Sea Otter Savvy
Director of Marketing & Development at the only nonprofit solely dedicated to reducing human-sea otter conflict and disturbance.
Service
Nonprofit
The Role
Sea Otter Savvy is a women-led, scientist-run 501(c)(3) based at Elkhorn Slough in Moss Landing, the first nationally designated estuarine sanctuary in the United States. The team has built the largest long-term sea otter disturbance dataset in the world, published in the Journal of Wildlife Management, and the research is actively shaping reintroduction planning in Oregon.
Their work has been featured in National Geographic, Netflix's Great National Parks, PBS's Changing Seas, BBC, The New York Times, and Wild Kingdom. I'm the organization's first Director of Marketing & Development, working alongside Executive Director and lead scientist Gena Bentall.
The Work
This is a transformational year for SOS. After a decade run entirely by scientists focused on research and outreach, my role is to build the institutional credibility and operational backbone that makes an organization of this caliber legible to corporate giving programs, grant funders, and the partnership infrastructure that scales.
That work is in progress across federal and state compliance, third-party transparency credentials, fundraising and donor systems, B2B and B2C partnership programs, the Membership Program, expansion of the CAWS stewardship certification, and live programming.
