Technical Lead, Sustainability Services – Palm Oil and Soy Focus
Winrock International
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $115,000 - $120,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Lead project review and communications with clients to scope the quality of peatland restoration projects and address relevant technical aspects and their methodologies.
- Manage the analysis of climate projects at the intersection of agriculture, forestry, and greenhouse gas emissions, at the farm and corporate level, ensuring timely production of high-quality deliverables.
- Provide effective supervision including setting performance expectations, conducting regular performance evaluations, and providing ongoing feedback and coaching.
- Perform calculations using greenhouse gas and activity data. Support critical thinking and innovative approaches, new analyses, and new analytical methods.
- Lead the development of guidance on carbon inset approaches to peatland restoration projects within palm supply chains and contribute to critical thinking on the analyses and analytical methods related to food systems and regenerative agriculture.
- Prepare technical analysis reports, presentations, and other communication materials related to carbon accounting and project risk analysis, translating technical topics into terms that are meaningful to more diverse audiences.
- Maintain day-to-day client communications. Provide accurate, consistent, and coherent technical guidance and explanations to clients and donors.
- Provide training to counterparts/stakeholders in the use of methods and internationally accepted best practices.
- Create decision-support tools for the measurement and monitoring of GHG emissions and ecosystem services in the land use and forestry sectors.
- Develop and implement statistically sound approaches to project design and data analysis for carbon projects, including use of field data, new statistical tools, and models. Recommend and implement new approaches that strengthen Winrock International’s reputation for sound science and expand the visibility of Winrock International as a leading developer of measurement and monitoring methods.
- Develop project work plans, budgets and reports, including tracking and monitoring programs as assigned to ensure they are fulfilling deliverable and performance requirements at a high quality, on time, and on budget.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in agriculture or environment-related field required
- Master’s degree in climate change, food and environment, or a related discipline is preferred.
- Minimum 7 years of relevant experience in food systems and GHG accounting for land use required.
- Additional years of experience are strongly preferred.
- Experience developing, mentoring, and managing teams of technical staff.
- Experience managing technical aspects of GHG accounting in the agriculture field.
- Field or research experience with forest carbon or palm production GHG accounting, land use change models, and GHG profiles of agricultural commodities from Southeast Asia preferred.
- Knowledge of monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) approaches within palm supply chains to ensure GHG reduction measurements are repeatable, scalable, and GHG protocol compliant.
- Knowledge of one or more of the additional soft commodities is a plus: vegetable fats & oils; spices; cereals & grains; cocoa; coconut; soybeans; and coffee.
- Working understanding or experience with preparing submissions or reporting against key climate corporate leadership standards (e.g., Verra, GHG Protocol, Science-Based Targets Initiative’s standards).
- Understanding of corporate supply chain management or procurement.
- Demonstrated experience in research and public communication on technical issues.
- Proficiency in using Microsoft Office software, including Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel is preferred.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills are required, including effective public speaking and the ability to communicate complex issues both verbally and in written form.
- Fluency in English required.
- Strong analytical capability and problem-solving abilities required.
- Ability to contribute to project operations and workflow effectively, to track and meet deadlines for multiple tasks, and work effectively under pressure.
- Understanding of 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.
- Ability to foster and maintain good working relationships with clients and partners, including non-profit organizations, the private sector, foundations, and multilateral organizations.
- Experience developing proposals for a variety of funders is desired.
- Experience leading complex technical projects with a diverse team of staff and consultants.
- Knowledge of geospatial technologies, tools and methodologies is a plus.
Benefits
- Winrock offers an excellent benefits package.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
GHG accountingcarbon quantification methodologiesdata analysisstatistical toolsland use change modelscarbon credit project developmentmonitoring reporting and verification (MRV)technical analysisperformance evaluationsdecision-support tools
Soft skills
strong analytical capabilityproblem-solving abilitieseffective public speakingwritten communicationclient relationship managementteam managementcritical thinkingcoachingproject managementcommunication skills