Senior Program Officer

The Senior Program Officer will working with clients to unlock millions or billions of dollars to finance emission reduction and removals projects that contribute to keeping global warming to 1.5 Celsius. This role you will provide technical advice on GHG emissions accounting and decarbonization strategy. In many cases you will work with clients collaboratively to identify decarbonization opportunities and ensure adherence to GHG calculation methodologies. When climate accounting and target setting standards are vague, it will partially be this person’s job to identify these areas of uncertainty and propose no-regrets approaches to support Winrock clients to take these areas of uncertainty and innovatively take the most ambitious pathway benefit the climate, nature and people. You will work with some of the most influential companies in the world. Past and current Winrock clients include Nestle, McCormick, and Microsoft.  

Experience in the food, land and agriculture sectors is most desirable for this position, but experience with other sectors like energy, and packaging (plastics and/or metal) would also be desirable. An up-to-date understanding of the current state of how companies reduce Scope 3 emissions while being in compliance with Science-Based Targets initiative standards.  

This position may be based remotely within the United States but expected to work East Coast hours (EST).  

Position role:  

Supports the Director, Net Zero to help clients achieve their climate mitigation strategies with a focus on deep decarbonization of a companies’ value chain emissions (Scopes 1, 2, and 3). Potential responsibilities are likely to include:   

Skills and Requirements:

Having many of the following skills:   

Education:

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