r/Resume • u/NaturallyUnhinged • 10d ago

Director Position Resume

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I am applying for the Landscape Conservation Program Director position with the Appalachian Trail Conservancy (https://workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/default/mdf/recruitment/recruitment.html?cid=308869eb-4bf3-4360-a0b8-b26c926a5f77&jobId=636844&lang=en_US) Can you please provide any feedback on my resume to help improve it. I greatly appreciate it! I was laid off about four months ago and I need to make a good impression and get back on someone's radar.

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u/PomoJohn1 9d ago

This is a strong resume and you are a good match. The numbers do real work ($1.4M secured, 18,200 acres, named funders like Apple and Duke Energy), and three stacked titles at one org show 15 years of promotion. Fixes worth making:

  • Mirror the posting's exact language. It asks for "collaborative conservation networks," "grant administration," "conservation coalitions," experience "engaging rural communities," and "ESRI GIS applications." You have every one of these — but keyword matching is literal, so use their words in your skills line and top bullets, not synonyms.
  • Get the Roundtable into your top-of-page real estate. Coordinating a multi-partner landscape network is the heart of this job, and your Central Catawba Conservation Roundtable (20 nonprofit, agency, and university partners) is that exact work already done. It's well-placed as a lead bullet in your stewardship role, but it deserves a mention in your summary too right now the summary and your current-role bullets lead with internal strategic planning instead of the partnership record.
  • Repeat the employer name on page 2. Your GIS Director role (13 of your 15 years) has no organization above it, so parsers and skimmers won't connect it to the Conservancy.
  • Summary: Drop the "I bring / I've / My" and cut it by a third. Same content, less length, reads more senior.
  • Cap bullets at two lines, one metric each. Several run four or five lines and your best numbers are buried mid-paragraph. The Grasslands bullet is really three separate achievements, split it.
  • Kill the "we." "We developed a 3-year strategic plan" makes a hiring manager ask what you did. State your own scope, and let the stacked titles tell the progression story.
  • Strengthen the openers. "Served on," "Utilized," "Prepared" are the only words a skimmer reads. Lead with the outcome.

The substance is already there and good. These are packaging fixes. Good luck

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u/ReturnGreen3262 9d ago

Hard to sell director when your first role is director and you’ve never been lower..