Associate Director, Agriculture Finance

Global demand for food fiber and energy is accelerating intensifying pressure on natural ecosystems and driving climate South America TNC has long worked to halt deforestation linked to cattle ranching soy production and other land use change. A core strategy has been developing innovative finance mechanisms that help producers expand beef soy and agroforestry production without further habitat loss.
To scale this work TNC the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) and the World Economic Forum (WEF) launched the Innovative Finance for the Amazon Cerrado and Chaco (IFACC) initiative in 2021. IFACC mobilizes companies financial institutions and investors to accelerate deforestation and conversion free finance across Brazil Paraguay and Argentina. As of December 2025 26 signatories have deployed nearly US$1 billion aligned with IFACCs Environmental and Social Framework.

IFACC also supported the creation of Catalytic Capital for the Agricultural Transition (CCAT) a Brazilian fund providing subordinated debt to expand deforestation-free soy cattle and agroforestry production. Launched in 2025 with US$50 million CCAT is managed by Vox Capital with TNC serving as Impact Advisor.

Building on this momentum IFACC is now expanding globally engaging financial institutions supply chain companies and catalytic capital providers to channel capital towards a more sustainable agricultural transition.

The Associate Director leads key projects and directs strategies within the global agriculture finance initiative. They will collaborate with TNC global teams TNC field teams UNEP WEF and other partner organizations to design and implement the new global agriculture finance initiative in support of TNCs 2030 goals.

• Bachelors degree and 7 years experience in a private sector environment such as management consulting and investment banking or with a leading conservation organization or government entity or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Experience developing and implementing complex projects and strategic initiatives in an unstructured environment.

• Experience leading and managing large scale projects including working with both internal and external stakeholders.

• Experience negotiating complex agreements.

• Experience working with sustainability and finance issues in the agribusiness sector.

• Experience working in or with companies lenders and investors in the agribusiness sector.

• Multi-lingual skills and/or multi-cultural experience appreciated.

• Outstanding analytical and project management capabilities.

• Superior written and oral communications.

• International work experience is desirable.

• MBA or similar degree with significant coursework in finance or economics.

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