BR-2609 BRIDGE Forests Corporate Engagement Graduate Intern
About The Position
WWF seeks a BRIDGE Forests Corporate Engagement Graduate Intern. This internship is designed for a graduate student with a passion around corporate sustainability and influencing companies to take action for forests, and an interest in understanding WWF’s approaches to influencing the private sector, particularly around the forest health/human health nexus. The intern will shadow a full-time program manager and support the teams’ efforts to engage a specific priority to reduce its impacts on forests and fund nature-based solutions in tropical forests around the world. The intern will also have one discrete project to refine information from a key tropical forest landscape to help our US office make the business case for landscape investments in critically important landscapes, aligned with the principles of WWF’s Forests Forward corporate engagement program and WWF’s Nature-based Solutions Origination platform.
Requirements
- Pursuing a graduate program in corporate sustainability and/or forestry. Those studying outside these areas are still highly encouraged to apply. Must be an actively enrolled student and not received degree at time of internship start date (June 1, 2026).
- Identifies and aligns with WWF’s core values: Courage, Integrity, Respect, and Collaboration.
- Demonstrates courage by speaking up even when it is difficult, or unpopular.
- Builds trust with colleagues by acting with integrity, owning mistakes, and holding oneself accountable.
- Welcomes other points of view and ideas, recognizing and embracing different and contrary perspectives with kindness, curiosity, and encouragement.
- Makes conscious efforts to promote cooperative practices, behaviors, and ways of working across many groups and individuals.
- Experience in performing qualitative or quantitative research.
- Excellent writing and presentation skills.
- Knowledge of corporate sustainability.
- Academic experience will count in-lieu of work experience.
Nice To Haves
- Basic knowledge of conservation finance
- Experience making the business case for conservation action
- Familiarity with pharmaceutical and beauty sectors
Responsibilities
- Conduct qualitative and quantitative research on companies within a specified sector to understand current sustainability and NbS commitments, investments, and potential alignment with WWF programs and landscape investment opportunities.
- Distill information about key landscape opportunities into specific proposals and pitch decks.
- Shadow a WWF staff member at meetings (including with team leadership and other WWF colleagues), take notes, participate in strategy discussions and follow-ups.
- Present lessons learnt from internship and findings from research project at the end of the internship.
- Attend weekly check-ins with intern manager to track progress and learning objectives.
Benefits
- WWF interns will be offered a set of professional development opportunities, aimed at increasing their exposure to conservation and sustainability careers. This includes:
- Development discussions with their manager;
- Up to two online courses through Cornell University’s eCornell program;
- Speed mentoring with different WWF teams;
- Opportunity to present their work to intern peers and WWF staff;
- Session on resume and interviewing best practices.
- Interns will also have access to an array of networking opportunities. This includes meetings with WWF’s staff and leadership team.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Intern
