Senior Carbon Protocol Manager
The Truterra Senior Carbon Protocol Manager helps Truterra create the most credible, rigorous, transparent carbon offsets in the market and maintains Truterra-developed carbon removal and reductions assets. This includes owning processes and technology to monitor, maintain, and verify both registered and unregistered carbon projects, as well as balancing credit buffer pools. Truterra strives to develop the highest-quality carbon credit asset in the marketplace and to provide the highest return value to farmers. The Carbon Asset Manager is critical to ensuring the quality and bottom-line value to buyers of these carbon assets.
This position will work report to the Truterra Carbon Operations Lead and will provide both strategic and tactical recommendations for assuring the performance of the Truterra carbon credit platform. This role includes working collaboratively across the Truterra business team and with the technology and software engineering teams.
Critically, this role will be the primary operational lead with external carbon credit verification bodies and registries. Through these engagements, the Carbon Asset Manager will be principally responsible for assuring the creditability and value of Truterra’s carbon assets, to secure continued interest from carbon asset buyers.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Owning the MRV assurance process for Truterra’s carbon offsets/credits
- Developing business requirements for Truterra's monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) technology platform
- Developing audit and quality control processes as necessary to assure integrity and/or regulatory compliance of carbon assets
- Identifying and managing risk
- Overseeing execution of the MRV processes to ensure the integrity of Truterra credits, including documentation of data related to assets, overseeing field monitoring, soil sampling and reporting and managing and reconciling acreage “buffer pools” and/or other Truterra-owned carbon assets
- Managing annual project reporting processes
- Establishing internal quality control and auditing processes to ensure the validity and quality of the carbon credit assets created through the Truterra platform
- Managing relationships with the independent carbon credit verification and registration bodies
- Facilitating transactions with ecosystem credit registries/marketplaces
- Supporting development and quantification of new carbon asset projects
- Optimizing future MRV processes to constantly drive economic and quality improvement to ensure Truterra produces, transacts, and maintains the highest quality carbon credits available
Required Experience & Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math or related field
- 7+ years’ work experience
- Proven ability to manage, build and empower a large, high-performing, technical team
- Experience managing complex and fast-paced projects with a high degree of ambiguity
- Experience in the carbon quantification and methodology space
Competencies-Skills (Required):
- This dynamic role requires technical aptitude and the ability to manage a wide array of internal and external stakeholders
- In-depth understanding of the carbon accounting, quantification, and methodology standards and broader landscape
- Understanding of U.S. production agriculture
- Understanding of data management and audit concepts
- Intellectual flexibility, agility, and an innovative mindset; willing to think outside the box and advance the state of carbon accounting to meet the needs of the world today
- Background in programmatic and/or financial auditing preferred
- Ability to work collaboratively with teams across an organization
- Ability to translate complex or ambiguous concepts into digestible information (e.g., protocols) for a diverse set of stakeholders
- Technical aptitude
- Obsessive about quality
- Passion for data, natural resource conservation science, and modeling techniques
- Thrives in a fast-paced extremely ambiguous environment
- Strong sense of innovation
- Extremely organized
Experience & Education (Preferred):
- Advanced degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math or related field
Salary is negotiable based on experience: $135,360 - $203,400
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