The Officer, Latin America is responsible for leading a portfolio of engagements in the Latin America and Caribbean region to establish and improve the management effectiveness of large-scale ocean conservation areas for the Blue Nature Alliance, a collaboration between The Pew Charitable Trusts and Conservation International. This role involves representing the Alliance with government officials and partners, managing a direct report, and ensuring successful implementation of conservation strategies across more than ten countries.
What You'll Do
- Lead regional portfolio of sites in securing conservation objectives
- Develop, nurture, and maintain strong relationships with key government staff, community, policymakers, and civil society leadership in countries in Latin America and the Caribbean in support of shared conservation objectives
- Oversee the management of grantees in delivery of targets, including regular check-in meetings, to support partners in the implementation of strategies
- Liaise internally within the Blue Nature Alliance team and across relevant technical partners to bring in needed expertise in the delivery of ocean conservation targets, including political/campaign strategy, capacity and learning, strategic communications, conservation finance, monitoring control and surveillance, or other areas
- Provide technical support as needed to advance site-based objectives and support local capacity building
- Advise on the political strategy for partner-led initiatives, identify key events or opportunities to advance targets, and attend relevant meetings with partners and government officials in-country
- Oversee the monitoring and tracking of progress towards targets, and liaise with relevant staff to ensure shared expectations, and identify and address any crucial gaps in program delivery to keep projects on track
- On occasion, there may be ad-hoc opportunities for scoping new projects for area-based ocean conservation at scale: Creation of new marine protected areas; catalytic investments in existing marine protected areas to improve effectiveness, design, and trialing of innovative models for area-based ocean conservation
- Foster a work environment that inspires excellence, values impact, encourages transparency, builds mutual trust and respect, embraces and values diversity, and is collaborative, caring and compassionate
- Manage one Principal Associate staff member to assist in the delivery of site targets, grants management, and reporting
- Facilitate grant agreement development and finalization with grantees and Alliance Grants Manager
- Review grantee reports and make adjustment recommendations to implementing partners and Blue Nature Alliance delivery team as needed
- Participate in activities that support program and Pew-wide objectives
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- Generally, eight years of applicable experience
- Expertise in the design and conduct of successful conservation campaigns, marine conservation, and environmental policy
- Demonstrated project management experience and capacity to work effectively in diverse cultural contexts
- Strong political, strategic, and analytical skills with proven experience developing, executing, and evaluating a range of diverse strategies to achieve goals
- Strong oral and written communications skills
- Demonstrable experience managing projects in dispersed geographies and developing and managing productive relationships with consultants, partners and others who contribute to the development of a project by anticipating possible outcomes
- Fluency in English and Spanish
Nice to Have
- Exceptional interpersonal skills, with seasoned judgment and analytical capacity, and must demonstrate a strong collaborative spirit and an aptitude to justify recommendations
- Experience and track record of cultivating conservation action in Latin America
- Well-versed in the diplomacy skills required to enter into dialogue and negotiation with government representatives, policymakers, and other stakeholders
- Expertise relating to Indigenous perspectives, transforming governance, ocean science and research, and/or communications
- Fluency in Portuguese or other relevant language
Team & Environment
The Officer will work as part of a global team, a collaborative, dynamic global team comprised of staff from The Pew Charitable Trusts and Conservation International, and will report to the Director of the Blue Nature Alliance. The team culture inspires excellence, values impact, encourages transparency, builds mutual trust and respect, embraces and values diversity, and is collaborative, caring and compassionate.
Benefits & Compensation
- Competitive salary and benefit program
- Hybrid works program with core days in the office and flexibility to telework the remaining days
- Four telework 'flex weeks' per year
- Equal opportunity employment without regard to race, ethnicity, gender, or any other protected characteristics
Compensation: $110,800 USD - $123,800 USD or 45,050,000 CLP - 50,350,000 CLP annually
Work Mode
This is a hybrid role based in Washington, DC or Santiago, Chile, with core days in the office and flexibility to telework the remaining days. Includes four telework 'flex weeks' per year.
Pew is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, ethnicity, gender, or any other protected characteristics.
