Job Opening: Carbon Project Manager
Collaborative Earth is seeking a highly organized and strategic Carbon Project Manager to lead the planning, development, and implementation of a NBS intervention for carbon and biodiversity crediting within the Voluntary Carbon Market. This role will involve the development of an eco-type specific module to fit under an existing carbon protocol, strategic planning and documentation, and creating partnerships with potential investors to ensure successful commercialization of carbon sequestration by restored Coastal Forested Wetlands. This new position will be the latest addition to a diverse and interdisciplinary team already working on this project.
Key responsibilities:
-Draft key project documentation such as Project Idea Notes (PINs), Project Description Documents (PDDs), and Measurement, Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MMRV) plans in line with project requirements as well as Collaborative Earth’s social and ecological goals.
-Work closely with CE’s science team to design feasibility studies (site suitability, carbon projections, methodology selection), and develop aligned project modules, if necessary.
-Develop methodologies or modules for carbon and biodiversity crediting specifically designed for coastal forested wetlands, working in collaboration with CE’s science team and partner organizations overseeing carbon certification, including Plan Vivo and others.
-Support other team members on tasks such as translating carbon-market oriented documents into educational materials for land stewards and supporting project planning for on-the-ground efforts.
-Collaborate on legal, financial, and planning documents such as landholder contract templates, Atmospheric Benefit Sharing Agreements, and Emissions Reductions Purchase Agreements.
-Create preliminary financial models such as unit cost models and simple cash flow models.
-Establish MMRV best practices & procedures, and begin engagement with Validation and Verification Bodies (VVBs) through our partner Plan Vivo or another Standard.
-Work closely with team ecologists and project lead to initiate a pilot planting site, which has already been identified, leading to creation of a PDD for Validation.
-Participate in conversations to help secure private capital for project implementation beyond the funding that currently exists via non-dilutive grants.
Qualifications:
-Bachelor's or Master’s degree (preferred) in Environmental Science, Sustainability, Ecology, or a related field, with experience in carbon project development, AFOLU based initiatives, or environmental finance.
-Strong practical knowledge of carbon standards, protocols, methodologies, and MRV systems, including the lifecycle of a carbon credit from ideation to issuance.
-Proven project management skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and implement key management frameworks.
-Excellent communication and team collaboration skills.
Collaborative Earth is a distributed, remote-working organization. For this project, the hired individual may live anywhere in the United States, but we will have a preference for individuals in the Southeastern region; somewhere not-too-far from Prairie View, Texas, would be ideal. However, candidates from all locations will receive serious consideration.
We will consider hiring at 50% to 100% of full-time-employment, depending on the applicant’s situation and preferences. Most importantly, we’re looking for the right fit for the project and our organization. We will begin reviewing applications immediately, so if you’re seriously interested, please don’t delay. We’re excited to hear from you!
Salary: The salary range for this position is $90k–$110k/year, depending on experience and qualifications; a benefits package will be included.
A bit more on Collaborative Earth: An innovative and rapidly growing organization, Collaborative Earth brings people across disciplinary and cultural boundaries to form teams focused on actionable research at the interface of ecology and society. These teams, which we call CE Labs, draw on various areas of leading-edge science and technology, as well as deep local understanding, to chart novel and powerfully incentivized pathways to systems in which both society and ecology can thrive. CE Labs may follow several different trajectories to impact: They might simply deliver the product of their work—a powerful digital tool, for instance, or a visionary plan, or immediately actionable research—into the hands of those best-positioned to use it in pursuit of socio-ecological regeneration. Or they might transition into being a Collaborative Earth Project, in which the Collaborative itself works closely with a community to foster socio-ecological regeneration. An example of this third trajectory is CE’s CFW Project, which is an interdisciplinary initiative working with local land stewards in the Southeastern United States to regenerate wetland forests, supported in part by accessing emerging opportunities for PES. The project is currently focused on several locations in the Gulf States, with a pilot in Prairie View, Texas, informed by a multi-layered map of habitat suitability and socio-economic need developed in CE’s Coastal Forested Wetland Lab
To apply: please send a cover letter and a CV or resume to team@collaborative.earth. In your letter, please address the following questions:
How do your education and experience to date prepare you to fill this leadership role, grow the project, and grow the organization as a whole?
How do your own interests and goals align with those of the CFW Project specifically and with CE as a whole?
CE is a distributed organization. What is your experience with remote work, and what strategies do you use to succeed in that environment?
And please feel free to tell us something else about yourself: Who is one of your heroes? What is one of your favorite books? What do you do when you’re not advancing PES and NBS?
We look forward to hearing from you!
