At WWF, our mission has remained the same over many years, but our strategy and the scale of our ambitions have evolved in the face of growing and increasingly complex challenges to biodiversity. Today, our strategy reflects the best of what we have learned - from the interconnectedness of people and wildlife and the ecosystems in which we live, to the need for innovation and powerful partnerships at every level to affect change on a global scale. Across the organization, our teams are organized to achieve six major goals, focused on closing the gap between the urgent circumstances of today and our vision for tomorrow, where people live in harmony with nature.Program Operations supports the mission in a variety of ways aimed at ensuring first class operations and compliance across the range of partners and grantees we work with to deliver conservation programs, projects, and impacts.
The primary focus of this position is to support the effective implementation of WWF’s grantee risk assessment, monitoring, and mitigation process and procedures through improved data collection, analysis, and presentation of key information and trends.
In this role, the position will work with all relevant departments in WWF Program Operations as well as across the wider organization to identify key information needs and data sources related to grantee risks, compliance, and mitigation; develop the analytical tools to extract critical information from systems and databases; and provide clear and consistent reporting and presentation of information to WWF staff, managers, and decisionmakers.
A secondary role for this position, which will increase in importance over time, is to support the WWF Global Environment Facility (GEF) and Green Climate Fund (GCF) teams to strengthen WWF’s capabilities to conduct effective institutional and operational due diligence with respect to project executing agencies, as well as to track and monitor compliance. WWF acts as a certified agency for the GEF and is in the final stage of obtaining similar status for the GCF, with a growing portfolio of projects and programs under development and implementation.
- Work with teams to support recommendations and priority setting on addressing grantee operational risk,
- Propose and develop refinements to WWF’s analytic and monitoring tools, strengthen systems to track agreement deliverables, analyze grantee risk trends and identify critical problems,
- Provide timely reporting, support regional analysis of WWF grantees, help build out the centralized grantee database, and contribute to the risk assessment process.
- Work directly with the Finance and Administrative lead for the WWF/GEF and GCF agencies, build expertise on specific compliance, monitoring, and due diligence needs, and support these functions with data collection, analysis, presentation of key information and trends, and hands-on evaluation as appropriate.
- Excellent quantitative, analytical, and problem-solving skills required
- Demonstrated experience with information management and data visualization and presentation needed
- Superior knowledge and ability to work with computer and software systems, database, spreadsheets, and other software packages (e.g., SharePoint, Excel, PowerPoint, Access)
- Highly collaborative and able to communicate well with others
- Self-motivated with the ability to be proactive, take the initiative, and work independently is a must
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to prioritize and complete projects in a defined timeframe required
- Prior experience with US Government or multilateral grants administration is a plus
- Spanish language fluency required, French desired