Context

The Center for Green Market Activation™ (GMA) is a US-based, globally focused nonprofit that catalyzes and scales the uptake of low- and zero-carbon goods and services in the hardest-to-abate sectors through innovative chain of custody systems, new and creative procurement approaches, and demand aggregating buyers’ alliances. GMA’s organizational design combines shared expertise and infrastructure with sector-specific programs. By consolidating a range of value chain mitigation initiatives under a single non-profit umbrella, we help companies ramp up their Scope 3 mitigation quickly, starting in one sector and easily moving into another.  GMA seeks employees committed to addressing the climate crisis, who are highly entrepreneurial, with strong people skills, and an ability to learn new, technical subject matter and speak to it with authority. Our motto is “Getting more done, together,” so we only seek employees who love working collaboratively and are focused on implementation over perfection. 

Work/Life Balance

GMA takes work/life balance very seriously. Outside of stakeholder meetings, we will be as flexible as possible on work hours to meet your particular home life needs. Staff will be expected to work an average of 8 hours/day.

Location

Remote, contiguous United States (no AK or HI due to time zone). Applicant must currently live in and have the right to work in the United States.

Key Responsibilities and Qualifications

The position will help design and implement GMA’s newest program, GMA Chemicals. GMA Chemicals is focused on accelerating deep decarbonization of the chemicals sector, while at the same time supporting efforts to address non-climate impacts of the sector (e.g., plastic waste).  This position gets to join GMA at an exciting time for the chemicals program as we design a market-based framework to address financial and structural barriers to chemicals sector decarbonization. Such tools will include a chain of custody systems (e.g. book and claim system) that allow the separation of the environmental attributes of a chemical product from the product itself. While helping build this framework, this position will also be assisting with the preparation of a chemicals buyers alliance to support collective procurement on behalf of those buyers.  The ideal candidate has a strong, technical background in the chemicals sector, and demonstrated skills in problem solving, project management, research and analysis, and communication and facilitation, as well as the organizational skills required to lead crucial components of this innovative program.  This position will be a core member of the GMA Chemicals team, working closely with the rest of the chemicals program members as well as coordinating with members of other GMA program teams on matters that cross GMA programs. As the position will also be engaging with external stakeholders that are providing input to GMA on chemicals program development, a strong candidate must be able to drive consensus and reach concrete outcomes amongst groups with differing perspectives and goals, and must be comfortable with managing constructive conflict between stakeholders. GMA seeks individuals with a positive, get-to-yes mentality. 

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