Project Manager

You will also support the team in its engagement with WRI Indonesia, which is refining its restoration strategy for full implementation in 2026. You will management the strategy and collaboration process, ensuring coherence between global and Indonesia priorities on restoration finance, capacity-building, and monitoring.

This is an opportunity to work on the Global Restoration Initiative’s rapidly growing team and to liaise with external and internal partners to improve the efficiency of the evolving restoration sector across Africa, Brazil, India, and Indonesia. You will work directly with the Senior Portfolio Manager, Restoration Finance and the initiative’s Project Management Office (PMO) to manage collaboration between WRI India and other WRI offices.

Project Management :

• Co-develop and co-manage the yearly workplan for Harit Bharat Fund, in collaboration with leadership in WRI India. This includes working closely with experts in investment, capacity-building, monitoring and evaluation, operations, and communications
• Support project screening processes during open requests-for-proposals, ensuring that each applicant receives thorough vetting from the knowledgeable team members at WRI and at partner organizations
• Develop, socialize, and improve project management processes for funded projects, aligning stakeholders across WRI and partner organizations
• Connect lessons on mobilizing public finance for restoration from WRI India with other geographies
• Co-manage budgets and operational collaboration between WRI Global and WRI India
• Contribute to communications projects about project outcomes that lead to direct impact for our core audiences
• Coordinate communication and sharing on restoration finance delivery between staff in India, U.S., Europe, and Africa through asynchronous communication techniques, in collaboration with the Knowledge Management Officer
• Contribute to fundraising proposals focused on India and Indonesia and communications products that outline lessons learned from these geographies
• Join WRI India and WRI Indonesia Restoration team meetings to keep up to date with their strategy and work

What will you need:

• Education: You have a completed a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies, business, forestry, agriculture, data science, or related field. Relevant work experience in lieu of degree is accepted
• Experience: You have minimum 5 yr of relevant experience, including in project delivery in the environmental space
• You understand restoration work or sustainable land management issues.
• Ability to manage a complex workload remotely and organize a cross-functional team to meet deadlines
• Experience working with people from different cultures and backgrounds and coaching them to deliver timely results
• Experience owning and managing workplans through online project management tools, such as Airtable and Asana
• If based in the U.S., you can work a modified schedule to accommodate India’s time zone

Languages:

• Verbal and written proficiency in English with additional fluency in Hindi and/or Bahasa Indonesia, considered valuable
• Requirements: Existing work authorization is required where this position is based. WRI is unable to authorize visa work authorization

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