Head of Carbon Management

CO280 is a leading developer of large-scale carbon removal projects that will remove more than 10 megatons of carbon per year from the atmosphere. We are achieving this by partnering with pulp and paper companies to capture biogenic CO2 from pulp mills and store it permanently in geologic formations. Our projects deliver a new standard of permanent, large-scale carbon dioxide removal at the highest quality and lowest cost compared to other permanent CDR. We currently have more than a dozen projects in development with pulp and paper partners in the Gulf Coast and Alberta, Canada.

We are simultaneously addressing a critical supply gap in the CDR marketplace where we are selling our credits to Fortune 100 customers in the voluntary carbon market. To support project execution and scaleup, we have created a powerful and growing network of partners including JP Morgan, MRV with Microsoft, SLB Capturi and others. We have assembled an extraordinary team, and we’re backed by some of the leading equity funds in energy transition. We are well-capitalized and are scaling up our team to achieve the next stage of growth.

The Role:

The CDR market is at a turning point: large companies are beginning to source CDR at-scale for 2030 goals, and global policy is favoring CDR market growth. A critical step towards wider market adoption will depend on high standards for quantifying carbon removal (MRV). CO280 has the ambition to advance MRV and carbon reporting towards clarity and transparency, and your goal will be to set industry leading standards that deliver this.

Your primary objective at CO280 is to help us refine and shape our CDR certification strategy, ensuring a seamless connection between our projects and major carbon market standards. You will develop a comprehensive strategic plan and drive the exploration, coordination, and implementation of measurement, validation, and verification processes, ensuring compliance with industry standards. You will act as the voice of CO280 with important stakeholder groups, building and managing relationships with thought leaders in industry, academia, and government and help shape the future of CDR reporting. You will contribute to strategic initiatives outside of our organization which will help advance the CDR industry. You will work directly with our Chief Commercial Officer to evaluate how our MRV strategy and policy involvement can help us access new markets. You will work cross functionally within our organizations with Engineering, Project Development, Marketing, Legal and Finance. You will work closely with our project engineering team to create an MRV plan for our first project that can be replicated across future projects as we scale. Ideally, you have expertise in carbon markets, carbon accounting, and ESG and are passionate about climate. You are hopeful, solutions-oriented and want to join a team that believes that our solutions can change the world!

Responsibilities:

Adept at simultaneously operating at a strategic level and e\ectively executing programs, you will be responsible for planning, accelerating, and leading the path towards third-party verification & certification. This will include:

• In-depth assessments of existing methodologies from Puro, Verra, and Isometric, and the registry services offered, and helping the CCO select a registry for our first project.

• Ensuring that proper MRV considerations make their way through our entire project value chain including transportation and sequestration partnerships, technology partnerships, and more.

• Participating in industry working groups to define requirements and ensure that high standards are being set for the market.

• Building new relationships with policy stakeholders to help build and ensure market access. Managing existing relationships with stakeholders with whom we are engaged such as NREL, university research labs, DOE, and others.

• Work closely with CCO to assess new market opportunities and identify ways to help develop compliance carbon markets.

• Work with Sales to ensure that our customers’ MRV requirements are well understood and can be met.

• Work with Project Development Team to incorporate project specifics in MRV documentation and ensure MRV considerations are integrated throughout the project development process

• Assessing current existing biomass sourcing at our host mills against customer standards and identifying any gaps (and solutions to these gaps) in the biomass certifications.

• Overseeing end to end management of CDR process including and, to the extent needed, hiring and managing verifiers.

• Leading PDD creation and development of any other documents required for verification.

• Working with our partners at Microsoft and SLB Capturi on a digital MRV system, ensure proper data management is in place.

• Assessing and implementing partnerships, 3rd party data hosting services, and other relevant tools.

• Being our in-house expert on all things MRV, registries, carbon accounting and reporting; and helping us drive the MRV space towards better practices.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of relevant MRV or carbon accounting development experience, preferably involving CDR or other carbon solutions; additional 10+ years of prior consulting, environmental services, or related experience.

• Degree in a relevant discipline, preferably engineering, environmental sciences, or general sciences. An advanced degree in a scientific field related to sustainability preferred but not required.

• Substantial knowledge of carbon registries, methodologies, and thought leadership related to MRV.

• A skillful relationship builder, networker, and dependable team member, capable of building strong commercial relationships with colleagues and partners at all levels.

• Scientifically oriented, comfortable communicating with scientists, and can interpret white papers and primary research - including GHG reporting scopes, LCA, and carbon methodologies.

• Collaborative and consultative, you listen to customers and colleagues and work with them to solve problems.

• Experience developing a new solution in a new domain or business is desirable.

Excellent written, presentation, and empathetic communication capabilities.

• High proficiency with software and its utilization in an MRV or carbon accounting context.

• Solutions oriented and can find your way out of problems through creative thinking and iterative processes.

• Highly organized and can both design and execute a process. Enjoy strategic planning and hands-on execution.

• Excited to join a startup, be resourceful, and move fast. Comfortable operating and creating structure in a whitespace environment, building from zero to one

• Able to travel periodically.

If this sounds like you, we hope you will join us! Submit your resume to careers@co280.com.

CO280 is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We value diversity and encourage applicants from varied backgrounds to pursue a career with us. Hiring decisions are determined by alignment between candidate capabilities and position requirements without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.