You will ensure that funded projects’ staff understand the program’s monitoring, reporting, and verification protocols, are adequately reporting on their progress through WRI’s online TerraMatch system, and have access to capacity-building opportunities. You will ensure that funded projects align with the WRI vision and integrated program for the landscape. Specifically, you will work with sector experts to screen, score, and interview community organizations that have applied for funding through the TerraFund for AFR100 request for proposal process. You will directly support leaders that are organizing communities to grow trees and restore land. In this new position, you will understand, guide, resource, and manage the implementation of a new cohort of agriculture and forestry organizations that have received funding and capacity training to restore land. Through 2026, this program will expand to resource additional restoration champions in the Lake Kivu & Rusizi River Basin in Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda and other priority landscapes for the Restoration Initiative’s work in Africa.Īs a Portfolio Specialist II in the Lake Kivu and Rusizi River Basin region, you will support and manage a cohort of growing community-based organizations and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that are restoring degraded land across the landscape, where you will be based. The team’s flagship investment program for locally led African community-based non-profits and businesses, TerraFund for AFR100, currently provides finance and training for 100 growing organizations that create sustainable jobs across 27 member countries of the AFR100 Initiative. WRI’s Restoration Initiative informs, enables, and invests in people that restore degraded land. Existing work authorization for Rwanda is required. This position must be located in the Rwanda portion of the Lake Kivu & Rusizi River Basin.

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