Conservation Lead

PURPOSE

Urvara's buyer demand only matters if capital and action can be routed into high-quality conservation outcomes. This role makes the supply side credible, screened, partner-ready, and grounded in ecological reality.

WHAT THIS PERSON WILL OWN

• Restoration and conservation supply partnerships across NGOs, community organizations, scientific institutions, landholders, and project developers.
• Project screening, quality filters, partner due diligence, and delivery readiness.
• Ecosystem service exchange, PES, and stewardship execution pathways.
• Partner coordination across pilots, field implementation, reporting, and escalation.
• Biodiversity monitoring and evidence systems with scientific and operational partners.
• Translation between ecological reality, partner capacity, and buyer-facing commitments.

FIRST 90 DAYS

• Partner map - Build a prioritized map of restoration / conservation partners and project types.
• Quality filter - Create a project-screening rubric that separates credible, finance-ready opportunities from weak ones.
• Pilot paths - Move FES / LGT, ATREE, CRB, and related pathways into clearer scope and ownership.
• Monitoring - Define the early biodiversity monitoring approach and package 2-3 buyer-ready supply opportunities.

WHAT GOOD LOOKS LIKE

• Urvara can confidently say what it will deliver, where, with whom, and how quality will be checked.
• Field partners see Urvara as useful, serious, and respectful rather than extractive.
• Buyer-facing claims stay grounded in ecological reality.
• Conservation supply becomes a repeatable delivery system, not a list of relationships.

IDEAL PROFILE

• 7-12+ years across conservation, restoration, biodiversity, ecosystem services, forestry, land, watershed, regenerative agriculture, or environmental program delivery.
• Strong operating judgment in field partnerships and project quality.
• Able to work with scientists, NGOs, funders, companies, and founder-stage teams.
• Bonus: PES, biodiversity credits, MRV, community stewardship, India restoration networks, or nature-based solutions.

NOT A FIT IF

• You want a purely research, policy, or advocacy role.
• You are uncomfortable translating field reality into commercial and investor-facing language.
• You cannot balance ecological seriousness with startup speed.

SHARED BAR

• Builder mindset: willing to create the first version of systems, not just operate mature ones.
• High ownership: can turn ambiguity into priorities, documents, conversations, and shipped artifacts.
• Strong writing: proposals, follow-ups, partner notes, specs, rubrics, and internal memos must be crisp.
• Domain humility: can work across nature, business, finance, data, and field realities without pretending any one
• lens is enough.
• Low-ego collaboration: the first team is small; everyone will sell, write, coordinate, and fix broken workflows.

Bottom line: build the first repeatable system, not just the first successful example.