Director of Conservation Portfolio Management, Southern Division
Listed on 2026-02-16
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Management
Program / Project Manager, Operations Manager, Environmental Manager
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 of Conservation Portfolio Management has overall responsibility for the management of the Division Conservation Portfolio (DCP). The Division Conservation Portfolio is the portfolio of priority conservation work (land, water, ocean, and climate) 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 of those processes 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. They lead and/or manage teams which support and improve conservation efforts, and build strategic, scientific, and technical collaboration across the Division, as well as with other divisions, the North America Region and global programs. The conservation manager will work with the Division Director and Division Leadership Team to 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 are expected to 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 broadly communicate solutions, innovative methods, analysis, tools and frameworks. They build strategic and technical capacity in the field; identify and resolve technical issues and widely communicate best practices. They build strategic, scientific and technical capacity with Sub-Portfolio leads. They will 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 Science Measures and Strategy Team.
This is a remote role open to candidates located in Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, or Louisiana.
Work with the Division Director to ensure alignment of conservation strategies and projects with the 2030 organizational goals.
Assist the Division Director in advancing, managing, and strengthening at-scale, Division-wide, and multi-state initiatives, programs, and projects.
Liaise between state teams, multi-state program teams, and the North America Conservation Collaboration regional team to support the field in leading priority initiatives and projects; share regional team perspectives and input from the field on proposed new initiatives, programs, and projects.
Coordinate the review of the Division’s portfolio of conservation strategies and projects, a key step in the allocation of resources (both staff and financial).
Coordinate, direct, lead, and/or participate in implementing complex diverse projects, encompassing multiple programs and coordinating the work of other professionals, inside and outside the organization.
Make independent strategic decisions frequently based on analysis, ambiguous information, experience and judgment.
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