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Title | Program Fellow / Andes-Amazon Initiative |
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IMPORTANT: This Advertiser has requested that applicants MUST be National Residents / Valid Work Permit-holders. Other applicants need not apply.
Established in September 2000, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation seeks to advance environmental conservation, scientific research, and patient care. The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation is among the 10 largest foundations in the U.S. and one of the largest private funders of environmental conservation and science in the world. The Foundation is devoted to the inspirational vision articulated by our founders: “creating positive outcomes for future generations.” This vision guides our mission: to achieve significant, lasting, and measurable results in environmental conservation, science, and patient care—globally and in the San Francisco Bay Area. A set of core values—impact, integrity, disciplined approach, and collaboration—directs our work. The Foundation carries out its work through the following frameworks: Programs: The enduring management unit designed to achieve transformational change in a selected field of interest through a portfolio of integrated interventions (initiatives, commitments, grants, and other strategic actions).
Initiatives. Initiatives are built around well-developed strategies for concentrated investments, focused on the long-term and achieving significant impact. Initiatives are characterized by a portfolio approach to grantmaking, and other engagements of the Foundation, to pursue ambitious, large-scale outcomes.
Program grants. The Foundation funds experimentation, focused innovation, and agile response to time-sensitive, high-impact opportunities in its areas of focus.
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
For more information, please visit www.moore.org.
Our goal is to change the ways in which people use terrestrial, freshwater, and coastal marine ecosystems to conserve critical ecological systems and functions, while allowing sustainable use.
The Andes-Amazon Initiative’s goal is to conserve the Amazonian forests, which provide habitat for biodiversity and regulate the regional climate cycle. To achieve this goal, the Foundation supports work that addresses the following elements:
The role of a healthy Amazonian forest is particularly significant for global climate change mitigation as well as regional hydrological function that support human livelihoods. During the last decade, the Foundation invested over $200 million in a protected area approach to conserving forest cover and in associated supporting strategies. This approach has achieved the creation and improved management of approximately 150 million hectares, or around 29% of the original forest cover of the Amazon. We recognize that this approach is necessary but not sufficient to secure additional forest cover in the Amazon, and for this reason we are also working on addressing the drivers of deforestation to reduce external threats and to explore options for sustainable development across the Amazon basin.
The Initiative is currently active in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. The initiative team also makes a small number of grants outside of these areas to support basin-wide research and new approaches that will benefit its target geographies.
For more information, about the Initiative, please see:
http://www.moore.org/aai-strategies.aspx
The Program Fellow position will be limited to a two-year term.
The Program Fellow will:
The Program Fellow will:
The candidate will have:
The ideal candidate also will have:
Compensation includes a competitive base salary and an excellent package of health, retirement savings and other benefits.
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
Interested applicants should send a cover letter and resume by email to: jobs@moore.org
Please include ECP Program Fellow in the subject line.
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation is an equal opportunity employer. All correspondence will remain confidential. |