WORLD WILDLIFE FUND

World Wildlife Fund (WWF)’s mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on Earth. Recognizing that the problems facing our planet are increasingly more complex and urgent, WWF focuses its work on six ambitious goals. Through this integrative approach, we can challenge the planet’s greatest threats and ensure a healthy future for people and nature.

  • Create a climate-resilient and zero-carbon world
  • Rebuild food systems to nourish people and nature
  • Conserve the world's most important forests
  • Protect freshwater resources and landscapes
  • Achieve healthy oceans and nature-positive seascapes Conserve wildlife and wild places

Impact Investing Policy Associate

WASHINGTON, D.C.
Hybrid or Remote: Hybrid (in-office at least two days a week)
Supervisor: VP, Impact Investing


JOB DESCRIPTION

The Impact Investing Policy Associate will play a critical role in honing and advancing WWF’s impact investing strategy by researching and developing opportunities for WWF Impact to leverage local, regional, and international policy tailwinds. This work will enable WWF Impact to accelerate and scale its investments and achieve WWF’s charitable mission.

WWF Impact’s WLI Fellow will play a crucial role in evaluating policy and market conditions within food systems. This position will help accelerate our impact investing initiatives, contributing to WWF's mission of creating a better future for people and nature. The fellow will focus on key sectors such as aquaculture, food circularity, and regenerative agriculture, all while working closely with internal teams and external stakeholders to drive significant environmental outcomes.

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Conduct comprehensive market and policy landscape scans in the food systems sector across Northern Europe and the Americas.
  • Research and develop case studies on best practices in impact investing across targeted regions.
  • Analyze existing incentive programs and identify market gaps that can be leveraged for impact.
  • Collaborate with WWF’s US and global offices to align strategies and initiatives.
  • Engage with WWF Impact's current portfolio companies and support pipeline development.
  • Participate in discussions and knowledge-sharing sessions with experts from WWF’s extensive network.
  • Contribute to reports and presentations that communicate findings and recommendations.

DESIRED SKILLS

  • Strong analytical skills with a focus on market and policy research.
  • Familiarity with impact investing, startups, and sustainability concepts, particularly in food systems.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration abilities, capable of engaging with diverse stakeholders.
  • Experience in case study development and report writing.
  • A background in environmental science, economics, agriculture, public policy, or a related field.
  • Passion for conservation and sustainable development, with a drive to create measurable impact.
  • Ability to work independently and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
  • Proficiency in Spanish is preferred, as the fellow will have an opportunity to work with stakeholders in and potentially travel to Latin America and the Caribbean.

Program Associate, WWF Tribal Team

WASHINGTON, D.C.
Hybrid or Remote: Hybrid (in-office two days a week)
Supervisor: Vice President, Native Nations Conservation & Food Systems


JOB DESCRIPTION

The Program Associate will work with WWF’s Native Nations team, an interdisciplinary team focused on WWF’s work on conservation and food sovereignty with Tribal governments, Native communities and producers, and indigenous plants and animals.

The Native Nations team works closely with the Wildlife, Food, Ocean, and Policy & Government Affairs Teams. The Program Associate will report directly to the Vice President, Native Nations Conservation and Food Systems.

The position will assist the Native Nations Team with a variety of subjects ranging from policy research to engagement with US based Native American Tribes and Tribal communities. The Program Associate will build a body of work around relationships with Tribal Nations, Great Plains Tribal buffalo herds, conservation of American grasslands, subsistence, and indigenous food sovereignty.

 

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Assist in managing the Tribal Buffalo Lifeways Collaboration, a partnership between WWF, The Nature Conservancy, the Intertribal Buffalo Council, and Native Americans in Philanthropy in public-private partnership with the US Department of Agriculture and US Department of Interior to support and promote Tribal buffalo herds.
  • Explore the intersection of federal food policies, such as the school lunch programs, and the accessibility of indigenous foods to those programs.
  • Explore the intersection of conservation tools, such as conservation land easements, and how they may or may not be implemented on Indian reservations/Tribal trust lands.
  • Explore expansion of WWF’s successful Sustainable Ranching Initiative (SRI) to incorporate more Tribal ranchers by tailoring content to the unique aspects of Tribal land and ranching.

DESIRED SKILLS

  • Excellent research and writing skills.
  • Highly collaborative and flexible.
  • Preference, but not a requirement, for candidates with background in rural communities, ranching, buffalo, Native American Tribal Nations, Indian Reservations, Native Alaskan villages, indigenous foods, food systems, and/or Federal Indian law and policy.

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