Internship Regional Coordination Pantanal

Internship Regional Coordination Pantanal

Internship - Regional Coordination trinational strategy "Pantanal" in South America

Pantanal is recognized as the largest tropical wetland on the planet covering approximately 170,000 km2 in Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay, it is home of over 4500 species of flora and fauna such as the big mammals of South America such as Jaguar, anteater, maned wolf, and giant otter. This unique ecosystem is threatened by human activities that alter flood pulse such as infrastructure, land use change for agriculture, and climate change that increases droughts and temperatures and contributes to uncontrolled fires affecting grasslands, wetlands and forests.

Due to its ecological, hydrological and economic importance, Pantanal is considered by WWF a Priority Area of Conservation. Over the last 20 years the WWF Network through local offices in Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil has promoted inclusive conservation initiatives as part of its regional strategy known as an Environmental Action Plan (EAP). This plan constitutes WWF´s regional strategy for the Pantanal and has been recently updated to cover the period 2022 to 2030. The new EAP sets out an overall vision of a Pantanal in which nature and people thrive from a collaborative approach with governments, private sector, and civil society and includes four main strategies which are: Free Flowing Pantanal, Deforestation and Conversion Free Pantanal, Climate resilient Pantanal and Engaging, Mobilizing and Influencing for a sustainable Pantanal.

WWF is looking for an intern who can support the Landscape Coordinator and the EAP Regional Coordinator in ensuring effective coordination across WWF offices and with partners and the wider WWF network.

Activities of the internship:

• Support the implementation of a monitoring dashboard to track progress and impact in each country.
• Systematize lessons learned and identify technical opportunities for regional collaboration within the EAP strategies.
• Work with local communications leads to implement the Pantanal communications strategy by landscape.
• Assist in developing a fundraising strategy and maintaining an updated funding pipeline.
• Translate and improve key documents (Spanish ↔ English), where needed.
• Provide administrative support for the organization of internal and external stakeholder meetings and systematize the outcomes in collaboration with the Regional Coordinator and teams.

Profile of the student:

• Master’s student in Hydrology, River Basin Management, International Cooperation, or Communications/Fundraising.
• Strong command of English and Spanish (written and spoken).
• Interest in ecosystem conservation, landscape-level coordination, and sustainable development.
• Accurate, proactive, and structured.
• Strong communication and organizational skills.

Period: 6–9 months, starting in September 2025, based in the Netherlands
Allowance: € 550,- per month on a full-time basis

Interested? Please send your CV and motivation letter before June 20th to Natascha Zwaal nzwaal@wwf.nl.