Program Manager

Summary

Join Winrock International as a Program Manager for Net Zero Climate Services, focusing on unlocking finance for emission reduction projects and contributing to the 1.5-degree Celsius warming goal. You will advise clients on GHG emissions accounting and decarbonization strategies, collaborating to identify opportunities and ensure adherence to methodologies. This role requires identifying uncertainties in climate accounting standards and proposing solutions. You will work with influential private sector, philanthropic, and governmental actors. The position requires a strong understanding of electricity sector decarbonization, corporate climate strategies, and relevant standards. Business development experience is also highly valued. This remote position, based in the US (East Coast hours), offers competitive pay and benefits.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree
• Minimum of 6 years of relevant experience
• Fast learner, curious, a passion for uncovering and creating solutions to climate and sustainability problems
• Strong customer/client service orientation
• Experience or training in sales or marketing
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including effective public speaking and the ability to communicate complex issues both verbally and in written form
• Team player capable of adapting to ambiguous environments with cross-group collaboration and problem-solving abilities
• Deep experience in work directly related to decarbonizing the electricity sector or energy intensive industries that rely heavily on electricity to power their operations
• Certification for project management or demonstrated experience with managing or serving as a project coordinator
• Working understanding or experience with preparing submissions or reporting against key climate corporate leadership standards (e.g. GHG Protocol Corporate Standard and/or Project Standard, Science-Based Targets Initiative’s standards, the AIM Platform, and the Value Change Initiative)
• Experience with developing Life-cycle assessments (LCA) and Environmental Product Declarations (EPD)
• Good understanding of or direct experience applying carbon quantification methodologies (e.g. for carbon credits/offset credits), carbon credit or other sustainability product certification standards, carbon credit project development, monitoring reporting and verification of GHG emissions impact
• Climate finance: Practical experience in or exposure to public, multilateral, private sector and blended climate finance
• Experience using ARC/GIS, data analysis software, Excel (basic to intermediate skill in storing, presenting, processing, and analyzing data)
• Fluent in English, fluency in another language is a plus as we engage clients globally
• Ability to travel internationally and domestically
• Must be authorized to work within the United States

Responsibilities

• Support the Director, Net Zero to help clients achieve their climate mitigation strategies with a focus on decarbonization of a companies’ value chain emissions (Scopes 1, 2, and 3)
• Lead or support interactions with clients, primarily in presenting updates or deliverables and conducting research to confidently answer client questions
• Track and manage a pipeline of technical advisory requests on carbon accounting and decarbonization strategies for clients
• Manage technical consultants and provide technical guidance and operational guidance to them as necessary
• Design and/or run impactful and efficient in-person technical workshops
• Prepare PowerPoint presentations, reports, memoranda, and other communication materials
• Complete tasks in a fast-paced and self-motivated environment in a timely and efficient manner
• Conduct desk research on corporate climate mitigation leadership standards as well as potential partners and clients
• Lead and/or support proposal and workplan development
• Perform basic to intermediate calculations using greenhouse gas and economic activity data
• Work with small teams to prepare high-quality products, pitching-in wherever necessary and providing guidance and leadership

Preferred Qualifications

Understanding of decarbonization strategies and associated standards and guidance for target setting (e.g., the Science Based Targets initiative), carbon accounting (e.g., primarily the GHG Protocol corporate standard, Scope 2 standard and Scope 3 standards), and implementation guidance developers (e.g., AIM Platform and Value Change Initiative)

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Excellent benefits package