World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Brand Engagement and Education Specialist
Major Function
The Brand Engagement and Education Specialist will support the development and implementation of brand engagement activities along with playing an instrumental role in developing communication and marketing plans that increase the awareness and drive engagement of WWF’s education program.
World Wildlife Fund - US (WWF-US) seeks a Program and Learning Manager (PLM), for a new conservation leadership fellowship that will cultivate a new generation of leaders to protect the world’s most vital ecosystems. The fellowship will provide long-term mentorship, camaraderie, and experiential learning to a diverse set of early-to-mid-career conservationists. The long-term goal of the fellowship is to build a vibrant community of conservation leaders who can solve complex problems, reach across disciplinary divides, and serve as effective ambassadors for their home ecosystems in international contexts.
The Program and Learning Manager will drive the design and on-the-ground implementation of the fellowship’s programming and learning activities. This will include building meaningful relationships with fellowship participants, attending to their learning needs, and helping them acquire the resources, mentorship, and tools they need to successfully protect their home ecosystems.
The PLM will work closely with the Executive Director to ensure that the high-level vision and philosophy of the program are translated into effective field-learning opportunities, including visits to sites of critical conservation importance and hubs of global decision-making.
The PLM will bring experience in teaching and/or group facilitation and is passionate about helping others succeed. Since fellowship participants will be comprised of people from across the Americas, the PLM’s ability to work effectively in multi-cultural and multi-lingual environments is essential. This position will involve domestic and international travel several times per year.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Associate Video Producer
The Associate Video Producer is a hybrid role with the video team to create videos for various conservation programs including, but not limited to, Oceans, Forests, Food and Freshwater, Species, Markets, and Climate. They will work with video producers and other communicators to build compelling conservation stories and assets. The Associate Video Producer supports all phases of video projects in the studio and in the field as well as the editing of videos for various WWF channels and audiences.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Arctic Fishery Officer
In coordination with the Managing Director, the Arctic Fishery Officer develops and implements the WWF-US Arctic Program fishery engagement strategy for Central Arctic and North Pacific fisheries. Works with the Global Arctic Programme and represents WWF-US at local, regional, national, and international fisheries forums and processes relevant to the Arctic. Engages and partners with US Oceans Team fishery projects. They also work closely with the Managing Director to ensure conservation programs operate efficiently and effectively, including developing fundraising strategies and proposals. Works closely with the Managing Director to establish annual program goals and with individual team members to establish and track performance. Manages and supervises programmatic staff.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Specialist, Education for Nature (Alumni Network and Engagement)
Major Function
Specialist for the Education for Nature (EFN’s) Program will support the implementation of the development and the ever-growing alumni global network of emerging conservation leaders. We are expanding our reach to over 3000 plus EFN alumni across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean who have previously been supported through our funding opportunities at various career stages. The Program Specialist will coordinate and foster activities, processes, and partnerships to build new and existing relationships to ensure EFN’s initiatives adaptively evolve and continue to align with regional and local priorities in WWF’s priority areas.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Operations Coordinator, Country Office Unit (COU)
Major Functions
The Operations Coordinator performs a variety of standard administrative duties, and special projects to ensure the smooth functioning of the Unit’s operations in support of WWF-Country Offices in Latin America, Asia and Africa. This position uses administrative skills, organizational skills, and a detailed knowledge of the organization and its programs and policies to work closely with key functional areas including Conservation, Strategic Operations, Financial Management, Risk Management, Communications, Business Analysis, Knowledge Management, Technology, and logistical support.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Senior Program Officer, US Government Partnerships
Major Function
This position is a member of the US Government Partnerships team within Policy and US Government Affairs, which is responsible for managing relationships with US government officials who oversee conservation and related programs of relevance to WWF.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Senior Program Officer, Shipping Policy and Corporate Engagement.
Major Function
Based in Washington, DC and reporting to the Manager, Ocean Markets, the SPO, Shipping Policy and Corporate Engagement will lead the development and execution of the US-Oceans shipping private sector engagement and policy engagement portfolio of work for the WWF US Office. This will be done in coordination across the WWF Global Network aligning and building on relevant areas of shipping engagement under implementation. This position will focus on global engagement with the sector as well as developing a comprehensive platform of work to support initiatives for work under the WWF US Arctic Program.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Country Director, Central African Republic (CAR)
To develop and lead a high performing Country Office with efficient operating systems, professional and skilled staff, and strong financial resources, delivering conservation impact in places that are key for WWF’s Network Initiatives and other global conservation priorities, positioning it as the leading Conservation INGO nationally, regionally, and globally.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Senior Program Officer - Environmental and Social Safeguards and Gender
Major Function
The SPO will manage gender mainstreaming and safeguards for a portfolio of projects working with the Lead Safeguards Specialist and the Director of Gender, Social Inclusion and Safeguards to oversee all safeguards related functions of the growing WWF Global Environment Facility (GEF) and WWF Green Climate Fund (GCF) portfolio in Washington, DC within the Integration and Performance team.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Senior Administrative Assistant, Global Science
Major Function
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Senior Administrative Assistant for our Global Science Department and Education for Nature Program, at our Washington, DC office. This position performs a variety of standard and frequently complex administrative duties, accounting tasks and special projects to ensure the smooth functioning of the department using administrative skills, organizational skills, and a detailed knowledge of the organization and its programs and policies.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Senior Specialist, Strategic Engagements & Operations
Major Function
The Senior Specialist leads complex project management, communications, and operational duties to ensure the team is aligned and resourced to accelerate WWF’s global goals in Climate & Energy, Food, Forests, Freshwater, Oceans and Wildlife. Our interdisciplinary Global Science Team works closely with partners across our Network and with academic and research partners to advance a coordinated effort that will deliver science and technology for tangible conservation results. This position will be a key partner on the team to strategically engage with staff to coordinate technical input for resource development and scientific agreements, using organizational and writing skills, together with a detailed knowledge of the organization and its programs and policies.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Senior Vice President, Durable Conservation and Finance.
The Montreal Biodiversity Agreement and Paris Climate Agreement brought the nations of the world together to solve the twin problems of biodiversity loss and climate change, and to do so in a way that honors the rights of Indigenous communities and that harnessesblended sources of financing to ensure that the impact of initiatives and investments remain durable over time.
The conservation of nature looms large in both respects. Not only does deforestation and land use contribute an estimated one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions, but habitat loss and degradation is the largest driver of biodiversity loss across the world.
Over the past 10 years WWF hasbuilt an area of expertise in Project Finance for Permanence (PFP) work, and a portfolio of national-scale projects in countries including Brazil, Bhutan, Peru, and Colombia to address the loss of nature ata scale that matters.PFPs have three hallmarks:
- Working with governments, civil society, and local communities on nationwide efforts to expand and sustain conservation areas (comprising protected areas, Indigenous reserves, sustainable use lands,and Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures [OECMs])using inclusive conservation approaches. This initiative supports Target 3 under the Convention on Biological Diversity’s post-2020 global biodiversity framework. Target 3 seeks to ensure that 30%of the world’s terrestrial, inland water, and marine areas are under effective protection and management by the year 2030.
- Harnessing blended financing needed to underwrite these efforts ranging from philanthropy, bilateral and multilateral support, market-based financing, and other mechanisms unique to each country.
- Making sure that the goals, commitments, and measures that underpin these efforts ensure accountability, and are monitored and adapted to make progress over time. All of this will be brought to a head through multi-party single closings, with closing conditions, and disbursement conditions designed to expand conservation toward Target 3.
More recently, WWF has built a core partnership known as Enduring Earth with The Nature Conservancy, Pew, and ZomaLabto advance on global conservation goals. This has brought in other partners including the Moore Foundation, Bezos Earth Foundation, Global Environment Facility, MAC Philanthropies, Wyss Foundation, and many other individual, bilateral, and multilateral institutions to create a movement and replicate this work widely. These efforts may constitute the largest single conservation initiative in the world, not just in scale of finance but also in terms of the scale of impact across protected area systems. It is an unparalleled opportunity to match country-level commitments to expanding and effectively managing conservation areas to external financing and support, and to deliver durable results at a scale that benefits biodiversity and climategoals.
The Senior Vice President manages this work, overseeing our PFP efforts across the world and serving as the WWF lead with the Enduring Earth partnership. The Senior Vice President will oversee WWF’s PFP deals and collaborate intensively with Enduring Earth partners to advance deals country by country that expand conservation areas. This will necessitate, amongst other things, bringing in coalitions of NGOs and investment partners, devising creative financing and capacity initiatives, creating local funds/special purpose vehicles to monitor and disburse funds on a performance basis, and creating tangible benefits for local and Indigenous communities.
Overview
Founded in 1961, WWF is a global non-governmental organization comprising the largest network of multinational conservations organizations in the world. With 6,500 staff globally, WWF works in 100 countries and is supported by more than five million members worldwide. WWF acts at every level, from local to global, to ensure deliveryof innovative solutions that meet the needs of both people and nature. Its mission is toconserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on Earth.
WWF-US is the largest legal entity of the WWF global network, managing offices in the US,parts of Latin America, and parts of Africa and Asia. Headquartered in Washington, DC, it has 1.2 million members, over 1,200 employees worldwide, and program expenditures last year of more than $330 million. The organization is led by President & CEO Carter Roberts and governed by a 24-member Board of Directors(Leadership | WWF).
WWF’s Work on Conservation Areas
WWF is pursuing work in two areas relating to conservation areas: the Enduring Earth Partnership and Protected and Conserved Areas Strategy.
Enduring Earth Partnership
Enduring Earthis an ambitious collaboration of four institutions that works alongside nations and communities to accelerate and amplify conservation for a more sustainable, inclusive, and prosperous future for people and our planet. The initiative is built on the success of a model called Project Finance for Permanence (PFP).This approach secures long-term investment in conservation initiatives by tying full and sustained funding to measurable goals, including social and environmental gains. Projects are collaboratively designed, locally led, nationally supported, sustainably funded, and highly accountable, with the goal of inhibiting nature’s decline and producing robust conservation outcomes at a global scale.
Protected and Conserved Areas Strategy
Area-based conservation is part of WWF’s foundation and a consistent driver of our work, both past and present. The last meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity’s Conference of Parties (CBD COP) set new biodiversity targets, including Target 3 on conservation areas. Meeting this target will require formally recognizing more areas that conserve terrestrial, freshwater, and marine biodiversity and provide ecosystem services for people, while ensuring ecological representation and connectivity, and promoting effective and equitable management. WWF-US’s approach to supporting efforts to achieve these targets brings together our deep expertise in landscape planning and management, protected areas management, climate adaptation and mitigation, and conservation finance, and a growing capacity in OECMs. It aims to secure nature and its benefits for people through inclusive, durable, and resilient systems of conservation areas The Protected and Conserved Areas Strategy effort is led by a senior staffer supported by a small team who work collaboratively with the Senior Vice Presidents for Forests, Oceans, Wildlife, and Global Science, who collectively support area-based conservation, protected areas, and OECMs in priority landscapes and seascapes.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Communications Specialist, Earth for Life.
The Communications Specialist plays an integral role to the communications function on the Earth for Life team, supporting internal and programmatic communications, and providing general communications support for the entire team. The Communications Specialist role is key to providing demand-driven communications support that aligns with long-term, large-scale area-based conservation priorities and showcasing the benefits these initiatives generate for communities, climate, and biodiversity.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organization, seeks a Senior Program Officer (SPO), GIS and Analytics for Nature Based Solutions.
The SPO works closely with the Director, Forest Climate Solutions Impact and Monitoring, several landscape focal points, and the WWF-US Forest Team in the design, impact assessment and monitoring, reporting, and verification of land-based climate change mitigation interventions in countries with tropical forests.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks an Assistant, COO’s Office to provide direct administrative support for the Integrity & Risk team by helping to organize projects, maintaining confidential materials and assisting with tracking finances. The Integrity & Risk team is a new and growing team, reporting to the COO at WWF, that supports and promotes a culture of integrity, risk mitigation, and accountability.
Major Function
The Development Systems Business Analyst provides data, system, and reporting support for the WWF Development Department. At the direction of the Director, Development Systems Partnerships, and Reporting, the Business Analyst assists Development team members with critical day-to-day information and data support, as well as queries and reports from WWF’s Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) system. This position gathers, documents, and evaluates business process requirements from Development Teams, and trains staff on systems functions and processes, as well as creates and maintains a library of process documentation for both the team and the Department. Collaborates with the Senior Development Systems Specialist to gather requirements for reports needed by Development staff.
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is one of the largest independent conservation organizations in the world. Active in almost 100 countries, we have been working in the Congo Basin in Central Africa for more than 20 years. Our mission is to stop environmental degradation in the world and build a future where people live in harmony with nature. For our office in Gabon, we are looking for a dynamic and committed Conservation Manager who will lead the development, implementation and coordination of WWF conservation programs; Ensure the ongoing alignment of the WWF Gabon strategic and conservation plans with national priorities including strong delivery on the WWF Gabon Conservation key performance indicators.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Regional Finance and Grants Manager.
Under the direction of the Senior Director, Program Operation, this position is responsible for the financial management of specific projects/portfolios assigned to the role. The position will manage the budgets, cost proposals, financial tracking, analysis and reporting, grants and agreements, and administrative functions for the assigned portfolio. Responsible for meeting performance measures as outlined in the program operations standards, and for complying with reporting requirements as established by the Vice President of Program Operations. Oversight of program budget and financial management helps to ensure compliance with WWF policies and ensures sound management of WWF revenues used toward accomplishing WWF’s mission. This role may include supervising and mentoring of one or more staff members.
Please Note:
- This position can be based in Washington DC or Kenya
- Selected candidate must be legally authorized to work in one of the two countries.
- Payment will be in the local currency of whichever office the selected person will be based out of and will receive benefits in accordance to local labor law
- Position is not eligible for posting allowances.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Director, Nature-Based Solutions Design and Development.
Major Function
The NbS Design and Development Director’s overarching role is to advise and support place-based technical teams in WWF country offices in the design, development, and implementation of high-quality NbS interventions that are strategically linked to landscape and jurisdictional strategies in WWF priority forest geographies. The Director manages a team of technical and geographically focused landscape focal points who team with country programs in ideation, design, planning and implementation of all NbS-OP funded interventions, maximizing synergies with other major NbS activities in the landscape. This position also works closely with the Impact and Monitoring Director to support the evaluation and monitoring of the interventions for impacts on climate, biodiversity and people.
The Director’s portfolio of priorities includes engaging partners across the WWF network to develop the NbS-OP global landscape pipeline globally. The Director is also responsible for working with WWF country programs to test and improve replicable operational models for north-south partnerships, and to ensure that the NbS-OP team works effectively as the technical implementation arm of the country teams.