The Nature Conservancy
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.
Senior Donor Communications Officer
🔥 11 minutes ago
🗣️🇪🇸 Spanish Required
🗣️🇧🇷🇵🇹 Portuguese Required
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The Nature Conservancy
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
• Shape and implement donor communications strategy for the Latin America Region, Country Business Units, and Iconic Places • Support the Director of Donor Communications, Development colleagues, conservation teams, and regional leadership • Lead complex, high-priority, and multi-country initiatives from strategy through delivery • Assess needs, clarify objectives and audiences, recommend narrative and positioning approaches, align stakeholders, and oversee execution, review, and evaluation • Advise stakeholders on communicating conservation strategies, results, funding needs, and institutional priorities to philanthropic audiences • Resolve messaging challenges, reconcile competing input, and protect donor relevance, accuracy, cultural fit, and strategic alignment • Represent Donor Communications in regional, global, and cross-functional initiatives • Act on behalf of the Director in designated meetings, planning processes, and projects • Provide senior communications counsel for fundraising opportunities, leadership engagements, campaigns, and institutional initiatives • Provide functional leadership for editorial standards, messaging frameworks, multilingual content, systems, processes, and capability-building • Lead or oversee funding proposals, concept notes, regional and country overviews, donor trip materials, stewardship reports, campaign collateral, presentations, impact reports, leadership messages, and other strategic donor communications products • Develop regional donor communications strategy, priorities, work plans, messaging frameworks, and content plans aligned with Development and conservation goals • Advise senior stakeholders on donor positioning, narrative strategy, audience needs, and emerging communications opportunities or challenges • Lead and coordinate complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives in highly matrixed environments across regional and global teams • Manage objectives, audiences, timelines, roles, reviews, risks, and tradeoffs • Provide functional oversight for editorial quality, multilingual content, regional messaging, major and principal gift communications, workflows, tools, standards, training, and vendor relationships • Lead high-priority donor communications for cultivation, solicitation, stewardship, campaigns, and major or principal gift opportunities • Synthesize complex conservation, financial, programmatic, and stakeholder input into accurate, compelling content in English, Spanish, and Portuguese • Shape donor communications practices and standards across multiple countries in Latin America • Provide mentorship, guidance, and subject matter expertise to communications and development colleagues across the region
🎯 Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in communications, journalism, marketing, philanthropy, international affairs, conservation, or a related field and at least five to seven years of relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience • Experience developing communications strategies and donor-facing fundraising materials supporting cultivation, solicitation, stewardship, campaigns, and major gifts opportunities • Experience advising senior stakeholders, influencing without direct authority, facilitating alignment among differing priorities, and presenting strategic recommendations • Experience leading complex cross-functional, regional, or multi-country initiatives from planning through implementation while managing priorities, deadlines, reviews, and deliverables • Strong writing, editing, storytelling, narrative strategy, synthesis, project management, problem-solving, and independent decision-making skills • Professional fluency in English and Spanish • Advanced proficiency in Portuguese, including the ability to review materials, participate in meetings, and collaborate directly with Portuguese-speaking colleagues • Experience working across departments, functions, cultures, and geographies • Experience handling sensitive or confidential information with discretion • More than seven years of progressively responsible experience in donor communications, fundraising communications, strategic communications, or a related field (desired) • Experience supporting major or principal gift fundraising, institutional campaigns, complex donor engagement strategies, donor visits, senior leadership engagements, or stewardship initiatives (desired) • Experience developing regional or multi-country communications for diverse cultural, philanthropic, and geographic audiences across Latin America and international donor markets (desired) • Experience acting as a deputy, senior adviser, or principal strategic partner to a communications or Development leader (desired) • Ability to interpret conservation outcomes, financial information, impact metrics, program results, and technical information for donor audiences (desired) • Familiarity with donor communications trends, visual storytelling, design best practices, content management systems, project management platforms, AI-assisted content tools, and digital collaboration technologies (desired) • Ability to meet The Nature Conservancy’s background screening requirements
🏖️ Benefits
• Competitive and comprehensive benefits packages tailored to the individual countries where we work • Health care benefits • Retirement benefits • Parental leave • Paid time off • Life insurance • Disability coverage • Employee assistance program • Other life and well-being benefits • Flexible work environment supporting employee health and well-being • Career development • Inclusive work environment • Accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans
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