Field Officer

**OFFICE LOCATION**:
New Delhi, Delhi

Pune, Maharashtra

**WHO WE ARE**:
**ORGANIZATIONAL OVERVIEW: A PIONEER IN CONSERVATION LEADERSHIP**

This is an exciting time at The Nature Conservancy (TNC) as we are shifting our strategy for greater impact in the world, seeking to address some of the most complex challenges facing people and nature — issues such as climate change, conserving lands, waters, and oceans at unprecedented scale, providing food and water sustainably and helping make cities more resilient and sustainable.

**Our Mission**

TNC’s mission is to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends. Rather than viewing development
- including economic growth - and conservation as contradictory goals, TNC works to demonstrate how nature has value for people and development and how nature can provide enormous economic benefit. TNC envisions a future where people and nature can flourish together.

Our Vision

A world where the diversity of life thrives, and people act to conserve nature for its own sake and its ability to fulfil our needs and enrich our lives.

**The Conservancy Team**

We achieve this through the dedicated efforts of our 3,800 diverse staff, including more than 600 scientists, all of whom support conservation in 76 countries and all 50 United States. We are striving to develop a workforce as diverse as the places where we work, and we have a deep commitment to diversity.

**Organizational History**

TNC is the largest conservation organization in the world, working in all 50 states in the United States and more than 76 countries. It was incorporated as a non-profit organization in the District of Columbia on October 22, 1951. TNC is science-based and in every place, we work, we partner with governments, businesses, and local communities. TNC is advancing its mission by protecting and restoring rivers, landscapes and oceans for people and their development at an unprecedented scale; it is transforming the way humanity uses the Earth’s natural resources to sustain ourselves.

**YOUR POSITION WITH TNC**:
The Nature Conservancy has initiated a project titled “Catalyzing Collective Action for Water Security in Maharashtra” under which it is proposed to establish Ghod River Water Fund to showcase a pragmatic, long-term solution that improves lives, provides water security and thus enabling prosperity of the local communities. The water fund is a governance and finance mechanism that improves water security through collective action, allowing downstream water users to invest collectively in upstream water and land conservation. Water funds help to manage the significant complexities associated with water risk and nature-based source water protection and have the potential to bring widespread water security and economic benefits to India’s burgeoning cities and rural communities.

Water fund team would be needing a Water Fund Field Manager based out of Pune district for execution work in Ghod Basin. They support and oversee all aspects of the Ghod River Water Fund, a pilot water fund for India. They are Responsible for all operational oversight regarding institutional development, budgeting, resource mobilization, grants management, community and stakeholder engagement and staff coordination. Water Fund Field Manager will report to Ghod River Water Fund Lead/Manager. Location - Pune, Maharashtra with frequent travel to New Delhi.
- Connect with local communities and other relevant stakeholders to understand their water-related issues and needs.
- Build a strong connection with local communities and mobilize them for execution of work under field pilots.
- Extensively travel in the Ghod basin to identify opportunities for field interventions.
- Conduct feasibility study for execution - evaluate existing work and skills of local partners, support available from government agencies, and community participation.
- Execute, monitor, and report on field pilots under the guidance of the project lead.
- Support capacity building of the local communities and partners, especially on field implementation aspects.
- Manage relationships and engagements with all the relevant stakeholders, local partners, communities, and government agencies.
- Prepare monthly progress report on the field pilots.

**WHAT YOU'LL BRING**:

- Graduation (BA/BS) in any relevant field, preferably in conservation practice or rural management, social science, agriculture or natural resource management.
- 5-6 years’ experience working with rural communities in Maharashtra on execution of watershed and/or biodiversity conservation activities.
- Fluent in Marathi with excellent communication skills.
- Experience identifying local trees, herbs, wind direction, crops, soil types, geology, drains, streams, and their connectivity in the watershed.
- Experience with communities in rural Maharashtra and social issues, including gender and equity issues.
- Supervisory experience, including motivating, leading, setti