Senior Donor Communications Officer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Mexico, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Design and execute the donor communications strategy for the Latin America Region, Country Business Units, and Iconic Places.

• Collaborate with the Director of Donor Communications, Development colleagues, conservation teams, and regional leadership.

• Manage intricate, high-priority, and multi-country projects from strategy formulation to execution.

• Evaluate needs, clarify objectives and target audiences, propose narrative and positioning strategies, align stakeholders, and supervise execution, review, and assessment.

• Guide stakeholders in conveying conservation strategies, outcomes, funding requirements, and institutional priorities to philanthropic audiences.

• Address messaging challenges, reconcile competing inputs, and uphold donor relevance, accuracy, cultural appropriateness, and strategic alignment.

• Represent Donor Communications in regional, global, and cross-functional projects.

• Act on behalf of the Director in specified meetings, planning processes, and initiatives.

• Offer senior communications advice for fundraising opportunities, leadership engagements, campaigns, and institutional endeavors.

• Provide functional leadership for editorial standards, messaging frameworks, multilingual content, systems, processes, and capacity building.

• Oversee or lead 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.

• Create a regional donor communications strategy, priorities, work plans, messaging frameworks, and content plans aligned with Development and conservation objectives.

• Counsel senior stakeholders on donor positioning, narrative strategy, audience needs, and emerging communication opportunities or challenges.

• Lead and coordinate complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives within highly matrixed environments across regional and global teams.

• Manage objectives, target audiences, timelines, roles, reviews, risks, and trade-offs.

• Provide functional oversight for editorial quality, multilingual content, regional messaging, major and principal gift communications, workflows, tools, standards, training, and vendor partnerships.

• Direct high-priority donor communications for cultivation, solicitation, stewardship, campaigns, and major or principal gift opportunities.

• Distill complex conservation, financial, programmatic, and stakeholder inputs into precise and engaging content in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

• Establish donor communications practices and standards across various countries in Latin America.

• Offer mentorship, guidance, and subject matter expertise to communications and development colleagues throughout the region.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, journalism, marketing, philanthropy, international affairs, conservation, or a related field, along with five to seven years of relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Proven experience in developing communications strategies and donor-focused fundraising materials that support cultivation, solicitation, stewardship, campaigns, and major gift opportunities.

• Demonstrated experience in advising senior stakeholders, influencing without direct authority, facilitating alignment among varying priorities, and presenting strategic recommendations.

• Experience in leading complex cross-functional, regional, or multi-country initiatives from planning through implementation while managing priorities, deadlines, reviews, and deliverables.

• Strong skills in writing, editing, storytelling, narrative strategy, synthesis, project management, problem-solving, and independent decision-making.

• Professional fluency in both 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 geographical areas.

• Ability to handle sensitive or confidential information with discretion.

• Over seven years of progressively responsible experience in donor communications, fundraising communications, strategic communications, or a related field (preferred).

• Experience in supporting major or principal gift fundraising, institutional campaigns, complex donor engagement strategies, donor visits, senior leadership engagements, or stewardship initiatives (preferred).

• Familiarity with developing regional or multi-country communications for diverse cultural, philanthropic, and geographic audiences across Latin America and international donor markets (preferred).

• Experience serving as a deputy, senior adviser, or principal strategic partner to a communications or Development leader (preferred).

• Ability to interpret conservation outcomes, financial data, impact metrics, program results, and technical information for donor audiences (preferred).

• Knowledge of donor communications trends, visual storytelling, design best practices, content management systems, project management platforms, AI-assisted content tools, and digital collaboration technologies (preferred).

• Must meet The Nature Conservancy’s background screening requirements.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive and comprehensive benefits packages tailored to the individual countries where we operate.

• Health care benefits.

• Retirement benefits.

• Parental leave.

• Paid time off.

• Life insurance.

• Disability coverage.

• Employee assistance program.

• Additional life and well-being benefits.

• Flexible work environment promoting employee health and well-being.

• Career development opportunities.

• Inclusive work environment.

• Accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans.