Southern Division Director

The Nature Conservancy

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Job Summary

YOUR POSITION WITH TNC

 

The Southern Division of the North America Region includes ten programs (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia) and several whole system programs: Appalachians, Gulf of Mexico, Longleaf Pine Whole System, Ocean and Coasts Network, Mississippi River Basin. The Southern Division has a combined annual budget of approximately $93 million, 392 staff and annual fundraising of $47M. The Division Director facilitates cross-boundary approaches to significant conservation outcomes that have a tangible, lasting impact on the environment and the people that rely on it. Together, the Division develops and advances innovative solutions that address the systemic root causes of the challenges facing nature and people.

Job Responsibilities

RESPONSIBILITIES AND ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

 

The Division Director (“Director”) is the senior conservation leader and manager for the Conservancy’s Southern Division of the North America Region. They lead the Division (made up of state Business Units, or “Chapters”) to advance The Nature Conservancy’s highest priorities through the Shared Conservation Agenda, develop and ensure execution of project plans, raise funds, collaborate, and engage volunteer trustees in cross border conservation, and develop emerging leaders. They add value by building and leading highly effective, nimble, teams that deliver tangible results at significant scale.

The Director exercises collaborative leadership to engage and execute across geographic (e.g., other Divisions, North America Region, Global) and programmatic boundaries and cultivates mutually beneficial agreements and relationships. They foster alignment, teamwork, collaboration, innovation, cooperation, team spirit, and synergy amongst the divisional leadership team. They invite and engage the differences each person has and leverage them for greater outcomes. They promote inclusion, a diverse workforce, diversity of thought, and shared ownership and commitment to the organization’s highest priorities.

The Division Director holds the authority and is ultimately responsible for the financial performance and effective administration of the programs and projects within the Division. The Director actively manages the performance of Business Unit (BU) Leaders and holds them accountable for excellence in people and fiscal management, conservation and fundraising goals, compliance, and risk management. The Director works with BU Leaders to allocate financial and human resources across the organization by approving budgets and advancing organizational priorities which dictate private and public fundraising goals. They work closely with Chapter trustee/advisory boards to advance The Nature Conservancy’s strategies.

As one of the leading conservation spokespeople for the Conservancy, they fundraise with public and private donors and ensure that sufficient resources are available to achieve the Conservancy’s organizational goals. They represent the Conservancy internally and externally to an array of communities, partners, policy makers and other audiences, advocating for and raising the visibility of The Nature Conservancy. The Division Director reports to the North America Region Managing Director and is a member of the North America Council (NAC). As such, the Director plays a significant role in the strategic direction of the North America Region.

Success in the position will be demonstrated by:

• Staff across the Division has a shared ownership of TNC’s Shared Conservation Agenda, and is effectively collaborating to deliver maximum conservation impact and in achieving TNC’s 2030 Goals
• Continually increasing commitment of both division and regional resources (people and funding) to TNC’s priority conservation strategies and outcomes
• Engaged and diverse workforce in division and region (measured by Our TNC survey engagement scores and diversity statistics)
• Increasing funding for strategies that advance TNC’s Global priority conservation outcomes

Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

 

• Graduate degree in business, law, natural resource management or other relevant field and 10 years senior level experience in natural resource conservation, or equivalent experience.
• Experience in leading and managing a large multi-disciplinary team, including managing senior level leaders.
• Experience in evaluating and/or negotiating complex, high profile or sensitive contracts and agreements.
• Experience working with a variety of political, business, not for profit, and environmental sectors and with varied local communities in the North America Region.
• Experience communicating with and presenting to diverse audiences including donors, board members, employees, outside partners, members of government or equivalent.
• Experience in fundraising, including cultivation of major donors.
• Fluency in English; written and oral communication skills experience.

Additional Information

Benefits

How to Apply

HOW TO APPLY

Visit www.nature.org/careers and apply online with cover letter & resume to job #52286. All resumes and required cover letters must be submitted through The Nature Conservancy’s online application system. If you experience technical problems with the site or application process, please contact applyhelp@tnc.org and include the job opening ID

Details

• Date Posted: October 17, 2022
• Type: Full-Time
• Job Function: Programs and Service Delivery
• Service Area: Environment
• Start Date: 12/01/2022