Jobs at The Nature Conservancy

Develops and executes major and principal gift fundraising strategies for The Nature Conservancy’s Latin America programs, especially Brazil. Builds donor relationships, supports relationship managers, coordinates donor meetings and events, prepares proposals, manages internal gift reviews, tracks donor activity, and evaluates fundraising results. The role manages a portfolio of relationship managers, collaborates across global and regional teams, ensures compliance, and frequently travels domestically and internationally.

Leads The Nature Conservancy’s New Jersey land conservation, stewardship, accessibility, policy, and connectivity programs. Develops strategic plans, partnerships, budgets, fundraising, and conservation initiatives with communities, Indigenous Peoples, government agencies, nonprofits, donors, and regional teams. Directs multidisciplinary staff, manages projects and performance, negotiates agreements, and communicates results. Frequent short-notice and weekend travel is required.

Leads multi-year fundraising strategies for Southern California, cultivating and soliciting major, planned, corporate, foundation, and individual gifts. Builds donor relationships, closes gifts of $100,000 or more, develops proposals and budgets, advises donors on complex giving vehicles, manages prospects and referrals, and supports chapter leaders, volunteers, and trustees. Requires frequent short-notice travel and occasional long or weekend hours.

Supports fundraising operations through donor and prospect data management, CRM maintenance, reporting, portfolio tracking, complex calendaring, process coordination, and workflow improvement. Produces fundraising metrics and data-driven insights, maintains data integrity, prepares strategy materials, troubleshoots system questions, and coordinates stakeholders across teams. Provides administrative and special project support to improve team effectiveness and donor engagement.

Directs stewardship activities across southern Ohio preserves, manages ecological projects, spatial data, budgets, vendors, agreements, compliance, and visitor experience. Supervises and develops staff, builds partnerships with government, nonprofit, tribal, and community stakeholders, supports fundraising, and communicates conservation priorities publicly. Performs or oversees biological monitoring, invasive species control, and fire management in remote and physically demanding conditions.

Manages watershed-scale nature-based solution projects across Europe, coordinating partners, TNC teams, timelines, budgets, performance tracking, grant reporting, and project delivery. Supports programme strategy and develops materials for donors, businesses, and policymakers. Requires collaboration across conservation, policy, science, and partner networks, along with expertise in water and land management, watershed ecology, conservation, and environmental economics.

Manages New Mexico business unit operations across facilities, office administration, fleet, safety, onboarding, events, and organizational support. Coordinates vendors, facilities maintenance, inventory, vehicles, events, travel, communications, and information systems. Oversees projects, improves business processes, analyzes reports, ensures policy and regulatory compliance, supports leadership and trustees, and coordinates with cross-functional teams. Requires regular Santa Fe office presence, travel as needed, and a valid driver’s license.

Develops and manages multi-year fundraising strategies for corporate, foundation, institutional, and individual donors. Builds donor relationships, cultivates prospects, and closes six- and seven-figure major and planned gifts. Advises on charitable giving, assets, blended gifts, and conservation priorities. Coordinates philanthropy teams, oversees program-related activities, tracks performance indicators, improves processes, and supports North American policy, government relations, climate mitigation, and trustee advocacy initiatives.

Coordinate and lead conservation planning and implementation for the Eternal Mongolia PFP, including strategic planning, M&E, reporting, partner coordination, capacity building, and field logistics. Monitor project milestones, support budgeting and grant access, and ensure high technical standards across project outputs.

Provides high-level administrative support to executive leadership and the Board of Trustees, managing calendars, travel, communications, meetings, events, expenses, records, and board processes. Leads administrative staff, coordinates strategic initiatives, tracks organizational priorities, manages vendors and budgets, maintains confidentiality, and supports trustee engagement, onboarding, governance, and follow-up. The role is hybrid in Seattle and requires periodic overnight travel throughout Washington State.

Leads Florida’s individual giving program, including major and planned giving strategies, donor cultivation, solicitation, stewardship, portfolio management, and fundraising metrics. Supervises and develops three or more fundraising staff, manages budgets and strategic initiatives, strengthens donor pipelines, oversees donor systems and tools, and collaborates with organizational leaders, advisors, volunteers, and cross-functional teams. Frequent short-notice travel, long hours, and weekend work are required.

Leads global talent acquisition strategy and a small recruiting team while managing mid-level requisitions. Develops talent pipelines, advises senior leaders, partners with global recruiting stakeholders, and improves candidate and hiring-manager experiences. Oversees large recruiting projects and helps stabilize and optimize the Applicant Tracking System and Candidate Relationship Management system. Requires strong leadership, global collaboration, recruiting analytics, process improvement, and flexibility across time zones.

Leads full-cycle recruitment across the Asia Pacific region, including sourcing, pipeline development, candidate screening, interviews, applicant tracking, hiring-manager consultation, and onboarding coordination. Recruits mid-level talent, partners with executive recruiters on senior roles, manages recruitment data and confidential documents, develops recruiting strategies, and supports global, cross-cultural stakeholders. Builds strong candidate and hiring-manager experiences while ensuring regional talent goals and recruiting best practices are achieved.

The Senior Recruiter manages full-cycle recruitment for the Midwest Division, including sourcing, pipeline development, candidate screening, interviews, applicant tracking, hiring-manager guidance, and onboarding transitions. The role recruits for mid-level and leadership positions, partners with executive recruiters, maintains recruitment databases, develops proactive talent strategies, prepares reports, and ensures positive candidate and hiring-manager experiences while following organizational talent goals and best practices.

Supports global fundraising operations through portfolio tracking, meeting and event coordination, donor database updates, reporting, research, gift acknowledgements, file maintenance, and administrative assistance. The role manages donor and fundraiser information, tracks prospects and fundraising plans, supports decision-making with analysis, and coordinates with staff, donors, legal professionals, and financial professionals. This hybrid position requires organization, clear communication, writing, proofreading, problem-solving, and the ability to manage multiple priorities.

Leads full-cycle recruiting for the Southern Division, including talent sourcing, pipeline development, candidate screening, interviews, applicant tracking, hiring-manager guidance, and onboarding coordination. Recruits mid-level and leadership candidates, partners with executive recruiters, manages recruitment databases and confidential records, produces reports, and develops efficient recruitment strategies and processes.

Leads integrated communications strategies for corporate sustainability, translating complex science and financial topics into compelling content for executives, investors, donors, and partners. Drives thought leadership, media visibility, speaking opportunities, digital channel strategy, and cross-functional collaboration. Manages initiatives, budgets, vendors, and potentially staff while positioning the organization as an authority on climate- and nature-positive business outcomes.

Manages a 12,000-acre nature preserve through conservation planning, habitat restoration, prescribed fire, invasive species management, facilities maintenance, public access, and recreation programs. Supervises land stewards, manages budgets and contractors, develops partnerships, supports fundraising and grants, ensures compliance, and leads community outreach. The role requires natural resource management expertise, fire crew service, physical fieldwork, a valid driver’s license, and collaboration with governmental, tribal, nonprofit, and community partners.

Leads international membership technology systems, CRM platforms, analytics, reporting, fundraising operations, data governance, and business processes across multiple countries. Oversees system architecture, vendor management, project implementation, process improvement, and data-driven decision-making. Directs a multidisciplinary hub-and-spoke team supporting membership growth, revenue optimization, donor engagement, gift processing, and operational efficiency across global programs.

Leads watershed investment advisory projects across Africa, determining scope, managing multidisciplinary teams, engaging stakeholders, developing financial models and economic appraisals, synthesizing technical and social research, assessing nature-based solutions, presenting findings, contributing to thought leadership, and mentoring project staff. The role requires approximately 15% domestic and international travel and is a two-year term-limited position.