People send me stuff. This WUWT reader (who shall remain nameless) writes of a job opening that some of our readers may very well be suitable for. The letter says they “…welcomes a diverse pool of candidates for this search”, so I think we fit.
And just think of the good they could do.
Dear Colleague,
I hope you’ll forgive the somewhat impersonal mass email, but I wanted to reach out to you regarding an open Environment Program Officer position at the Hewlett Foundation. The job description is below and also posted to our website here. I’d appreciate any suggestions you have for talented candidates. Also, please feel free to forward this to any networks you think are appropriate.Here are the highlights of the job:
- The position is focused on climate and energy grantmaking domestically and internationally.
- Candidates must have significant experience in climate and energy policy development and advocacy.
- The ideal candidate will have experience working in or deeply with nonprofit organizations.
- The Hewlett Foundation is a fantastic place to work and the Environment Team is an energetic, talented, and fun group that works well together.
- The position is based in Menlo Park, CA.
Interested candidates should send a cover letter and resume to Dan Sherman, President, Explore Company at resumes@explorecompany.com.
Thank you!
Best,
Tom Steinbach—
Program Officer, Environment Program (Climate and Energy)
About the Foundation
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has been making grants since 1967 to help solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. The Foundation focuses on education, environment, global development and population, performing arts, philanthropy, and issues that disproportionately affect disadvantaged communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2011, the Foundation’s assets were approximately $7 billion, with annual grants totaling about $320 million. For more information about the Hewlett Foundation, please visit the website at www.hewlett.org.Program Officer – Climate and Energy
The Environment Program typically makes grants of $50 million per year focused on three issue areas:
- Climate change and energy policy;
- Western conservation policy; and
- Environmental issues affecting poor communities in the San Francisco Bay Area.
In addition to this grantmaking, the Hewlett Foundation helped launch and continues to fund the ClimateWorks Foundation, which is working to reduce the risk of climate change by advancing policies in nations with the highest greenhouse gas emissions. The Foundation’s annual grant to the ClimateWorks Foundation is approximately $100 million.
The Climate and Energy Program Officer will report to the Environment Program Director and be based in Menlo Park, California. The Program Officer must have experience in climate and energy policy development and advocacy and be able to apply his or her experience domestically and internationally. Moreover, the Program Officer must have a proven ability to think strategically and understand how policy advocacy creates policy change.
In addition to developing and implementing climate and energy grantmaking strategy, the Program Officer will serve as a catalyst and convener—bringing together environmental leaders and other public and private sector stakeholders. Consequently, the Program Officer must have a demonstrated record of success working with a diverse array of partners to achieve specific policy and programmatic outcomes.
The Program Officer must thrive in a work environment filled with the exploration of new ideas and approaches to addressing complex problems. Joining a team of ten professionals, the new Program Officer will be challenged to meet the following broad goals and responsibilities:
- Developing, testing, refining, and implementing climate and energy grantmaking strategies.
- Communicating strategies to grantees, staff, and partner funders and making other presentations as needed to a wide array of audiences.
- Assessing the organizational development needs of grantee nonprofit organizations and helping to develop organizational development plans to strengthen the ability of grantees to achieve their goals.
- Developing and tracking effective measures of progress toward achievement of the Foundation’s climate and energy goals and leading evaluations of climate and energy grants and initiatives.
- Making site visits, attending conferences, and representing Foundation programs to the public and to climate and energy leaders.
- Reviewing and assessing climate and energy grant proposals.
- Contributing to the Foundation’s interest in and practice of strategic philanthropy including due diligence, goal-setting and review of business plans, knowledge building, and evaluation.
- Maintaining knowledge of trends, practices, laws, and other related aspects of the field.
- Developing and maintaining effective working relationships with diverse groups of professionals and professional organizations, foundations, and funding sources.
The Program Officer should possess the following professional qualifications and personal attributes:
Professional Qualifications:
- Extensive experience and broad recognition as a climate and energy policy leader with a proven track record of success working on policy issues at state, federal, and/or international levels.
- An understanding of the key climate and energy issues in the United States and ideally, other high greenhouse gas emitting nations such as China, the European Union, and India.
- A sophisticated knowledge of policymaking and a demonstrated ability to navigate these issues diplomatically.
- Knowledge and experience working with nonprofit policy advocacy organizations.
- Experience with strategy development, implementation, and evaluation.
- Strong ability to manage multiple high priority projects simultaneously and to consistently meet deadlines.
- Graduate degree in the sciences, public policy, or related fields.
- Proven talent in staff management and budgeting.
- The ability and flexibility to travel extensively.
Personal Attributes:
- Articulate, with proven ability to write effectively and speak persuasively.
- Superlative interpersonal skills, including a willingness to listen to internal and external constituents and learn from their best ideas.
- Highly motivated with intellectual curiosity, approachability, and openness to input from all levels of staff.
- Personable, diplomatic, and possessing impeccable integrity.
- Exceptional analytical, strategic, and tactical abilities.
- Proven team player and leader able to motivate and inspire staff as well as colleagues to work well as a team.
- Good sense of humor.
Compensation and Benefits
The Foundation offers an excellent benefits package and a salary that is commensurate with experience and education. This position is exempt and full-time.
To Apply
Please email your resume and cover letter to Daniel Sherman, President, Explore Company, at resumes@explorecompany.com. Referto the Hewlett Foundation Climate and Energy Program Officer position. No phone inquiries please.
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes a diverse pool of candidates for this search. The Foundation uses an outside firm to check the accuracy of information supplied by applicants.
I wonder where the capital that produces the Hewlett Foundation’s funding flow is invested.
Robert;
No, but ferd berple was at 7.34; British Corporation with two mad cows; and I thought that was the point that was being made by Nigel, i.e. the Mad Cow scare was just another scam like AGW.
Robert;
No, but ferd berple was at 7.34; British Corporation with two mad cows; and I thought that Nigel’s point was that the Mad Cow scare was just another scam like AGW.
How does such an obvious politically motivated organisation manage to have a tax exempt status?
From the job description they are obviously campaigning for political change and should be taxed as such.
Steve
Herein lies a structural problem in our Constitutional Republic: through the tax code, we allowed tax-exempt foundations to have eternal life, and to have an unaccountable voice to advocate for policies they favor. Foundations do not have shareholders who can vote for a new Board of Directors, they do not have customers who can boycott to force a change in direction or attitude. What they do have is a self-sustaining, self-appointing Board. Further, if a foundation is sufficiently endowed, if it earns more in investment income than it is required to give away each years (only 5%), then the foundation has eternal life.
The solution is to make foundations mortal again. Raise the 5% payout to 7 1/2%. Foundations will then eventually spend themselves out of business. We will benefit from the increased tax revenue that generates. We benefit as a nation. The founding fathers never envisioned unaccountable voices in the public square, let alone ones exempt from all taxation.
“Robert E. Phelan says:
December 20, 2011 at 10:27 pm
Nigel S says: December 20, 2011 at 9:38 pm
Since you asked, according to the CDC there were 1520 gun related deaths among children 0-17, out of a population of 74,340,127 in 2007. There were 1683 deaths in that age group for passengers in motor vehicles. Your point was?”
I assumed it was a reference to the british coalition government, although in fairness, not everything done by Cameron in the last few weeks has been completely “mad”.
All I know is it was funny as hell (maybe you can include Canada next time? We like getting ripped on!)
Right you are.
Boycott Hewlett Packard. I will never buy one of their products ever again.
At $320 million per year, the The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation could permanently solve the homeless problem throughout the entire SF Bay Area, all by themselves. And I don’t mean by hand-outs but by constructive involvement.
But that would mean dealing with gritty reality and smelly people. And it’s *so* much more satisfying to be socially pious.
“strategic philanthropy”…. hee hee, say no mo’, say no mo’, nudge nudge wink wink……
“Highly motivated with intellectual curiosity, approachability, and openness to input…”
They really had me until they finished the sentence with:
“…from all levels of staff”
I’ve just exchanged a couple of emails with no less than a member of the Executive Staff of the Hewlett Foundation (a gentleman kind enough to reply even though he’s on vacation), in order to ask a set of questions I’ve posed to various large corporations about what justifies their AGW position. The gentleman essentially sidestepped the questions, but in answer to whether an outright skeptic had any chance of being considered for the advertised position, he replied, “… we are deeply commItted [his typo, not mine] to getting the science as right as possible and would be pleased to meet with a qualified candidate whose views differed from those of mainstream climate scientists.”
(…glad to provide this email directly to Anthony, in case anyone thinks I’m making this up…)
I worked at HP for 13 years from the end of the “Bill & Dave” era (when it was an engineering company) through John Young up to Carly. I think the first blow to HP came in the mid 80’s when in the effort to “Downsize” but still stay true to “The HP Way” they offered a very attractive voluntary severance package that drained a lot of the real talent and left those who were (mostly) good at facilitating meetings and then the MBA crowd started to change things, by the time Carly took over (and I left for the lure of start-ups) there were fewer engineers than MBA’s
@ur momisugly Roger Knights says:
December 21, 2011 at 2:52 am
Thanks for the tip.
“Program Officer – Climate and Energy
The Environment Program typically makes grants of $50 million per year focused on three issue areas:
1.Climate change and energy policy;
2.Western conservation policy; and
3.Environmental issues affecting poor communities in the San Francisco Bay Area.”
What happened to the last Program Officer of Climate and Energy? Couldn’t they get anything good for AGW and gay issues on the Hill for $50 million a year? This job could be much more challenging than it looks, so a little respect here, folks.
A NORWEGIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You get subsidies from the government, and become the richest man in the village.
Thats it.
Well many HP fans or at least former fans, believe that Bill and Dave took the HP Way with them when they left. So the Hewlett foundation would not be the first or last foundation endowed by technology giant’s great enterprises while here on earth to be co-opted by the very enemies of everything the founders stood and worked for. Not that I am suggesting any malfeasance here; but I somehow doubt that Bill Hewlett, thought that catastrophic climate change disasters were in our future, or that we could do anything about that.
Just remember what the Ford foundation used to be; and where Henry Ford put his efforts to benefit mankind.
“”””” Nigel S says:
December 20, 2011 at 9:38 pm
ferd berple says:
December 20, 2011 at 7:34 pm
Re: Two mad cows, surprised you included that scam too on a sceptical site.
(How many died from BSE? How many children die every day in USA from picking up guns left lying about the house? You have two cows, one dies from the ricochet perhaps? ) “””””
There are strict laws against leaving loaded (or unloaded) guns around the house, in most States (of the USA).
There are no laws against leaving five gallon buckets of water around the house. More children are drowned each year by toppling head first into five gallon buckets of water around the house, than die in left around gun accidents. So we should outlaw five gallon buckets.
Read John Lott; “More Guns, Less Crime.”
and “Why everything you have heard about Guns is wrong.”