Senior Investment Manager - Outcome Finance for Restoration

You will play a leading and critical role in pioneering the design of and building out the outcome-based finance portfolio.  As subject matter expert, you 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. This can include financing structures that blend investments in revenue-generating restoration projects, such as transitioning from coffee or cocoa monoculture to agroforestry with outcome based finance through TerraFund, or restoration bonds or similar financing structures where restoration outcomes related to water, carbon, biodiversity, food security or others are valued and monetized over time.

Working with an experienced team of project managers, monitoring, communication, and government engagement experts as well as external partners, you will pro-actively identify and scope opportunities to design and broker transactions for high-potential restoration projects led by local implementers.

You will start by assessing and advancing outcome finance opportunities for the restoration projects funded by WRI’s TerraFund initiative and its partners in the Lake Kivu & Rusizi River Basin, the Greater Rift Valley and the Ghana Cocoa Belt. Your long-term aim will be to scale these models and financing structures in other WRI priority landscapes and countries in Africa, including through the AFR100 initiative and the Vumbuzi Impact Africa Foundation. You will be responsible for integrating equity into your work.

You will report to the Senior Manager for Restore Local, based in Rwanda, and the Director, Restoration Finance, based in the United States. You will work closely with the Engagement Manager, Outcome Finance for Restoration, as well as with the Restoration Investment Coalition Lead and the Landscape Managers and staff who work on data, policy and investment.

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