Global Director, Indigenous and Community Leadership – Conservation

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☕ Washington – Remote

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💵 $122k - $180k / year

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The Nature Conservancy

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1951

💼 Consulting

✈️ Travel

🤲 Charity

Consulting • Travel • Charity

The Nature Conservancy is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the lands and waters on which all life depends. Operating in over 80 countries and territories, it addresses critical issues like climate change and biodiversity loss through strategic conservation efforts. The organization focuses on protecting vital ecosystems such as forests, oceans, and freshwater resources, while actively engaging communities and influencing environmental policies. Through various initiatives, The Nature Conservancy aims to ensure a sustainable and thriving planet for future generations.

📋 Description

• Drive a global strategy that advances Indigenous and community leadership across TNC’s conservation work • Shape how TNC delivers on its 2030 goals and beyond through equitable , durable, and community-led outcomes • Influence systems, financing, partnerships, and governance to align with self-determined stewardship and rights-based approaches • Partner with Equitable Conservation teammates on a vision of biocultural restoration for the planet • Lead and evolve TNC’s global ICLC strategy, ensuring alignment with team and organizational priorities as well as external movements • Translate vision into actionable frameworks, priorities, partnerships and investments , including evaluation and adaptive management • Drive integration of ICLC across conservation, climate and policy programs and influence high-level decision-making • Embed Indigenous and community leadership into core programmatic strategies • Advance strategies for governance and decision-making, funding allocation and finance mechanisms, and external partnerships • Position ICLC as a central driver of conservation impact and organizational transformation , influencing global and regional conservation strategies and outcomes • Strengthen organizational capacity to partner effectively with Indigenous Peoples and local communities • Lead and manage a global, multi-disciplinary and geographically dispersed team • Build a high-performing, inclusive culture aligned with TNC’s values • Serve on Conservation Leadership Team and Equitable Conservation Leadership Team as an expert on Indigenous-led approaches • Develop a succession plan for ICLC leadership • Build and sustain partnerships with Indigenous leaders and community organizations, as well as global NGOs, multilaterals and funders • Represent TNC in global forums and influence the broader conservation and climate fields • Advance and support global fundraising and donor engagement strategies • Align resources and investments with ICLC global priorities • Ensure effective delivery of programs and measurable conservation outcomes • Collaborate across Equitable Conservation and other TNC functions , such as Global Protect, Provide, Climate, Science, Policy and Public Funding and Impact Finance and Markets teams • Lead and contribute to enterprise-wide initiatives and cross-boundary efforts • Ensure strong alignment between global strategy and regional implementation

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and minimum of 7 years of experience as a leader in the conservation arena, non-profit sector, advocacy, or related for-profit area • Majority of experience gained outside the U.S. with an emphasis on the global south along with a demonstrated commitment to developing and practicing global literacy • Management experience including leading and managing a global multi-disciplinary team • Experience working in or as a partner to global, matrixed organizations • Written and verbal fluency in English is required • People management experience, whether direct supervision or project supervision • Executive decision-making abilities and a bias for strategy-driven approaches • Experience communicating with and presenting to diverse audiences including donors, board members, employees, outside partners, or equivalent

🏖️ Benefits

• health care benefits • retirement benefits • parental leave • paid time off • life insurance • disability coverage • employee assistance program • other life and well-being benefits