Director of Impact

Nia Tero is a global bridging organization that brings Indigenous Peoples and allies together to advance what we call Indigenous Peoples’ guardianship. Our partnerships with Indigenous Peoples’ are explicitly structured to honor self-determination, respect time-honed knowledge and ways of being and build trust while upholding the sacred value of reciprocity. To achieve this, we work in solidarity with Indigenous peoples to safeguard their ancestral thriving territories and ways of being, collaborating on essential global efforts towards a vibrant and habitable future Earth.

• Our vision is that Indigenous Peoples’ guardianship is enabled everywhere possible on Earth as part of a just and vibrant future.
• Our mission is to directly support Indigenous Peoples’ guardianship and elevate the role and influence of Indigenous Peoples as essential to ensuring planetary health and habitability.

Our team is international and based across South America, the Pacific Islands, Asia, and North America, with a large contingent at our Seattle headquarters. We speak many languages, including English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and a wide range of Indigenous Peoples’ languages.

Nia Tero is in year two of our five-year strategy and is seeking candidates who thrive in a fast-paced environment, adapt quickly to change, and seek to strengthen the impact of a mission-driven organization.

The Director of Impact will lead Nia Tero’s efforts to measure and describe its impact. Reporting initially to the CEO, the Director of Impact leads Nia Tero’s organization-wide approach to learning, impact evaluation, information management, and progress reporting. Internal to Nia Tero, this role serves as a key cross-functional leader who supports, facilitates, and drives alignment and coordination on the evaluation of organizational strategy, and the impact of our programs, partnerships, and field-building efforts.

While the focus of this position is internal to Nia Tero, this role may have the opportunity and platform to provide leadership more broadly into the fields that intersect around Indigenous Peoples’ guardianship.

The Director of Impact is responsible for identifying information and data management needs, strengthening organizational learning systems, and ensuring that Nia Tero has the tools, processes, and insights needed to understand progress toward strategic goals and adapt with care, rigor, and humility. To accomplish this, the Director of Impact will work across teams to measure, evaluate, synthesize, and communicate the impact of Nia Tero’s partnerships with Indigenous Peoples in territories and the organization’s actions to influence and strengthen the broader field.

The successful candidate will bring strong experience in strategy implementation, evaluation, information management, data visualization, learning systems, facilitation, and values-aligned communication. In all areas of work, this role will be rooted in our organizational strategy and values of reciprocity, centering mutual exchange, accountability, and respect for Indigenous knowledge systems, sovereignty, and community-defined measures of success.

• Bring together operations, evaluation, programs, partnerships,communications finance, development and leadership staff to lead the development, implementation, and continuous refinement of Nia Tero’s impact evaluation and learning approach in alignment with the organization’s five-year strategy, values, and annual plans.
• Design and facilitate strategy reviews, learning processes, and decision-making rhythms that integrate progress tracking, dashboards, partner insights, risks, tradeoffs, and emerging opportunities.
• Partner with senior leadership and cross-functional…