Design And Content Intern

Application Timeline: Application Deadline May 21st, 2023

Location: Remote

Reports to: Seren Pendleton-Knoll, Director of Strategy and External Affairs

Compensation: $25 per hour

Expected Hours: 20-30 hrs/week

Internship Dates: ~8-10 week program starting in June, flexible start and end date, with potential to continue on at 5-10 hours a week through the Fall.

Blue Forest is a conservation finance non-profit whose mission is to accelerate the pace and scale of ecological restoration. Since 2018, Blue Forest has managed investor capital through its flagship financial product, the Forest Resilience Bond (FRB), which deploys private capital to finance forest restoration projects on private and public lands to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfire. More recently, Blue Forest has also established Blue Forest Asset Management (BFAM), an investment management platform connecting investors to compelling, mission-aligned opportunities in a broader set of asset classes beyond FRB projects, such as private equity and private credit investments.

Blue Forest is an interdisciplinary team of scientists, engineers, foresters, finance, and communications professionals. We are harnessing financial innovation and building partnerships with investors, non-profits, private companies and the public sector to design sustainable solutions to systemic climate resilience challenges faced by vulnerable communities and ecosystems. As we grow and develop new financial solutions to pressing environmental problems, we are committed to promoting social equity and amplifying historically excluded voices in the burgeoning field of conservation finance.

Our Design and Content Intern will be integral across Blue Forest, working closely with the science and research department, the finance team, and the project development teams to design compelling content for key external stakeholders. The aim is that by the end of the summer, the intern will have developed a database of 2-pagers and decks ready for use across the organization.

Ideal intern candidates will have experience designing presentation and pitch decks for investors and/or communities, as well as compelling 2 pagers that are both verbally and visually compelling. This role requires the ability to communicate both finance and science.

Potential Project Responsibilities:

Blue Forest is a remote company with staff distributed in some geographies where we can focus our impact as well as located across all four continental U.S. time zones. This job may be remote, however preference may be given to candidates proximate to existing staff as that can support collaboration and team culture. The Design and Content Intern will be expected to be online during their respective standard working hours.

Blue Forest will prioritize the following qualifications in the hiring process; however, we do not expect candidates to fulfill all criteria and encourage all interested candidates to apply.

To apply to this position, submit a resume, and ideally links or samples of design content you have designed. People from historically underrepresented populations and candidates with non-traditional career paths are especially encouraged to apply. Application will close on May 21st, 2023.

If participating in the interview process would require you to incur additional expenses to participate, such as childcare, please let us know, and we are happy to reimburse for reasonable expenses incurred up to $30/hour for twice the length of each interview in which you participate. There will be space to request this reimbursement upon offer of an interview.

If you aren't contacted by May 31st, we'll keep your resume on file and be in touch if we have any future positions that might be a good fit for you, and we wish you all the best in your future endeavors.