Carbon Markets Manager
Cascade Climate
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $80,000 - $120,000 per year
About the role
- Own Cascade’s ongoing market sizing and market intelligence efforts across key demand pools, including the voluntary carbon market, domestic and sectoral compliance markets, international credit markets under Article 6, and insetting opportunities for both super pollutants and carbon dioxide removal. Track market trends, eligibility rules, standards updates, and key policy developments to inform strategy and opportunity assessment.
- Drive forward catalytic, voluntary super pollutant opportunities in partnership with external market actors, helping to unlock a pathway toward future government procurement and industry uptake.
- Conduct market analysis and support stakeholder engagement for Cascade’s Refrigerant Management Transition work, with the goal of embedding high-integrity methodologies into carbon market programs and enabling future voluntary and international credit transactions. This includes working closely with carbon registries, methodology developers, and key intermediaries across the VCM ecosystem.
- Monitor and synthesize developments in GHG accounting frameworks and industry standards that may affect Cascade’s market and policy strategies, and that influence the behavior of key market participants (buyers, suppliers, registries).
- Evaluate and help develop opportunities to expand Cascade’s claims and accounting guardrails work and related efforts that shape economic and market incentives across climate mitigation activities.
- Translate technical project methodology, accounting and standards topics into clear recommendations and guidance, including briefs, slide decks, and short memos.
- Prepare written outputs articulating Cascade’s perspective on proposed methodologies or standards changes.
- Support strategic planning and external engagement, including preparation of materials for conferences, events, and stakeholder convenings.
Requirements
- 3+ years relevant experience in carbon markets, standards, emissions accounting, climate policy, or similar field.
- Degree in business, economics, international development, or similar.
- Expertise with both quantitative and qualitative analyses and market research that lead to clear recommendations.
- Technical literacy around carbon markets and how climate mitigation projects come to market.
- Understands and can speak to the impact of policy and regulation on markets.
- Deeply collaborative with a proven ability to work cross-functionally within an organization.
- Strong writing and communication skills with the ability to write succinct memos and present to technical and non-technical audiences.
- External stakeholder relationship management and project management experience.
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
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