Senior Donor Communications Officer

Location: México or Argentina
What We Can Achieve Together:
The Senior Donor Communications Officer is a senior strategic partner who helps shape donor communications for TNC’s Latin America Region and ensures priority conservation and fundraising efforts are translated into clear, compelling, donor-centered narratives. The role provides high-level counsel, continuity, and multilingual communications leadership for major and principal gift audiences.
We’re Looking for You:
The Senior Donor Communications Officer helps shape and implement donor communications strategy for the Latin America Region, Country Business Units and Iconic Places, serving as a senior support to the Director of Donor Communications, Development colleagues, conservation teams, and regional leadership.
The Officer leads complex, high-priority, and multi-country initiatives from strategy through delivery: assessing needs, clarifying objectives and audiences, recommending narrative and positioning approaches, aligning stakeholders, and overseeing execution, review, and evaluation.
The position advises stakeholders on communicating TNC’s conservation strategies, results, funding needs, and institutional priorities to philanthropic audiences, using independent judgment to resolve messaging challenges, reconcile competing input, and protect donor relevance, accuracy, cultural fit, and strategic alignment.
The Officer may represent Donor Communications in regional, global, and cross-functional initiatives and may act on behalf of the Director in designated meetings, planning processes, and projects, providing senior communications counsel for priority fundraising opportunities, leadership engagements, campaigns, and institutional initiatives.
They provide functional leadership for editorial standards, messaging frameworks, multilingual content, systems, processes, and capability-building, identifying improvements that strengthen the effectiveness, consistency, and efficiency of donor communications across the region.
The position leads or oversees funding proposals, concept notes, regional and country overviews, donor trip materials, stewardship reports, campaign collateral, presentations, impact reports, leadership messages, and other strategic donor communications products.
RESPONSIBILITIES & SCOPE
Strategic Planning and Counsel
Partners with the Director to develop regional donor communications strategy, priorities, work plans, messaging frameworks, and content plans aligned with Development and conservation goals.
Advises senior stakeholders on donor positioning, narrative strategy, audience needs, and emerging communications opportunities or challenges.
Serves as strategic partner to the Director, providing continuity, senior representation, and decision support within agreed parameters.
Represents Donor Communications in assigned regional, global, and cross-functional initiatives, building alignment and resolving complex stakeholder issues with discretion.
Exercises significant independent judgment in determining communications strategies, narrative approaches, stakeholder engagement plans, and prioritization of donor communications initiatives across the region.
Leads and coordinates complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives in highly matrixed environments, fostering alignment, facilitating communication, managing competing priorities, and ensuring successful outcomes across regional and global teams.
Initiative and Functional Leadership
Leads complex donor communications initiatives from strategy and scope through delivery, managing objectives, audiences, timelines, roles, reviews, risks, and tradeoffs.
Provides functional oversight for editorial quality, multilingual content, regional messaging, major and principal gift communications, workflows, tools, standards, training, and vendor relationships.
Senior Donor Communications Practice
Leads high-priority donor communications for cultivation, solicitation, stewardship, campaigns, and major or principal gift opportunities.
Synthesizes complex conservation, financial, programmatic, and stakeholder input into accurate, compelling content in English, Spanish, and Portuguese while protecting donor relevance, narrative clarity, and institutional standards.
Shapes donor communications practices and standards that influence fundraising success, donor engagement, and organizational positioning across multiple countries in Latin America
Provides mentorship, guidance, and subject matter expertise to communications and development colleagues across the region.
What You’ll Bring:
Bachelor’s degree in communications, journalism, marketing, philanthropy, international affairs, conservation, or a related field and at least five to seven years of relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Experience developing communications strategies and donor-facing fundraising materials that support cultivation, solicitation, stewardship, campaigns & major gifts, opportunities.
Experience advising senior stakeholders, influencing without direct authority, facilitating alignment among differing priorities, and presenting strategic recommendations.
Experience leading complex cross-functional, regional, or multi-country initiatives from planning through implementation while managing priorities, deadlines, reviews, and deliverables.
Strong writing, editing, storytelling, narrative strategy, synthesis, project management, problem-solving, and independent decision-making skills.
Professional fluency in English and Spanish and advanced proficiency in Portuguese, including the ability to review materials, participate in meetings, and collaborate directly with Portuguese-speaking colleagues.
Experience working across departments, functions, cultures, and geographies and handling sensitive or confidential information with discretion.
Desired Qualifications:
More than seven years of progressively responsible experience in donor communications, fundraising communications, strategic communications, or a related field.
Experience supporting major or principal gift fundraising, institutional campaigns, complex donor engagement strategies, donor visits, senior leadership engagements, or stewardship initiatives.
Experience developing regional or multi-country communications for diverse cultural, philanthropic, and geographic audiences across Latin America and international donor markets.
Experience acting as a deputy, senior adviser, or principal strategic partner to a communications or Development leader.
Ability to interpret conservation outcomes, financial information, impact metrics, program results, and technical information for donor audiences.
Familiarity with donor communications trends, visual storytelling, design best practices, content management systems, project management platforms, AI-assisted content tools, and digital collaboration technologies.
Job Family: Philanthropy
Job Code: 700033
Grade: 7
Who We Are:
The Nature Conservancy’s mission is to protect the lands and waters upon which all life depends. As a science-based organization, we create innovative, on-the-ground solutions to our world’s toughest challenges so that we can create a world in which people and nature thrive. We’re rooted in our mission and guided by our values, which include respect for all people, communities, and cultures. Whether it’s career development, flexible schedules, or a rewarding mission, there’s many reasons to love life inside TNC. Want a better insight to TNC? Check out our TNC Talent playlist on YouTube to hear stories from staff or visit Glassdoor.
One goal is to cultivate an inclusive work environment so that all our colleagues around the globe feel a sense of belonging and that their unique contributions to our mission are valued. In addition to the requirements in our job postings, we recognize that people come with talent and experiences outside of a job and consider each applicant’s unique experience. Please apply – we’d love to hear from you. To quote a popular saying at TNC, “you’ll join for the mission, and stay for the people.”
What We Bring:
Since 1951, TNC has been doing work you can believe in. Through grassroots action, we have grown from a small non-profit into one of the most effective and wide-reaching environmental organizations in the world. Thanks to more than 1 million members, over 400 scientists, and the dedicated efforts of our diverse staff and partners, we impact conservation around the world!
TNC offers competitive and comprehensive benefits packages tailored to the individual countries where we work. These may include health care benefits, retirement benefits, parental leave, paid time off, life insurance, and disability coverage as well as an employee assistance program and other life and well-being benefits. Learn more about our Benefits and Perks