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Internship Description:
The WWF is a leading conservation organization; our half-century of conservation success is rooted firmly in science. WWF has worked in Markets and Food for over a decade with the acknowledgement that the biggest threat to our mission has long been where and how we produce food. Now those impacts are being exacerbated by increased populations, increasing income, shifts in consumption patterns, and climate change.
This internship provides an opportunity for an upper level undergraduate or graduate student with experience in agriculture, indoor, soil-less agriculture preferred, to contribute to research at the intersection of environmental and financial sustainability. WWF is examining the indoor and vertical soil-less farming industry. At scale, this method of farming could reduce pressures on land, biodiversity, natural habitat, and climate, but to get there it has to overcome several key hurdles that prevent it from moving beyond its current specialization in high-end leafy greens. We want to help farms overcome those hurdles, such as ones related to energy and labor, and move the industry forward. Before we can do that, we need to better understand the optimum conditions for such a farm so we can better judge its potential for long-term financial and environmental sustainability.
This internship is flexible on location and can start in early September 2019, or ideally sooner, and run through early November 2019.
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The WWF is a leading conservation organization; our half-century of conservation success is rooted firmly in science. WWF has worked in Markets and Food for over a decade with the acknowledgement that the biggest threat to our mission has long been where and how we produce food. Now those impacts are being exacerbated by increased populations, increasing income, shifts in consumption patterns, and climate change.
This internship provides an opportunity for a graduate student with experience in agriculture, ideally indoor, soil-less agriculture, to contribute to research at the intersection of environmental and financial sustainability. WWF is examining the indoor and vertical soil-less farming industry. At scale, this method of farming could reduce pressures on land, biodiversity, natural habitat, and climate, but to get there it has to overcome several key hurdles that prevent it from moving beyond its current specialization in high-end leafy greens. We want to help farms overcome those hurdles, such as ones related to energy and labor, and move the industry forward. Whether this is possible will depend greatly on what will happen across LED, energy, and other related fields in the next few years. This internship will provide the opportunity to delve into what is “coming next” for indoor and vertical farming technologies and to analyze what this will mean for long-term growth and possibility in the industry.
This internship is flexible on location and can start in early September 2019, or ideally sooner, and run through early November 2019.
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World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the world’s leading conservation organization, seeks a Supply Chain Research Intern.
This internship provides an opportunity to improve research and project coordination skills in a professional setting, gain knowledge about companies, supply chains, and environmental issues, and contribute to WWFcomprehensive waste analysis for corporate partner(s). The internship also provides the opportunity to interact with representatives from US & European companies as well as WWF's global network.
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The WWF is a leading conservation organization; our half-century of conservation success is rootd firmly in science. WWF has worked in Markets and Food for over a decade with the acknowledgement that the biggest threat to our mission has long been where and how we produce food. Now those impacts are being exacerbated by increased populations, increasing income, shifts in consumption patterns, and climate change.
This internship provides an opportunity for a graduate student with expertise in supply chain logistics to contribute to research at the intersection of environmental and financial sustainability. WWF is examining the indoor and vertical soil-less farming industry. At scale, this method of farming could reduce pressures on land, biodiversity, natural habitat, and climate, but to get there it has to overcome several key hurdles that prevent it from moving beyond its current specialization in high-end leafy greens. We want to help farms overcome those hurdles, such as ones related to energy and labor, and move the industry forward. Before we can do that, we need to better understand the current baseline and environmental drivers. This internship will be part of a small team working to conduct a life-cycle analysis of current systems (hydroponics, aeroponics, aquaponics, in greenhouse or vertical settings), allowing us to establish a baseline for GHG and carbon emissions, water use, pesticides, fertilizer/nutrients, land, and costs.
This internship is flexible on location and can start in early September 2019 or sooner.
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World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the world's leading conservation organization, seeks an Online Marketing Intern (paid) for approximately 6 months.
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The WWF is a leading conservation organization; our half-century of conservation success is rooted firmly in science. WWF has worked in Markets and Food for over a decade with the acknowledgement that the biggest threat to our mission has long been where and how we produce food. Now those impacts are being exacerbated by increased populations, increasing income, shifts in consumption patterns, and climate change.
This internship provides an opportunity for a labor economics student to contribute to research at the intersection of environmental and financial sustainability. The Next California project is examining whether some of the food we currently produce in California, which grows half of all vegetables and more than 2/3 of all fruits and nuts in the US, could be better situated from both a financial and environmental viewpoint in the Mississippi Delta region. However, a key question arises around labor. Right now, California depends heavily on migrant labor to harvest its fruit and vegetables. The Mississippi Delta region largely grows commodity row crops, which are harvested mechanically. If they are to switch to growing specialty produce, the region will need to build or attract a labor force to pick those crops, which cannot be harvested mechanically in most cases. Understanding if and how that is possible, how to accomplish it, and what it means for the financial feasibility of growing these crops will be key.
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World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the world’s leading conservation organization, seeks a Private Sector Engagement intern.
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World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the world’s leading conservation organization, seeks a Supply Chain Research Intern.
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Manages and facilitates administration and financial monitoring of agreements for the program or region. Provides administrative technical assistance to program staff and others in managing their sub-agreement requirements, which may include grantees and/or field offices. Works to ensure financial and administrative information is well-organized, deadlines are met, and problems or inconsistencies are raised and addressed.
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World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the world’s leading conservation organization, seeks a Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP). The HR Business Partner (HRBP) position is responsible for aligning HR and organizational objectives with employees and leadership in designated business units. The position serves as a consultant to management on human resource-related issues. The role assesses and anticipates HR-related needs, communicating proactively with our HR department and the business unit's management, and seeks to develop integrated solutions. The position formulates partnerships across the HR function to deliver value-added service to management and employees.
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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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Major Function
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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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 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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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), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Workday Business Analyst at our Washington, DC office.
The Business Analyst will work with the Business Services Team Lead during a limited-term operations system migration project. The successful candidate will have extensive knowledge of Finance and Accounting processes, protocols, and procedures, and must have experience with the Workday application. The Business Analyst will be joining a team of eight Business Analysts dedicated to the operations system project and will support the Financial modules within Workday. Preference will be shown to those with full systems implementation experience, from discovery to design to go-live. The Business Analyst will serve as an application Subject Matter Expert and help guide end-users on how best to configure the system for our organization.
This is a limited term position for an estimated 12-month duration with the possibility to extend.
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World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks an Peer to Peer Fundraising Specialist. The Peer to Peer Fundraising 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.
