The Nature Conservancy works with local communities, governments, and organizations to conserve Africa’s important places. The organization seeks a Global Teams Lead, Conservation Strategy to build enabling conditions for adaptive management across the Global Priority Teams and the EU Region. This role involves high-level strategic support, customized coaching, and fostering global-regional collaboration to maximize conservation impact.
Responsibilities & Scope
1. Build enabling conditions for adaptive management in the Global Priority Teams and the EU Region
- Build trusting relationships with key TNC leadership in the Global Priority Teams and the EU region.
- Work with Global leadership (Deputies, Strategy Leads) and EU Regional leadership to identify top priority teams needing adaptive management support, and focus support on them.
- Collaborate with Global Priority leadership (Deputies, Strategy Leads) and EU Regional leadership, supporting prioritization and strategic decision-making to advance the impact and mission of adaptive management in the region.
- Collaborate with other Global Priority and EU Regional Leadership team members to help influence and advance specific enabling conditions in the region for adaptive management, with a specific focus on global-regional collaboration.
2. Provide targeted adaptive management coaching, aligned with global priority and EU region needs
- Provide customized conservation strategy, implementation and/or adaptive management coaching, facilitation, and/or training support to teams, while staying grounded in agile/adaptive management principles and values.
- Ensure support provided to teams is content appropriate, using a collaborative approach to design approaches and engaging local contractors as needed.
- Take a holistic view of support for conservation teams, identifying approaches that are well suited to the context teams sit within.
- Ensure conservation strategy and adaptive management support provided to teams is aligned with and supportive to the global and EU region portfolio management process, and supports teams to close key evidence gaps identified through that process.
- Support other members of the Global Priority Teams and EU regional team to use adaptive management toolsets as they support other high priority teams and programs.
- As needed, collaborate with CST regional leads to support global priority teams to improve their conservation strategy and adaptive implementation in regions, given that their work must touch down in-region.
3. Grow CST’s impact
- Measure / monitor value provided by CST support, ensuring our work is leading to magnified conservation impact in the Global Teams and EU region.
- Identify opportunities to scale up support models that meet the broader needs of the Global Teams and EU region and expand conservation impact.
- Identify potential opportunities to expand CST’s value proposition in a way that expands conservation impact while staying true to the mission of the CST.
- Support CST’s work with global regions & EU by proactively recognizing potential collaboration areas, capturing and sharing learnings, and participating in cross-regional experimentation.
4. Collaborate internationally
- Act as key point of contact for TNC’s Global Priority Teams (which collectively have work that touch down across TNC’s regions) and for the EU region.
- Support Global Priority Teams in effectively collaborating with place-based TNC teams, ensuring that ownership is shared appropriately to support responsible and impactful operations in the field.
- Be willing to work flexible hours, spanning a variety of time zones (and effectively self-manage work/life balance in this context).
- Potentially frequent international travel to support teams as needed.
Minimum Qualifications
- BA/BS degree and 7 years related experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 2 years experience acting as a project lead.
- Deep understanding of agile methodology and experience working in a hyper-agile environment.
- Deep understanding of human-centered design and experience utilizing it for product design.
- Experience coaching and/or facilitating teams in agile collaboration settings.
- Experience in managing and tracking complex and/or multiple projects.
- Experience collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams.
- Deep multi-cultural or cross-cultural experience within one or more of the TNC Global Regions (Africa, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and/or Europe).
- Current resident in one of the TNC Global Regions (Africa, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and/or Europe), in a country where TNC is registered.
- Willingness to work a flexible schedule to align with a variety of time zones.
- Experience with self-directed navigation of complex and open-ended projects to achieve outcomes.
- Knowledge of, and commitment to, centering equity, justice, diversity, and inclusion principles and practices in a professional setting.
- Experience with and/or commitment to nature-based solutions for the climate and biodiversity crises, which also benefit people and communities.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
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