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For more than a year, I have been working with the One Earth Future Foundation in Colorado, leading the design of their newly launched Early Engagement in Extractives (EEE) Program. This process involved multiple rounds of invaluable consultations with more than a dozen advisors from a range of disciplines and geographies, a core group of which today serve on the EEE Advisory Board.
I’m delighted to share the announcement that the One Earth Future Foundation is recruiting a Director for the EEE Program, which aims to reduce violence by enhancing the capacity of communities to participate meaningfully and at opportune (early) moments in decision making regarding industrial natural resource extraction activity. The Program will provide resources to community-driven initiatives at a range of pilot sites, in the form of access to networks, information, participatory tools, and funding. In addition, EEE aims to support community engagement by facilitating community-to-community exchanges, and by engaging systemically powerful actors such as corporate executives, investors, and international financial institutions. The EEE is supported by the One Earth Future Foundation, which has committed long-term funding to the Program.
The Program Director, a newly created position, will report to the Founder and Board of Directors of the One Earth Future Foundation and work collaboratively with the EEE Advisory Board in leading the establishment of the EEE Program. The Director, in collaboration with the Board of Directors and Advisory Board, will be responsible for leading the strategy design, development, implementation, and management of the EEE Program. Specifically, s/he will lead the development of the EEE Program – often in coordination with relevant OEF and EEE experts and advisers – by identifying, and building relationships with pilot site communities and by establishing and implementing operational, marketing, human resource, and organizational strategies.
The full announcement is available on the OEF website.