Millar cameron are delighted to be supporting the forest stewardship council (fsc) with the recruitment of a regional director, latin america.the forest stewardship council (fsc) is a global movement uniting forests, people, and markets in the fight against deforestation and climate change. Fsc seeks an exceptional senior leader as regional director, latin america - a pivotal role blending entrepreneurial vision, operational excellence, and collaborative leadership to drive forest stewardship impact across one of the world's most vital regions.you'll operate with significant autonomy as fsc's primary representative for latin america, serving on fsc international's global leadership team while shaping both regional strategy and global direction.you'll lead through influence and empowerment in a highly decentralized environment where implementation authority sits with independent network partners. The role demands an entrepreneurial general manager who can identify opportunities, mobilize resources, build partnerships, and ensure operational excellence across multiple countries while maintaining strategic focus and financial discipline.you'll represent regional interests globally and global priorities regionally.this requires exceptional emotional intelligence, diplomatic skill, strong operational capability, and deep cultural connection to latin america. As a member of fsc international's global leadership team, you'll actively influence fsc's worldwide strategy while adapting it for latin american contexts. You'll identify transformational partnerships, work collaboratively with fsc international functional teams (ecosystem services, policy, market development), represent fsc at high-level events, and foster knowledge sharing across the global network. Lead through networks & relationshipsyou'll strengthen fsc's network partner model by empowering eight autonomous organizations in chile, argentina, brazil, peru, ecuador, bolivia, guatemala, honduras through facilitation, capacity-building, and trust-based relationships. You'll navigate political dynamics with cultural authenticity, serve as a unifying force reinforcing "one fsc," and bridge fsc international with regional stakeholders.you'll provide general management oversight ensuring the region functions as a high-performing, financially sustainable operation. This includes developing and executing business plans and budgets (approximately usd 1 million), driving performance across distributed teams, overseeing recruitment and team development, ensuring compliance with fsc policies, establishing performance indicators, optimizing resource allocation, and building scalable operational infrastructure.you'll sharpen fsc's value proposition to commercial stakeholders, drive certification uptake among key private-sector actors, identify and address market barriers with policymakers, and strengthen fsc's market relevance across the region.you bring 15-20+ years of senior leadership in complex, multi-country or multi-stakeholder environments. You've led with autonomy and entrepreneurial initiative, managed operations and budgets with accountability for results, and built strong track records across latin america with deep cultural fluency and regional credibility. You've demonstrated success leading through influence rather than authority in matrix or networked structures, collaborating across functions and geographies, engaging governments, donors, civil society, and private sector, and operating in politically sensitive, member-driven environments. You've led organizational change and contributed to senior leadership teams.you're fluent in spanish and english (essential) and ideally portuguese.operationally excellent: you balance strategic vision with implementation, build sustainable systems, manage budgets responsibly, set clear expectations, use data to drive improvement, and know when to standardize versus allow flexibility.collaborative & empowering: you work as a partner across functions, create conditions for others to succeed, distribute leadership, and actively share knowledge across networks.you build trust through cultural authenticity and genuine respect for regional identity.fostering learning cultures and knowledge-sharing networksplease note that due to the high volume of applications we receive, we are only able to respond to candidates who are shortlisted for the next stage of the process. Since 2007 millar cameron has specialised in sourcing leadership and keyperson talent across a number of industries, including agribusiness, international development, industrial, consumer, financial and professional services, private equity, and technology, media and telecommunications. Our mission and purpose is to positively contribute to the development of africa, and other emerging markets, through the provision of people.