Brittney Warrick

About Brittney Warrick

Ms. Warrick is a program and business development professional with a diverse background…

Experience

1. Senior Manager, Operations & Program Management

   Environmental Defense Fund

   May 2025 — Present

   EDF’s Forests Focus Area is one of EDF’s 8 global impact areas, whose goals rise to the levelof the enormity of the climate and nature crisis. Through demonstrating proof of concept forlarge-scale forest conservation, engaging key Indigenous peoples and local communitiesforest policies and programs, and scaling access to finance for these solutions, EDF seeks tocontribute global-scale contributions in support of meeting global targets to halt and reverseglobal forest loss by 2030 while boosting local livelihoods and forest restoration. Serving as the operational right hand of the VP, Forests, providing expert-level project management (work-planning, procurement, compliance) and operations for key Forests initiatives and selected projects. • Develops and implements detailed Work Plans, and orchestrates the completion of work plans, fundraising budgets, progress reporting, and development communications, including donor proposals and reports. • Plans and schedules team meetings, prepares agendas, records decision items and tracks action items to keep program teams aligned and engaged.• Manages Forests’ team’s staffing, intern hiring, onboarding, and offboarding processes in collaboration with HR. • Participates in the development of narrative and financial grant reports and proposals. • Manages complex projects across the team, including project management for government grants, implementing necessary tracking tools and documents for individual and group projects to foster project flow and efficiency, monitoring progress of projects to ensure grant milestones are met, making recommendations, and tracking deliverables.• Establishes and implements appropriate planning, accountability and adaptive management systems, maintain effectiveness, and ensure program focus. • Support the achievement of the team’s donor deliverables and milestones, advance budget management and effective resource allocation, and support collaboration and performance of the team.

Education

• The George Washington University

  Bachelor of Arts - BA

• The George Washington University

  Master of Arts - MA