Senior Manager, Technical

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🕒 March 23

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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Winrock International

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 1985

🤝 Non-profit

🌾 Agriculture

💰 $45M Grant on 2022-09

Non-profit • Agriculture • Environment

Winrock International is a recognized leader in U. S. and international development, providing solutions to complex social, agricultural, and environmental challenges. The organization focuses on areas such as agriculture, resilience and water, climate change, environment and energy, and human rights, education, and empowerment. Winrock emphasizes sustainable impact through locally led solutions that are market-driven and science-based. Additionally, it operates the ACR, a nonprofit carbon registry, using science-based methodologies to reduce and remove greenhouse gas emissions. Winrock's approach is marked by its commitment to measurable results and local collaboration, aiming to foster positive global change.

📋 Description

• Assist the Technical Team Lead in reviewing Participant TREES Document submissions to evaluate completeness. • Support the assessment of methodologies and data used to quantify climate mitigation outcomes from forest and land-use activities. • Contribute to the review and understanding of monitoring and reporting systems used to track jurisdictional program performance and results. • Collaborate with the Technical Team and other internal teams to develop guidance materials and provide technical clarification to participating jurisdictions and stakeholders. • Assist in tracking research, initiatives and best practices relating to remote sensing and forest measurement.

🎯 Requirements

• Advanced degree in Environmental Science, Forestry, Natural Resource Management, Carbon Accounting, Remote Sensing, or a related field. • Minimum of 5 years of experience working in REDD+ / forest carbon, voluntary or compliance carbon markets, and/or remote sensing and forest measurement with greater experience preferred. • Familiarity with REDD+ accounting and quantification methods, fundamental greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting principles, and verification and auditing standards. • Proficiency in MS Office suite (Outlook, Word, Excel) and SharePoint, is required. • Strong speaking, presentation, and written communication skills required. • Fluency in spoken and written English is required. Fluency in one or more additional languages is an asset, especially Spanish, Portuguese, and/or French. • Must be available to travel for short-term assignments.

🏖️ Benefits

• Winrock offers an excellent benefits package.