Senior Donor Communications Officer

The Senior Donor Communications Officer is a senior strategic partner who helps shape donor communications for TNC’s Latin America Region and ensures priority conservation and fundraising efforts are translated into clear, compelling, donor-centered narratives. The role provides high-level counsel, continuity, and multilingual communications leadership for major and principal gift audiences.

The Senior Donor Communications Officer helps shape and implement donor communications strategy for the Latin America Region, Country Business Units and Iconic Places, serving as a senior support to the Director of Donor Communications, Development colleagues, conservation teams, and regional leadership.

The Officer leads complex, high-priority, and multi-country initiatives from strategy through delivery: assessing needs, clarifying objectives and audiences, recommending narrative and positioning approaches, aligning stakeholders, and overseeing execution, review, and evaluation.

The position advises stakeholders on communicating TNC’s conservation strategies, results, funding needs, and institutional priorities to philanthropic audiences, using independent judgment to resolve messaging challenges, reconcile competing input, and protect donor relevance, accuracy, cultural fit, and strategic alignment.

The Officer may represent Donor Communications in regional, global, and cross-functional initiatives and may act on behalf of the Director in designated meetings, planning processes, and projects, providing senior communications counsel for priority fundraising opportunities, leadership engagements, campaigns, and institutional initiatives.

They provide functional leadership for editorial standards, messaging frameworks, multilingual content, systems, processes, and capability-building, identifying improvements that strengthen the effectiveness, consistency, and efficiency of donor communications across the region.

The position leads or oversees 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.

RESPONSIBILITIES & SCOPE

Strategic Planning and Counsel

• Partners with the Director to develop regional donor communications strategy, priorities, work plans, messaging frameworks, and content plans aligned with Development and conservation goals.
• Advises senior stakeholders on donor positioning, narrative strategy, audience needs, and emerging communications opportunities or challenges.
• Serves as strategic partner to the Director, providing continuity, senior representation, and decision support within agreed parameters.
• Represents Donor Communications in assigned regional, global, and cross-functional initiatives, building alignment and resolving complex stakeholder issues with discretion.
• Exercises significant independent judgment in determining communications strategies, narrative approaches, stakeholder engagement plans, and prioritization of donor communications initiatives across the region.
• Leads and coordinates complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives in highly matrixed environments, fostering alignment, facilitating communication, managing competing priorities, and ensuring successful outcomes across regional and global teams.

Initiative and Functional Leadership

• Leads complex donor communications initiatives from strategy and scope through delivery, managing objectives, audiences, timelines, roles, reviews, risks, and tradeoffs.
• Provides functional oversight for editorial quality, multilingual content, regional messaging, major and principal gift communications, workflows, tools, standards, training, and vendor relationships.

Senior Donor Communications Practice

• Leads high-priority donor communications for cultivation, solicitation, stewardship, campaigns, and major or principal gift opportunities.
• Synthesizes complex conservation, financial, programmatic, and stakeholder input into accurate, compelling content in English, Spanish, and Portuguese while protecting donor relevance, narrative clarity, and institutional standards.
• Shapes donor communications practices and standards that influence fundraising success, donor engagement, and organizational positioning across multiple countries in Latin America
• Provides mentorship, guidance, and subject matter expertise to communications and…