The Nature Conservancy
5001 - 10000 employees
Founded 1951
🤲 Charity
🤝 Non-profit
Charity • Non-profit • Environmental
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.
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The Nature Conservancy
5001 - 10000 employees
Founded 1951
🤲 Charity
🤝 Non-profit
Charity • Non-profit • Environmental
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
• Contributing dedicated capacity to a peatland conservation science project in Angola, and more broadly, the conservation of two irreplaceable landscapes in Africa: the greater Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA) and the Congo Basin. • Focusing on community-based aspects of peatland conservation, stewardship, science and engagement as part of TNC’s commitment to protecting the headwaters of major river systems. • Playing a key role in strengthening freshwater and peatland ecosystem conservation across the Angolan Highlands Water Tower, the broader KAZA landscape, and Congo Basin. • Working closely with TNC scientists, practitioners, and partners in Angola and the region. • Collaborating with a dynamic, international network of conservation practitioners, scientists and Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLC) advisors. • Helping bridge scientific inquiry and on-the-ground impact, developing knowledge, tools, and insights that support durable conservation outcomes at local, regional, and global scales.
🎯 Requirements
• Ph.D. in a natural or social science discipline relevant to human-centered approaches to designing conservation interventions with communities, awarded by start of the position (and no longer than 4 years prior) and at least 1 to 2 years of related experience. • Experience designing and conducting scientific research, including reviewing and synthesizing literature, designing and interpreting qualitative surveys and interviews, collecting and analyzing data, and interpreting results. • A demonstrated ability to communicate scientific findings clearly through written products such as reports, manuscripts, or other scholarly outputs with a record of peer-reviewed publications. • Experience working collaboratively with various colleagues or partners, in-person and remotely, across multiple geographies and timezones, and an interest in contributing to team-based, interdisciplinary efforts. • Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and work independently with guidance from mentors. • Strong writing and communication skills in English. • Experience applying qualitative and/or quantitative social science and ethnographic approaches/methods in conservation contexts, including designing, conducting, analyzing and interpreting data from semi-structured interviews and focus groups. • Knowledge of community-centered and rights-based conservation approaches, including experience working with Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities in Africa. • Experience with, or strong interest in learning and adapting human-centered design approaches for social innovation. • Experience or interest in wetland conservation in multiple countries across Africa and beyond. • Knowledge of complementary research tools and methods including survey design, qualitative, mixed-method and/or quantitative data analysis. • Experience or interest in collaborating with colleagues skilled in spatial data analysis and remote sensing. • Strong communication skills across formats, including written, verbal and visual or graphical communication. • Portuguese language skills are highly desirable, but not required.
🏖️ Benefits
• Health care benefits • Retirement benefits • Parental leave • Paid time off • Life insurance • Disability coverage • Employee assistance program • Other life and well-being benefits
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