Associate Director of Marketing Partnering Indigenous and Traditional Communities

Associate Director of Marketing for Partnering with Indigenous and Traditional Communities

Posted on February 21, 2023

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The Associate Director of Marketing for Partnering with Indigenous and Traditional Communities is responsible for developing and implementing communications plans for the Conservancy’s collaborative work in the North America Region and at the global level. Working with the Director of the North America Indigenous Landscapes and Communities Program and the Director of the Global Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Program, the Associate Director of Marketing will design and implement strategies and tactics that support the goals of the two programs by building awareness, engaging stakeholders and rights holders, and influencing conservation action.

Our shared efforts are on the cutting edge of transforming how we work, including a focus on equitable conservation. Responsibilities include developing key messages, implementing effective outreach strategies for both internal and external audiences, writing for a variety of platforms, creating communications assets, managing simultaneous projects and deadlines, and measuring the success of communications tactics, including increased awareness of authentic storytelling from the people closest to the ecosystems we strive to conserve.

This individual will coordinate closely with internal conservation and marketing staff at the local, national, and global levels to ensure equitable and creative messaging about our collaborations with Indigenous and local communities. This individual will also coordinate with external partners, including Indigenous and local communities, to ensure communications are equitable, authentic, and reflective of our mutual goals and perspectives that put Indigenous and local communities at the center of our conservation efforts.

The Associate Director also will coordinate with other colleagues to ensure communications are aligned with organization-wide activities to deepen the Conservancy’s collective capacity to ethically and effectively partner with Indigenous Peoples and local communities.

This position is currently funded for three years, with the possibility to extend based on business need and/or funding. Indigenous candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. Location is flexible. The selected candidate shouldanticipate a need to develop modes of working…