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Grassroots Carbon Public Benefit LLC offers nature-based soil carbon storage solutions based on regenerative agriculture. Nature based solutions address climate change, biodiversity loss, and food security. Regenerative agriculture on grasslands promotes the use of natural and holistic ranching practices that focus on soil health, biodiversity, and animal welfare. This can result in healthier and more nutrient-dense food. By improving soil health on grasslands, regenerative agriculture can enable a diverse range of ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration, nutrient cycling, and habitat for wildlife. Grasslands are highly efficient at capturing and storing carbon, making them a valuable tool in the fight against climate change.

Soil carbon credits are a way to incentivize the adoption of regenerative agriculture practices that promote soil health and carbon sequestration. Grassroots Carbon brings together thousands of ranchers and hundreds of carbon credit buyers, such as Nestle and Shopify, who are seeking to acquire high quality, measured and independently certified soil carbon credits. Across Americas hundreds of millions of acres of grassland, Grassroots Carbon has paid over $2 million to ranchers to date to restore soil health and to accelerate the Regenerative Agriculture movement.We are a team of soil scientists, ranchers, software engineers, entrepreneurs and more from a diverse array of industries, and backgrounds.

Requirements

We are seeking an extremely talented Principal Program Manager who will be responsible as single threaded leader for Soil Carbon Standards. This includes our work with Verra, CAR, Regenerative Standard and others. This leader will own the end-to-end program plan around these protocols. You will also establish effective mechanisms to ensure all supported standards are adhered to across the company. This role also involves generating, managing, and executing strategic partnerships with various companies and groups around these protocols.

In this role you will:

• conduct a review of projects ready for submission to the standards body.
• ensure quality control on all projects to deliver approvals in a timely manner.
• support the business by clarifying the program rules, reporting on validation/verification body (VVB) performance.
• review project documents to ensure quality of VVB performance and integrity of projects requesting registration and verified carbon unit (VCU) issuance.
• collaborate on project quality and VVB performance and liaising externally with various 3rd parties. This role may also entail onsite audits of VVB site visits.
• Serve as a subject expert within business on nature-based solutions and protocols.
• You successfully deliver solutions that resolve significantly complex problems and provide a long-term beneficial impact to the overall business. Examples include adoption of the protocols by numerous carbon buyers, providing clear collaterals and proof to support their needs, and the needs of their advisors.
• Your contributions are noteworthy (e.g., improves business efficiency, simplifies/improves quality, reduces bottlenecks, creates or enables Grassroots Carbon to maintain a competitive advantage). Examples include working with the GRC operations and finance team to standardize processes to support various protocols, including supporting multiple registries.
• You operate with autonomy, showing high judgment in decisions that have business and possibly technical implications. You work with partners to deliver for our customers.
• You identify and tackle intrinsically hard problems. (e.g., ambiguous, extremely complicated, with little to no existing structure, have significant business risk or potential for significant impact).
• You are able to represent, verbally and in writing, complex decisions, tough trade-offs, and potential solutions clearly to leadership.
• You align teams toward coherent strategies. You bring clarity to complexity, probe assumptions, illuminate pitfalls, and foster shared understanding.
• You are flexible, adapting your approach to meet the needs of various projects.
• Youre an exemplary practitioner of Project and Program Management you model best practices in communications.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• 2+ years of experience with Soil protocol standards (VERRA, CAR)
• 2+ years of experience working with various Carbon buyers and intermediaries.
• Technical background and previous experience in reviewing or developing nature-based projects

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance plans, including a flexible spending account option.
• Open Paid Time Off Policy (subject to management approval).
• 9 paid holidays per year as listed in our Company Handbook.
• Participation in our 401(k) savings plan.
• Company-paid Life and AD&D coverage (with the option to purchase additional coverage).
• Company-paid Short-Term Long-Term Disability coverage.
• Educational materials and expenses (subject to management approval).

About Soilworks

Soilworks Natural Capital is on a mission to power the Regenerative Agriculture Revolution. We are a private equity fund that invests in, incubates, and acquires companies to help accelerate the Regenerative Agriculture movement. Our principles include better and healthier food, restoring plant and animal diversity, regenerating soil to store water and carbon, and creating more profitable family farms.

Soilworks was launched by the co-founders of Scaleworks, a technology venture equity fund based in San Antonio, TX. Their passion for the regenerative movement developed while building software companies using common-sense business principles. Soilworks is our effort to bring common-sense disruption to the food system the most important market in the world.