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Senior Investment Manager, Outcome and Blended Finance, Restoration

United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 16 Dec 2024

💰 $139,000/yr($116,000/yr – $139,000/yr)

About the role

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 flagship investment program for locally led enterprises and community non-profits, TerraFund, 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, Brazil and India. Built through the TerraMatch 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 its TerraFund. It is developing replicable finance structures and partnerships that crowd more public and private capital into restoration that delivers proven outcomes for people, nature and climate.Reliable and cost-effective technology innovations can increasingly predict, pre-finance, monitor and validate the land restoration outcomes related to increased tree cover and carbon storage, as well as social and environmental indicators, such as reduced sedimentation in water bodies. WRI’s Restoration team is pioneering a number of innovative outcome finance partnerships to channel more funding into land restoration – and make land restoration more investable.In addition, small and medium enterprises in restorative value chains must attract enough capital to invest in processing & warehousing facilities and expand their markets to buy from local communities and smallholder farmer who grow diverse trees on their land. TerraFund’s initial investments in these leaders are enabling other capital providers and impact investors to come in.As part of its ambition to develop replicable outcome-based finance structures and partnerships for durable and equitable land restoration, WRI seeks to hire a Senior Investment Manager for Outcome and Blended Finance.

Job Highlight:

You will play a leading and critical role in pioneering the design, capitalization and rollout of land restoration financing mechanisms that mobilize private capital, including outcome-based finance partnerships and blended finance vehicles for providing debt and equity.As subject matter expert, you will interface with executives, implementors, and investors, building business cases and supporting the design and development of financing structures and mechanisms that enable outcome-based finance and blended finance. You will also help to raise private funds in addition to public and philanthropic capital.Working with an experienced team of project managers, monitoring, communication, and government engagement experts, and external partners, you will pro-actively work with country and landscape programs to identify and scope opportunities to design and broker transactions for high-potential restoration projects led by local implementers. You will report to the Director, Restoration Finance, based in the United States. You will work closely with the team’s Senior Portfolio Manager, as well as with investment and outcome finance colleagues in Africa and Brazil.

What will you do:

Finance and Program Management (70%):

Working closely with the Senior Portfolio Manager of TerraFund and Investor Coalition Managers in Africa and Brazil, co-develop and manage partnerships with blended investment funds
Build an overview of potential business cases and opportunities for outcome payments in Africa, working closely with the team’s Engagement Manager, the Investor Coalition Managers, Landscape Managers, and WRI Invest, Monitor and Enable teams
Scope