Director, Toxics Use Reduction Institute (TURI)

General Summary of Position

The Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Institute (TURI), a renowned research, practice, and education institute located at UMass Lowell in the Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences, is seeking a collaborative leader to serve as its next Director. The Director will provide strategic, organizational, and fiscal leadership to the Institute, which has a mandate to help protect workers, communities, and the environment from toxic chemicals and pollution.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-level strategic, organizational, and fiscal leadership to advance TURI’s mission and broaden its impact
• Work with TURA partner agencies, the MA Office of Technical Assistance and Technology (OTA), and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) to implement the TURA Act and fulfill TURI’s mission
• Maintain relationships with a broad range of university, government, industry, and community stakeholders, and develop new relationships with potential partners and collaborators from a variety of sectors
• Sustain and elevate TURI’s strong reputation through dissemination of its accomplishments to external audiences and by expanding TURI’s impact and visibility nationally and internationally
• Contribute to the development of the Rist Institute’s hub focused on sustainable materials, pollution prevention, and toxics use reduction
• Seek to expand and diversify revenue sources for TURI over time, through, for example, advocacy, philanthropy, federal and private grants, industry partnerships, and fee-for-service activities
• Foster research among TURI staff and collaborators and support efforts to expand TURI’s research portfolio

Qualifications

• Earned doctoral degree in environmental science or policy, environmental health, engineering, occupational health, business sustainability, or a related scientific or technical discipline
• Minimum 10 years' research and/or practical experience in field(s) related to pollution prevention, toxics use reduction, safer chemistry, process engineering, occupational/environmental health or a related area
• Demonstrated strategic program or organizational leadership experience that includes supervising experienced, professional staff
• Collaborative leadership style and skills
• Demonstrated experience working with diverse stakeholder communities, such as industry, non-profit, academic, and government
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Demonstrated commitment to diversity/inclusion

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated knowledge of and experience specifically in pollution prevention or toxics use reduction
• Experience in leading professional staff conducting a diverse array of projects and in mentoring new staff
• Demonstrated ability to lead, develop strategy, and provide forward momentum for a multi-faceted research and practice organization
• Demonstrated ability to lead and manage conflicting perspectives from diverse stakeholder groups
• Demonstrated knowledge of environmental policies
• Demonstrated ability to effectively collaborate with a variety of audiences who have a wide range of technical understanding
• Demonstrated ability to identify new strategic opportunities and execute expanded programmatic directions
• Demonstrated ability to connect research to practice settings in industry
• Demonstrated ability to acquire external funding, such as through research grants, industry collaborations, or philanthropic sources