Conservation Tourism Manager The Nature Conservancy

YOUR POSITION WITH TNC

The Conservation Tourism Manager shall be primarily responsible for TNC’s conservation advisory services to the ACCT Fund. This includes working closely with the tourism operators to identify potential outcomes that can be achieved with Fund support and working with TNC local country programs and strategy leads to provide targeted technical assistance to the tourism operators as they seek to deliver their outcomes. In addition, they will be primarily responsible for managing the conservation approval process for each new investment, including developing the conservation recommendations. In addition, they will be responsible for developing a detailed environmental and social risk management and monitoring process in partnership with key cornerstone investors and ensuring that each potential investment meets the environmental and social risk requirements over the life of the investment. The Conservation Tourism Manager will work closely with the Fund’s Conservation Committee, TNC’s local country programs in the target geographies, the third-party investment management team and with the conservation tourism operators themselves. The Conservation Tourism Manager will report to the NatureVest team and work closely with the Africa Indigenous Landscapes Strategy Director. This position will ideally be based at TNC Regional office in Nairobi, Kenya, but other locations may be considered

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

The Conservation Tourism Manager shall manage all aspects of TNC’s conservation advisory services to the ACCT Fund. In this capacity, the Conservation Tourism Manager shall be responsible for conducting detailed conservation and socio-economic diligence on conservation tourism companies who are under consideration as receive debt financing from the Fund. This includes detailed desktop and onsite diligence pre-close and at least annual on-site meetings post-close with each of the conservation tourism operators in the Fund’s portfolio and review of the operators’ conservation and social outcome potential and/or delivery against the benchmarks set by the Fund.

• Bachelor’s degree and 7 years of related senior-level work experience, including current and evolving political, legislative and conservation
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Conservation, Finance, Tourism Management or related and 7 years of related experience or equivalent combination in a private sector environment, such as tourism or conservation finance focused on the landscapes of Africa.
• Experience leading and managing complex projects and strategic initiatives in an unstructured environment in the nature-based tourism sector in Africa.
• International work experience.
• Project management experience and experience meeting deadlines.
• Experience making written and oral recommendations and presentations
• Experience developing end products with software such as PowerPoint, Word, Excel.
• Experience communicating complex processes and ideas effectively to a variety of audiences within and outside an organization

For full Job profile and how to apply please visit www.careers.nature.org/ and search for Job Id 50881.

Submit CV and cover letter separately using the upload buttons online. All applications must be submitted in the system prior to end of day February 3rd    2022.