Assistant Manager - Carbon Origination, Carbon Business

ReNew; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international company is seeking a Project Manager for its Carbon Business to oversee project execution and management in carbon markets. The role involves coordinating with stakeholders, developing project plans, and ensuring environmental integrity while driving sustainability initiatives globally. The ideal candidate will have experience in project management and familiarity with carbon credits.

Qualifications

• 1-4 years of relevant experience in project management in carbon or sustainability.
• Experienced in carbon markets and related aspects.
• Willingness to travel internationally.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning, execution, and monitoring of carbon projects.
• Develop and implement project plans and best practices.
• Manage the carbon project cycle from PDD listing to credit issuance.

Skills

Project management skills

Cross-functional teamwork

Risk identification

Financial modelling

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

GIS for carbon project management

Job description

ReNew’s Carbon Business

ReNew’s carbon business develops, funds and operates projects in India and internationally that generate carbon certificates by avoiding, reducing or removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.

As part of the ReNew group, a Nasdaq-listed company backed by marquee institutional investors, ReNew’s carbon business brings to carbon project development the standards and best-practices of a large and experienced decarbonization infrastructure group. We are a responsible carbon developer, seeking to produce carbon certificates with the highest environmental integrity and social impact and aligned with the principles of the Paris Agreement. Once awarded the carbon credits, ReNew sell them to corporates aiming to voluntarily reduce their emissions and to governments, corporations and airlines, that, by regulation, must reduce emissions.

We have a sizable, international, and fast-growing portfolio of carbon projects across four areas, namely clean energy, clean cooking, Nature Based Solutions and engineering-based removals, are rapidly expanding our business, and looking for ambitious and entrepreneurial professionals committed to shaping global carbon markets.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead/Co-lead the planning, execution, and monitoring of carbon projects
• Develop detailed project plans, review templates for the stakeholders, timelines, allocation of budget and resources, and get the deliverables done within the stipulated time.
• Develop, and implement the industry's best practices for carbon project development
• Prepare regular reports, documents, and Gant charts on project status, challenges, and possible risk and mitigation plans.
• Evaluate the project’s progress through means including desk review, project team meetings, site visits, and audit reports toward the committed deliverables of the project
• Timely risk identification and mitigation to nullify the impact on project deliverables
• Prepare proposals / financial models for customers for investment and credit sales
• Manage the entire Carbon project cycle from PDD listing to credit issuance with registry, Validation, and Verification bodies and implementation partner
• Coordinating project stakeholders including carbon consultants, auditors, and implementation partners to meet the project deliverables.
• Manage the contract with project stakeholders in line with the commitments and project deliverables to the highest level of integrity.

Minimum Requirements:

• 1-4 years of relevant experience in project management in carbon, sustainability, or the environment sector.
• Project management skills including project planning, timelines, budget, and resource allocation.
• Experienced in working on projects involving cross-functional teams.
• Experience in carbon markets, familiarity with key aspects like voluntary and compliance markets, Carbon development cycle, registries, Article 6, ICVCM, etc.
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
• Willingness to travel within India and internationally

Experience that would be a differentiator:

• Worked on at least 1 project on the complete carbon credit cycle from PDD listing to credit issuance.
• Experience working with carbon registries.
• Experience with GIS and other digital tools for carbon project management and monitoring
• Financial Modelling
• Contract management