Restoration Finance and Analysis Intern, Global Restoration Initiative

About the Program:

WRI'sGlobal Restoration Initiativeinforms, enables, and invests in people that restore degraded land. The team's flagship investment program for
locally led enterprises and community non-profits,Terra Fund, currently
finances, trains, and monitors 200+ growing organizations across Africa,Latin America, and South Asia.

Aligned with this broader vision, the Restore Local initiative supports locally
led restoration efforts - with a growing portfolio of 60+ million USD of
projects in selected priority landscapes in Africa,Braziland India. Built
through the Terra Match platform, this includes grant-funded projects, as
well as debt and equity investments in small and enterprises and first loss
investment tranches in blended investment funds.

In the next phase of our strategy, WRI's Restoration team aims to harness
technology innovations built with our partners and the growing network
of locally led restoration implementers financed through

Terra

Fund.
It is developing replicable finance structures and partnerships that
crowd more public and private capital into restoration that delivers proven
outcomes for people,natureand climate.

What you will do:

This internship supports work across the Global Restoration Initiative's Invest and Motivate pillars, which focus on investing in restoration projects, influencing the sector, and communicating key messages. In this role, you will learn about the rapidly maturing land restoration sector. You will connect with innovative, localized restoration businesses and nonprofits, gain familiarity with the financial mechanisms and capacity building that support them, and gather data and conduct research to support the team's learning agenda with regard to our programs' impacts.

You will also provide programmatic support to our diverse funding portfolios by attending team calls, preparing materials for training sessions, and drafting communications and articles. You will contribute to gathering data from restoration champions, cleaning and organizing it into our unified database, and analyzing results, and you will support with user research, product updates, data entry, and other related tasks for the Terra Match Product Team.

The activities of this internship will be shaped by your learning interests and the needs of the team. You will report to the Restoration Finance Project Specialist and the Terra Match Product Specialist.

This is a hybrid position which requires 4 days per month in the office. You can be based in our office in Washington DC. Existing work authorization is required at the time of application submission as WRI is unable to sponsor any visa work sponsorship for this position. To be eligible for this position, you must be a resident of DC, Maryland or Virginia at the start of employment.

What you will do:

This internship supports work across the Global Restoration Initiative's Invest and Motivatepillars, which focus on investing inrestorationprojects,influencing the sector, and communicating key messages.

In this role, you will learn abouttherapidly maturing land restoration sector. You will connect with innovative, localizedrestoration businesses and nonprofits,gain familiarity withthe financial mechanismsandcapacitybuildingthat support them, andgather data and conduct research to support the team's learning agendawithregard toourprograms' impacts.

You will also provide programmatic support toour diverse funding portfoliosby attending team calls, preparing materials for training sessions, and drafting communications and articles. You will contribute togatheringdata from restoration champions, cleaning and organizing it into our unified database, and analyzing results, and you will support with user research,product updates,data entry,and other related tasks for theTerra

Match Product Team.

The activities of this internship will be shaped byyourlearning interests and the needs of the team.

You will report to the Restoration Finance Project Specialist and the Terra Match Product Specialist.

Internship Learning Outcomes:

• Learn aboutrestoration finance,projects, and outcomes through data analysis, desktopresearch,literature reviews, and participation…