Process Excellence and Implementation Lead

🕒 March 27

🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote

🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

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Verra

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2009

🤝 Non-profit

Non-profit • Environment • Sustainability

Verra is a nonprofit organization that operates in the area of environmental and social markets. It is renowned for setting the world’s leading standards in these fields, including the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) Program, which is the world’s foremost voluntary greenhouse gas program. Verra's programs focus on the development and implementation of standards for climate action, sustainable development, and the reduction of plastic waste. With a substantial global impact, Verra facilitates projects that aim to combat deforestation, promote biodiversity, and advance sustainable development goals worldwide.

📋 Description

• Deliver transformation of the project review and associated Verra processes and tools, in collaboration with staff, to significantly reduce project review duration while maintaining the integrity and quality of decisions • Identify and manage the implementation of high-impact interventions that reduce review times • Implement improved role clarity, handoffs, automation, and decision points to increase throughput and reduce wait states • Recalibrate the interface between Verra reviews and independent audits performed by validation/verification bodies to reduce duplicative effort and rework • Eliminate sources of rework, delay, and manual overhead to sustainably improve cycle time • Evaluate and enhance Verra’s digital tools for usability and customer experience; implement improvements that raise project submission quality • Partner with tech services and project reviewers to identify, size, and implement high-value automation and AI use cases • Design and deliver pragmatic change plans that convert improvement ideas into adopted ways of working using clear delivery plans • Establish and operationalize an improvement cadence

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant experience with process optimization to achieve transformational improvements to operational systems • Demonstrated experience with process overhaul in regulatory or certification-related review processes • Prior experience leading process improvement initiatives using Kanban, Lean Six Sigma, and other industry best practice continuous improvement methodologies • Hands-on experience with automation and applied AI to improve process efficiency • Experience analyzing operational data to identify constraints and scale proven process patterns that drive greater efficiency and throughput • Ability to work embedded with business and technical teams to apply proven change management approaches • Highly effective written and verbal communication skills. • A pragmatic, delivery-oriented approach that effectively and iteratively priorities and implements improvement opportunities. • Passion for climate action and sustainable development and knowledge of carbon and sustainability markets in either a voluntary or regulatory context is desirable.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • 401(k) • Paid time off • Flexible work arrangements • Professional development opportunities