Board Member
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Volunteer Board Member guiding Ocean Outcomes, a global nonprofit improving fisheries and seafood supply chains. Providing governance, fiscal oversight, strategy, and fundraising support.
Responsibilities:
- Provide organizational governance and fiscal oversight
- Review organizational strategy and provide thought leadership
- Support strategic fundraising
- Advise and mentor the Executive Director and O2 team in developing and implementing the strategic plan
- Approve annual budgets, audit reports, and material business decisions
- Fulfill legal and fiduciary responsibilities
- Measure organizational performance and effectiveness in meeting its mission
- Hire, support, and evaluate the Executive Director
- Assist with recruiting new board members
- Consult with board members on their roles and assess overall Board performance
- Monitor opportunities and challenges in key geographies and sectors
- Act as an ambassador for Ocean Outcomes and reflect its values and culture
- Ensure commitment to a diverse board and staff
- Ensure a robust fundraising plan and business model
- Support management of consulting services and earned-income activities
- Consider O2 a philanthropic priority through annual charitable donations commensurate with capacity and cultural considerations
- Support identification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of major individual, corporate, and foundation gifts
- Attend quarterly Board meetings, with a goal of one in-person meeting annually in the Portland, Oregon area
- Participate actively in a committee meeting approximately every three months
Requirements:
- Professional and/or lived experience in the Asia-Pacific region, including Taiwan and South Korea
- Experience with fishworker organizations and fishworker rights
- Experience in large/industrial-scale or small-scale fisheries
- Experience in social change, environmental causes, social entrepreneurship, and corporate social responsibility
- Experience in strategy development, measurement and evaluation
- Experience in international law and policy/international relations
- Experience in human rights due diligence, corporate social responsibility, and decent work
- Relationships in the funding community, including foundations, corporations, or high net worth individuals
- Savvy diplomatic skills and a natural affinity for cultivating relationships and convening, facilitating, and building consensus among diverse individuals
- A collaborative attitude, coupled with interest in practical problem solving and strategy development
- Personal qualities of integrity, credibility, and a passion for improving the lives of O2’s beneficiaries
- Commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion
- Previous nonprofit/public benefit organization leadership experience is a plus
- Interest in serving a minimum of two terms, representing a four-year commitment
- Active participation in one of two committees: Governance or Finance
Benefits:
- Service on O2’s Board of Directors is without remuneration, except for administrative support, travel, and accommodation costs in relation to board members’ duties
- Opportunity to gain new knowledge, experiences, insights and contacts through O2’s work and relationships













