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About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience in a relevant field.
• 10+ years of progressive senior leadership experience leading complex portfolios, mission-driven programs, organizational initiatives, or impact-focused teams.
• Demonstrated ability to translate strategy into measurable outcomes through planning, execution, performance management, and learning systems.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams, developing leaders, managing change, and building strong team culture.
• Experience developing or overseeing strategic plans, impact frameworks, performance measurement systems, portfolio management approaches, or related systems of accountability.
• Experience working with senior leaders, boards, funders, external partners, and cross-functional teams.
• Deep familiarity with biomimicry, nature-inspired innovation, sustainability, climate, biodiversity, regenerative design, systems change, or related fields, with the ability to learn and represent TBI’s biomimicry framework with credibility.
• Strategic and systems thinking, with the ability to connect long-term vision to practical execution.
• Strong people leadership, coaching, management, and talent-development skills.
• Ability to lead through ambiguity, prioritize competing demands, and make sound organizational decisions.
• Ability to build alignment, trust, and accountability across diverse teams and stakeholders.
• Strong facilitation and communication skills, including the ability to translate complex ideas for different audiences.
• Strong portfolio-management skills, including planning, prioritization, capacity management, budgeting, and cross-functional coordination.
• Ability to use data, evidence, feedback, and learning loops to improve strategy and execution.
• High emotional intelligence, sound judgment, and commitment to inclusive and collaborative leadership.
• Facility with remote collaboration tools, including Google Workspace, Asana or similar project-management platforms, data/reporting tools, AI-enabled tools, and CRM or related collaboration systems.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree, certification, graduate study, teaching experience, or professional practice in biomimicry, biology, design, sustainability, environmental science, systems change, organizational leadership, or a related field.
• Recognized expertise in biomimicry, nature-inspired innovation, regenerative design, sustainability, or systems change.
• Experience in nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, field-building, environmental innovation, accelerators, or social-impact organizations.
• Experience managing grant-funded programs and translating funder commitments into workplans, budgets, deliverables, and reports.
• Experience building or scaling programs, communities of practice, learning platforms, innovation portfolios, or field-building initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Translate TBI’s organizational strategy into a focused Impact portfolio with clear priorities, measurable outcomes, and adaptive learning practices.
• Operationalize TBI’s 10-year strategy into staged plans, annual priorities, and measurable impact goals.
• Lead the development and refinement of the Impact portfolio across Inspiration, Community, and Innovation.
• Establish clear goals, outcomes, indicators, and learning loops for Impact Team work.
• Steward TBI’s impact strategy, measurement approach, and annual impact reporting in collaboration with the CEO, COO, Development, and Finance.
• Prioritize programs, projects, and opportunities based on strategy, capacity, funding commitments, and potential for impact.
• Apply biomimicry and systems-change thinking to portfolio design, organizational strategy, partnerships, and decision-making.
• Lead regular portfolio reviews using performance data, field trends, partner feedback, funder commitments, and organizational learning.
• Lead and strengthen the Impact Team so that commitments are clearly scoped, well-managed, and delivered with excellence.
• Directly manage, coach, and develop Impact Team Directors and other direct reports.
• Build clear team structures, role clarity, decision-making practices, and operating rhythms across the Impact portfolio.
• Partner with the CEO, COO, and Leadership Team on organizational design, staffing plans, hiring, performance management, and staff development.
• Oversee Impact Team budgets, staffing, capacity, and resource allocation in partnership with Finance and Operations.
• Ensure funded work is effectively scoped, coordinated, monitored, and delivered in partnership with Development, Finance, and Operations.
• Provide executive-level reporting to the CEO and Leadership Team on portfolio performance, grants, budgets, capacity, risks, and strategic priorities.
• Strengthen cross-functional coordination between Impact, Development, Communications, Finance, Operations, and external partners.
• Foster a team culture of accountability, collaboration, communication, learning, inclusion, and excellence in biomimicry practice.
• Serve as an active member of TBI’s Leadership Team, contributing to organizational strategy, prioritization, risk management, decision-making, and cross-functional alignment.
• Represent TBI with funders, strategic partners, corporate collaborators, conferences, peer organizations, and field-building networks.
• Partner with the CEO and Head of Development and Communications to cultivate relationships and identify partnership opportunities that advance TBI’s mission and sustainability.
• Support funder and partner engagement by translating Impact Team work into clear strategies, outcomes, narratives, and opportunities.
• Provide biomimicry-informed thought leadership for high-leverage opportunities across climate, biodiversity, materials, and regenerative systems.
• Help build TBI’s visibility, credibility, and influence as a trusted leader in biomimicry and nature-inspired innovation.