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Living Carbon · 1 week ago

Land Partnerships Associate / Senior Associate

United States

Full-time

Remote

Mid, Senior Level

$70K/yr - $95K/yr

5+ years exp

Living Carbon is a public benefit company with a mission to fight climate change by transforming marginal land into high-value environmental assets. The Land Partnerships Associate/Senior Associate will be responsible for engaging and onboarding landowners to develop forest carbon projects, while collaborating with internal teams and external stakeholders to ensure successful project implementation.

BiotechnologyForestryLife ScienceNatural Resources

Responsibilities

Actively research, identify and build relationships with landowners in your region to onboard them to Living Carbon forest carbon projects

Prepare and present carbon project materials and partnership proposals and answer landowner questions about our forest carbon approach and partnership agreement

Conduct thorough site diligence including documentation of past land uses and land title and tenure

Identify key stakeholders in your region impacted by forest carbon project development

Maintain relationships with referral partners and external industry groups like state agencies, conservation groups, and landowner groups to generate new leads

Master the Living Carbon site qualification and landowner engagement process, using a variety of technology tools to confirm site feasibility and keep the team up-to-date

Synthesize and share feedback with the Senior Manager of Land Partnerships that will improve our landowner program to fit both partner needs and internal business needs

Collaborate with internal teams including forestry, finance, legal, and carbon modeling to develop deals and ensure seamless handoff to project development path

Willing and able to travel to project sites and to build relationships with landowners and local stakeholders, or attend association meetings, conferences, workshop events, and other strategic landowner partnership activities

Work collaboratively in a remote role with other members of the Living Carbon Commercialization, R&D, and Operations teams

Qualification

Land managementBusiness developmentNegotiation skillsGIS dataForest carbon marketsCommunication skillsEmpathyTeam playerCreative mindset

Required

5+ years experience in land management, land acquisition, agricultural leasing, business development, or sales and exemplary track record for conducting outreach and developing partnerships

Must live within driving distance, or willing to relocate, to our major southern project sites (AR, MS, LA, TN, AL, GA, VA, NC, SC, KY)

Excellent external communication and negotiation skills, able to build relationships with diverse landowners, communicate complex concepts, align multiple stakeholders, receive feedback, and iterate quickly with the internal team to get deals done

Ability to execute across the entire life cycle of initiating new carbon projects, from independently and strategically identifying leads, connecting and building relationships with landowners and negotiating land deals

Willingness and ability to travel multiple times per month; to project sites or to build relationships with landowners and local stakeholders, or attend association meetings, conferences, workshop events, and other strategic landowner partnership activities

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in natural resource management, environmental science, agriculture, economics, or business

Preferred

Experience in the agriculture industry, farmland investment, planning, and management, or a track record of achieving ecological restoration outcomes in the southern United States

Candidates with an existing network of landowners and implementation partners are highly preferred

Experience in forest carbon markets

Skills in forestry mapping software, GIS data, and remote sensing