Program Director, Portfolio Management

at  The Nature Conservancy

OFFICE LOCATION

Arlington, Virginia, USA
This is a virtual position that is flexible within the Americas where TNC has an established entity. This position is not eligible for relocation, visa or immigration assistance.

WHO WE ARE

The mission of The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is to conserve the lands and waters upon which all life depends. As a science-based organization, we develop innovative, on-the-ground solutions to the world’s toughest environmental challenges so that people and nature can thrive. Our work is guided by our values, which include a commitment to diversity and respect for people, communities, and cultures. From a rewarding mission to career development and flexible schedules, there are many reasons to love life #insideTNC. Want to know more? Check out our TNC Talent playlist on YouTube to hear stories from staff or visit Glassdoor.
One of TNC’s primary goals is to cultivate an inclusive work environment so that employees around the globe have a sense of belonging and feel that their unique contributions are valued. We know we’ll only achieve our mission by hiring and engaging a diverse staff that reflects the communities in which we work. Recognizing that people bring talent and skills that have been developed outside the scope of a job, we take a holistic approach to recruitment that considers life experience in addition to the professional requirements listed in our postings. Please apply – we’d love to hear from you.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience working in a flat team structure and successfully collaborating with peers.
• Self-starter with ability to generate work plans with limited support in line with the overall Conservation Impact System outcomes, goals, strategies, and plans.
• Experience in utilizing a data-driven decision-making process for resource allocation including distribution of budget resources, philanthropic funding or private sector investments.
• Experience in tracking performance of a portfolio of investments/grants/projects.
• Experience developing business plans or major strategy assessments, particularly with conservation forms of valuation, deal structuring, negotiations support, financial modeling and analysis, business planning.
• Ability to diagnose complex problems and identify solutions.
• Ability to connect systems and processes that support financial and impact tracking.
• Excellent communication skills, written, spoken and graphical.
• Knowledge of politics and society with respect to environmental and international affairs and politically savvy.
• Willingness to learn and develop expertise in new conservation strategies, economic drivers, management tools, and global affairs.
• Multi-lingual and multi-cultural or cross-cultural experience appreciated.

THE SUCCESSFUL APPLICANT MUST MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE NATURE CONSERVANCY’S BACKGROUND SCREENING PROCESS.

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An attractive salary and benefits package is part of TNC’s value proposition to our employees. TNC strives to provide competitive pay and bases salaries on the geographic location of the role committing to being equitable across groups and providing hiring salary ranges when possible.
Since we support flexible and remote work for our employees, many positions have a flexible location within countries where we’re registered as a Non-government Organization and established as an employer. This may mean we’re unable to provide a hiring salary range in the posting for some of our positions. However, candidates invited to be part of our interview process will be provided their location specific range upon request

• Guide and facilitate the portfolio review process for TNC, setting minimum standards for business units across the organization and coordinating the CCO and Executive Team’s engagement in those reviews.
• Organize, synthesize, and present Portfolio Management process, results and learnings and risks to TNC executive leadership as they pertain to Portfolio Management.
• Develop and rollout frameworks that assist leadership and conservation teams with evaluating progress (Strategy Reviews), conservation prioritization decisions, (Portfolio Reviews), and resource allocation decisions (Budget Reviews and Fundraising Focus).
• Be the primary partner to Development and Finance to ensure that the outputs of Portfolio Management are impacting the organization’s resourcing (budgeting and fundraising).
• Develop and rollout communications strategies that build understanding and inspiration of the role that Portfolio Management can play in helping us achieve our 2030 goals.
• Facilitate resource allocation decisions with the CCO, and partner with the Chief Finance Office on resource allocation processes using conservation information at an ET level.
• Develop and disseminate tools and frameworks for Portfolio Management at TNC, including through identifying and reporting best practices internally and in other external impact-oriented organizations. Convene relevant internal parties to share best practices and learnings.
• Capture TNC’s Portfolio Management process and share our tools and resources with external organization’s attempting to follow a similar path.
• Employ change management best practices to ensure Portfolio Management is driving the organizational change the CCO envisions in a durable and lasting way that impacts our processes, systems and culture.
• Lead business requirements for internal information technology systems that support measuring performance of units and strategies.
• Support and at times, lead collaborative efforts with other teams within the CIS to help provide a holistic system of support for conservation managers and teams.
• Track learning and feedback as the function continues to test frameworks/approaches.
• Analyze data, synthesis insights and suggest action items for leadership and management.
• Requires willingness and ability to travel up to 10% both domestically and internationally, and to work occasional weekends and evenings.