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. 

Responsibilities include:

• Procurement Design and Implementation 

• • Support the development of metrics, baselines, and rules for a robust and credible chain of custody framework for the environmental attributes of products from the chemicals sector. 

• • Support the development of a public facing, universally accessible registry to drive transparency and standardization of the environmental attributes of chemicals products. 

• • Help define sustainability requirements for chemicals products to ensure that GMA members support investment in only the highest quality climate solutions. 

• • Develop information for organizations on how to calculate and report the impact of their investments in low emission chemical products. 

• • Find suppliers, evaluate proposals, help negotiate terms, and support execution of contracts that help members meet their targets for decarbonizing their chemicals footprints. 

 

• Relationship and Program Management 

• • Serve as primary subject matter expert on chemicals decarbonization pathways and emissions accounting. 

• • Provide technical analysis and strategic input to inform GMA Chemicals performance targets and metrics, as well as the development of recruitment and other member-facing materials. 

• • Manage communications and relationships with stakeholders across the GMA Chemicals community. 

• • Serve as a representative for GMA in public settings, including conferences, industry convenings, nonprofit meetings, and other external events.

Skills and Qualifications

Required: 

• Strong commitment to and enthusiasm for addressing the climate crisis. 

• Bachelor’s degree in the physical sciences, engineering, or a related field. 

• At least five years of direct work experience in the chemicals sector. 

• Applied experience with climate mitigation in the chemicals sector and chemicals sector greenhouse gas emissions accounting. 

• Ability to understand complex technical information and distill and communicate that information clearly and effectively to lay audiences. 

• Ability to manage time effectively, including meeting tight timelines, working autonomously and with a small team, and managing multiple processes and projects at the same time. 

• Strong professional and diplomatic interpersonal skills. 

• Strong customer service and solution-focused orientation – a “Yes, and” attitude. 

Preferred: 

• A deep understanding of product carbon accounting and chain of custody standards, tools and frameworks (e.g., Together for Sustainability product carbon footprint guidelines, ISO standard 14067, ISO standard 22095, RSB Advanced Product Standard). 

• Applied experience with corporate sustainability, climate target setting, alternative chemicals feedstocks, or carbon markets. 

• Existing relationships within the chemicals producer, converter, and buyer community. 

Salary and Benefits

• Level of position (Associate, Manager or Senior Manager) will depend on qualifications  

• Salary dependent on qualifications and geographic location ($90,000-180,000) 

• Eligibility for a minimum year-end bonus of 15% (depending on qualifications) 

• Full health, vision and dental insurance coverage for employee and 50% coverage for all dependents 

• 6% matching 401k 

• Unlimited PTO 

• Paid day off for all US Federal holidays, the day after Thanksgiving and the week between Christmas and New Years 

• Unlimited sick days (doctors notice required in extreme situations) 

• Two months paid parental leave and option for part-time work schedule up to four additional months 

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Context

The Center for Green Market Activation™ (GMA) is a US-based, globally-focused nonprofit that was launched in Spring of 2024. Through innovative book-and-claim systems, new and creative procurement approaches, and demand aggregating buyers’ alliances, GMA catalyzes and scales the uptake of low- and zero-carbon goods and services in the hardest-to-abate sectors. 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 will 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

This role will provide day-to-day support for at least 2 of our initiatives. Please see the Sustainable Aviation Buyers Alliance and the Zero Emission Maritime Buyers Alliance for an idea of GMA-related programs. Other near-term programs or partnerships focus on heavy-duty trucking, concrete and cement, aluminum, steel and chemicals.

A key area of focus for this position will be vetting alternative fuel proposals received and supporting the procurement of alternative fuel certificates for aviation and maritime shipping customers (i.e. to cover scope 3 emissions). Vetting includes fuel sustainability and reviewing GHG lifecycle assessments, among many other elements. These are trail-blazing efforts requiring staff comfortable working in uncharted territory with highly technical, sensitive issues – advanced alternative fuels and their various attributes, novel legal contracts, complex pricing structures, etc.

Skills and Qualifications

Required:

• Strong commitment to and enthusiasm for addressing the climate crisis
• At least 2 years of work experience involving fuels, preferably alternative fuels (e.g. green hydrogen, green ammonia, or biofuels)
• Strong interest in becoming an expert in a wide variety of alternative fuels, including sustainability certification processes, and in GHG accounting and reporting for the transportation sector
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Must love working in teams on collaborative projects as well as be a self-starter and able to complete tasks with little oversight

One or more of the following strongly preferred:

• Experience working with alternative fuels, ideally experience working with LCA for alternative fuels and evaluation of well-to-wake carbon intensities
• Strong understanding of the fundamentals of Life Cycle Assessment/Life Cycle Analysis (LCA), e.g. the setting of system boundaries, selecting baselines/counterfactuals, allocation practices
• General understanding of fuel pathways in the maritime and aviation sectors, e.g. feedstocks, conversion technologies
• Experience with international climate or energy policy, e.g. EU RED, CORSIA, FuelEU Maritime, etc.
• Experience working in or with maritime or aviation sectors, especially if related to climate change, energy or sustainability programs.
• Experience working with or in environmental markets or environmental attribute certificates, e.g. carbon offsets or renewable energy certificates (RECs)
• Experience supporting or managing corporate procurement processes, specifically requests for proposals (RFPs)

Preferred:

• Strong proficiency in excel-based modeling (other modeling experience very welcome)
• Proficiency in visual analytics platforms like Tableau
• Knowledge of the GHG Protocol and/or Science Based Targets Initiative, i.e. significant knowledge of GHG accounting, reporting and claiming, ideally:
• Experience developing corporate GHG inventories and reporting against climate targets and/or
• Experience with scope 3 emissions accounting, reporting or claiming as well as supplier engagement/procurement approaches to address corporate scope 3 emissions

Salary and Benefits

• Salary: $76,000 – $115,000 dependent on qualifications and geographical location
• Eligibility for 15%+ year-end bonus
• Full health, vision and dental insurance coverage for employee and 50% coverage for all dependents
• 6% matching 401k
• Unlimited PTO
• Paid day off for all US Federal holidays, the day after Thanksgiving and the week between Christmas and New Years
• Unlimited sick days (doctors notice required in extreme situations)
• 2 months paid parental leave and option for part-time work schedule up to 4 additional months Item description

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