Biodiversity & Nature Markets Scientist

As part of our Biodiversity Credits Program at TNC you will work with our Global Science Team to build the scientific foundation for our strategy to engage in emerging biodiversity markets. You will support credible equitable and scalable approaches to biodiversity crediting in alignment with TNCs mission and our ambitions 2030 Goals.

In this role you will contribute to high-impact research publications and conceptual frameworks that strengthen our understanding of functional and equitable biodiversity credit markets. You will build a scientific agenda that focuses on biodiversity measurement and unit consolidation biodiversity market mechanisms and biodiversity credit outcome integrity.

By partnering across our organization academic institutions NGOs and global initiatives you will help build the collaborative scientific infrastructure needed to move biodiversity markets from early experimentation to a robust and trusted nature finance tool within a broader finance toolbox. You will design and facilitate scientific convenings working groups and expert dialogues.

The location for this position is negotiable for locations where TNC is an established NGO. No immigration/visa sponsorship or relocation assistance is available with this position.

TNC is seeking a biodiversity scientist with publications and experience in biodiversity nature markets and credit frameworks including work related to private sector engagement and nature-positive initiatives who thrives in a dynamic fast-evolving environment and is energized by the potential for rapid growth of nature markets.

This role will:

• Play a central part in advancing TNCs science agenda for biodiversity credits with a particular focus on biodiversity measurement and accounting.

• Identify priority scientific gaps and research questions that must be addressed to scale positive biodiversity outcomes through responsible use of credits.

• Translate emerging biodiversity science into clear actionable insights that can inform strategy policy and market engagement across TNC.

• Evaluate and synthesize global biodiversity datasets and emerging biodiversity monitoring technologies.

• Develop and articulate scientific narratives frameworks and foundations needed to strengthen the integrity coherence and credibility credits globally.

• Span highly collaborative applied research teams engage with external scientific partners write and contribute to scientific community building.

• Contribute scientific expertise to biodiversity credit projects helping assess feasibility risks and outcome integrity from early design stages through to implementation.

• Consider biodiversity market design principles including demand signals fungibility and scalability across regulated and voluntary contexts.

The ideal candidate is a strong applied biodiversity scientist with an interest in emerging biodiversity markets. Your insights through this role will advance both TNCs positioning and the field as a whole. You have knowledge of nature markets and nature finance including voluntary and compliance biodiversity markets key standard-setting bodies and the policy landscape driving biodiversity market demand. You are someone who has demonstrated rigorous thinking highquality writing and crossdisciplinary collaboration. You have experience in shaping the scientific underpinnings of a rapidly evolving field to build shared understanding and momentum around how biodiversity outcomes are defined measured and credited. You bring proven credibility and communication skills to represent TNCs science in both internal and external settings. This position offers a unique opportunity to influence the future of biodiversity markets by ensuring markets develop grounded in science and aligned with realworld conservation outcomes.

• Masters Degree in sciencerelated field and 4 years of experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Demonstratedrecord ofpeer-reviewed publications in relevanthigh-impact journals.

• Knowledge of compliance and voluntary nature markets nature-positive initiatives or nature finance.

• Experience manipulatinganalyzingand interpreting statistical or environmental data.

• Experience fundraising and/or writing grants and research proposals.

• Experience leading orparticipatingoncross functional teams.

• Experience managing complex projects including the financial aspect and coordinating the work of peers and partners.

• Experience working and communicating with a wide range of people.

• PhD and 1-3 years experience.

• Multi-language skills and cross-cultural experience appreciated.

• Experience in interdisciplinary science efforts that balance the rigors of science with the pragmatic needs of practitioners and policy experts.

• Familiarity with credit standards bodies certification schemes market governance voluntary corporate nature disclosures and targets or naturepositive accounting approaches.

• Ability to convene and facilitate multi-stakeholder groups and build working relationships across disciplines.

• Experience with rapidly evolving biodiversity science technologies such as agentic systems biodiversity monitoring technologies including eDNA acoustic monitoring or camera traps and experience working with associated data biodiversity MRV and biodiversity metrics

• Experience exercising independent scientific judgment in defining research approaches and analytical methods.

• Ability to work across global time zones and ability to travel.