Project Manager, Conservation Finance and Community Development Job at World Wildlife Fund
Overview:
About Enduring Earth
Position Summary
How to Apply
Hiring Statement
COVID-19 Policy
Position Title: Project Manager, Conservation Finance and Community Development
Location: Fully remote
Reports to: Global Portfolio Lead
Status: Full-time, exempt
About Enduring Earth
Enduring Earth is an ambitious partnership between the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), The Pew Charitable Trusts, The Nature Conservancy (TNC), and ZOMALAB’s Global Permanence Fund intended to help governments around the world expand and sustainably protect Nature and benefit communities with the target to conserve more than 500 million hectares in 20 Project Finance for Permanence deals over the next 10 years.
Experts have identified the need to protect 30% of the world’s natural habitat for the benefit of people and nature. According to a recent report by the Paulson Institute, a major barrier to achieving this goal is long-term financing. Enduring Earth utilizes a proven model, known as Project Finance for Permanence (PFP), that employs private sector finance principles to ensure entire systems of protected areas are sustainably managed and financed.
Project Finance for Permanence has been used to protect more than 90M hectares of critical ecosystems. Examples of PFP deals include:
- Great Bear Rainforest: Where a PFP protected 8M hectares of old growth forest in British Columbia, helping to end the timber wars in Canada
- Costa Rica: Where a PFP enabled the country to become the first developing nation to meet its 30% protected area goals; and
- Bhutan: Where a PFP helped put more than 50% of the entire nation under permanent conservation protection
To date, a pipeline of 30+ new projects has been identified that will yield large scale protection of nature, strong benefits for people, and measurable climate impacts. These include creating new national parks in Chilean Patagonia; expanding marine protected areas in Belize; supporting community conservancy models in Namibia and Kenya; and creating Indigenous protected areas that return management rights to traditional owners in Colombia.
Position Summary
You’ll join a top-notch team and innovative partnership committed to community economic development and the durable protection of millions of hectares of land and ocean. The Project Manager will work within technical PFP assessment and planning teams, responsible for internal organization, driving accountability and best practices, and managing the timeline toward the closing of large-scale conservation agreements. The Project Manager will report to the Global Portfolio Lead and is generally accountable to the Team Lead of each PFP project, may also be asked to provide ad-hoc technical or administrative support necessary to ensure the success of the projects.
Responsibilities:
- Project Management (~80%):
- Develop and oversee project plans that result in the successful completion of large-scale, multi-stakeholder conservation deals around the world. Activities include, but are not limited to:
- Develop workplans, budgets, and personnel charts
- Coordinate Enduring Earth staff and resources
- Professionalize the structure and operation of large and diverse teams
- Assume accountability for internal and external project deadlines
- Ensure clear and professional communication with external stakeholders
- Develop and oversee project plans that result in the successful completion of large-scale, multi-stakeholder conservation deals around the world. Activities include, but are not limited to:
- Knowledge Management (~10%):
- Develop and maintain standardized templates, tools and processes that can support the project management of future deals
- Identify, administer and/or support communication mechanisms to share information on common areas of interest
- Participate in, and/or lead, communities of practice and workshops promoting best practices in project management
- Ad-Hoc Support (10%):
- Independently identify opportunities to provide technical and administrative support to project teams
- Develop knowledge and skills in a wide range of topics, including financial modeling, conservation science, and community economic development
Qualifications required for your success:
- 5 to 8+ years of experience managing large, complex, multi-stakeholder projects.
- Demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships and facilitate collaboration across multiple partners, institutions, and international cultures to achieve shared goals.
- An ability to learn new information, synthesize that information, identify key themes, and convert to action-oriented tasks.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills (ideally in English and Spanish).
- Strong time management and organizational skills including experience managing multiple project flows.
- Experience with multi-party deals (analysis, development, negotiation, etc.).
- Experience working with PowerPoint, Excel, and project management software.
- Experience in a consulting and/or investment firm, multi-lateral agency, or a global development contractor.
Characteristics for success:
- A trusted team member, who exhibits integrity, discretion, and good judgment every day.
- Committed to serving others and collaborating to achieve the results that define team success.
- Acts humbly, listens actively, and engages in open and constructive dialogue to find the best ideas and solutions.
- Passion to do high-quality work, continuously learn and achieve results.
- Brings a great attitude and positive energy, is resourceful to advance projects independently and flexible and adaptable when priorities change.
Compensation and Benefits
Salary range: To be disclosed further along the process.
Benefits: Comprehensive benefits package that includes 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision insurance; 3% automatic contribution and a 3% employer match on 401(k) contributions; pre-tax transportation benefits; and paid holiday, vacation, sick, and volunteer time off.
How to Apply
Please send your CV and cover letter to: operations@enduringearth.org by March 17th 2023.
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Hiring Statement
Enduring Earth Deal Fund and Hub is a project of Windward Fund, a 501(c)(3) public charity that incubates new and innovative public-interest projects and grant-making programs. Windward Fund is committed to attracting, developing, and retaining exceptional people, and to creating a work environment that is dynamic, rewarding and enables each of us to realize our potential. Windward’s work environment is safe and open to all employees and partners, respecting the full spectrum of race, color, religious creed, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, political affiliation, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, and all other classifications protected by law in the locality and/or state in which you are working.
COVID-19 Policy
To center the safety and well-being of its employees, Windward Fund requires that any employee who is required to conduct in-person activities for their job must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 within four weeks of their start date. This position may require candidates to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Accommodations may be sought and approved in accordance with the law by contacting human resources at HR@windwardfund.org.
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