Project Coordinator II, Global Forest Watch-Washington, DC.

The World Resources Institute’s Food, Forest and Water program is seeking a full-time project coordinator for Global Forest Watch (GFW), a new dynamic online forest monitoring and alert system that empowers people everywhere to better manage forests. The project coordinator will be responsible for GFW budget and grant management, including preparing the GFW overall budget, funder-specific budgets, and financial and progress reports. Other duties will include working on specific project tasks, maintaining project files and coordinating meetings. This position will report to the GFW Senior Manager. More information about GFW can be found atwww.globalforestwatch.org.

Responsibilities

Budgeting

• Prepare the GFW annual overall budget as well as annual funder-specific budgets
• Prepare for monthly, quarterly and annual financial review meetings
• Review and track monthly expenses and staff labor hours
• Comply with all internal WRI budgeting and contract processes and deadlines
• Maintain, monitor, and revise GFW’s financial tracking processes

Grant Management & Reporting

• Prepare internal and funder-specific progress and financial reports
• Ensure GFW complies with funder-specific and WRI financial requirements
• Keep funders apprised of GFW’s progress and financial status, and engage them on substantive issues as needed

Other

• Provide logistical support for GFW training workshops and annual meetings
• Coordinate meetings and travel
• Maintain project files and the GFW partner website
• Respond to general GFW inquiries
• Support staff hiring and on-boarding
• Assist with processing invoices, contracts, and subgrant agreements as needed
• Assist with other tasks as required

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required
• 1-2 years minimum full time experience required
• Interest in operations and project management
• Financial management and budgeting experience
• Strong attention to detail, highly organized, and proactive
• Demonstrated capacity to work well under pressure and successfully manage multiple deadlines and competing demands
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to work well in a team
• Strong computer skills (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook)
• Final candidate will be required to take a writing and budgeting test

Additional preferred qualifications:

• Experience working on USAID-funded projects
• Interest or training in environmental policy, international development and/or natural resource management
• Foreign language skills (e.g. Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, French, Bahasa Indonesia)

Qualified applicants should apply online atwww.wri.org/careers. All applications must be submitted online through this career portal in order to be formally considered.

The World Resources Institute (http://www.wri.org/wri) is an environmental and development research and policy organization that creates solutions to protect the Earth and improve people’s lives. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, it is WRI’s policy to recruit, hire, and provide opportunities for advancement in all job classifications without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, sexual preference, parental status, or disability. WRI’s global agenda requires a staff that is diverse – with respect to race, gender, cultural, and international background. Diverse perspectives and experience enhance the way WRI selects and approaches issues, as well as the creativity and applicability of WRI’s policy research and analysis. WRI, therefore, encourages applications from U.S. minorities, persons from other countries (especially developing nations), and from women of all backgrounds.