Especialista Gestão Projetos I - Global Conservation Strategy Analyst

Job description

**This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, which manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Project Management Specialist I – Global Conservation Strategy Analyst based in Brazil.** Join a mission-driven organization committed to protecting biodiversity, ecosystems, and the natural resources on which all life depends. In this role, you will support the implementation of conservation projects and programs across the Brazilian Amazon, contributing to ambitious 2030 conservation goals. You will coordinate a diverse portfolio of initiatives focused on public lands, freshwater ecosystems, territorial protection, restoration, and sustainable resource management. Working across multiple teams, territories, and external partnerships, you will ensure that projects remain aligned with strategic priorities, budgets, timelines, and expected outcomes. You will use project management methodologies, monitoring tools, and data-driven reporting to track progress, identify risks, and support informed decision-making. This opportunity is ideal for an organized and collaborative professional who enjoys solving operational challenges, strengthening project management practices, and connecting strategic objectives with measurable conservation results. With a flexible remote working environment and opportunities to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, you will contribute to meaningful environmental impact while supporting continuous organizational learning and improvement. ### Accountabilities - **Project and Program Management:** Coordinate the technical and operational management of multiple conservation projects and programs, ensuring alignment with organizational strategies, established methodologies, and conservation priorities. - **Strategic Alignment and 2030 Goals:** Connect project activities and deliverables with intermediate outcomes and long-term conservation objectives, supporting the implementation of strategic goals through effective planning, monitoring, and evaluation. - **Portfolio Coordination:** Monitor initiatives across different territories and conservation landscapes, including protected areas, public forests, freshwater systems, and other priority ecosystems throughout the Brazilian Amazon. - **Planning and Execution:** Develop and maintain project action plans, work plans, schedules, milestones, responsibilities, dependencies, and deliverables to ensure efficient implementation and timely completion. - **Monitoring and Performance Measurement:** Support the definition and tracking of indicators, targets, data sources, responsible parties, and verification methods to measure progress and evaluate project effectiveness. - **Operational Excellence:** Maintain accurate and up-to-date project information in Smartsheet, integrating schedules, activities, budgets, risks, dependencies, and performance indicators into a coherent portfolio management system. - **Financial and Budget Monitoring:** Track program budgets and expenditure, promote efficient resource allocation, and ensure financial execution aligns with approved work plans, compliance requirements, and funder expectations. - **Reporting and Data Analysis:** Develop dashboards, periodic reports, executive summaries, and strategic analyses that communicate project progress, highlight delays and data gaps, identify critical risks, and support leadership decisions. - **Quality Assurance and Accountability:** Organize and validate project evidence, ensuring data accuracy, consistency, traceability, and readiness for data quality reviews, peer reviews, audits, and funder reporting. - **Risk Management and Problem-Solving:** Identify operational challenges, project interdependencies, implementation risks, and emerging issues, recommending practical technical solutions and adjustments within established decision-making guidelines. - **Cross-Functional Collaboration:** Facilitate coordination among internal teams, programs, external partners, and relevant stakeholders to promote alignment, information sharing, and effective project delivery. - **Technical Guidance and Capacity Building:** Provide technical support to colleagues involved in project implementation, encourage the exchange of knowledge, and promote project management best practices without formal line-management responsibilities. - **Continuous Improvement:** Identify and introduce relevant project management frameworks, tools, processes, and team routines to strengthen operational efficiency, organizational learning, and portfolio performance. - **Partnership Engagement:** Collaborate with internal and external partners to facilitate project management training, strengthen institutional relationships, and support the development of effective management practices. - **Institutional Representation and Compliance:** Represent the organization in relevant multi-stakeholder forums and collaborative initiatives, in coordination with leadership, while adhering to internal policies, ethical standards, legal requirements, and accountability procedures. - **Information Management:** Maintain the integrity, confidentiality, organization, and traceability of project documentation, financial information, and performance data. - **Field and Travel Support:** Travel when required to support project activities, including work in remote locations with varying weather conditions and potentially physically demanding terrain. ## Requirements - **Education:** A completed bachelor's degree is required. - **Relevant Experience:** At least three years of experience in project and program management, preferably in conservation, environmental initiatives, or related fields. - **Project Management Expertise:** Demonstrated experience managing multiple projects, coordinating interconnected activities, monitoring deliverables, and ensuring alignment with strategic objectives. - **Complex Organizational Environments:** Ability to work effectively across multidisciplinary teams, multiple stakeholders, and matrixed organizational structures. - **Leadership and Coordination:** Experience coordinating multiple workstreams, providing indirect leadership, supporting colleagues, and integrating initiatives without necessarily having formal people-management responsibilities. - **Planning and Organizational Skills:** Strong organizational abilities, prioritization skills, and attention to detail, with the capacity to manage competing deadlines and maintain accurate project documentation. - **Monitoring and Reporting:** Ability to analyze project performance, track indicators, monitor budgets, prepare reports, and translate operational information into actionable insights. - **Risk Assessment and Decision-Making:** Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify operational risks, assess dependencies, and recommend practical solutions at the tactical level. - **Stakeholder Engagement:** Excellent collaboration and relationship-building skills, including the ability to facilitate communication, coordinate partners, and integrate different technical and operational perspectives. - **Communication Skills:** Strong written and verbal communication skills in Portuguese, with the ability to prepare clear reports, communicate project updates, and support effective knowledge sharing. - **Project Management Tools:** Ability to use project management platforms and reporting tools; experience with Smartsheet is particularly relevant to maintaining project plans, dashboards, and portfolio information. - **Financial and Data Management:** Understanding of project budgeting, resource allocation, performance monitoring, data quality, documentation, and accountability requirements. - **Continuous Improvement Mindset:** Proactive approach to identifying opportunities for improvement, sharing lessons learned, exploring new frameworks, and strengthening project management practices. - **Professional Integrity:** Commitment to confidentiality, accuracy, ethical conduct, compliance, and responsible management of organizational resources. - **Travel Availability:** Willingness to travel as required, including to remote conservation sites and locations with challenging environmental or terrain conditions. - **Preferred Certification:** An active internationally recognized professional certification is an advantage. - **Preferred Amazon Experience:** Previous experience working on conservation or environmental projects in the Brazilian Amazon is desirable. - **Preferred Advanced Education:** A postgraduate qualification in project management, environmental management, conservation, or a related discipline is an advantage. - **Preferred English Proficiency:** Intermediate English is desirable for collaboration in an international environment. - **Preferred Negotiation Skills:** Experience in negotiation, conflict mediation, and reconciling different technical and operational priorities is beneficial. - **Location Preference:** Candidates residing in a Brazilian state within the Amazon region are preferred. - **Inclusive Recruitment:** Candidates who meet all or some of the preferred qualifications are encouraged to apply and demonstrate how their experience and skills can contribute to the role. ## Benefits - **Competitive Compensation:** Access to a competitive and comprehensive benefits package tailored to the local employment market. - **Healthcare Coverage:** Health-related benefits designed to support employee well-being, subject to the applicable local package. - **Retirement Benefits:** Access to retirement-related benefits, where applicable under the local benefits program. - **Paid Time Off:** Paid leave provisions to support rest, personal commitments, and work-life balance. - **Parental Leave:** Family-supportive leave benefits, subject to local policies and eligibility. - **Life and Disability Coverage:** Insurance and disability-related benefits may be available as part of the local package. - **Employee Assistance:** Access to employee assistance and additional well-being resources, depending on local provisions. - **Flexible Working Environment:** Remote work arrangements and a flexible approach designed to support employee well-being and productivity. - **Purpose-Driven Career:** The opportunity to contribute directly to conservation initiatives that protect biodiversity, freshwater ecosystems, public lands, and the Brazilian Amazon. - **Professional Development:** Opportunities to strengthen project management expertise, develop new skills, and participate in organizational learning and knowledge-sharing initiatives. - **International Collaboration:** Work with multidisciplinary colleagues, conservation professionals, and partners contributing to environmental initiatives at different scales. - **Inclusive Workplace Culture:** Join an environment that values diversity, respect for communities and cultures, equal opportunity, and the contributions of people with different backgrounds and perspectives. - **Meaningful Impact:** Help translate ambitious conservation strategies into practical actions, measurable outcomes, and long-term environmental benefits. - **Collaborative Work Culture:** Contribute to a team environment that values shared learning, professional growth, accountability, and collective progress toward conservation goals.