Jobs at The Nature Conservancy

Provides HR services across employee relations, compensation, talent management, benefits, payroll, training, organizational development, and recruiting. Maintains HR systems, programs, procedures, and plans; supports employees and managers with HR questions; coordinates projects; and produces reports using database and spreadsheet tools. The role requires strong organization, communication, collaboration, HR knowledge, and proficiency with Microsoft Office.

Leads The Nature Conservancy’s Hawaii marine conservation program across the main Hawaiian Islands. Sets conservation priorities, directs multidisciplinary teams, manages partnerships, develops and implements science-based conservation strategies, influences policy, oversees program finances, and supports fundraising. Builds relationships with government agencies, Indigenous communities, nonprofits, academia, and foundations while advancing marine and coastal ecosystem protection, restoration, biodiversity, and climate resilience. The role involves strategic decision-making, supervision of 10+ staff, frequent travel, and work in remote or hazardous environments.

Executes and analyzes financial and accounting processes, including reconciliations, budget controls, forecasts, and financial reporting. Supports budgeting for projects or business units, audits, compliance reviews, and management decision-making. Builds and maintains Power BI dashboards, databases, and budget-planning tools. Provides technical guidance to finance analysts and ensures accuracy, confidentiality, compliance, and timely delivery of financial information.

The Finance Specialist supports budgeting, forecasting, fund allocation, accounting, financial reporting, donor reporting, reconciliations, journal entries, and financial data maintenance for global conservation programs. The role prepares analyses and reports, identifies coding or variance issues, supports audits and close processes, maintains grant and award records, and advises program teams on financial policies, donor restrictions, and reporting requirements.

Drives AWS FinOps through cost analysis, forecasting, budgeting, allocation, optimization, and governance. Builds reporting dashboards and automated controls for anomaly detection, budget alerts, rightsizing, scheduling, and policy checks. Partners with engineering, DevOps, finance, procurement, and business stakeholders to improve cloud efficiency and accountability. Evaluates AWS commitment discounts, supports architecture reviews, manages optimization backlogs, and connects cloud consumption to business outcomes.

Manages the full contract lifecycle for assigned business units, including intake, due diligence, drafting, legal coordination, approvals, signatures, amendments, compliance monitoring, implementation, and closeout. Partners with Legal, Finance, Grants, Operations, and project teams to provide contract guidance, manage risks, maintain documentation, and improve contracting processes and systems across a geographically dispersed organization.

Leads financial strategy, planning, forecasting, reporting, analysis, budgeting, internal controls, compliance, and stewardship for a multi-state nonprofit division. Advises senior leaders and boards, supports fundraising and grant finance, manages contracts and transactions, supervises finance staff, and partners across functions to improve financial sustainability and operational consistency. This remote role requires residence within the Great Plains Division, travel up to 20%, and attendance at key in-person meetings.

Supports the Global Project Finance for Permanence portfolio through planning, governance, reporting, communications, systems improvement, coordination, and resource tracking. The role prepares dashboards, briefings, reports, and decision materials; facilitates cross-functional alignment and leadership follow-up; maintains portfolio tools and processes; and supports selected projects and strategic initiatives. Requires strong organization, analysis, communication, and collaboration across multicultural teams. Travel may be required domestically and internationally up to 25%.

Manages conservation data systems, GIS resources, databases, and relational datasets; performs spatial analysis, develops queries, produces reports and maps, and supports conservation planning. Coordinates concurrent projects, deadlines, budgets, vendors, compliance, and workflow improvements. Provides data integrity oversight, decision-support information, and practitioner training while collaborating with conservation partners. The part-time hybrid role requires occasional travel across Indiana and a valid driver’s license.

Leads the Corporate Engagement advisory team, overseeing staff development, corporate relationships, portfolio management, budgets, capacity planning, risks, and complex client engagements. Translates organizational strategy into executable priorities and operating practices, advises senior corporate partners, coordinates cross-functional work, and ensures compliance with organizational, legal, financial, and risk-management standards. The role manages a global, multidisciplinary team and represents the organization in senior internal and external forums.

The Associate Director will help build and lead a global agriculture finance initiative focused on sustainable, deforestation-free food systems. Responsibilities include developing strategic initiatives, leading complex projects, negotiating agreements, coordinating with global teams and external partners, and engaging financial institutions, investors, and agribusiness stakeholders. The role requires sophisticated financial, economic, analytical, communication, and project management expertise, with emphasis on scaling innovative finance solutions for conservation and climate goals.

Provides strategic financial leadership across The Nature Conservancy’s Oceania region, overseeing financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, compliance, risk management, governance, and long-term financial strategy. Advises senior leaders and Boards, leads geographically dispersed finance teams, strengthens financial practices across multiple jurisdictions, and ensures compliance with organizational, donor, and statutory requirements.

Leads Asia Pacific freshwater conservation strategy, supporting country programs, scientific capacity, nature-based solutions, policy, partnerships, fundraising, and portfolio management. Builds relationships with communities, governments, corporations, donors, and internal teams; strengthens theories of change, monitoring and evaluation, and conservation outcomes. Represents TNC in freshwater forums and may manage budgets and matrixed teams. Requires frequent international travel and work in remote or hazardous environments.

Leads The Nature Conservancy’s Mexico conservation program, shaping strategies and implementation for priority ecosystems and initiatives. Oversees multidisciplinary teams, partnerships, budgets, monitoring, fundraising proposals, and conservation outcomes. Builds relationships with government, private-sector, nonprofit, community, and donor stakeholders while advancing science-based, systems-change approaches across Mexico and shared regional programs.

Leads fisheries transparency initiatives across Europe and Africa by designing, implementing, and scaling electronic monitoring programs. Builds partnerships with governments, industry, technology providers, and civil society; provides technical guidance on policy, governance, financing, and implementation; manages complex projects, grants, and collaborations; develops stakeholder capacity; negotiates solutions; and represents the organization in policy and international forums.

Leads fisheries transparency initiatives across the Americas by designing, implementing, and scaling electronic monitoring programs. Builds partnerships with governments, industry, technology providers, regional fisheries organizations, and civil society. Provides technical, policy, governance, financing, and implementation guidance; manages complex collaborations, projects, grants, and teams; negotiates solutions; supports fisheries data integration; and represents the organization in national and international forums.

Leads corporate engagement and fundraising for The Nature Conservancy in California. Develops partnership strategies, manages corporate donors and executives, secures major gifts, oversees cause-marketing collaborations, negotiates agreements, coordinates cross-functional projects, tracks prospects, and achieves annual fundraising goals of at least $2 million.

Supports the Policy Team through executive assistance, project coordination, meeting and special-event management, expense reporting, data and information management, reporting, contracts and budget support, communications, and administrative process improvement. The role coordinates stakeholders, tracks action items, manages schedules and logistics, ensures policy compliance, conducts research and analysis, and supports workflow improvements across teams.

Leads a five-year, $4 million forest recovery and restoration program in South Carolina in partnership with the U.S. Forest Service. Manages a team, contractors, budgets, grants, compliance, reporting, project sequencing, prescribed fire, silvicultural treatments, monitoring, and adaptive management. Coordinates the Southern Blue Ridge Fire Learning Network and builds relationships with government, nonprofit, Tribal, academic, and private-sector partners. The role requires outdoor fieldwork, travel, prescribed-fire qualifications, and leadership across complex conservation initiatives.

Provides administrative, logistical, facilities, purchasing, fleet, records, safety, mail, vendor, and general office support for TNC Maine. Coordinates with staff, landlords, vendors, volunteers, donors, and service providers; maintains operational records and databases; processes checks; supports compliance and emergency procedures; responds to routine inquiries; and assists with financial administration, purchasing, contracting, and budget tracking.