Location: México

What We Can Achieve Together

The Mexico Conservation Director (MCD) is a member of the Mexico Executive Team reporting to the Country Program Director and closely coordinates with other Conservation Directors and leaders across the Latin America Region (LAR).

We’re Looking For You

The MCD essential function is to ensure that the Mexico program delivers an optimal contribution to TNC’s 2030 Outcomes, enabling strong partnerships and science-based decision making to achieve lasting results, with strong emphasis in Selva Maya and the Mesoamerican Reef (SM-MAR) as well as other national initiatives related with natural protected areas, regenerative ranching and agriculture, and large-scale fisheries. The MCD leads a team of experts and works both across TNC teams as well as with external partners including the private sector, government, and civil society organizations in SM-MAR, there is shared leadership with the Guatemala and Belize teams.

The MCD will shape transformative strategies that advance systems change approaches with clear and ambitious outcomes,



and guide teams for effective implementation.

Responsibilities & Scope

Specifically, the Conservation Director:

• Supports the Mexico Director to define transformative conservation strategies and develop actionable roadmaps for effective implementation, including building necessary partnerships for wider impact and systemic changes.
• Inspires a sense of shared ownership of the conservation agenda and TNC’s conservation propositions and tools, enabling the optimal conditions to deliver and demonstrate progress, and leading with the example.
• Oversees implementation of agreed conservation outcomes, using adaptive management approaches with clear accountability for results.
• Develops, manages and retains a high performing team able to deliver on agreed conservation outcomes, and is responsible for performance management, employee engagement, training and career development.
• Manages intern

📌 México Conservation Director
🏢 The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
📍 México