Position: Sr. Manager: Safeguarding Carbon Markets
Location: Remote (USA)
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Come grow with us! If you are a passionate change agent who thrives in a collaborative, entrepreneurial, and inclusive culture committed to operational excellence, we would like to meet you.
At Resonance, we provide immediate hands-on experience alongside our clients as we work to build sustainable, positive impact. Our teams are autonomous and self-sufficient. You get to weigh in with founders and leaders on how to drive change and grow the movement while growing the company.
Resonance is an award-winning, Certified B Corporation consultancy that delivers market-based solutions to address the world's toughest challenges. We enable a variety of donor, commercial, and investor clients around the world to catalyze lasting impact. Resonance seeks to catalyze large-scale social, environmental, and economic change by fostering new and dynamic forms of collaboration.
POSITION MANDATE The CTC Grand Challenge is seeking a Senior Manager/Manager to lead the Safeguarding Carbon Markets Challenge. This role will report to the Senior Advisor/Director. The Manager will oversee a portfolio of winning solutions to transnational corruption issues in carbon markets, working with 10 - 15 grantees ("innovators") from around the globe for up to two years. The Manager will provide technical assistance, networking, and peer learning opportunities to promote growth in this new market.
The manager will lead day-to-day management, ensuring that the grants strategically contribute to the CTC Grand Challenge objectives, indicators, and a wider conversation around corruption in carbon markets and climate finance. Additionally, the manager will ensure compliance with MSI's contracting and grants management policies and procedures.
OUTCOMES / ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS Provide strategic, technical, and administrative direction of the Safeguarding Carbon Markets Challenge.Serve as the primary point of contact for all grant-related issues and requests.Support 10 - 15 grantees, managing their deliverables, invoices, payments, grants agreement compliance, and overall technical approaches.Review and approve grantees' milestone deliverables and circulate for approval across CTC Grand Challenge staff.Work with the CTC Grand Challenge Grants Team on grant agreement modifications and other contractual matters.Manage the grants tracker related to their portfolio of grants, including monthly payment projections.Work with the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Specialist to align program activities and monitor progress against targets.Work with the Communications Specialist to develop promotional materials that spotlight our work.Oversee the successful closeout of all grants.Identify lessons learned and develop learning products, presentations, case studies, and other reports for key stakeholders.Provide technical support services to accelerate their efforts, including mentorship or coaching services.Design, facilitate, and coordinate peer learning events to enhance the capacity of solvers.REQUIRED EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE Bachelor's or master's degree in international relations, public administration, or a related field.Minimum ten years of relevant work experience, including seven years in climate, carbon markets, natural resource management, good governance, or corruption.Strong experience in project management and multi-stakeholder initiatives.Past experience in facilitation, co-design, and crowdsourcing solutions.A confident, professional, diplomatic, and collegial demeanor.Strong oral and written communication skills.Prior work in grants management and project pipelines preferred.Experience working with USAID context preferred.Keen interest in the intersection between corruption and carbon markets.Proficiency with MS Office and OSX applications.Understanding of and demonstrated passion for international development.TRAVEL EXPECTATIONS
Up to 25%
WORK AUTHORIZATION / SECURITY CLEARANCE
None Required
SALARY RANGE
$100,000 - $125,000
AAP/EEO STATEMENT
The Equal Employment Opportunity Policy of Resonance is to provide a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity or expression, and sexual orientation), parental status, genetic information, political affiliation, military service, age, veteran status, disability, or marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted. No phone calls or emails please.
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