DESIGN FICTION: EVP, Panthera
DESIGN FICTION: EVP, PANTHERA
Mumbai, 2035
Biophilitas is looking for an Executive Vice President, Big Cats to join our team in Mumbai.
Biophilitas helps NGOs, zoos and wildlife organisations implement strategies to ensure the preservation and flourishing of all of earths plants and animals. Biophilitas is a semi-private arm of the UN with accountability and ownership in specific jurisdictions (more below).
Biophilitas' sister organisation GaiaMetrics is the world-leading platform for species health-tracking allowing organisations to manage, track, and achieve their unique conservation goals — all through a single, powerful solution. GaiaMetrics consumer platform is the fastest growing Biophilia-for-enterprise app worldwide.
With offices in Mumbai, Manaus, Dakota, Edmonton, Vladivostok, Nairobi, Kinshasa, Xinxiang and Shimla, we are a team that puts biodiversity and the experience of biodiversity action at the heart of our workstyle. We strive for the best solutions and ensure that pan-species Design Thinking is central to everything we do.
Our offices are open, collaborative environments where our team and individual accomplishments are celebrated, encouraged and deeply embedded and symbiotic with the ecosystems we help to flourish.
Doing the vital work of preserving biodiversity should be fun, flow-worthy and full of life-rewarding experiences.
We are looking for a EVP, Panthera to join our team to focus on building and executing conservation and flourishing strategies that will safe-guard Big Cats populations globally to 1.5 million.
What will I be doing?
As EVP, Panthera you will be responsible and accountable for the conservation and flourishing of each member of the Big Cats family globally.
Currently there are 450,000 Big Cats globally and are classified as in-peril with 5 sub-species at or near extinction. You will own Biophilitas' target of moving this to 900,000 by 2040.
Lead a team of Species Managers to achieve their conservation results. Fostering a sense of ownership, accountability and conscious interdependence to achieve challenging goals whilst maintaining a positive and supportive work environment.
Prioritise long-term species strategies ahead of short-term conservation gains and publicity.
You will be responsible for the genus, species and sub-species flourishing vision and strategy and ensuring that it aligns with the long term organisational goals of Biophilitas.
Drive complex, ambiguous conservation, ecosystem regeneration and species re-introduction.
Track & report on species flourishing and intervention effectiveness.
Hire and develop talent in the team through recruiting activities, evangelisation and coaching team members to growth.
Manage the relationship with UN, governments and international NGOs working on Big Cats and associated species and ecosystems.
What skills do I need?
Proven managerial experience in species management. Demonstrated ability to achieve results through others.
Ability to build effective cross-functional, cross-domain and international relationship and influence others without direct authority.
Demonstrated ability to drive results through delivery of complex, ambiguous new ecosystem development, in a fast-paced VUCA environment.
Ability to effectively manage a portfolio of responsibilities, build roadmaps, make difficult trade-offs the balance the needs of different species, organisations, governments and societies.
Mastery of communication skills - written, video, AI-interaction and verbal.
Strong background in data and intervention management - ideally with proven success in multi-agent RCTs.
Strong storytelling skills and ability to create compelling messaging that speaks to stakeholder pain-points, incentives and fears.
Don’t worry if you do not tick every box. We’re always happy to review applications from exceptional individuals and take all experience into consideration. We do our best to provide fast feedback within 24 hours.
