Director of Conservation
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About The Position
The Director of Conservation oversees all aspects of conservation, protection, science, and stewardship for The Nature Conservancy in Kansas and plays an active leadership role in co-managing the conservation priorities that maximize the Great Plains Division's collective contributions to realizing the Conservancy's ambitious 2030 goals. This position provides the unique opportunity to have a significant conservation impact in Kansas, across the Great Plains Division (Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa), and beyond. With a focus on leading with conservation to accelerate impact, this role will collaborate with others across the Great Plains Division and U.S. region to build partnerships and provide leadership and support for TNC's strategic conservation planning work; establish and oversee the implementation of conservation priorities; and be responsible for measuring and reporting progress towards 2030 Goals. The Director of Conservation serves as the principal contact to government agencies, other conservation organizations, foundations, and the academic community. They will play a leading role in donor identification, cultivation, and stewardship for the programs they support. The Director of Conservation disseminates best practices, provides training and analyses to implement organizational measures of success, develops key partnerships with public & private organizations to identify and resolve technical issues, and widely communicates solutions, innovative scientific methods, analysis, tools, and frameworks to address the natural system needs. They establish the Conservancy as a major conservation partner within their area of responsibility, define conservation priorities, lead and manage teams that support and improve conservation efforts, and build strategic, scientific, and technical capacity in the field. They engage local community support for conservation efforts, negotiate complex and innovative solutions with government agencies and landowners to conserve and protect natural communities, and develop and implement conservation strategies. This role may work in variable weather conditions, at remote locations, on difficult and hazardous terrain, and under physically demanding circumstances. Frequent travel and evening and weekend hours are possible.
