This position will be hybrid requiring a few days per week in the WRI Kenya office in Nairobi. Existing work authorization is required at the time of application submission. WRI is unable to sponsor any visa work sponsorship for this position.
This is a limited-term position for a period of twelve months with the possibility of renewal.
About the Program:
WRI’s Global Restoration Initiative informs, enables, and invests in people that restore degraded land. The team’s flagship investment program for locally led enterprises and community non-profits, TerraFund, currently finances, trains, and monitors 230+ growing organizations across Africa, Latin America, and South Asia. The program operates three funding windows. In Africa, TerraFund for AFR100 finances 200+ organizations through grants, low-interest loans, and equity investments with a focus on the Lake Kivu & Rusizi River Basin in Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda; the Greater Rift Valley of Kenya; and the Ghana Cocoa Belt. In India, Harit Bharat Fund, a new landscape restoration fund, is financing its first cohort of restoration champions in the states of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, and Maharashtra. And globally, the Priceless Planet Coalition is financing large-scale restoration projects that benefit the climate, biodiversity, and communities. To build this pipeline of champions ready for investment, WRI has trained more than 400 organizations in Africa, Brazil, and India through the Land Accelerator, which teaches the fundamentals of financial management, pitching, and monitoring and evaluation. In 2024, that program will expand to work with hundreds of entrepreneurs annually. These portfolios for funding and capacity building are built through the TerraMatch platform, an end-to-end system that hosts open calls for proposals, connects champions with technical assistance, and tracks the progress of funded projects through a standard monitoring, reporting, and verification protocol. Through its more than 50 core business processes and tested standards, TerraFund shows that targeted investments in locally led champions can build viable restoration economies around the world
Job Highlight:
Reporting to the Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting and Learning (MERL) Associate, you will analyse reporting data submitted through the TerraMatch platform to identify any trends, insights and successes made by TerraFund for AFR100 restoration champions in Africa. You will support management and reporting on the socio-economic and livelihood indicators for the program’s monitoring framework. You will train funded non-profits and enterprises to submit accurate socio-economic and livelihood data and report trends to the monitoring team and project teams across target African landscapes. You will support the MERL Associate, TerraFund for AFR100 to review, analyze and improve the accuracy and robustness of jobs, livelihoods, knowledge and skills, and ecosystem services indicators. Your recommendations and insights will directly inform the structure and composition of investment portfolios that are presented to philanthropists, corporations, private investors, and multilateral development banks. This is a unique opportunity to work directly with a dynamic team of experts that is dedicated to resourcing locally led organizations at the core of Africa’s movement to restore degraded land.
What will you do:
Qualitative and Quantitative Analyses (70%):
Technical Assistance (30%):
What will you need: