The role of the Head, Sustainable Finance Advisory will be to pilot and build a new function within NatureVest and Impact Finance and Markets Division. This function will bring capacity to support teams across the organization to create new markets and financing models that deliver outsized environmental impact, but may fall outside of NatureVest’s existing impact investment mandate. The Financial Advisory Team will support TNC regional and global teams financial solutions for top conservation problems. The Head will be the first member of the team and will be responsible for piloting a ‘hub and spoke’ model, building central expertise and connect with regional or state based team members that focus on financial strategies for conservation. They will also immediately oversee the hiring of the second central team member and recommend a final central team size. This includes developing a scorecard for assessing the feasibility of market solutions to resolve priority conservation problems across TNC, developing financial solutions, and bringing in relevant internal and external stakeholders for implementation. They should have a strong vision and drive for helping TNC explore how to optimally harness the power of markets in service of conservation. The Head, Sustainable Finance Advisory will report to the Global Head of Impact Finance and Markets, with an additional reporting line to the Managing Director of NatureVest.  The team will be housed within NatureVest and work closely with two other business units in the Division: Corporate Engagement and Carbon Markets.

RESPONSIBILITIES & SCOPE

• Works closely with TNC business units and regions to identify promising early-stage projects/initiatives in need of market-based support.
• Creates and drives forward workplans aimed at designing market interventions to conservation problems.
• Conducts financial analysis of projects, including cost and revenue flows.
• Oversees a team to be developed based on organizational need and capacity.
• Partners and coordinates work with other functions at TNC, including Policy, Corporate Engagement, and the broader NatureVest team to vet early-stage projects to determine if they are candidates for support.
• Partners with diverse external stakeholders (e.g., local businesses, investors, governments).
• Facilitates knowledge sharing of market-based work across TNC’s global footprint, and uses lessons learned to refine work product, team resourcing, and strategies.
• Makes independent strategic decisions frequently based on analysis of ambiguous information, experience and context.
• May require frequent travel domestically and/or internationally.