Director of Conservation Portfolio Management, Southern Division

Overview

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 has overall responsibility for the management of the Division Conservation Portfolio (DCP), which is the portfolio of priority conservation work 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.

This includes leading the development, implementation, and communication of the portfolio, strategy, and budget review processes associated with the DCP, and ensuring the outcomes are reflected in TNC’s Shared Conservation Hub (conservation database). The Director serves as the principal contact to each state’s conservation director, multi-state programs, and may 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 and lead and/or manage teams to support and improve conservation efforts, building strategic, scientific, and technical collaboration across the Division, as well as with other divisions, the North America Region and global programs. They will establish goals and metrics within the Division and develop adaptive management processes that quantitatively assess performance, partnering with the Division Finance Director, Division Director, and DLT to think strategically about resource investment for maximum contribution to 2030 goals.

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 has overall responsibility for the management of the Division Conservation Portfolio (DCP) and ensures coordination across the ten states listed above to contribute to 2030 Goals.

This includes leading the development, implementation, and communication of the portfolio, strategy, and budget review processes associated with the DCP, and ensuring outcomes are reflected in the Shared Conservation Hub. The Director serves as the principal contact to each state’s conservation director, multi-state programs, and may 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 and lead and/or manage teams to support and improve conservation efforts, building collaboration across the Division, other divisions, the North America Region and global programs.

The conservation manager will establish goals and metrics within the Division and develop adaptive 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 generate, use, and analyze data from TNC’s Shared Conservation Hub; evaluate resource allocation decisions; develop recommendations for management actions 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 implement organizational measures of success, and to communicate solutions, innovative methods, analysis, tools and frameworks.

They build strategic and technical capacity in the field; identify and resolve technical issues and communicate best practices widely. They build capacity with Sub-Portfolio leads. They 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…