World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Chief of Party, Biodiversity Conservation to be based in Hanoi, Vietnam.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Lead, Belize Project Finance for Performance (PFP). We are looking to hire a passionate, creative, and dedicated professional, always willing to push the boundaries, a great team player and overall, a good human being, who understands and appreciates the value of leading by example.
We are driven by the WWF Core Values:
COURAGE - We demonstrate courage through our actions, we work for change where it’s needed, and we inspire people and institutions to tackle the greatest threats to nature and the future of the planet, which is our home.
INTEGRITY - We live the principles we call on others to meet. We act with integrity, accountability, and transparency, and we rely on facts and science to guide us and to ensure that we learn and evolve.
RESPECT - We honor the voices and knowledge of people and communities that we serve, and we work to secure their rights to a sustainable future.
COLLABORATION - We deliver impact at the scale of the challenges we face through the power of collective action and innovation.
Main Function
The PFP Lead will act as the lead for the Belize PFP deal team and ensure that all actions necessary to develop the PFP, as well as the final agreement are aligned with key stakeholders in Belize, including the Government, international investors, civil society, and local communities. S/He is the owner of the agreement closing and disbursement conditions, and thus responsible for developing a transaction acceptable to all parties. Ultimately, the PFP Lead is responsible for delivering successful closing of a Belize PFP by 2025. The PFP Lead reports to the WWF Guatemala / Mesoamerica Country Director (WWF CD) for administrative purposes and to both the WWF CD and the Earth for Life (EFL) Focal Point[1] for the purposes of developing and closing the Belize PFP deal.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Grants Administration and Compliance Specialist. In collaboration with the Director Grants Administration and Compliance and in accordance with WWF compliance processes and procedures, manages compliance information and facilitates compliance monitoring of Government funding. Tracks and monitors contractual requirements and provides technical assistance as needed to ensure sound contractual compliance with Agreement terms and conditions.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Country Director, for our office in Bhutan. We are looking to hire a passionate, creative, and dedicated professional, always willing to push the boundaries, a great team player and overall, a good human being, who understands and appreciates the value of leading by example.
We are driven by the WWF Core Values:
COURAGE - We demonstrate courage through our actions, we work for change where it’s needed, and we inspire people and institutions to tackle the greatest threats to nature and the future of the planet, which is our home.
INTEGRITY - We live the principles we call on others to meet. We act with integrity, accountability, and transparency, and we rely on facts and science to guide us and to ensure that we learn and evolve.
RESPECT - We honor the voices and knowledge of people and communities that we serve, and we work to secure their rights to a sustainable future.
COLLABORATION - We deliver impact at the scale of the challenges we face through the power of collective action and innovation.
Major Function
The Country Director provides vision and leadership for WWF Bhutan and effective high-level representation of WWF with key audiences in the country and the Asia Pacific region and beyond, and with international partners and funders. Leverages the WWF Network’s resources and capacity to strengthen and empower the country office to deliver high impact conservation results that contribute to WWF’s global goals and priorities, mobilize human and financial resources to advance WWF’s mission, and enhance WWF’s positioning and recognition as a leading conservation organization in the country.
The Country Director provides effective leadership in guiding the strategic direction for the organization in Bhutan, ensures that WWF’s Mission is aligned with Bhutan’s national context and conservation policies to achieve WWF’s objectives, and manages the organization for the successful accomplishment of key strategies. This position has overall accountability for assuring operational excellence, effective risk management, and compliance with WWF's policies, procedures, standards and local requirements.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Special Assistant, Human Resources.
Major Function
Supports the Senior Vice President, HR (SVP) on a variety of daily activities and longer-term priorities to support the smooth functioning of the HR Department. Helps SVP and others on the HR Team attend to priorities and ensures prompt attention to activities. Prepares communications and presentations. Uses knowledge of institutional procedures and priorities over time to manage processes and complete tasks. This position has a dual-reporting relationship and supports the HR Director and the HR Business Partner team on HR Administration duties.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer.
Major Function
The Cloud Engineer is responsible for the support and maintenance of the WWF online infrastructure environment including the servers/VMs, OSes, security, and networking connection both within the cloud infrastructure and the interconnections to on-site or site-to-site locations. At the core, this is a cloud Engineer and Windows server administrator position that also handles a smaller number of other systems such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Google Cloud, and Nutanix Xi Leap. The Cloud Engineer also manages WWF’s Cloud Service Provider (CSP) along with WWF’s Managed Security Service Provider. In addition, this position works hand-in-hand with Network Services/Infrastructure, Application Development, Web and Online Marketing teams.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Senior Administrative Assistant to support the overall smooth operational functioning of the office of the Chief Operating Officer (COO), and to help organize and move forward the priorities of the COO.
The Senior Administrative Assistant is based out of our Washington, DC office and is responsible for a variety of standard and frequently complex administrative, scheduling, and project-based duties. The Senior Assistant’s core tasks include providing direct administrative support to at least three senior level staff members who report to the COO, as well as supporting other finance/accounting work for the office.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Payroll Specialist.
Major Function
Processes payroll and completes related activities accurately and within the established schedule. Maintains accurate and current payroll records for the organization. Ensures timely and accurate delivery of wage payments, garnishments, and employment tax data to WWF’s designated payroll and tax vendor.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks an Associate Specialist, Integrated Marketing. This position can be based in Washington, DC, other remote locations within the US will be considered. The Associate Specialist, Integrated Marketing is a key member of World Wildlife Fund’s Marketing team. On a daily basis, they are responsible for helping to deliver effective online campaigns to drive donation revenue to protect wildlife and their habitats. The Associate Specialist’s work for WWF will span online advertising, email acquisition, and data analysis – including across social media, search and display advertising.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Lead Specialist, Sustainable Feed Innovation with in-depth knowledge of the animal protein and feed industry. The incumbent will support and leverage the collective work of WWF’s Freshwater & Food and Markets teams to develop and implement strategies that will reduce the environmental footprint of livestock and aquaculture production systems through innovation in feed ingredients and sourcing. The candidate will be required to build a program of work around the reduction in environmental impacts associated with raw material production for feed ingredients. The Lead Specialist is expected to provide thought leadership on approaches to engage industry, build successful platforms to foster pre-competitive commitments to reduce the key impacts of feed and feed ingredient production. Additionally, the incumbent will be required to manage and analyze scientific literature, large data sets, spot trends and forecast trajectories of the animal feed and animal nutrition sector. The incumbent will foster a shared understanding of the fundamental challenges and impacts of feed production and work across the various corporate and commodity experts within the WWF network to build consensus.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Vice President, Oceans Area-Based Conservation, to be based in Washington, DC.
In light of the momentum behind protecting 30 percent of the world’s oceans by 2030, the WWF-US Oceans team is furthering its oceans area-based conservation strategy and regional implementation efforts. This important work takes a science and data-driven based approach in delivering on-the-ground and integrated conservation interventions, as well as market driven approaches and multilateral finance at scale. Our work includes improved management of protected areas, such as MPAs, and other effective area-based means of conservation (OECM). We deploy our solutions holistically in coastal areas and on the open water, and seek local and global impact for people, biodiversity, the climate, and peace and security. Throughout this work, WWF ensures an inclusive, equitable approach that respects the rights and aspirations of Indigenous peoples and local communities.
The Vice President will report to the Senior Vice President of Oceans. This role leads WWF-US’s work on area-based conservation and OECMs, as well as spearheading major aspects of key projects, such as the Bezos Earth Fund. To that end, the Vice President works as part of a team to select and implement priority seascapes, supports in designing and closing major blended finance deals, rolls out new initiatives to support area-based conservation, and represents WWF-US in relevant forums and events. The Vice President will collaborate across WWF-US and the broader WWF network to align this initiative with ongoing complementary work to maximize opportunities to promote durable financing for networks of protected areas and OECMs.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Manager, Corporate Engagement.
Major Function
The Corporate Engagement Manager primarily develops, directs and implements corporate partnerships to further the mission of WWF. This role raises funds and oversees the stewardship of existing corporate partners and solicitation and cultivation of new partnerships. The position contributes to the advancement of WWF’s conservation mission through sustainable business engagement, mission-focused cause marketing, and strategic corporate philanthropy, with a special emphasis on cross-cutting new business development.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Director, Conservation Evidence.
Major Function
The Director, Conservation Evidence serves as WWF’s lead scientific expert and strategist on the generation, synthesis and use of evidence in conservation decision-making. S/he is responsible for the development, implementation and refinement of a strategic scientific portfolio that advances the evidence base for conservation, informs decision-making and contributes to learning that advances WWF Network outcomes. S/he commissions, and leads research and analysis on select conservation interventions; acts as a lead technical adviser to WWF’s Global Practices and WWF-US’s Goal teams on opportunities for the generation of evidence, and its integration into decision-making; and leverages internal and external networks to provide thought leadership on evidence-based conservation across the sector.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organization, seeks a Policy and Government Affairs (PGA) Spring 2022 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 PGA 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.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organization, seeks a Policy and Government Affairs Spring 2022 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 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.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks an Impact Investing Specialist. This position will be based in Washington, DC. WWF is in process of launching WWF Impact, a new impact investing platform that will bring investment capital to innovations for the world’s most pressing environmental challenges. We see a compelling opportunity for WWF Impact in several high priority sectors such as food systems, forestry, oceans, freshwater, etc. where we believe that business innovations can help support and accelerate our conservation efforts.
The Impact Investing Specialist will be a founding member of this new initiative and will play a critical role in the launch and scale up over the next 12-24 months. This individual will have a keen interest in environmental conservation and financial markets. The Specialist will lead in completing critical analysis, financial modeling, and research on impact investment opportunities at both the sector and investment level. The Specialist will also support the daily operations of the strategy as we take steps to form and grow this new initiative.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Media & External Affairs Intern.
WWF Overview
For 60 years, WWF has worked to help people and nature thrive. As one of the world’s leading conservation organization, 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 on 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 Media & External Affairs (MXA) intern to help support the team’s overall functions and provide media relations and communications support, particularly around the organization’s work with private sector partners. The MXA team designs and executes media relations and influencer engagement strategies to support our conservation mission. The team engages in and influences the public discourse to: advance priority conservation and advocacy goals; enhance WWF’s relevance with key partners; increase understanding and support for conservation and sustainability broadly; and help expand the thought leadership of WWF staff.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Interim Manager, Global Seafood Traceability.
World Wildlife Fund-United States (WWF-US), one of the world’s leading environment organizations, seeks a Vice President, Program Operations to provide strategic and operational leadership to ensure WWF’s conservation program strategically deploys its financial and staffing resources, and that the systems underpinning these efforts are efficient and pragmatic. Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, the position also works in close coordination with the Chief Conservation Officer and Chief Operating Officer to oversee WWF’s programmatic budgeting and planning processes and coordinates the financial and operational adaptive management of WWF’s conservation program.
The VP, Program Operations coordinates with the Chief Conservation Officer, the VP, Conservation Program Management, and programmatic Senior Vice Presidents on annual and multi-year budgeting and planning processes. The VP, Program Operations provides leadership and vision for a team that designs and deploys systems and business processes that support budgeting, management of incoming and outgoing grants and agreements, reporting, compliance, problem solving, and sub-recipient monitoring and the sound programmatic administration of WWF’s projects and program operations.
As a representative of the organization, the VP, Program Operations builds and maintains effective partnerships with donors, partners, and staff at all levels of the organization.
Organizational Background
Founded in 1961, WWF is a network of non-governmental environment organizations, with 6,500 staff operating in more than 100 countries, some 6 million members, and 22 million Facebook and 14 million Twitter followers worldwide. WWF’s efforts are grounded in its work with local communities, businesses and governments and other actors to conserve and restore nature and secure sustainable development for people in priority places around the world. We also work extensively with major private and public institutions to reduce the impacts of climate change, infrastructure projects, unsustainable food production, and consumption on nature and people. In 2016, WWF launched a new global strategy to help the nations, states, and cities of the world achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, Paris Climate Agreement, and Convention on Biological Diversity. WWF works through strong country programs, linked through global practices, to drive local innovation and large-scale solutions that seek to safeguard nature and nature’s contribution to people.
WWF-US, the largest organization within the WWF global network, works with partners across the United States and other countries to advance the WWF mission. WWF-US plays a pivotal role driving conservation and development action in the broader WWF network, collaborating closely with WWF offices around the world. It also hosts the network’s Science and Markets programs and administers field offices in Latin America, Nepal, Bhutan, and Namibia. WWF-US has just over 1,000 staff located throughout its domestic and international offices, with 2021 total revenues and support of over $450 million. President and CEO Carter Roberts leads the Senior Management Team out of the WWF-US Washington, DC headquarters.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Conservation Data Analyst/Engineer to join its Global Science team.
Major Function
Help WWF revolutionize the way we use data and technology to identify conservation opportunities and measure and monitor the impacts of our conservation efforts. The Conservation Data Analyst/Engineer will work with the Global Science team and the WWF network to analyze and maintain environmental and socio-economic data including, but not restricted to, WWF acquired data, government supplied data, commercially acquired data sets, and remotely sensed and in-situ spatial data. The Conservation Data Analyst/Engineer will have broad experience with statistics, data visualization, data management, cloud-based data analysis infrastructures, and current data delivery mechanisms. Understanding of conservation issues on global and local scales is an asset, as is experience working with multiple organizations to harmonize data and data management approaches. The key roles of the data analyst/engineer are to analyze and visualize existing data, support the data scientist in developing new methodologies and systems, and maintain and develop data storage and analysis platforms.
