Monterey Bay Climate Adaptation Action Network Coordinator

The California Marine Sanctuary Foundation is hiring a Monterey Bay Climate Adaptation Action Network Coordinator to lead the MBCAAN over a five-year grant. The role involves coordinating member organizations, facilitating climate resilience actions, and ensuring participation from disadvantaged communities. Responsibilities include planning meetings, evaluating network priorities, building membership, and managing communications. This position is remote, allowing for collaboration with various stakeholders across the Monterey Bay region.
About the position

CMSF is seeking a highly qualified individual to support the development and launch of the Monterey Bay Climate Adaptation Action Network (MBCAAN), acting as the MBCAAN Coordinator over the five-year grant term. The MBCAAN Coordinator will lead and coordinate all aspects of MBCAAN, guiding member organizations in a region-wide, collaborative effort to share informational resources and to plan for and implement climate resilience actions for the Monterey Bay area. MBCAAN program activities will be conducted in partnership with regional city and county governments, universities, research institutions, and non-government organizations (NGOs) focusing on adaptation actions that build climate resilience for the area's low-lying, coastal communities threatened by sea level rise, storm surge, and flooding along the region's major rivers and by wildfire in the watersheds affecting these communities. The MBCAAN Coordinator's responsibilities will include coordinating and facilitating all MBCAAN functions while serving as a resource for MBCAAN members to support information sharing, communication, and all activities of the network. The Coordinator will lead MBCAAN members in defining goals and objectives, and in growing the program to become a prominent decision-making institution for climate adaptation and resilience in the Monterey Bay region. This role will also involve planning and facilitating a minimum of four MBCAAN meetings per year, coordinating with special committees, and ensuring meaningful participation of disadvantaged communities and tribal groups. Additionally, the Coordinator will periodically evaluate and realign network priorities, build MBCAAN membership, help orient new members, resolve problems with project partners, and work with evaluators to assess the effectiveness of MBCAAN activities. The role requires identifying and securing grants and funding resources to support climate adaptation projects prioritized by MBCAAN members, as well as creating newsletters, blogs, social media posts, and other communications-related materials for both internal and external audiences.

Responsibilities
• Coordinate and facilitate all MBCAAN functions while serving as a resource for MBCAAN members.
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• Lead MBCAAN members in defining MBCAAN goals and objectives.
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• Grow the program to become a prominent decision-making institution for climate adaptation and resilience in the Monterey Bay region.
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• Plan and facilitate a minimum of four MBCAAN meetings per year (in-person and virtual).
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• Coordinate with special committees, including the Workforce Development Committee and MBCAAN Advisory Committee.
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• Work closely with disadvantaged community and tribal engagement project leads to ensure meaningful participation.
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• Periodically evaluate and realign network priorities, tasks, and activities.
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• Build MBCAAN membership through the identification and recruitment of new members.
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• Help orient and integrate new members to the network's organization, history, agreements, decisions, and expectations of members.
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• Work with project partners to resolve problems and overcome unexpected hurdles.
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• Work with CMSF program evaluator to facilitate data collection and interpretation necessary for assessing and evaluating the effectiveness of MBCAAN activities.
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• Work with Central Coast Wetlands Group to integrate results of the Monterey Bay Climate Adaptation Regional Monitoring Program into MBCAAN planning efforts.
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• Identify and help secure grants and other funding resources to support climate adaptation and resilience projects.
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• Identify and actively pursue grants and other opportunities to ensure ongoing management of MBCAAN beyond the NOAA CRRC grant period.
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• Create newsletters, blogs, social media posts, and other communications-related materials.

Requirements
• Exceptional aptitude in working collaboratively with organizations, especially municipalities, universities, research institutions, and NGOs.
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• Demonstrated scientific understanding of climate change impacts and trends in the Monterey Bay area.
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• Outstanding oral and written communication skills.
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• Charismatic public speaker.
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• Experience planning, organizing, and facilitating both in-person and virtual meetings.
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• Ability to create complete, concise reports documenting project activities and successes for a public audience.
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• Positive and efficient collaboration with staff from CMSF and partner organizations.
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• Masters, Ph.D., or equivalent demonstrated work experience in a relevant field.
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• Flexibility, adaptability, integrity, and a positive, can-do attitude.

Nice-to-haves

Benefits
• Vacation
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• 12 paid holidays
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• Sick leave
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• Medical benefits
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• Dental benefits
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• 401K savings plan with 3% employer match and full vesting after 1 year