Global Director, Indigenous and Community Leadership – Conservation

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Washington.

📋 Description

• Drive a comprehensive global strategy that enhances Indigenous and community leadership within TNC’s conservation initiatives.

• Shape TNC's approach to achieving its 2030 objectives and beyond through equitable, sustainable, and community-led results.

• Influence systems, financing, partnerships, and governance to support self-determined stewardship and rights-based methodologies.

• Collaborate with Equitable Conservation colleagues on a vision for biocultural restoration aimed at benefiting the planet.

• Lead and refine TNC’s global Indigenous and Community Leadership Council (ICLC) strategy, ensuring it aligns with team and organizational goals as well as external movements.

• Convert vision into practical frameworks, priorities, partnerships, and investments, including evaluation and adaptive management processes.

• Promote the integration of ICLC across conservation, climate, and policy programs, impacting high-level decision-making.

• Embed Indigenous and community leadership into essential programmatic strategies.

• Enhance strategies for governance and decision-making, funding distribution, finance mechanisms, and external collaborations.

• Position ICLC as a pivotal element for conservation impact and organizational transformation, shaping global and regional conservation strategies and outcomes.

• Strengthen the organizational capacity to effectively partner with Indigenous Peoples and local communities.

• Lead and manage a global, multidisciplinary, and geographically diverse team.

• Cultivate a high-performing, inclusive culture that aligns with TNC’s values.

• Serve on the Conservation Leadership Team and Equitable Conservation Leadership Team as an authority on Indigenous-led methodologies.

• Develop a succession strategy for ICLC leadership.

• Establish and maintain partnerships with Indigenous leaders and community organizations, alongside global NGOs, multilaterals, and funding entities.

• Represent TNC in global forums and influence broader conservation and climate sectors.

• Advance and support global fundraising and donor engagement strategies.

• Align resources and investments with ICLC’s global priorities.

• Ensure the effective delivery of programs and measurable conservation outcomes.

• Collaborate across Equitable Conservation and other TNC divisions, 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 a robust alignment between global strategy and regional execution.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and at least 7 years of experience as a leader in the conservation field, non-profit sector, advocacy, or related for-profit industries.

• A significant portion of experience acquired outside the U.S., particularly in the global south, along with a proven commitment to fostering and practicing global awareness.

• Management experience, including leading and overseeing a global multidisciplinary team.

• Experience working with or as a collaborator in global, matrixed organizations.

• Proficiency in written and verbal English is essential.

• Experience in people management, whether through direct supervision or project oversight.

• Executive decision-making capabilities and a tendency toward strategy-driven methodologies.

• Experience in communicating with and presenting to diverse audiences, including donors, board members, employees, external partners, or equivalent stakeholders.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health care benefits

• Retirement benefits

• Parental leave

• Paid time off

• Life insurance

• Disability coverage

• Employee assistance program

• Other life and well-being benefits