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Country: Argentina
Duty station: Argentina
Contract type: Full-time
Grade: Not specified
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POSITION DETAILS
Position Description: Implementing next generation carbon credit registries
Position Title: Registry Officer or Registry Manager, depending on experience
Location: U.S. remote or hybrid setting with offices in Arlington, VA and Little Rock, AR
Department: Environmental Resources Trust (ERT) - ACR
Reports To: Director, Registry Operations
GENERAL
The Environmental Resources Trust (ERT) is a wholly owned nonprofit enterprise of Winrock International and was founded in 1996 to offer trusted solutions to environmental markets to catalyze transformational climate impacts. ERT ensures the integrity of environmental assets, including carbon credits, by developing science-based, peer reviewed accounting standards, overseeing independent third-party verification of emission reductions and carbon removals and providing transparency throughout the process including the issuance, transactions, and retirement of serialized offset credits on public registry systems. ERT operates three carbon crediting programs:
ACR is an internationally recognized carbon crediting program that operates in global compliance and voluntary carbon markets. ACR was the first private greenhouse gas registry in the world and brings three decades of unparalleled experience and innovation to is operation as an independent carbon credit standards body and registry. ACR is also an approved Offset Project Registry for the California and Washington State Cap-and-Invest Programs (administered by the California Air Resources Board, or CARB and the Washington State Department of Ecology, or Ecology, respectively).
The Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART) was established in 2018 as the first market-based initiative to incentivize the protection and restoration of tropical forests at scale, also known as jurisdictional REDD+. ART is the leading global carbon market initiative for jurisdictional REDD+, ensuring the social and environmental integrity of climate results from protecting and restoring forests at scale. ART’s growing pipeline of participating jurisdictions currently includes over two dozen governments on five continents covering over 1 billion acres – 25% of the world’s tropical forests.
ERT is also developing the Standard for the Transformation of the Electric Power Sector (STEPS), a first of a kind sectoral carbon crediting standard to incentivize steeper and more rapid electric sector decarbonization.
ACR and ART are approved by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to supply emission reduction and removals credits to airlines for use towards their obligations under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) pilot phase (complete), phase 1 (2024-2026) and phase 2 (2027-2029). The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) has assessed ACR and ART against the Core Carbon Principles (CCPs) and approved both as a CCP-Eligible programs. Both also have an MoU with Singapore to supply credits for use towards national carbon tax obligations and are positioned for roles in new compliance offset markets and under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, as well as increased prominence in the global voluntary carbon market.
POSITION SUMMARY
The Registry Officer or Registry Manager (depending on experience) will join the Registry Operations team soon after the launch ACR and ART on a re-envisioned registry platform with a new registry technology service provider, the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE). At this juncture the team is developing support resources and supporting staff and partners in their use of our registries as well as working with ICE to enhance functionality and features as part of a phased deployment to deliver a quantum leap forward in infrastructure to enable the scaling and integration of global carbon markets.
This is an operations and client services role contributing to all aspects of registry services management. The position will engage daily with ACR’s critical registry platform infrastructure and will support the technical team members and registry participants in their use of the system infrastructure and functionality developments. This includes, but is not limited to, carbon credit issuance process, onboarding of new registry participants, and maintaining accurate registry data and billing services.
The Registry Officer or Registry Manager will develop a strong functional understanding of relevant aspects of the ACR Standard, California and Washington regulations, and CORSIA and ICVCM requirements to ensure that projects move through the registry process efficiently, while upholding our program policies, regulatory compliance, technical rigor, quality and transparency. They will contribute to the maintenance and development of operational processes ensuring the integrity of the carbon credits issued and transacted. The successful candidate may also support registry platform infrastructure related to the ART and STEPS programs as needed.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
POSITION QUALIFICATIONS
Education: Bachelor’s degree required. Degrees in Business Administration, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Information Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, Environmental Sciences/Policy, GHG Accounting, or related field preferred.
Experience: Minimum of 3 years of relevant work experience is required for a Technical Officer. Minimum of 6 years of relevant work experience is required for a Technical Manager. Additional years of experience and experience in environmental markets are preferred. Relevant experience includes environmental markets, customer support, database management, and systems organization.
Computer/Technical Skills: Proficiency in the full MS Office suite is required. Experience developing software requirement specifications and conducting user acceptance testing is preferred. Experience with data analytics platforms such as Tableau is a plus.
Communication Skills: Strong speaking and written English communication skills are required. Presentation skills are an asset. Fluency in one or more additional languages is an asset.
Position-Specific Skills:
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Commitment to mission and interest in market-based approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions required. Candidate must be comfortable working in a flexible, high-paced environment.
Must have work authorization in the United States. Sponsorship for this role is not available.
Must be available to travel domestically 1-3 times per year for short-term assignments.
Typical office environment with continual sitting or standing required.
The pay range for this role is $65,000 - $115,000 per year and determined based on the scope and responsibilities of the position, the candidate's experience, specialized knowledge and skills, internal equity, and current market conditions. Winrock offers an excellent benefits package.
Winrock is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender, national origin, age, disability or any other basis protected by law.
At Winrock we have a clear mission: Empower the disadvantaged, increase economic opportunity and sustain natural resources through unwavering dedication to accountability, equity, innovation, integrity and transformation.
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