Asia Pacific Regional Lead, Conservation Data

The Nature Conservancy; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading conservation organization based in Singapore is seeking an Asia Pacific Regional Lead to enhance conservation data support across the region. The role focuses on fostering customer satisfaction among conservation teams, providing targeted coaching, and ensuring data quality in decision-making. The ideal candidate will have strong cross-cultural communication skills and experience in adaptive management. This position is pivotal for building collaborative approaches to conservation within the Asia Pacific region.

Qualifications

• Experience in providing coaching in adaptive management.
• Proven ability to design culturally appropriate offerings.
• Strong relationship management skills with leadership.

Responsibilities

• Provide targeted coaching on evidence generation in adaptive management.
• Ensure culturally appropriate support for teams.
• Support teams using evidence syntheses in their management processes.
• Collaborate with regional leaders to meet conservation objectives.

Skills

Customer satisfaction understanding

Cross-cultural communication

Data science principles

Adaptive management

Job description

The Asia Pacific Regional Lead will help the CDT provide more direct and integrated support for conservation data that meets the demand of conservation teams and leaders within TNC’s Asia Pacific Region to generate and use evidence to improve the quality of their decisions and their impact.

The Asia Pacific Regional Lead will cultivate an understanding of what drives customer satisfaction (customer = TNC conservation teams and leaders) in the Asia Pacific Region and will be charged with ensuring customer success. The lead will serve as a cross‑cultural/organizational broker and learning advocate, ensuring that the products and practices developed in the Asia Pacific Region or in other regions of TNC are shared and co‑evolve, resulting in a conservation data tool kit that is common to TNC and contextually relevant. The Asia Pacific Regional Lead will build and maintain strong, trusting relationships with key leadership and experts in the Asia Pacific Region, including monitoring, evaluation, and learning leads, scientists, and portfolio managers.

They will collaborate with leaders to ensure CDT's support is aligned with their vision for conservation data, adaptive management, portfolio management, and scaling strategies in the region. The Asia Pacific Regional Lead will also work with regional leadership to make decisions about where to focus their time and resources, and how to influence enabling conditions. The Asia Pacific Regional Lead will also collaborate closely with their Asia Pacific Regional counterpart on the Conservation Strategy Team.

The Asia Pacific Regional Lead will oversee the delivery of CDT offerings, including the vetting, hiring and management of external consultants/contractors who deliver CDT offerings. They will take a learn‑by‑doing approach to the development, implementation, and iteration of CDT offerings to quickly learn what works and what doesn’t work and adjust accordingly.

Responsibilities & Scope

• Provide targeted coaching focused on the generation and use of evidence in adaptive management, aligned with regional needs; provide customized coaching, facilitation, and/or direct support to teams, grounded in agile, data science, and implementation science principles and values.
• Ensure support provided to teams is regionally and culturally appropriate, using a collaborative approach to design offerings and engaging local contractors as needed.
• Ensure conservation data support provided to teams is aligned with and supportive of the regional portfolio management and reporting processes.
• Support teams to use evidence syntheses and close key evidence gaps identified through their adaptive management processes and to ensure confidence in their reported outcomes.
• Support other members of the regional team to use conservation data tools as they support other high priority teams and programs.*
• Build enabling conditions for the generation and use of evidence in adaptive management and prioritization in the Asia Pacific Region; build trusting relationships with key TNC leadership in the Asia Pacific Region.
• Collaborate with staff in CDT to ensure the region’s conservation data meets data quality & reporting.

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