World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Analytics Intern.   The Analytics team seeks an intern for Artificial Intelligence research and implementation. In this role, the intern will contribute to research and development of solutions that leverage artificial intelligence in awareness initiatives, fundraising and marketing efforts for environmental conservation.   Intern Project The aim of this internship is to actively engage with the evolving field of Artificial Intelligence, ensuring that WWF can effectively apply the latest AI technologies and methods to enhance our marketing and fundraising efforts. The intern will be crucial to help WWF’s analytics team stay on top of the latest developments in AI through academic and industry research. Their role will be beneficial to identify new technologies, methodologies and best practices so we can leverage AI to improve user engagement and optimize donor experiences. Key areas of focus and specific responsibilities for the intern will include: - Research and Benchmarking: Investigate how leading companies and non-profits are utilizing AI in digital marketing. - Development and Testing of AI solutions: The intern will actively participate in the development of test prototypes for innovative AI applications. This will involve using Python and other relevant programming languages, as well as understanding and utilizing APIs to create and integrate solutions. - Enhancement of Current AI implementations: The analytics team has already begun implementing AI for content generation, content categorization and development of interactive AI such as chatbots. The intern will help build upon the team’s existing efforts and assist in refining these tools. - Presenting findings and progress to the analytics team and marketing department.

World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Plastic Policy Events and Research Intern.   WWF Overview  For 60 years, WWF has worked to help people and nature thrive.  As one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, WWF works in more than 100 countries, connecting cutting-edge conservation science with the collective power of our partners in the field – more than one million supporters in the United States and five million globally, as well as partnerships with communities, companies, and governments.     Our vision for diversity, equity, and inclusion at WWF is an organization as diverse as the world we protect where the richness of all our unique views, experiences, and backgrounds combines to create the most sustainable and inclusive conservation outcomes possible – bringing the greatest benefit to the planet and every person who lives in it.     Across the many cultures and individuals that represent WWF, we are unified by one mission, one brand, and one common set of values: Courage, Respect, Integrity, and Collaboration.     Position Summary  WWF seeks a part-time Plastic Policy Events and Research Intern for 6 months beginning in mid-January 2024. The intern will work closely with members of WWF’s Plastic & Materials Science Team within the Private Sector Engagement department and will be supervised by the Program Specialist, Global Plastics Policy. This internship provides an opportunity to support engagement with high level policymakers and business stakeholders; improve research, event management, and project coordination skills in a professional setting; gain knowledge about corporate sustainability, public policy, and environmental issues; and contribute to WWF’s mission. The Intern will support the planning and execution of the WWF Plastic Policy Summit and other events and will produce research and writing products focused on opportunities to reduce plastic pollution.

World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Compensation Analyst   Major Function:   Under direction of the Director, Total Rewards this position will assist in the implementation, and management of a competitive, equitable, efficient, and compliant operation of all compensation activities which include, but are not limited to international compensation programs, job family and compensation structure, annual merit increases, and rewards and recognition program.

World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Senior Assistant   Major Function The Senior Assistant (SA) will support WWF Forest Team’s work to address threats and conserve the world’s forests to sustain nature’s diversity, benefit our climate, and support human well-being. The SA will work closely with the Sr. Executive Program Operations Specialist to ensure an elevated level of efficiency and functionality is provided to senior leaders of the Forest Team by promoting coordination and cohesion across the team and fostering internal and external relationships for the success of several sub-teams, including but not limited to the Team Management Unit, Amazon, Infrastructure, and Congo Basin Teams. The SA will bring experience in calendar management and system processes along with provisions of operating systems which intersect within teams. The SA is an experienced collaborator and is enthusiastic about helping others, but also adapts to working independently. The SA will demonstrate proficiency in administrative and organizational skills, and detailed knowledge of the organization policies and programs.

World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Senior Program Officer, Circular Supply Chain Business Engagement    Major Function and Background This role will work directly with the Circular Supply Chain Manager, other staff in the WWF Food Loss and Waste department, and WWF’s Private Sector Engagement team. They will primarily support project management, business engagement, and communications surrounding our voluntary agreement programs, including the Pacific Coast Food Waste Commitment and the set-to-launch in 2024 new U.S. Food Waste Pact (FWP). The role will also support our one-on-one corporate partnerships, platforms like HotelKitchen.org, and other food loss and waste circular supply chain initiatives.    Background on the U.S. Food Waste Pact - With 38% of food being wasted, Americans facing food insecurity, and climate change posing an ever-greater threat, there is no time (or food) to waste. The U.S. FWP is calling on leading food businesses across the supply chain to join its efforts to: 1) develop the nation’s leading food waste measurement and benchmarking, and 2) pilot innovative and scalable solutions that pave the way forward for more businesses across the country to cost-effectively reduce food waste. U.S. Food Waste Pact businesses and partners commit to work to reduce food waste in the U.S. by 50% by 2030, a critical step toward building a circular and more sustainable supply chain.

World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Corporate Due Diligence Intern.   Major Function Due diligence is part of the full lifecycle of our corporate engagement process and helps WWF assess the potential areas of risk and opportunity and the strategic value of every WWF corporate partnership. WWF’s corporate due diligence approach examines potential corporate partners’ structure and operations as well as its environmental, social and governance policy, performance, and impacts. This paid internship provides an opportunity to practice project coordination and administrative skills in a professional setting, gain knowledge about corporate sustainability, global environmental issues, and contribute to WWF’s mission. The intern will work closely with members of WWF’s Private Sector Engagement and Development Teams. The work will involve processing requests and developing internal WWF resources and tools for corporate due diligence. 

World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Natural Capital Postdoctoral Fellow   Major Function The Natural Capital Project is a partnership among WWF and Stanford, University of Minnesota, The Nature Conservancy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Stockholm Resilience Centre. Through pioneering science, cutting-edge technology, and collaborative partnerships worldwide, the Natural Capital Project works to integrate the value nature provides to people into all major decisions. (Learn more at https://www.worldwildlife.org/projects/the-natural-capital-project). This position would be co-advised by the Global Biodiversity Lead Scientist Becky Chaplin-Kramer at WWF and Professor of Ecological/Environmental Economics Steve Polasky. The Natural Capital Postdoctoral Fellow works closely with the Global Science team and with country offices throughout the WWF network to evaluate nature’s contributions to people, associated with WWF’s conservation strategies and management. This role uses a variety of qualitative and quantitative assessment approaches, modeling techniques, remote-sensing imagery and in-situ data to capture the delivery of benefits from nature-based solutions. The Natural Capital Postdoctoral Fellow also plays a key role in the Natural Capital Project partnership – an effort to map, measure, and value nature's contributions to people using a diverse portfolio of modeling tools (including InVEST, the Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Trade-offs, the flagship tool of the Natural Capital Project).

World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Senior Program Officer, Oceans Program   Major Function The Senior Program Officer is a key member of several teams and has a role as thought leader and project manager for WWF work on fisheries policy, fisheries governance, and illegal fishing.  The Senior Program Officer will be responsible for developing and coordinating responsible fisheries governance initiatives with multiple partners and will advocate and communicate the nature and results of our work to governments, partner organizations, and the public.

Request for Expression of Interest for Consulting Firm(s) to Develop Environmental and Social Management Framework and other safeguards and gender documents for two projects entitled: “Strengthening Ecological and Livelihood Resilience in the Southern Belize Reef Complex” and “Resilient, Bold Belize”.   Location:                      Belize Consultancy Type:         Short-term Contract Consultancy Duration:   3 - 6 months Start Date:                   January 2024 Language required:       English   The World Wildlife Fund Mesoamerica Office requires consulting services for the development of an Environmental and Social Management Framework and other safeguards and gender documents for two different projects, both based in Belize. These projects are: - “Strengthening Ecological and Livelihood Resilience in the Southern Belize Reef Complex” funded by the Blue Action Fund, and - “Resilient, Bold Belize” funded by the GEF   “Strengthening Ecological and Livelihood Resilience in the Southern Belize Reef Complex” (SBRC), is a field project, seeking to strengthen the resilience of the species and ecosystems of the SBRC while providing local communities access to nature-based livelihoods, as well as (restorative) climate adaptation measures. The project aims to have a new protected area declaration and strengthen protected areas management in the SBRC. This is a 5-year project to be executed by World Wildlife Fund Mesoamerica along with its partners Southern Environmental Association (SEA), and Humana People to People Belize through funding provided by the Blue Action Fund. This project focuses on the Southern Belize Reef Complex and targets 7 southern Belize communities.   “Resilient Bold Belize (RBB)” is a project finance for permanence (PFP) initiative focused on Belize’s coastal and marine protected areas and connected ecosystems. RBB aims to secure long term institutional and policy reforms to support the effective management of Belize’s coastal and marine protected areas and connected ecosystems, strengthen the resilience of coastal communities, while instituting a sustainable long term financing mechanism. Led by the Blue Bond Finance Permanent Unit of the Prime Minister Office, this project is being designed by the Government of Belize along with the World Wildlife Fund through funding provided by the Global Environmental Facility (GEF). This project’s scope is nationwide and GEF funding is for five years.   Despite the partly different scopes, approaches and timelines, the projects are closely aligned in that: a) both projects will take place simultaneously in Belize; b) there is programmatic synergy between them; c) there is an overlap in the communities targeted by both projects.   Although both projects largely follow the same guidelines in what pertains to safeguards and gender, separate safeguards documents are needed according to different donor standards and templates. However, the development of the required safeguard and gender documents could be developed concurrently by one consulting firm. Please note, that all deliverables for the project “Strengthening Ecological and Livelihood Resilience in the Southern Belize Reef Complex” shall be completed within the first three months of the consultancy. The deliverables for Resilient Bold Belize should be completed within six months.   Full terms of references for each project are annexed.   The World Wildlife Fund now invites eligible consulting firms to submit technical and financial proposals for the development of Environmental and Social Management Frameworks and other safeguards and gender documents for either one or both above projects.   The consulting team should have the following expertise:   The team leader (international or national expert) should demonstrate: - At least a master’s degree in forestry, water resource management, environmental management, environmental sciences, natural resource management, anthropology, social science, or another closely related field. - At least ten (10) years of relevant experience in environmental assessments, evaluating risks for indigenous peoples. socio-economic analysis, environment and social safeguards and environmental and social impact assessments (ESIA) and management frameworks (ESMFs); - Working experience creating ESMSs and designing mitigation measures for projects in the field of marine and coastal conservation and natural resource use; - Experience with other GEF Projects; - Experience in designing, managing, or monitoring conservation and/or natural resource management projects; - Experience working in Belize or Central America would be an advantage; - Fluent in English is required.    Other team member/s (national expert) should demonstrate: - At least five (5) years of experience in environmental assessments, working with indigenous peoples; socio-economic analysis; environment and social management plans; - If the team leader does not have gender experience, at least 3 years of relevant experience in analyzing and integrating gender dimensions into policy and program formulation and implementation. - Working experience in contributing to the preparation of Environmental and Social Safeguards and Gender Assessment reports concerning national resources management; - Education background complementary to the field of the international expert; - Proven track record in facilitating participatory processes and engaging local communities; - Fluency in written and spoken English is required. - The team should include National consultants to lead fieldwork activities.   The consulting firm will be responsible for providing their own equipment (laptop, internet, phone, and other relevant facilities). The firm will also be responsible for organizing and directly paying for logistics associated with field activities and data collection. These cost considerations should be reflected in the financial proposal/proposed budget for the project/s selected.   Interested consulting firms should submit, no later than November 27 a detailed application proposal including: - A curriculum vitae detailing the firm’s experience in relation to the topic of the consultancy; - A Technical proposal including an analysis, comprehension, and eventual comments on the Terms of Reference, and a proposed chronogram of activities; - A Financial proposal with a detailed budget (separate for each TORs) specifying consultant daily rates, travel, and other logistic expenses required to complete the required activities; and - A sample of safeguards and/or gender-related assignment(s) completed previously.   All proposals should be sent to lmarquez@wwfca.org   and copy to jneal@wwfca.org   Website: https://www.wwfca.org/en/?385270/Consulting-Firms-to-Develop-Environmental-and-Social-Management-Framework Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WWF.Mesoamerica/posts/pfbid0HCg1NMKuMXNrYZffeBzVV1GDbgZCucn1YpFxFd735qKVamGeHPxVLZf3vCFPyiugl   As an EOE/AA employer, WWF will not discriminate in its employment practices due to an applicant’s race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, or protected Veteran status. WWF values diversity and inclusion and welcomes diverse candidates to apply.

World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Specialist, Fundraising Operations   Major Function   Responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the entire WWF fundraising operations revenue database including financial data, biographic data, and data reconciliation with other programs and financial systems throughout the organization. Special attention to reconciling gift revenue, managing, and tracking partner and membership level gifts. The position will be the point of contact for internal and external requests and inquiries related to donor accounts and gift processing.

World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Senior Director, Renewable Energy Transition    Overview  World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Senior Director to develop and oversee its work on supporting a nature-positive and just transition to renewable energy. To reach net-zero emissions by 2050, annual clean energy investment worldwide will need to more than triple by 2030 to around $4 trillion. As funds flow toward this transition to renewable energy, it is critical that the siting of new renewable energy infrastructure and the mining of needed materials not only have minimal impacts on people and nature but are part of a larger global transformation toward a nature-positive future. WWF’s goal is to ensure that the benefits of the clean energy transition are maximized and fairly distributed while nature is valued and protected.      Major Functions  The Senior Director will manage the development and execution of an emerging body of work that aims to accelerate the global transition to renewable energy while minimizing its impact on people and nature. The role will call on strong technical, policy, and project management skills. A successful candidate will have broad experience and relationships in the renewable energy sector. Technical understanding of the U.S. energy and utility sectors is required.  This position will report to the Senior Vice President, Climate Change for WWF-US.

World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Specialist, Benefits and Wellness.   Major Function The Specialist, Benefits and Wellness 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 Director, Executive Communications   The Director, Executive Communications is responsible for developing and executing an organization-wide communication strategy that elevates the role of organizational leadership and WWF’s senior management team. This position plays a key role in building the organization's reputation, ensuring that WWF leaders are well positioned as thought leaders in their field and are consistently communicating WWF’s mission, vision, and values to external audiences, including private sector leaders, policymakers, high-level donors, and media.

World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Program Operations Coordinator, Country Office Unit and LAC Secretariat.   Major Functions   This position is responsible for the coordination of day-to-day program operation activities for the Country Office Unit that includes a variety of coordination duties and special projects to deliver the Unit’s strategy working closely with COU functional areas (Communications and Conservation). This position supports the SVP, US Country Offices and LAC Secretariat and liaise effectively with the COU members WWF US Country Offices, other network offices as well as external partners and stakeholders.

World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Sustainable Finance Lead   Major Functions You’ll join a top-notch team and innovative partnership, Enduring Earth, committed to community economic development and the durable protection of hundreds of millions of hectares of land and ocean. Enduring Earth is a collaboration of The Nature Conservancy, The Pew Charitable Trusts, World Wildlife Fund and ZOMALAB, the family office of Ben and Lucy Ana Walton. This role will work closely with partnership leaders and alongside partner deal teams to cultivate, develop, and advise on the design and implementation of sustainable finance mechanisms across a portfolio of Project Finance for Permanence (PFP) initiatives that provide long-term financial support to area-based conservation programs. You may work on concurrent projects at different stages of maturity based in different geographies; develop and manage working relationships with Enduring Earth staff, partner organizations, and consultants; advise on the design of future projects; and bring expertise, leadership, and strategic vision on developing new and innovative financial mechanisms to support durable conservation and the achievement of 30x30 targets and the Global Biodiversity Framework. Sustainable Finance Mechanisms (SFMs) are recurrent, predicable sources of systematic financing for large-scale, long-term projects such as PFPs, designed to match or offset the ongoing costs of maintaining the project over time. SFMs are highly dependent on local opportunities and conditions (e.g., economic, social, political), but prominent examples include the introduction of tourism levies, protected area entrance fees, carbon credits, and debt swaps, among others. Enduring Earth aims to be the global thought-leader in innovation and deployment of SFMs for nature conservation. Your work will be key in delivering this innovation to the field.

World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Director, Agriculture & Innovative Finance   Major Function World Wildlife Fund (WWF) one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Director, Agriculture and Innovative Finance to lead the Freshwater & Food team’s engagement on major initiatives at the nexus of sustainable livelihoods, regenerative agriculture, producer incentives, landscape and nature-based solutions financing, and innovative, blended finance mechanisms. In this role, the incumbent leads the design and implementation of an agriculture finance strategy for the F&F team. The incumbent will help design approaches to ensure combining and sequencing of public and private investment to achieve WWF’s conservation objectives especially related to food systems transition in our priority landscapes. The incumbent will develop priority interventions to strengthen agricultural finance, especially to support producers in WWF priority landscapes and geographies. In addition, the incumbent will work with the WWF Impact team to advise and support in the strategy development of an impact investment portfolio to generate positive development and conservation outcomes in priority landscapes and agri-food supply chains aligned with the Freshwater and Food team strategies and workstreams. They will also lead the organization’s work on regenerative agriculture finance, ensuring further integration of WWF’s regenerative agriculture work into ongoing programming and new initiatives.   In addition, the Director will act as a thought leader on these topics, representing the Freshwater & Food team in various internal and external working groups, roundtables, conferences, global platforms, etc. to drive alignment around WWF’s strategies related to the use of impact investment to scale regenerative agriculture. They will also develop and review strategic documents or reports and support major corporate engagement initiatives, including 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 Manager, Private Sector Engagement   Major Function The primary function of the Manager is to manage day-to-day relationships and help develop corporate partnerships with the US financial services sector to further WWF’s mission, Global Goals, and objectives for transformational partnerships that will help improve integration of environmental risks and deliver greater investment for sustainable development – thus using the influence of Finance to drive sustainable practices through the rest of the economy. The Manager is a member of the private finance team and has a dotted line to the transformational partnerships team within WWF’s Private Sector Engagement (PSE) department and focuses on research and the development of projects and communications/education materials to support WWF’s conservation goals. -  

World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organization, seeks a Policy and Government Affairs Spring 2024 Intern. The Policy and Government Affairs department of the World Wildlife Fund is seeking part-time to full-time interns for policy research, analysis, and outreach. Given the diversity of issues that the Policy staff covers, research, and analysis may entail working with legislation, regulations, and potentially court cases. By contrast research, analysis, and support may include assessment of government agencies’ roles, policies, and positions on issues relating to WWF’s mission and writing of brief materials about U.S. government agencies. Outreach may entail covering congressional hearings and markups, and preparing and attending congressional, administration, and NGO coalition briefings. Subject matter will cover many of the issues in which WWF is involved, including biodiversity conservation (e.g., endangered species and habitat protection), natural resource management (e.g., fisheries, forestry, and agriculture), environment and security, climate change, and energy.

World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks an Assistant General Counsel.   Major Function  Provide a full range of in-house legal services to WWF-US, with emphases in non-profit legal matters, data privacy, contracts and grants, corporate governance, charitable giving, litigation, technology, employment, intellectual property, and other relevant areas.   

Overview World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Talent Acquisition Intern, Compliance. The intern for the Talent Acquisition (TA) team will support several functions that include general administrative tasks, research initiatives and collaborative talent acquisition projects.    Impact The Talent Acquisition Intern, Compliance (TAI-Com) will help WWF in its work to help local communities conserve the natural resources they depend upon; transform markets and policies toward sustainability; and protect and restore species and their habitats by contributing to the analysis and creation of essential talent acquisition tools and resources to attract and hire talent to create and support some of the planet's greatest conservation victories.