World Research Institute jobs at the USA

Position: Project Coordinator (New Climate Economy and Economics)

About position 

The Global Climate Program seeks a dynamic Project Coordinator to support the work of the New Climate Economy project. S/he will be performing following duties in particular

• Support team leads on internal financial management, to include. Similarly, create, manage, and update project budgets, review and track project expenses, provide reports to managers.
• Manage NCE global grants, NCE Finance Initiative, and core Economics team budget. Also, provide close collaboration and support to other NCE teams and diverse Economics-linked projects across WRI.
• Monitor and manage contracts and payment requests for all subgrants and contracts. Similarly, ensure that all paperwork is up to date and that payments are made in a timely manner.
• Manage project grants to ensure compliance with grant and funder rules, responsible management of funds, meeting funder reporting deadlines, preparing financial reports, and invoicing for payments.
• Coordinate project fundraising efforts, including the development of proposal budgets, collection, and submission of completed application packages. Also, tracking and communicating opportunities via Salesforce, and navigating internal review process.
• Similarly, support internal tracking and facilitate the inclusion of Economic staff on appropriate projects across WRI’s global programs, centers, and international offices.
• Assist in internal project planning and reporting processes, including annual project plans, and quarterly project and financial reports. At the same time, helps organize internal and external events in collaboration with partners.
• Coordinate outreach and develop communications materials around project events, publications, press releases, web development, and blogs.
• Support the project staff with other administrative duties as needed. Maintaining contact database, scheduling team meetings, drafting correspondence, circulating meeting notes. Also, ensuring follow-up on action items as appropriate, booking travel, tracking project deliverables and timelines, as well as, preparing expense report, recruitment, and onboarding new staff and interns, etc.

Minimum requirements

• Bachelors degree. In addition to that, a minimum of 1 year of relevant full-time work experience.
• Must be adaptable to rapidly change priorities and have the ability to manage multiple projects with varying deadlines.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Strong process orientation with sensitivity to quality, timelines, and organizational systems.
• Similarly, strong computer skills including a high level of comfort with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook), web-based communications (Skype, Zoom). However, experience with CRM databases (esp. Salesforce) or advanced budgeting (Microsoft Cognos) preferred.
• US work authorization is required for all WRI US opportunities. WRI cannot offer visa sponsorship for this opportunity.