Project Manager, Restoration Finance & India Liaison

This is a hybrid position which requires 8 days/month in the office. You can be based in our office in Washington DC, London, or The Hague. 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 in US, you must be a resident of DC, Maryland or Virginia at the start of employment.

About the Program:

WRI’s Global Restoration Initiative informs, enables, and invests in people that restore degraded land. The team’s investment program for locally led enterprises and community non-profits 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 has made 200+ investments in local organizations through grants, low-interest loans, and equity finance, 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 has financed its first cohort of 20 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. In 2025, TerraFund will launch a new program focused on the Brazilian Amazon. 

To build this pipeline of champions ready for investment, WRI has worked with local service providers to source and train more than 500 organizations in Africa, Brazil, and India on the fundamentals of financial management, pitching, and monitoring and evaluation. 

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 Senior Portfolio Manager, TerraFund, Global Restoration Initiative, you will integrate equity into your work. 

You will initially focus on supporting Harit Bharat Fund, WRI’s investment program for locally led restoration projects in India, as it scopes and implements its expansion strategy to train and fund restoration champions and converge government finance into their work. You will support the program’s core team at WRI India with application, selection, and project management processes for champions that apply for funding and technical assistance, quality-assuring data submitted through TerraMatch, and coordinating collaboration and technical exchange between WRI India and WRI’s offices in the U.S., Africa, and Brazil. You will also coordinate delivery of restoration monitoring deliverables that require collaboration between data scientists, project managers, and TerraMatch product staff. You will contribute to communications products and fundraising targets related to this goal.

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.