• Develop innovative scientific ideas and products to advance the Conservancy’s mission, including by leveraging the platform provided by TNC California’s conservation estate. • Maintain, strengthen, and leverage a network of external scientific collaborators in academia, government, for-profit and non-profit sectors to deliver the science needed to advance the Conservancy’s conservation strategies. • Foster partnerships with a high degree of professionalism, interpersonal skills and awareness of partner differences. • Work collaboratively within multi-disciplinary teams, and support program objectives by working in a matrixed organization environment. • Support development of clear strategic theories of change, and the internal systems to adaptively manage implementation and refinement of those plans. • Persuasively represent TNC externally as a terrestrial conservation science expert. • Deliver tools, biodiversity data, field services and training for staff and partners. • Provide guidance and support for research, project development, and monitoring, including research conducted by partners, contractors, and grantees. • Design and implement field surveys, experiments, and assessments. • Draft project reports, manuscripts for scientific publication, and other science products, and oversee product development for direct reports. • Develop and manage grants or contracts and write requests for proposals. • Co-develop budgets and track spending. • Work across geographic and ecosystem boundaries in California and collaborate with the science community to enhance the conservation practices of others to further TNC California’s reputation as a global leader in conservation science. • Manage science staff and have responsibility for performance management and professional development. • Work collaboratively to develop strategies internally and externally. • Persuasively convey verbally and in writing the mission of TNC to diverse groups including senior leaders, donors, board members, business leaders, and elected officials. • Ability to travel 25-50% of the time, varying seasonally, in the US and/or internationally and may work in variable weather conditions at remote locations, hazardous terrain and/or under physically demanding circumstances.