Director of Conservation Portfolio Management, Southern Division

What We Can Achieve Together: The Director of Conservation Portfolio Management, Southern Division provides strategic leadership and support for the Conservancy’s conservation planning work and helps establish overall conservation priorities for the Division and its major programs and initiatives. The Director of Conservation Portfolio Management has overall responsibility for the management of the Division Conservation Portfolio (DCP). The Division Conservation Portfolio is the portfolio of priority conservation work (land, water, ocean, and climate) across the ten states in the Division (VA, KY, TN, NC, SC, GA, FL, Al, MS, LA) that will make the largest contribution to TNC’s 2030 Goals (a set of global goals across the organization) This includes leading the development, implementation, and communication of the portfolio, strategy, and budget review processes associated with the DCP, and ensuring the outcomes of those processes are reflected in TNC’s Shared Conservation Hub (conservation database). The Director of Conservation Portfolio Management, Southern Division serves as the principle contact to each state’s conservation director, multi-state programs, and may also liaise with government agencies, other conservation organizations, and external interested parties They work with the Division Director and Division Leadership Team to define clear conservation priorities for the Division. They lead and/or manage teams which support and improve conservation efforts, and build strategic, scientific, and technical collaboration across the Division, as well as with other divisions, the North America Region and global programs. The conservation manager will work with the Division Director and Division Leadership Team to establish goals and metrics within the Division and develop adaptative management processes that quantitatively assess performance. They will partner with the Division Finance Director, Division Director, and DLT to think strategically about investment of resources for maximum contribution to 2030 goals. They will be expected to generate, use, and analyze data from TNC’s Shared Conservation Hub; evaluate resource allocation decisions; develop recommendations for management actions that are aimed at improving performance over time; and assist the Division Director to ensure accountability for effective budgeting and execution. The Conservation Manager disseminates best practices, provides training and analyses to best implement organizational measures of success, and to widely communicate solutions, innovative methods, analysis, tools and frameworks. They build strategic and technical capacity in the field; identify and resolve technical issues and widely communicate best practices. They build strategic, scientific and technical capacity with Sub-Portfolio leads. They will co-lead the Division’s Conservation Cabinet and coordinate meetings of the Conservation Cabinet, Division Sub-Portfolio Leads, Whole System Leads, and the Division’s Science Measures and Strategy Team. This is a remote role open to candidates located in Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, or Louisiana. RESPONSIBILITIES & SCOPE Work with the Division Director to ensure alignment of conservation strategies and projects with the 2030 organizational goals. Assist the Division Director in advancing, managing, and strengthening at-scale, Division-wide, and multi-state initiatives, programs, and projects. Liaise between state teams, multi-state program teams, and the North America Conservation Collaboration regional team to support the field in leading priority initiatives and projects; share regional team perspectives and input from the field on proposed new initiatives, programs, and projects. Coordinate the review of the Division’s portfolio of conservation strategies and projects, a key step in the allocation of resources (both staff and financial). Coordinate, direct, lead, and/or participate in implementing complex projects, encompassing multiple programs and coordinating the work of other professionals, inside and outside the organization. Make independent strategic decisions frequently based on analysis, ambiguous information, experience and judgment. Ensure input, comprehensiveness, consistency, and quality of data entered in the Shared Conservation Hub. Report on progress against our organizational goals on a consistent basis to the Division Director and to the North America regional team. Increase the Division’s ability to accurately track improvements and measure progress in partnership with the Regional Science and Conservation Collaboration teams and Chief Conservation Office’s Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning program. May recruit, retain and manage high quality and effective multi-disciplinary staff with responsibility for performance management, training and career development. Broad management and leadership responsibility for 10+ staff members, b Apply To This Job