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    "description": "<h2>Overview</h2>\n<p>World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Director, Resilience Builder.</p>\n<p> </p>\n<p>World Wildlife Fund (WWF) one of the world’s leading conservation organization, seeks a Director to support strategic planning, communication, research and analysis, and implementation of program activities for existing and new partnerships and projects in collaboration with other WWF  teams and field offices.</p>\n<p> </p>\n<p>The Director will 1) contribute to strategic planning and development of emerging resilience practices, 2) manage implementation of key projects including capacity building and training intiatives 3) support ongoing  Environmental and Disaster Management (EDM) programmatic activities related to integrating environment and disaster risk reduction (DRR) into conservation programming and partnerships and 4) provide technical support for disaster and crisis response including assessment,  analysis, project design, communications and fundraising. </p>\n<p> </p>\n<p><strong>Salary Range: </strong>$124,000 - $178,300</p>\n<p> </p>\n<p><strong>Position Length:</strong> Limited Term - 2 years</p>\n<p><strong>Location:</strong> Washington, D.C. 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