What We Can Achieve Together:

The Oceania Lead provides senior leadership and acts as a conservation strategist across a portfolio of country programs in Australia, New Zealand, Papua Recent Guinea and Solomon Islands and will be based in one of these locations. The role is accountable for the collective performance and impact of the Oceania grouping, ensuring delivery of measurable conservation outcomes at scale, alignment with the organisation’s priorities, and adherence to TNC’s values building on existing strengths to maintain momentum and continuity.

The Oceania Lead aligns and integrates conservation, policy, finance and partnerships across countries to address priority threats and opportunities, ensuring resources, capabilities and programs are effectively coordinated for maximum impact. They lead Country Directors and provide matrix leadership across partnership services enabling rather than replacing local leadership, and strengthening collective performance through influence and alignment.

Working collaboratively across TNC,



the role mobilises and contributes intellectual, financial and human resources to cross-cutting and regional initiatives, ensuring Oceania meaningfully contributes to Asia Pacific and global priorities. They support the translation of strategy into execution, including scaling successful approaches and strengthening policy and finance mechanisms that enable lasting conservation outcomes.

The Oceania Lead serves as TNC's senior external representative across Oceania and is accountable for building strategic relationships with donors, philanthropic families, corporate leaders, governments and conservation partners. Working in close partnership with the Chair of the Oceania Advisory Board, the Oceania Lead will help establish, develop and support a high-performing Oceania Advisory Board that advances conservation impact, influence and philanthropy across the region. The role is expected to be a vi

📌 Oceania Lead (Australia)
🏢 The Nature Conservancy (All)
📍 Australia