World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Senior Program Officer, Climate.   Major Function The Senior Program Officer, Climate will support the organization-wide climate strategy by helping to develop evidence-based metrics that are aligned across the organization, with a particular focus on land carbon and engaging in WWF’s corporate-facing work on climate change mitigation in the land sector.   The Senior Program Officer will be responsible for project management; support in development of carbon metrics; support in implementation of technical methods and tools to support the WWF-US Science-Based Targets work; and engagement in multistakeholder mitigation groups and of business and key stakeholders.

World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Director, Waterscapes.   Major Function World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Director to serve as a technical expert and thought leader on freshwater climate adaptation and resilience and to support area-based conservation and fundraising across WWF-US priority Waterscapes (i.e., river and lake basins). The Director, Waterscapes will be responsible for supporting a portfolio of freshwater projects across multiple geographies with an emphasis on climate adaptation and resilience and area-based conservation. The Director will lead proposal development and manage complex donor-funded projects which support freshwater climate adaptation, resilience, and area-based conservation, contribute to learning and collaboration across WWF Goal teams, and commission and lead innovations in mechanisms for freshwater ecosystem conservation and restoration. The Director will also help build and advise on strategic partnerships with other key institutions and identify and strengthen linkages across WWF-US teams and the wider WWF network.

World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Manager, Blue Finance (Blended Financial Models).    Major Function The Manager, Blue Finance (Blended Financial Models) will work with the Senior Director of Blue Finance to support the development and implementation of specific sustainable financing mechanisms (e.g. taxes, fees, royalties, etc.) for ocean-related projects. Specifically, the person in this role will work closely with other internal teams including the Earth for Life team and the Climate Finance team, amongst others, within WWF US to develop and support a portfolio of ocean-related projects. Through its Earth for Life team, WWF has a track record of designing and executing Project Finance for Permanence (PFP) initiatives that create sustainable funding for priority land and seascapes, particularly within the context of protected and conserved areas. These efforts are critical to making sure that our conservation goals under the Oceans team strategy are long-lasting and embedded within the country and communities where they are based.  Increasingly, these approaches can incorporate or develop in parallel innovative financing schemes that create investable projects or businesses to also support the overarching goals of reaching a sustainable blue economy. Similarly, WWF’s Climate Finance Team leads work to develop projects that support countries to meet climate mitigation and adaptation goals through multiple programmes including the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and a newly launched origination platform for Nature-Based Solutions. The focus of the work initially will be largely, but not exclusively, on coastal marine ecosystems such as mangroves and other ‘blue forest’ opportunities. The Manager will therefore support the development of ocean-related financing initiatives in close collaboration with other internal WWF teams and as aligned to the WWF US ocean priorities. With their proven experience, the Manager will be responsible for inputting their expertise on sustainable financing for a blue economy into project origination and design and using their strong project management skills to create an efficient and effective working relationship between these major projects and programmes and across teams. The Manager will present to and represent WWF in relevant internal and external meetings and conferences, with partners, private sector representatives and donors. They will also liaise internally and externally across the WWF network to find alignment and opportunity in this area of work.

World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Benefits Specialist.    Major Function The Benefits Specialist role administers and provides stakeholder and customer support WWF’s benefits and wellness programs.  This role works with employees and managers on benefits-related matters and is the primary point of contact for benefits and wellness inquiries.  This role administers all daily benefits activities in the system and works with the HRIS team to maintain accuracy of the benefits data in various systems. 

World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Senior Development Officer, Gift Planning.   Major Function The Development Officer works with donors and prospects within an assigned region to cultivate, qualify and close gifts to WWF in wills, trusts, or other estate planning vehicles, including life income gifts. This position is also responsible for ongoing stewardship of these donors through continued outreach including letters, emails, calls, and in-person visits. The Development Officer acts as gift planning resource for other regional fundraising staff, collaborating to close gifts and steward donors, and working towards WWF fundraising goals.

World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Senior Communications Specialist, Government Affairs & Advocacy.   Major Function The communications specialist will create and adapt content and outreach materials to advance WWF’s public policy priorities, develop and implement proactive engagement with US government officials, in coordination with the Market & Communications division and other teams across the organization. The individual will work within the Policy and Government Affairs team to identify communications priorities working as part of a dynamic and transparent team environment and in close collaboration with relevant WWF substance experts from across the organization. The individual will be responsible for positively promoting WWF’s brand and reputation with a USG government audience. As needed, the communications specialist will develop communications aimed for an internal WWF audience.

World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Policy Advocate.    Major Function Under the direction of the Senior Director for Policy and Government Affairs, and in collaboration with the broader Policy and Government Affairs (PGA) team, including senior leadership, supports and advances policy advocacy efforts, policy formulation, relationship management with US government partners, and external communications around assigned issues. This position is intended to have a strong focus on US government action, domestically and internationally, to achieve WWF US objectives around plastics pollution, materials, and a circular economy. It may also involve targeted engagement at the state level on these issues. The focus of the position may change over time as WWF priorities and external opportunities evolve.    The Policy Advocate will work to design and implement policy advocacy strategies to achieve US government actions that support WWF's goals and objectives, working in collaboration with colleagues on other WWF teams, particularly the Private Sector Engagement, Media and External Affairs, and Activism and Outreach teams. In close coordination with PGA team leadership and members of the Private Sector Engagement team, the Policy Advocate will conduct external outreach to executive branch agencies and congressional offices, including direct lobbying, acting as a WWF representative and advocate for the organization’s policy priorities and engaging a range of external audiences. As a professional-level contributor specializing in policy, advocacy, and conservation, they will assist in creating, executing on, and tracking strategies to achieve WWF’s priority policy objectives, as determined in collaboration with other PGA team members and staff on relevant WWF program teams. They will also contribute to the design and implementation of strategies and content for external communications supporting US government advocacy strategies and objectives, including strategic use of online advocacy tools, social media, web content, and other written communications materials.   Specific responsibilities will include representing WWF with US government stakeholders in Congress and the Administration; representing WWF with relevant NGO partners and external coalitions; and advancing WWF's overall access, influence, and relationships with the US government. Responsibilities may also include some state-level advocacy as well as managing external consultants and budgets and junior staff. The Policy Advocate will need to track and report on all lobbying and US government outreach on behalf of WWF and must be willing to register as a federal lobbyist.   The successful candidate will help ensure strong and effective communication and collaboration within the PGA team and across WWF more broadly by actively promoting coordination, information sharing, and team building to leverage the organization's expertise, brand, and relationships in order to achieve WWF policy objectives with the US government.

World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Senior Director, Herencia Colombia Project Finance for Permanence Lead.   Major Function The Senior Director leads WWF US’ engagement for implementation of the Herencia Colombia (HECO) Project Finance for Permanence (PFP) Initiative. The PFP secures $245 million USD of public and private finance to permanently protect 30 million hectares of iconic Colombian landscapes and seascapes. It will facilitate significant progress toward Colombia’s 30X30 target to protect 30% of its land and 30% of its seas by 2030 and locks in a regional cluster of PFP initiatives that, together, provide permanent protections for approximately 12% of the entire Amazon rainforest.   The HECO PFP will report to the Vie-President, Earth for Life (EFL) and collaborate through a dotted line reporting relationship with the Vice-President, Climate Finance.  Key internal partners will include the Senior Counsel for EFL, the Managing Director for the Amazon, Development, and technical teams to oversee WWF’s engagement in the implementation of the HECO PFP. She/he will represent WWF US’ in all in-country relationships with all HECO partners and donors, and support WWF US’ representative on the HECO PFP Steering Committee.

World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Sr. Media Assistant.   Major Function The Sr. Media Assistant on the Media & External Affairs (MXA) team performs a variety of standard and frequently complex administrative and secretarial duties related to implementing external communications and media strategies. This includes a special focus on secretarial support for the Vice President, administrative responsibilities for the MXA team as a unit, and media relations projects to ensure the smooth functioning of the team to advance WWF’s conservation priorities. 

World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Director, Freshwater & Food Transformation, Sustainable Commodities. Major Function World Wildlife Fund (WWF) one of the world’s leading conservation organization, seeks a Director, to the Freshwater & Food Transformation team’s engagement in major initiatives to drive responsible demand for commodities. In this role, the Director leads and implements global strategies to achieve sustainable supply chains and develops new initiatives for the Freshwater & Food team to contribute to these strategies.   In addition, the Director will represent the Freshwater & Food team in various internal and external working groups, steering committees, meetings, conferences, etc. to drive alignment around WWF’s strategies for sustainable commodities on issues that include deforestation and conversion-free commodities; developing and reviewing strategic documents or reports including WWF global commodity strategies and major corporate engagement initiatives; exploring other new programmatic areas and funding opportunities for the WWF-US Freshwater & Food; and other strategic planning activities.

World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Senior Assistant.   Major Function The Senior Assistant helps colleagues within the Marketing department with administrative tasks and assists with program implementation related to event planning, member stewardship, and fundraising. The position will interact with members of the team as well as colleagues across Communications & Marketing, Accounting, IT, and elsewhere to ensure that a variety of reports, mailings, invoices, and other items are managed efficiently and effectively.

World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Senior Specialist, Marine Community Conservation as part of the WWF-US Oceans team. Under the supervision of the Senior Director of Science and Seascapes, the Senior Specialist will support efforts to strengthen governance and management of community led area-based conservation and/or artisanal fisheries, implementation of other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs), and leveraging linkages to markets and blue finance work.   Initial work will focus in Chile, with possibility to support future efforts in other countries.  The incumbent will liaise with diverse stakeholders to identify the right mix of tools and interventions for collective impact. The incumbent will ensure this work connects broadly to global conservation policy dialogue (i.e. 30 x 30 initiative, CBD, FAO), as well as internally to the WWF-US Oceans Strategy, the WWF Network, and the implementation team at WWF-Chile. Additionally, this position will work closely with the monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) team to design an implementation plan and ensure the program’s alignment with WWF’s objectives, strategies, and goals.

World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Senior Program Officer, Nature-Based Solutions.   Major Function The Senior Program Officer, Nature-Based Solutions will support key WWF country teams and their partners in forest geographies in the ideation, design, planning and implementation of forest and land use policies, programs and incentive systems that collectively address drivers of deforestation and degradation at scale. In collaboration with forest and climate team members, this role will help WWF country offices and partners to build support for land policy reforms, including establishing linkages with subnational/national REDD+ programs and Nationally-Determined Contributions (NDCs), and develop external support through elaboration of funding proposals and/or place-based corporate partnerships.

World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Senior Program Officer, Area Based Conservation Planning and Finance.   Major Function World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the world’s leading conservation organization, seeks a Senior Program Officer for area based conservation and financial planning on the Earth for Life team, preferably located at our Washington, DC office. This role involves developing detailed conservation plans and financial models for Project Finance for Permanence and other initiatives that provide long-term financial support to area based conservation programs. The Senior Program Officer will work on concurrent projects based in different countries; develop and manage working relationships with WWF staff, partner organizations and consultants; and guide and train counterparts based abroad on financial modeling and related processes. As part of WWF’s broader Conservation Finance Community of Practice, the Senior Program Officer will collaborate with finance professionals from across the organization on the development, design, and implementation of priority initiatives. The Senior Program Officer will report to the Senior Director of Strategic Planning and Finance in the Earth for Life Initiative.

World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Senior Program Officer, Area Based Conservation Planning and Finance.   Major Function World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the world’s leading conservation organization, seeks a Senior Program Officer for area based conservation and financial planning on the Earth for Life team, preferably located at our Washington, DC office. This role involves developing detailed conservation plans and financial models for Project Finance for Permanence and other initiatives that provide long-term financial support to area based conservation programs. The Senior Program Officer will work on concurrent projects based in different countries; develop and manage working relationships with WWF staff, partner organizations and consultants; and guide and train counterparts based abroad on financial modeling and related processes. As part of WWF’s broader Conservation Finance Community of Practice, the Senior Program Officer will collaborate with finance professionals from across the organization on the development, design, and implementation of priority initiatives. The Senior Program Officer will report to the Senior Director of Strategic Planning and Finance in the Earth for Life Initiative.

World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Senior Program Officer GCF Accredited Entity.   Major Functions   World Wildlife Fund (WWF-US), one of the world’s leading environment organizations, seeks a Senior Program Officer (SPO) for its Green Climate Fund (GCF) Accredited Entity (AE) unit, part of the WWF-US Climate Team. The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is the world’s largest dedicated fund helping developing countries reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and enhance their ability to respond to climate change in line with the Paris Agreement. Based on specialized fiduciary and programming expertise, accredited entities partner with GCF and developing countries to carry out activities that include the development of GCF funding proposals and the management and monitoring of projects and programs funded by the GCF.  Working closely with other members of the GCF Accredited Entity unit and other teams across WWF (including staff from finance, legal, safeguards and operations), the SPO engages and coordinates national governments, donor country agencies, private sector entities and WWF Offices in oversight of their execution of medium-sized ($50m-$250m) GCF projects in Bhutan and others that will come online in Latin America over the next year. These projects are focused on assisting national governments and local partner organizations to address climate change adaptation and mitigation challenges within protected area systems through a Project Finance for Permanence (PFP) approach.

World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Senior Program Officer, Forest Carbon Accounting.    Major Function The Forest Carbon Accounting Senior Program Officer (SPO) collaborates closely with multiple 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 tropical forest countries. Works closely with WWF-US Forest team and WWF country teams and partners in the design, evaluation, elaboration and incorporation of ex-ante and ex-post forest-associated emissions estimates as needed for programmatic work planning, proposal elaboration, and impact assessment. Liaises with WWF country teams and their technical counterparts in government on alignment of methodologies with national forest monitoring systems and/or greenhouse gas reporting. Elaborates and delivers forest carbon-related guidance and products as needed for WWF-US and partners’ programmatic work. Contributes to building WWF-US, WWF country teams, and partners’ capacities for delivery and improvement of estimates of forest-based contributions to climate change mitigation and adaptation.

World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Senior Program Officer, Sustainable Infrastructure Initiative.    Major Function The Senior Program Officer (SPO) manages work as a key member of WWF’s Sustainable Infrastructure Initiative team.  This initiative is focused on the goal of driving the world’s future infrastructure to serve the needs of both people and our planet. The position involves researching, developing, communicating, raising funds for, scaling up, and managing conservation projects, policy and finance sector engagement and advocacy work, and partnerships that will accelerate a global shift in infrastructure development norms.  The SPO will work in collaboration with WWF US teams, other WWF offices, external partner organizations, and focal country government counterparts, to manage critical components of the Infrastructure Initiative portfolio.

World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Senior Administrative Assistant, Integration and Performance, GEF Agency, and Conservation Finance at our Washington, DC office.   Major Function This position performs a variety of standard and frequently complex administrative duties, accounting tasks and special projects to ensure the smooth functioning of a number of units supporting the Chief Conservation Officer including the Performance and Integration team, GEF Agency Team, and Conservation Finance Team. Uses administrative skills, organizational skills, and a detailed knowledge of the organization and its programs and policies to further programmatic goals of these teams. 

World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Director, Compensation and Benefits.   Major Function Plans, directs, implements, and manages the competitive, equitable, efficient, and compliant operation of all total rewards activities which include, but are not limited to WWF’s health and welfare plans, international compensation and benefit programs, job family and compensation structure, annual merit increases, and rewards and recognition program.