Foodscape Project Director at Nature Conservancy

Specific Roles and Key Responsibilities:

• Develop a strategic and action-oriented work-plan to meet the goals of the CHEF program in consultation with key internal and external partners and lead its successful implementation.
• Supervise and coach CHEF staff and consultants and oversee/ensure integration of all the technical work.
• Serve as primary contact for the program, ensuring strong TNC internal coordination with other relevant programs and offices.
• Apply critical systems thinking to CHEF strategic functioning and obtain any required approvals at key decision points.
• Provide financial management oversight, analyze budgets, and provide updates to the BU on budget expenditures.
• Establish, lead the development of key partnerships, and manage required connections with key stakeholders.
• Lead the CHEF (partner) secretariat to define and implement common strategies, plans, and joint operational models.
• Support donor engagement and fundraising efforts and seek opportunities to collaborate with other relevant programs being implemented in the region.
• Responsible for timely delivery of required plans, monitoring of activities, and evaluation of the program performance.
• Responsible for risk management, issue resolution, conflict management and collaborative complex problems solving.
• Clearly, regularly, and timely communicates the progress of CHEF initiatives to internal and external stakeholders, including triannual program reporting and review.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING

• BA/BS degree in an agricultural or related field and minimum 7 years’ experience in agriculture, conservation practice or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience in critical systems thinking at the agriculture-conservation nexus.
• Experience writing and editing skills for scientific documents such as grant proposals, and technical reports.
• Experience with strategic partnership management skills for maximising the success of the complex agriculture-conservation program.
• Experience leading complex programs; building strong team spirit and supervision of multi-disciplinary teams.
• Experience with financial management of a large program.
• Experience with technical expertise in one or more the following technical areas: land health, water management, biodiversity, climate mitigation, and livelihoods and community development.
• Experience with ffundraising and/or donor relations, including identifying donor prospects and donor cultivation.
• Experience in living and working in remote field sites often with limited amenities.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Master’s degree in an agricultural or related field such as business management, rural development, and 10 years of experience in agriculture-conservation practice or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Strong experience in partnership management/development with major scientific organisations, non-profit partners, and proven track record in influencing and working productively with these stakeholders.
• Strong English language communications skills, including ability to communicating clearly via written, oral, and graphical forms, and ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences.
• Multi-lingual and multi-cultural or cross-cultural experience appreciated.
• Experience developing practical applications of scientific concepts and technical innovations for conservation purposes.
• Experience and knowledge of methods and approaches to conceiving and implementing strategic and transdisciplinary initiatives.
• Experience working in a matrix organisational setting.
• Developing practical applications of scientific concepts and technical innovations for conservation purposes.
• Communicating clearly via written, spoken, and graphical means in English and other relevant