development
- Commitment to the Ecotrust mission
Desired Skills
- Experience with MVC web frameworks
- Experience with web mapping beyond putting markers on a map
- Mobile or tablet UI design experience
Ecotrust Web Applications
- GitHub - https://github.com/Ecotrust
- MarineMap - http://northcoast.marinemap.org
- FoodHub - http://food-hub.org/
- Bioregion Discovery Tool - http://bioregions.apps.ecotrust.org
- eCatch Mobile New York Times article - http://goo.gl/it55z
Project Work That Inspires Us
- Documentary on Ecotrust marine planning tools - http://youtu.be/dwjAt9YE3Yg
- Storyboarding for MarineMap - http://goo.gl/Vh96q
- Wireframes for eCatch Mobile - http://goo.gl/9ziyL
- Time to redraw the map video by Weiden+Kennedy - http://youtu.be/cndw_kKeCFg.
This position is full-time, based in Portland, Oregon at the Natural Capital Center. Salary commensurate with experience. Ecotrust offers an excellent benefits package including generous vacation, retirement plan match, medical and dental insurance, life insurance and disability coverage.
To apply, email the following items to with "Senior Front-end Web Developer" in the subject line:
- Ecotrust application
- Cover letter with answers to the following questions: What do you find most interesting about HTML5? Most frustrating? What dev blogs do you read?
- Portfolio or list of active sites and your role on them
Please, no phone calls or recruiters.
Position is open until filled.
Organizational Summary
Ecotrust’s mission is to inspire fresh thinking that creates social equity, economic opportunity, and environmental well-being. Ecotrust is headquartered in Portland and is a unique organization; it integrates public and private purpose and for-profit and non-profit structures. Ecotrust's many innovations include co-founding the world's first environmental bank, starting the world's first ecosystem investment fund, creating a range of programs in fisheries, forestry, food, farms and children's health, and developing new scientific and information tools to improve social, economic and environmental decision-making.
Position/Title: Systems Administrator
Location: Portland, OR
Posting Date: 2012/01/11
Application Deadline: 2012/02/12
Start Date: As soon as possible
Summary
Ecotrust is looking for a talented and well rounded systems administrator who is motivated by the goals of our organization. You are a jack of all technology trades with interests in network management, data security, and system administration. You will seek out network problems and solve them wherever they may be. No problem, technical or otherwise ever seems insurmountable to you. You are friendly and helpful in the face of requests large and small, working with each individual situation to find the best solution.
Ecotrust's mission is to help people and organizations see the world equally in terms of social equity, environmental well-being, and economic opportunity. We do this by inventing tools and developing ideas that can create systemic change to benefit communities and the natural environment that sustains us.
To support our work, Ecotrust's IT department uses a wide variety of technologies to address the diverse needs of our user base. We're always looking for creative ways to standardize and consolidate but flexibility is often necessary. Open source solutions are used wherever practical. We are currently a 95% windows workstation environment. Over the next five years we will be moving to a virtual-desktop core with a bring-your-own-device model for physical hardware.
Responsibilities
You will work with the Director to envision and create the future of the network, maintain and, when necessary, upgrade our Apache and IIS web servers, exchange server, SQL server, firewalls and other network infrastructure. You will be individually responsible for maintaining our active directory data store and group policy objects, implementing a Windows update services server, completing in-progress migrations from sql 2000 and IIS 5 to new versions, managing backup systems, ensuring a very high up-time, and maintaining relevant documentation. As a member of a small team, you will also work flexibly, covering other team member's duties when necessary.
Required skills and experience
- Dedication to Ecotrust's mission.
- 3 years of experience in a system or network administration position.
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or commensurate experience.
- Extensive Active directory and group policy administration experience.
- SQL server administration experience.
- Apache administration experience.
- Exchange server migration and management experience.
- Great interpersonal skills, and demonstrated ability to work with people across a wide range of technical expertise from basic to highly sophisticated.
- Demonstrated ability to work "on deadline" and balance multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Demonstrated personal initiative.
- Strong organizational skills.
- High tolerance for ambiguity.
Preferred but not required skills
- Salesforce administration experience.
- Raisers Edge administration experience.
- Windows power shell experience.
- VMware management experience.
- Microsoft Sharepoint experience.
- Windows deployment toolkit experience.
- Experience with open source network monitoring tools.
- Demonstrated ability to work as part of a close-knit team.
This position is full-time, based in Portland, Oregon at the Natural Capital Center. Salary commensurate with experience. Ecotrust offers an excellent benefits package including generous vacation, retirement plan match, medical and dental insurance, life insurance and disability coverage.
Application instructions: Please compose your coverletter in the body of an email. Tell us what motivates you to work for Ecotrust as well as how you're qualified. Attached the following documents to your e-mail in separate Word or Open Office files:
- Ecotrust application (http://www.ecotrust.org/about/employment_application.doc)
- Resume
Send your email to alex(at)ecotrust(dot)org with the subject line "Systems Administrator application from [your name]."
Please, no phone calls or recruiters.
Organizational Summary
Ecotrust’s mission is to inspire fresh thinking that creates social equity, economic opportunity, and environmental well-being. Ecotrust is headquartered in Portland and is a unique organization; it integrates public and private purpose and for-profit and non-profit structures. Ecotrust's many innovations include co-founding the world's first environmental bank, starting the world's first ecosystem investment fund, creating a range of programs in fisheries, forestry, food, farms and children's health, and developing new scientific and information tools to improve social, economic and environmental decision-making.
