This is an exciting time at The Nature Conservancy (TNC) as we are shifting our strategy for greater impact in the world, seeking to address some of the most complex challenges facing people and nature — issues such as climate change, conserving lands, waters, and oceans at unprecedented scale, providing food and water sustainably and helping make cities more resilient and sustainable.
Our Mission
TNC’s mission is to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends. Rather than viewing development – including economic growth – and conservation as contradictory goals, TNC works to demonstrate how nature has value for people and development and how nature can provide enormous economic benefit. TNC envisions a future where people and nature can flourish together.
Our Vision
A world where the diversity of life thrives, and people act to conserve nature for its own sake and its ability to fulfil our needs and enrich our lives.
The Conservancy Team
We achieve this through the dedicated efforts of our 3,800 diverse staff, including more than 600 scientists, all of whom support conservation in 76 countries and all 50 United States. We are striving to develop a workforce as diverse as the places where we work, and we have a deep commitment to diversity.
Organizational History
TNC is the largest conservation organisation in the world, working in all 50 states in the United States and more than 76 countries. It was incorporated as a non-profit organization in the District of Columbia on October 22, 1951. TNC is science-based and in every place, we work, we partner with governments, businesses, and local communities. TNC is advancing its mission by protecting and restoring rivers, landscapes and oceans for people and their development at an unprecedented scale; it is transforming the way humanity uses the Earth’s natural resources to sustain ourselves.
What We Can Achieve Together:
The Lands Programme at NCIS has the goal of managing the implementation of land-based conservation and restoration projects in high-priority regions of India including the Himalayas, the Northeast, Western Ghats and Central India.
This position is expected to be based at anywhere in India, preferred location is New Delhi, although this is negotiable based on candidate needs. The position will involve a significant amount of travel to all project sites within the regions noted above to ensure that policy insights are appropriately grounded in field realities. This position is with an initial two-year contract, renewable upon mutual agreement.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
The main role of the Policy Manager-Lands will be to develop the policy dimension of these projects, with the overall goal of producing useful insights that could support governmental policies. This is a cross-cutting role across a range of projects with potential policy linkages including riparian restoration; restoration within buffers and corridors of protected areas; improved management of community forests through
documentation and participatory planning; community conserved areas; and agroforestry within agricultural landscapes. Apart from these linkages with field projects, the position also involves the development of larger policy inputs within the conservation and restoration sector. Natural Climate Solutions are a key overarching theme for these policy inputs, and the position is expected to develop insights useful for both climate adaptation and mitigation.
We’re Looking for You:
The Policy Manager-Lands will undertake the following cross-cutting functions, in collaboration with the programme in-charge, external advisors and within the overall mandate of the defined project deliverables:
