Conservation Data Advisor - Asia Pacific

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What We Can Achieve Together: The Conservation Impact System Team (IST) in the Chief Conservation Office plays a critical role in supporting global conservation implementation. The IST supports conservation teams, leaders, and executives to generate and use evidence in adaptive management and reporting so that TNC can achieve its goals for biodiversity, climate, and people. The IST is comprised of the Conservation Data Team (CDT) and Conservation Strategy Team (CST) that partner closely to provide support. The CDT is responsible for conservation data capacity building, data quality, science & systems, and organizational reporting, including reporting and recommendations to executives and the global board. This position focuses on enabling regional teams to consistently generate, trust, and use high‑quality data and evidence through strong MEL systems, standards, and practices. The role works as a close partner with regional MEL leads to align CDT support with regional MEL priorities, processes, and ways of working. Essential Functions: The Asia Pacific Regional Advisor 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 Advisor will cultivate an understanding of what drives customer satisfaction (customer = TNC conservation teams and leaders) in the Asia Pacific region and contribute to effective delivery of CDT support. 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 toolkit that is common to TNC and contextually relevant. The Asia Pacific Conservation Data Advisor position will build and maintain strong, trusting relationships with key leadership and experts in the Asia Pacific Region, including monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) regional team and specialists, scientists, and portfolio managers. They will collaborate with MEL staff in Asia Pacific to ensure CDT's support is aligned with their vision for conservation science data, MEL and reporting to support evidence for adaptive management in Asia Pacific Portfolio. The Asia Pacific Conservation Data Advisor will work with regional MEL leaders and partners to align science data support with priority needs to improve MEL data quality and adaptive management practices. The position collaborates closely with Asia Pacific MEL lead, CDT colleagues, and the CST Asia Pacific regional counterpart to ensure aligned support across MEL and strategy processes. This position will help deliver CDT offerings and provide technical and data science support. This role uses a learn-by-doing approach to the development, implementation, and iteration of CDT offerings to quickly learn and adjust. This is a 2-year termed position. The Conservation Data Advisor - Asia Pacific must reside and have work authorization in one of the TNC Asia Pacific Programs (Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Mongolia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Solomon Islands). We're Looking for You: Provide targeted guidance and support focused on the generation and use of evidence in adaptive management, aligned with regional needs. Provide 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 science 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 science 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. In collaboration with MEL Regional team and MEL Specialists, build the enabling conditions for use of robust evidence in adaptive management. In close collaboration with Asia Pacific MEL staff, enhance data analytics processes to convert quality assured and evidence-based data into useful reporting and learning products (such as impact briefs, analytical summaries, and data reports) to inform program, portfolio, and leadership decisions. Collaborate with staff in CDT to ensure the region's conservation data meets data quality & reporting standards and su