Director, Nature Finance and Investments

Major Function

World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Director, Nature Finance and Investments.The Director, Nature Finance and Investments will function as a critical member of the Nature Finance & Investments (NFI) team at WWF.  The Director will play a critical leadership position in our work serving as Impact Advisors to external asset managers, where WWF aims to develop and influence substantial capital flows supporting nature.  This individual will be responsible for the strategy, day-to-day execution, and execution process for NFI’s asset manager strategy.  This will include identifying nature finance fund partnership opportunities, engaging with key stakeholders, and accelerating pathways to scale WWF’s role in financing and shaping sustainable investment.  

Key Responsibilities

• Design and oversee key elements of the asset manager strategy including WWF’s goals / objectives, implementation model, pipeline of partnership opportunities, external advisors, etc.  Play a key role in developing, seeking, and negotiating partnerships with potential partners. 
• Identify and pursue new asset manager partnership opportunities, including through prioritizing, assessing and initiating partnership discussions across priority sectors, including sustainable infrastructure, regenerative agriculture, carbon finance,  and aquaculture / blue oceans.
• Lead deal diligence and prepare asset manager partnership recommendations, impact analysis, due diligence summaries, that are presented to NFI and WWF senior management and governance bodies,
• Forge new relationships with external partners, including fund managers, funders (private, public, donor), peer organizations, sustainability investors.
• Represent WWF and the asset manager strategy at external events, conferences, and workshops. Travel domestically and internationally (up to 25%), to priority landscape regions in Latin America, Asia and Africa. 
• Collaborate and develop partnerships across geographies and work closely with WWF’s conservation goal teams, country offices, private sector engagement teams, and development / capital raising to advance integrated nature finance strategies.
• Craft collateral / communications to demonstrate WWF’s thought leadership in Nature Finance.
• Work closely with WWF Impact management to ensure that WWF Impact’s reporting and budgeting is accurate, timely, and within budget guidelines. 
• Other duties as assigned.