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The Nature Conservancy Program Director, Portfolio Management in Lansing, Michigan
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The Program Director is responsible for oversight and improvement of the management processes that enable effective Portfolio Management across the organization. They will also be responsible for understanding the current state and performance of TNC's conservation portfolio, assessing and benchmarking performance, adjusting and implementing reviews of the portfolio with conservation leadership, and facilitating/tracking the multi-million-dollar discretionary funding process for TNC's highest impact strategies as well our highest potential impact strategies. The amount of the discretionary funding has been $25-$50M per year. The future allocation amounts are to-be-determined. Portfolio Management plays a central role in influencing TNC's 2030 Campaign. This role will collaborate with Development and Finance to ensure that we are directing a disproportionate amount of our financial resources to our highest impact work. Additionally, because Portfolio Management is playing an increasingly important role in helping steer the organization towards the achievement of our 2030 goals, this role will employ change management best practices to ensure the shift in how TNC works is durable and embedded in the organization's processes, systems, and culture.
The Program Director should surface best practices from within and outside TNC on portfolio management. The Program Director should possess excellent attention to detail and an ability to manage complexity and interdependencies across a variety of workstreams. It is preferred that the Program Director has experience with lean and agile approaches to project management.
RESPONSIBILITIES & SCOPE
Guide and facilitate the portfolio review process for TNC, setting minimum standards for business units across the organization and coordinating the CCO and Executive Team's engagement in those reviews.
Organize, synthesize, and present Portfolio Management process, results and learnings and risks to TNC executive leadership as they pertain to Portfolio Management.
Develop and rollout frameworks that assist leadership and conservation teams with evaluating progress (Strategy Reviews), conservation prioritization decisions, (Portfolio Reviews), and resource allocation decisions (Budget Reviews and Fundraising Focus).
Be the primary partner to Development and Finance to ensure that the outputs of Portfolio Management are impacting the organization's resourcing (budgeting and fundraising).
Develop and rollout communications strategies that build understanding and inspiration of the role that Portfolio Management can play in helping us achieve our 2030 goals.
Facilitate resource allocation decisions with the CCO, and partner with the Chief Finance Office on resource allocation processes using conservation information at an ET level.
Develop and disseminate tools and frameworks for Portfolio Management at TNC, including through identifying and reporting best practices internally and in other external impact-oriented organizations. Convene relevant internal parties to share best practices and learnings.
Capture TNC's Portfolio Management process and share our tools and resources with external organization's attempting to follow a similar path.
Employ change management best practices to ensure Portfolio Management is driving the organizational change the CCO envisions in a durable and lasting way that impacts our processes, systems and culture.
Lead business requirements for internal information technology systems that support measuring performance of units and strategies.
Support and at times, lead collaborative efforts with other teams within the CIS to help provide a holistic system of support for conservation managers and teams.
Track learning and feedback as the function continues to test frameworks/approaches.
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