Conservation Programmes Lead

The role

This is an exciting opportunity to join the fast-growing team at Synchronicity Earth. Our
five-year strategy sets out our ambitious plans to increase our impact for nature, by
significantly growing our funding as we build out our six Conservation Programmes, increasing
our broader support to our partners (grantees) and increasing the number of organisations we
fund. We will continue to focus on supporting local and national biodiversity conservation and
environmental groups across Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Pacific Islands, as well as
supporting key research and policy initiatives. Given our growth trajectory, this role has
plenty of scope for long-term evolution and development.

This role will continue to develop the profile and dynamism of Synchronicity Earth’s
Conservation Programmes, managing the current team of six as well as adding to the team as
required. The role is also responsible for directly and indirectly overseeing a number of
consultants delivering key aspects of work whilst working with the rest of the team to deliver
our ambitious plans to increase, diversify and deliver better support to our partners. The role
will also play an important part in continuing to develop donor relationships, further
diversifying and expanding our income streams.

As an experienced and committed Conservation Programmes Lead, you will lead our enthusiastic
Programme Team. You will have a strong background in wildlife conservation and working with
community-based approaches and/or supporting environmental defenders. You will also have
experience of how advocacy and policy work can support conservation outcomes over the long
term. You will have a track record of managing budgets and delivering strategic targets. You
will be an excellent team manager and relationship builder who cares for those around them and
can engage across the organisation, with the wider team, the Board of Trustees, donors and our
partners on the ground. You will also continue to build our external networks, with other
funders, environmental charities, academics and zoos, acting as an ambassador for our work. You
will have new and innovative ideas and will work across our three main strategic areas
(Conservation, Capacity and Culture, with greatest focus on the first two), working closely
with the Leadership Team and our Board of Trustees to develop Synchronicity Earth’s Programmes.

Synchronicity Earth

Synchronicity Earth is an environmental grant-maker. We channel philanthropic donations from
trusts and foundations, corporate foundations, corporates or individual donors through partners
and grantees (identified by our in-house team of conservation experts who make up the
‘Programme Team’), which are undertaking conservation work in those areas that most critically

**need support. We have an ambitious vision**: A world in which biological and cultural diversity
are valued, celebrated, and flourishing. We work to achieve this by focusing on three strategic

**pillars**:
**Conservation**: Focusing on overlooked and underfunded conservation challenges for globally
threatened species and ecosystems primarily across six Conservation Programmes: Amphibians,
Asian Species, Congo Basin, Biocultural Diversity, Freshwater, and Oceans. We also fund
projects through our More than Carbon initiative, a portfolio of climate and biodiversity
projects targeted at corporate donors.

**Capacity**: Growing sector capacity by supporting both environmental philanthropists and
implementors to meet their full potential, and to achieve or exceed their objectives.

**Culture**: Exploring and catalysing initiatives and networks, focusing on cultural and
systemic change, collaborating with stakeholders in finance, philanthropy, and the creative
sectors to champion biological and cultural diversity. Through our Synchronicity Portfolio, we
fund work aimed at fostering systemic change to promote a greater focus on biodiversity
conservation within different sectors and support partners and initiatives to increase Equity,
Diversity and Inclusion and promote marginalised voices within the conservation sector.

**Specific responsibilities**:
Strategic Leadership of Conservation Programmes
Act as the main point of contact, providing and soliciting information and guidance to and
from the SE Leadership Team, SE Board, SE Advisors and Chief Scientific Advisor for the
Conservation Programmes and related capacity building work.
Leading Conservation Programme content and presenting at board meetings on a quarterly
basis.

**General programme oversight**: maintaining an overview of SE’s Conservation Programmes and
partners, ensuring that they are aligned with delivery of programme objectives, addressing the
highest conservation priorities. Also ensuring conservation outcomes are understood through
effective monitoring and evaluation, to enable adaptive management as operational contexts for
our partners change.

Accountable for allocation of programma