Careers

About The Opportunity
The GC3 is seeking an Executive Director to lead the organization's growth, expansion into new areas regions and impact as it enters this new phase. This is a compelling opportunity for a mission-oriented leader with an appetite for building on GC3'S existing legacy of thought leadership, while executing a new strategic plan for expanded scale. The Executive Director will guide GC3 through the implementation of its first, recently completed comprehensive strategic plan, including a reorientation of its program portfolio around a new, innovative concept: the GC3 Commercialization Hub.

The new Executive Director will be a visionary, ambitious leader with strong business acumen and relationship building capabilities. They will be a thought leader or able to steward organizational thought leadership in green chemistry. They will work closely with stakeholders across several industries to accelerate the commercialization and adoption of green chemistry and amplify real change in global supply chains. This unique opportunity is suited for a leader who couples deep sector knowledge in green chemistry, or a closely related field, with experience growing member and stakeholder engagement within a collaborative organization. Further, this leadership role will catalyze the relationship between a Board of Directors composed of industry leaders and public interest advocates, and a dedicated and evolving staff, to build GC3 into a high performance, value-driven organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Mission Stewardship: Continuously monitor and evaluate the organizations governance, program offerings, and business model to ensure that they are optimized to deliver on the mission of accelerating commercialization and adoption of green chemistry
• External Representation: Represent the organization among an increasingly international and diver set of key stakeholders; convene and forge strategic partnerships within the broader green chemistry community, and with corporate members
• Business Model: Ensure the organization's business and programmatic model are complementary and continuously reinforced while delivering on organizational priorities
• Financial Sustainability: Oversee and work with the management team to set and meet financial growth targets. Lead management team in identification of new, mission-aligned revenue sources
• Strategy: Lead the organization's implementation and continuous review of the strategic plan, in partnership with the Board
• Collaborative Leadership: Build and shape a collaborative culture in support of the organization's mission while hiring and developing the next generation of leaders
• Membership Value: Oversee and ensure member value delivery and impact achievement, directly and in collaboration with function leaders
• Board Partnership: Work effectively with a committed Board of Directors, which includes the Founder, serving as the primary liaison with the management Team. Encourage and support continuous Board improvement and enhancement of the Board-Management relationship

Relevant Experience

• 10+ years in a supervisory leadership position and/or a track record of entrepreneurial success, with recognized achievements in developing, commercializing, and promoting green or sustainable chemistry or analogous field
• Experience leading the implementation of a strategic plan demonstrating clear results and progress to a Board of Directors
• Experience collaborating with a Board of Directors to drive alignment on strategic priorities
• Experience achieving scale and expanding external funding and financial sustainability in early-stage mission-driven, business environments
• Successful track record leading programs-driven, membership-based, or highly analogous organizations
• Demonstrated commitment and experience leading diverse industry stakeholders toward aligned objectives in environmental or highly analogous sectors
• Successful track record of garnering commitments and motivating action from commercial interests, in support of major environmental or sustainability-related initiatives
• Capable of building collaboration and alignment across public, private, and social sectors

Relevant Characteristics

• Entrepreneurial and empathetic leader, capable of cultivating dedicated staff leaders and building a winning team
• Exceptional presence and confidence to engage directly with executive leaders (corporate, public sector, and NGO) across geographies and cultures
• Able to partner effectively with a passionate Founder who will continue to actively work on select topics
• Strong credibility across private, public, and social sectors
• Profound commitment to the mission of the GC3
• Strategic orientation, driven to define, plan, and execute on the "future state" needed to fulfill GC3's mission
• Sophisticated business mind, with keen understanding of the role of financial scale in achieving measurable societal impact

All qualified applicants will receive consideration without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, pregnancy, medical condition, disability, or sexual orientation. As an equal opportunity employer, GC3 is committed to identifying and developing the skills and leadership of people with a variety of backgrounds and attributes.

 

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For more information contact: gc3info@greenchemistryandcommerce.org