Brazil Country Program Director

**OFFICE LOCATION**:
São Paulo, Brazil
LA113
**WHO WE ARE**:
Since 1951, The Nature Conservancy has been doing work you can believe in protecting the lands and waters that all life depends on. Through grassroots action, TNC has grown to become one of the most effective and wide-reaching environmental organizations in the world working in more than 75 countries and territories. As a science-based organization, we create innovative, on-the-ground solutions to our world’s toughest challenges so that we can create a world in which people and nature thrive.
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**YOUR POSITION WITH TNC**:
The Brazil Country Program Director, an entrepreneurial leader, oversees all aspects of the country program. Provides strategic leadership and support for the Conservancy’s conservation planning work, establishes conservation priorities for the country, set conservation priorities to optimize its contribution to TNC´s conservation agenda, builds relationships with local and international stakeholders, actively manages risks and safety, contributes to the definition and execution of revenue strategies and communication strategy, and provides leadership to country staff. Acts as the legal representative, and spokesperson and leads local institutional and governmental relations.
**ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS**:
The Brazil Country Program Director is a dynamic, high-level strategic thinker and an effective manager/leader able to inspire and lead a multi-disciplinary team to develop and implement ambitious place-based conservation strategies that deliver across environmental, social and economic dimensions. They establish the Conservancy as a major conservation partner and serve as the main contact to government agencies, other conservation organizations, foundations, private companies and the academic community. They engage across a range of key stakeholders, from local communities to government agencies to corporations to accelerate impact and achieve scale by unlocking pathways for conservation efforts and more sustainable production practices including through resolution of technical issues, advancement of key policies and mobilization of resources. They play a leading role in donor identification, cultivation and stewardship for the program. They promote best practices, and advance solutions, innovative scientific methods, analysis, tools and frameworks to drive the changed needed at systems level. They are responsible for ensuring effective and efficient operations in the country, professional development of the staff, and advancing TNC’s Living our Values program, including the Gender, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (GDEI) program.
The Director will oversee a team of approximately 150 people to implement the conservation agenda in Brazil.
They should have proven experience in fundraising from public and private sources. They should be comfortable working at the CEO and Ministerial level, preferably bringing previous experience working with a board. The Director collaborates with other TNC units across TNC to access and leverage the human and financial resources to deliver conservation results. The Director works closely with other peers across the region, maximizing synergies and opportunities for collaboration.
They should be an individual with high ethical standards, high emotional intelligence, excellent reputation in the conservation, academic and/or business sector, and a track record of getting things done. The Director raises program funds both in the United States and with in-country public and private funders, and participates in conservation, operations, finance and marketing. They are accountable for the Conservation Program’s success and for maintaining strict adherence to organizational values.
This position reports to the Regional Director to Accelerate Impact (DAI).
**RESPONSIBILITIES AND SCOPE**:
- Set the Conservation Program agenda/objectives by aligning it to the organization’s global priorities in conjunction with LAR Executive Team.
- Collaborate with Regional and Global Team leads to ensure Country programmatic alignment.
- Supervise the work of the Conservation Director and manage finance, external affairs, legal, marketing, IT and development teams (in collaboration with matrixed regional functional team leadership).
- Build and manage the Advisory Board of Trustees in Country, made up of prominent local leaders.
- Manage Country budget and finance sustainability, ensuring the aligning and compliance with finance procedures and regulations, working closely with Finance and Operation Director.
- Lead fund-raising for the programs an

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