Tfa Regional Director for Latin America

**OFFICE LOCATION**:
São Paulo, Brazil

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**A LITTLE ABOUT US**:
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TFA is composed of a global secretariat hosted by the World Economic Forum, and three regional coordination hubs, one of which is TFA Latin America, hosted by The Nature Conservancy in Brazil, at the São Paulo office.

**YOUR POSITION WITH TNC**:
The TFA Regional Director for Latin America leads the program, team, and initiatives of TFA in the region as a core element of the global TFA strategy,** by supporting private sector actors to remove deforestation from commodity supply chains through public-private collective action at the landscape, national, and regional levels**. The position will be placed in Brazil, and will steer TFA in Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Argentina, and Paraguay

**ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS**:
TFA Regional Director for Latin America will play a role as a convener and catalyst (not a direct implementer), supporting and coordinating collective actions through other organizations and initiatives that focus on implementation. They will lead the region to catalyze the power of collective action to drive the world's transition to deforestation-free supply chains, ensuring a forest-positive future. They will work on the four pillars of the TFA strategy:

- **Pillar 1: Mobilize Collective Action** - support leaders and pressure laggards through high-quality convening to better coordinate collective efforts, strengthen strategic communication and advance targeted research (and evidence) to reinforce the case for action
- **Pillar 2: Strengthen the Enabling Environment** - work with businesses, governments, civil society, and others to strengthen incentives for leadership, specifically:

- Strengthen policies and regulation in both forest countries and key markets
- Enhance transparency and accountability to better track progress
- **Pillar 3: Catalyze Private-Sector Leadership** - mobilize and support high ambition companies, coalitions, and public-private partnerships from across supply-chain and financial sector to accelerate progress
- **Pillar 4: Unlock Finance** - work with the Finance community to unlock finance for sustainable production and redirect finance flowing to forest destructive activities

The TFA Regional Director for Latin America works with national and/or international government and business entities at all levels to further the TFA’ mission. They monitor internationally negotiated agreements, legislative, administrative, and/or corporate initiatives and policies, keep regular contact with local, sub-national, country, and multilateral officials, institutions and/or corporate representatives regarding actions related to the deforestation-free supply chain agenda, and fundraising activity to increase the level of financial support for its projects and priorities.

They liaison with TFA Secretariat at the World Economic Forum in Geneva to ensure coordination between the regional and global activities with counterparts within TFA and other organizations to provide and extract useful lessons and experience and to coordinate on joint policy/practice approaches.

**RESPONSIBILITIES AND SCOPE**:

- **Regional strategy -** lead the implementation of TFA’s regional strategy that builds on the strategies for each country/biome and aligns to the global strategic framework. Support the development or update of the regional strategy when needed. Makes independent strategic decisions frequently based on analysis, context, experience, and ambiguous information.
- **Regional coordination** -. Manage multi-disciplinary administrative and professional staff with responsibility for performance management, training, and career development, according to the host organization processes, when applicable. Establishes clear directions and sets stretch objectives. Ensure that the program me