The Director – Programmes will play a critical leadership role in shaping and implementing ATREE’s research vision. This role involves providing intellectual and managerial direction, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence, and ensuring strategic coherence and high impact across ATREE’s programmes. The Director will also build and nurture collaborations, oversee monitoring, evaluation, and learning systems, and support resource mobilisation.

The position will work closely with the Programme Leads, the Centre for Policy Design, the Academy for Conservation Science and Sustainability Studies, the Development Office, and Communications at ATREE.

This is a full-time position, based in Bengaluru, India, and reports to the Executive Director of ATREE.

About ATREE 

The Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) was established in 1996 as a non-profit organisation headquartered in Bangalore, India, with an initial focus on assessment and monitoring of biodiversity. Over the years, ATREE has built global recognition and credibility as an institution focused on rigorous interdisciplinary knowledge generation for use by policy and practice, towards environmental conservation and sustainable, socially just development.

ATREE is today a premier institution in India that encompasses an academy focused on developing the next generation of scholars and environmental leaders; research centres focused on science-based knowledge and evidence for influencing policy and scaling practice; and community-based conservation centres focused on grassroots solutions, rooted in participatory approaches and democratic institutions.

ATREE envisions a society committed to environmental conservation and sustainable, socially just development. ATREE strives to deliver on its vision, mission, goals, and objectives through four key impact pathways—Research, Action, Policy, and Education—with its work focusing on issues of biodiversity conservation, ecosystem restoration, land rights and livelihoods, forest governance, water security and governance, and sustainable agriculture in rural and/or urban contexts.