Responsibilities
- Decisions may have program-wide impact, affect staff in non-program areas, and bind the organization financially or legally.
- Design and lead collaborative, complex, and diversified projects, coordinating the work of other professionals, managing a budget, and ensuring accountability.
- Direct or participate in negotiations for complex, high-profile or sensitive agreements.
- Field inquiries from prospective clients to understand and match their needs with the services offered.
- Ensure compliance with TNC policies and procedures and external requirements (donor/legal/IRS); be alert to ethical compliance issues.
- Define the scope of services for prospective clients, including project schedules, project team members and project deliverables.
- Facilitate strategic dialogues with senior-level stakeholders, articulating a development vision, synthesize and vet a plan of action, identify key issues, develop potential solutions, and implement plans to deliver targeted outcomes.
- Financial responsibility includes working within a budget and negotiating and contracting with vendors.
- Maintain confidentiality of frequently sensitive and emotionally charged information.
- Manage and implement strategic initiatives with broad impact by collaborating with key stakeholders to enhance overall performance in accordance with short and long-term objectives.
- Act independently, resolving complex issues within scope.
- Serve as project advisor, supporting project leads, coordinating work of project support staff, and troubleshooting issues as they arise, to ensure consulting projects are on schedule and that deliverables are met.
- Mobilize and coordinate resources needed beyond the consulting team, essential to meeting client deliverables, such as but not limited to data analysis, graphic design, and proofreading/editing
- Travel frequently and on short notice, and work long hours and weekends.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and 8 years related experience, including 3 years as a consultant to a fundraising program.
- End-to-end fundraising campaign experience.
- Experience analyzing program results.
- Experience building and maintaining long-term relationships with fundraising program constituents.
- Program management and experience managing cross-functional projects.
- People or vendor or contractor management.
- Good written communication skills.
- Experience working across complex organizations.
- Experience, coursework, or other training in current trends in relevant field.
Nice to Have
- Cross-cultural experience fundraising from donors outside of the US
Additional Information
- Work environment involves only infrequent exposure to disagreeable elements and minor physical exertion and/or strain.
- Work proactively towards implementing organizational and departmental strategic goals.
- The successful applicant must meet the requirements of The Nature Conservancy's background screening process.
