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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.

Supports regional operations across Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico by coordinating administrative, HR, finance, legal, and IT processes. Manages projects, compliance, confidential information, budgets, forecasts, timesheets, onboarding, and delegations of authority. Builds stakeholder relationships, improves operational processes, supports change initiatives, and may supervise administrative staff through coaching and performance management.