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Internship Description:
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the world’s leading conservation organization, seeks a Global Environment Facility (GEF) team paid Intern for its WWF GEF Team at our Washington, DC office for late Summer 2019, early Fall 2019, to last approximately 5 months.
World Wildlife Fund, Inc. was accredited by the GEF as a GEF Agency in 2013. The WWF GEF Agency builds on a global network of WWF offices, and over the past 5 years has worked with governments, CSOs, and local communities to develop a portfolio of over 20 GEF projects. Learn more about WWF: https://www.worldwildlife.org/ and WWF GEF: http://wwfgef.org/gef/.
With a growing portfolio in both size and complexity, the WWF GEF Team is looking for an intern to provide project support to Program Officers, Senior Program Officers and the department Director. Approximately 40% of the job will entail administrative support, technical document review, etc. 60% of this position will provide direct project support to the team.
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World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Senior Administrative Assistant for our Global Science Department, 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.
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World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the world’s leading conservation organization, seeks a rising undergraduate junior or senior in an accredited graphic design program to work as a Graphic Design Intern in our DC headquarters.
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Reporting to the Senior Vice President, Development and Board Relations, the Special Assistant provides professional support on a variety of activities, special projects and strategy implementation to meet fundraising goals as outlined in Development’s strategic plan. The Special Assistant helps the SVP attend to priorities and plays an active role in the successful operation of the Development Department and WWF overall. Applying expertise and training in policy and/or business, provides substantive support to SVP in preparation for meetings, develops memos and presentations, and coordinates with WWF staff and external stakeholders to ensure that actions are taken, and projects completed.
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Research Internship - Deforestation and forest degradation: revisiting drivers, trends and responses
Background:
Deforestation and forest degradation continue to be critical topics in the global environmental, biodiversity conservation and climate change agendas. Despite increasing commitments from governments and non-state actors, and several innovative initiatives implemented on the ground, forests continue to be degraded and lost at an alarming rate, mainly in the tropics. In the last few years, we have seen contradictory trends of aslowdown in deforestation rates in some fronts but an increase in others, with some leakage effects. While overall there is good understanding about what are the different drivers prompting deforestation and forest degradation, less is known on what are the factors that may explain why intensities of deforestation change over time and differ across places.
Understanding the factors explaining the different trends (e.g. slowdown, stabilization, expansion) of deforestation is critical to inform debates on the effectiveness of current solutions, particularly those associated with policy regime changes, and corporate efforts to delink deforestation from their supply chains, often with the support of conservation NGOs. Furthermore, there is a need to place greater emphasis on forest degradation, and its interactions with deforestation, to assess whether deforestation is an unavoidable consequence of forest degradation, or whether deforestation-free initiatives are simultaneously contributing to improved forest quality – this in the context of wider debates on climate change mitigation, and strategies for protecting forest ecosystem services.
This internship will support WWF’s ongoing efforts to analyze drivers, trends and responses across deforestation fronts. The candidate will be working with the WWF Forest Practice and Global Science teams in Washington, DC to collect, review and synthesize the literature on drivers and responses related to deforestation and forest degradation in select geographies around the tropics.
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World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organization, seeks a Manager- Global Seafood Markets. The Manager- Global Seafood Markets, serves on the Seafood Markets Engagement Team in the WWF-US DC office, leading the development and execution of the WWF US global seafood market engagement strategy. This position will develop and execute key initiatives to reach Seafood Markets goals as aligned with WWF US and WWF Global Initiatives- Food/Markets/Oceans. This position will be responsible for leading, implementing, and continuously improving WWF’s Global Seafood Market Engagement Strategy. This position will work with multi-national corporate partners and precompetitive collaborations to reach goals for sustainable seafood market transition. This position will lead international market engagement projects and collective WWF seafood partnership engagement. This position also supports development of new and existing Seafood strategies as correlated to the Markets and Food Team initiatives.
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World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the world’s leading conservation organization, seeks an intern to support its work in Sustainable Finance. WWF has identified Finance as a key programmatic focus because the global finance system enables all types of economic activity, and this activity can have a significant impact on our planet. We are interested in how money flows, and how to influence it for environmental benefit.
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Reporting to the Executive Office Manager, performs a variety of standard and frequently complex administrative duties, accounting tasks and special projects to ensure the smooth functioning of the Executive Office using administrative skills, organizational skills, and a detailed knowledge of the organization and its programs and policies.
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World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the world’s leading conservation organization, seeks a U.S. Government Relations Fall 2019 Intern. The U.S. Government Relations 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 USGR 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, or writing of brief materials about U.S. government agencies. Outreach may entail covering congressional hearings and markups, and preparing and attending congressional, administration, and/or 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.
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World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the world’s leading conservation organization, seeks a Donor Relations Intern.
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World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the world’s leading conservation organization, seeks an Assistant Controller. The Assistant Controller directs the operation of all functional areas related to Account Payables, cashflow analysis and investments. Provides high-level support in decision making to the Controller and CFO. Prepare schedules, reconcile ledgers and directly manage specific accounts within the department. Assists in all month-end and year-end closing activities for all companies.
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World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the world’s leading conservation organization, seeks a Program Officer at our Washington, DC office.
Under the supervision of the Dir Comms Wildlife Conservation, assists with the planning, coordination, communication and implementation of program priorities and activities in areas of assignment. May develop and plan regional programs and field projects.
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The Country Director provides vision and leadership to the WWF Country Office in Quito, Ecuador and effective high-level representation of WWF with key audiences and WWF’s network. The Director will be in charge of building strength and support to the country office on its conservation delivery, increasing WWF’s leadership and recognition as the leading conservation organization in Ecuador.
Directs, manages, takes responsibility and gives strategic direction to all activities of WWF in Ecuador, to ensure that WWF’s Mission and Ecuador’s integrated strategy are successfully accomplished and all operating processes and systems are adequate and aligned with local laws and WWF's policies, procedures and standards.
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World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the world’s leading conservation organization, seeks aCommunications Manager, Climate & Energy at our Washington, DC office.
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World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the world’s leading conservation organization, seeks a graduate-level communications intern to join the International Climate Cooperation Program (ICCP) within WWF-US’ Climate Goal Team team this summer.
Under the supervision of the Senior Program Officer, US and International Climate Cooperation, the communications intern will largely support the programmatic communication needs for the initiative on Alliances for Climate Action (ACA). The communications intern will work closely with the ICCP team to refine and implement the 2019 communications plan for the initiative.
The communications intern will help draft content for the Alliances for Climate Action website and facilitate content-based upgrades to the current site alliancesforclimateaction.com. The position will also help draft communication products for key international and domestic events including the G20, the United Nations Secretary General Summit, The Climate Week, COP25 and others. The position also performs desk research on specific climate-related topics, support the coordination with ACA partners, WWF country offices and other managers as needed.
The Alliances for Climate Action is a global network of domestic multi-sector coalitions committed to supporting the delivery and enhancement of their countries’ climate goals. ACA connects cities, states, the private sector, investors, universities and civil society at the domestic level so that they can work with each other and with their national governments to drive climate action.
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World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the world’s leading conservation organization, seeks an intern for the Pantanal Initiative. As part of the Latin American and Caribbean Secretariat, supports the Senior Policy Director in moving forward a three-year, trinational initiative that entails cooperating with WWF Country Offices, the Cerrado-Pantanal Advisory Group and the governments of Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay to produce and agree to a joint sustainable development and conservation strategy for the world's largest tropical wetland.
The intern will help write, revise and translate documents from English to Spanish and vice versa and to produce communication materials in coordination with other staff at the Freshwater Goal, LAC and other offices of the network, mainly those that work with the Pantanal. The intern will also engage in current research for the Pantanal and will support with the Pantanal Lead with some administrative tasks.
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World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks an Administrative Assistant for our Oceans Department, 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 department or program using administrative skills, organizational skills, and a detailed knowledge of the organization and its programs and policies.
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World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks an Online Marketing Specialist. The Online Marketing Specialist helps lead in the production of WWF’s Peer to Peer Fundraising programs, including Panda Nation, Panda Paddle and Facebook Fundraising. This role will also be responsible for developing and implementing cultivation and retention strategies, using multichannel techniques to engage and support Panda Nation fundraisers.
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World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Team Coordinator, Freshwater and Food at our Washington, DC office. Supports the SVP and management team on all primary operational, administrative and financial functions, including travel, budget, contracts, expense reporting, programmatic tracking tools, team calendar, roster and contacts list. The incumbent will effectively develop and implement clear and harmonized processes, protocols, and policies for the Freshwater & Food team, ensuring adherence to the Organization’s guidance and best practice, and ensuring that these result in more efficient, transparent, and streamlined workloads, especially when completing administrative and financial transactions across the team. The incumbent will supervise a team of administrative assistants who support initiative leads/managers and their respective teams and will work to ensure that there is a relatively even workload distribution, adherence to team processes, protocols, and policies, good communication and positive team culture amongst the different initiatives within the department. The incumbent performs a variety of standard and frequently complex administrative duties, accounting tasks and special projects to ensure the smooth functioning of department or program using administrative skills, organizational skills, and a detailed knowledge of the organization and its programs and policies.
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World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Manager, Renewable Thermal Energy & Climate-Smart Land Use to join WWF’s fast moving and influential US corporate climate and renewable energy team. The Manager leads WWF’s strategic and technical work under the Renewable Thermal Collaborative. The RTC is a multi-stakeholder platform launched in September 2017 as a joint initiative of WWF, the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) and David Gardiner and Associates. The RTC is the leading coalition for organizations committed to scaling sustainable, renewable heating and cooling at their facilities and dramatically cutting carbon emissions. The manager is also the focal point for the Climate & Energy Team’s work to advance accounting standards and scale implementation for corporate scope 3 targets that impact land use, forests and food systems.
Many large buyers (corporations, cities, education institutions, etc.) with large thermal energy loads are increasingly looking to renewable thermal solutions, just as they have been seeking renewable electricity solutions. However, renewable thermal solutions are far less commercially developed for a variety of reasons, including the availability and sustainability of bioenergy feedstocks. The goal of the RTC is to develop and implement sustainable, cost-competitive solutions. Within the RTC, the Manager will lead WWF’s work to deepen the RTC coalition’s strategy to develop buyer-focused solutions, particularly around biomass and bioenergy. The manager will also collaborate with staff across the WWF organization to drive standards for land-use accounting and target setting and to implement scalable solutions for companies with value chains touching land use, forests and food systems.
