Santa Barbara, California, United States
Manage operations for both our environmental nonprofit entity, Legacy Philanthropy Works, and our impact investing limited liability company, Legacy Investment Works, including business administration, finances, human resources and project management. Provide direct support to Executive Director/Founder and assist with programmatic work. Lead organization's carbon farm planning work and currently training for NRCS Conservation Planner certification. LegacyWorks is evolving and implementing a collaborative impact model that enables donors, investors and local organizations to work together to achieve ambitious conservation goals and reshape the future of their communities. Our for profit company, Legacy Investment Works, helps investors and landowners deploy their private resources for impact, while our nonprofit organization, Legacy Philanthropy Works, supports communities, other nonprofits and funders with philanthropic initiatives. All of our work is locally driven and adapts to each community’s reality – the needs, strengths and constraints of their people and place. Our work leverages the wisdom, skills and passion of community leaders and is built upon trust, relationships and open, honest communication.
Responsibilities included overseeing and providing direction to all property staff, administering personal accounting, managing a private polo club, five rental properties, and various location leases, maintaining active building permits, managing a Homeowners Association, administering sophisticated irrigation system software for approximately 50 acres, and designing and overseeing landscaping installations.
As a team member of the company’s Geology Group, conducted ASTM and AAI compliant Phase I Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs), Phase II ESAs, NPDES, WDR and industrial waste discharge permit management, industrial facility closures, underground storage tank removals, and various development mitigation and mining reclamation monitoring. Site characterization experience included soil, groundwater and soil vapor surveys, and the installation and abandonment of monitoring wells. Performed field sampling pursuant to various regulatory protocols and environmental drilling techniques. Analyzed and tabulated data, and prepared technical reports. Fulfilled electronic reporting requirements via State GeoTracker database. Managed projects independently including budgeting, invoicing, client correspondence and regulatory agency liaison. Negotiated implementation of conditions of development requirements between City managers and a well-known developer, and acted as sole project manager for a long term, six figure contract.
First mate crewmember on sailing catamarans. Educated passengers about Hawaii’s protected marine mammals, mainly Humpback whales and Spinner Dolphins. Conducted “Eco-Enrichment Kid’s Camp” teaching children about marine science and Hawaiiana.
Assisted structuring and maintaining 14 on-premise and 4 off-premise research blocks. Research included: crop production, variety trials, pesticide applications, and the affects of various cultural practices like planting procedures, weed management, organic trials and mechanical techniques. Collected, entered and analyzed data on above experiments. Scouted for pests and disease of commodity crops at commercial farms: 23 fields weekly of 56 different fields altogether. Gathered data for the Integrated Pest Management Program. Worker Protection Standard trained.