The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is hiring an Equitable Carbon Markets Advisor to lead our work ensuring carbon markets promote equitable outcomes for communities and landowners while achieving tangible climate impacts. You will manage critical partners, support fundraising, and serve as the main technical resource on the social aspects of our priority carbon projects.
What You'll Do
- Lead the Equitable Carbon Markets Strategy, ensuring Natural Climate Solutions Accelerator projects and market influence efforts achieve the Strategy’s objectives.
- Lead efforts to ensure projects achieve the highest-quality social outcomes by evaluating stakeholder engagement and social impacts across all project stages.
- Support the application of TNC’s carbon standards and safeguards.
- Lead field teams in designing inclusive engagement, benefit-sharing, governance, and grievance mechanisms.
- Enhance Indigenous and local leadership and improve tools for monitoring social outcomes.
- Ensure all TNC’s carbon projects meet our Bar of Excellence through participation in the Carbon Project Review Committee.
- Lead efforts to expand Indigenous, local community, and smallholder leadership in carbon market projects by identifying opportunities, building partner capacity, sharing lessons, and cultivating strategic partnerships.
- Shape carbon market rules, standards, and buyer preferences toward equity by sharing best practices and stories from Indigenous- and community-led projects.
- Represent TNC in public forums, and engage buyers, investors, and donors.
- Supervise the Equitable Carbon Markets team by managing staff, overseeing the social aspects of the project portfolio, and securing resources.
- Support fundraising efforts and partnerships with financial institutions and/or investors and buyers to build understanding and buy-in on high-quality social standards.
- Serve as liaison with the Global Conservation Equity team and other internal TNC teams to ensure alignment.
- Requires domestic and international travel up to 20% of time.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor’s degree in conservation, social science, anthropology, public policy, international relations, international development, or related field and at least 5 years related experience, or equivalent combination.
- At least 3 years of experience working with carbon projects and/or conservation or development projects that include smallholders, local communities, and/or Indigenous Peoples.
- Experience facilitating participatory workshops and consultation processes with diverse sets of people.
- Experience presenting to and/or communicating with investors or corporate entities, Indigenous Peoples or community leaders, donors, program leadership and/or similar audiences.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and meet time sensitive deadlines.
- Fluency in English.
Nice to Have
- Multi-lingual skills (e.g., Spanish, Portuguese, Swahili, French, or Bahasa Indonesian) and multi-cultural or cross-cultural experience.
- Familiarity and knowledge related to carbon market standards (e.g., Climate Community and Biodiversity Standard, Plan Vivo, Verified Carbon Standard).
- Ability to identify and implement practical solutions that uphold high integrity while adapting to complex social dynamics.
- Ability to sensitively advise other staff on how to effectively engage with internal and external parties.
- Ability to develop and drive new ideas and approaches.
- Ability to work well in a highly matrixed, decentralized and collaborative organization. Possesses strong interpersonal skills and political savvy. Must be a team player.
Team & Environment
You will sit in the Global Carbon Markets team, one of four teams in the IFM Division. This role serves as a key liaison between the Global Carbon Markets team and other TNC teams, including the Indigenous Rights & Sovereignty team, the Human Rights team, and the Regional and Country teams.
Benefits & Compensation
- Competitive, comprehensive benefits package including health care benefits, flexible spending accounts.
- 401(k) plan with an 8% employer match.
- Parental leave, accrued paid time off, life insurance, disability coverage, employee assistance program.
- Flexible work environment that supports the health and well-being of employees.
- For U.S. based applicants only, the starting pay range for this position is generally within the range of $100,000 – $122,000 for annual base salary. For all other applicants, pay ranges will be in local currency, based on the local labor market.
Work Mode
This is a global role. You may be located in any country where TNC has an established entity and is within 6 hours of Eastern Time.
The Nature Conservancy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our commitment to diversity includes the recognition that our conservation mission is best advanced by the leadership and contributions of people of diverse backgrounds, beliefs and culture.
