Executive Director, Babbitt Center Land and Water Policy

Pay Competitive

Location Phoenix/Arizona

Employment type

Other

Req#: 92b8f347-9b42-462f-b706-8

Executive Director, Babbitt Center for Land and Water Policy Phoenix, Arizona / Lincoln Institute of Land Policy – Babbitt Center / Regular / On-site Apply for this job Our Mission
The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy seeks to improve quality of life through the effective use, taxation, and stewardship of land. A nonprofit private operating foundation whose origins date to 1946, the Lincoln Institute researches and recommends creative approaches to land as a solution to economic, social, and environmental challenges. Through education, training, publications, and events, we integrate theory and practice to inform public policy decisions worldwide.

With locations in Cambridge, Massachusetts;
Washington, DC;
Phoenix; and Beijing, we organize our work around six goals: low-carbon, climate-resilient communities and regions; efficient and equitable tax systems; reduced poverty and spatial inequality; fiscally healthy communities and regions; sustainably managed land and water resources; and functional land markets and reduced informality.
Executive Director, Babbitt Center for Land and Water Policy, Position Profile
Position Overview
The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy is an independent, nonpartisan organization whose mission is to help solve global economic, social, and environmental challenges to improve the quality of life through creative approaches to the use, taxation, and stewardship of land. Recognizing the important connection between land use and water issues, the Lincoln Institute established the Babbitt Center for Land and Water Policy in 2017.

Connecting water to land use brings together two resources that have been managed irrespective of one another for too long. Coordinated planning is a step in breaking down these silos and will be increasingly necessary as communities strive to secure their water futures. The Babbitt Center’s major area of focus has been the Colorado River Basin, which is dependent on one of the most heavily used and over-allocated rivers in the world.

The Babbitt Center seeks to advance the integration of land and water management to meet the current and future water needs of the Basin’s communities, economies, and its environment. The Center develops tools and best practices to guide policy decisions through research, training, and partnerships for sustainable management of land and water resources in the Basin and beyond. The Babbitt Center’s leadership is at an inflection point with the upcoming retirement of its founding Director.

The Lincoln Institute seeks a new Phoenix-based Babbitt Center Director to ensure both continuity in programming and to advance the Center’s presence and impact in the Colorado River Basin and more broadly promote the integration of land and water management in the U.S. and the rest of the world. Here are some highlights of our content:
Growing Water Smart:
Securing Our Water Future Publications on Water Resilient Agriculture Water challenges in the Colorado River Basin - Cultivating Change Babbitt Center Programs and Projects The Director will work closely with the Lincoln Institute’s CEO and Vice President of Programs to lead existing efforts and identify new opportunities to advance the Babbitt Center’s work in the Colorado Basin, nationally, and globally and collaborate with other Center Directors to cross pollinate ideas and fully leverage the Institute’s intellectual resources for maximum impact.

This is a full-time position in Phoenix, Arizona, COVID permitting, at 37.5 hours/week reporting to the President and Chief Executive Officer. Willingness and availability to travel 15%-30%. The Director’s specific duties and responsibilities are enumerated below.

What You’ll Do - The Director will lead and engage with the Babbitt Center staff to advance work in the following areas:
• Foster the creation of new tools to support decision making and land management
• Advance techniques for addressing uncertainty, including adaptive management approaches
• Develop and implement a…