Sr. Manager: Safeguarding Carbon Markets

Resonance

Washington, DC or Remote, United States

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. It will engage with the MEL Specialist, Comms Specialist, PSE Specialist, Inclusive Development Specialist, Carbon Markets Consultants, and other technical experts, as well as the Chief of Party, Grants Director and USAID representatives in Washington, DC and various missions. As part of this, the Manager will oversee a portfolio of winning solutions to transnational corruption issues in carbon markets. This involves working with 10 - 15 grantees (“innovators) from around the globe for up to two years, serving as a senior resource to support their efforts, providing 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. The manager will also ensure compliance with MSI’s contracting and grants management policies and procedures.

This is a full-time position based in Washington, DC or remote, as appropriate and approved by the hiring committee.

OUTCOMES/ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Provide strategic, technical and administrative direction of the Safeguarding Carbon Markets Challenge;
Serves as the primary point of contact for all grant related issues and requests;
Support 10 - 15 grantees, or “solvers”, managing their grantee deliverables, invoices, payments, grants agreement compliance and overall technical approaches;
Review and approve grantees’ milestone deliverables and circulate for approval and clearance across CTC Grand Challenge staff. Support budget realignments and grant agreement modifications, where applicable;
Work with the CTC Grand Challenge Grants Team on grant agreement modifications and other contractual matters;
Manages the grants tracker related to their portfolio of grants, including monthly payment projections. Collaborates with Grants Team on financial projections;
Work with the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Specialist to align program activities and monitor progress against targets for established output and outcome indicators;
Work with the Communications Specialist, providing technical content to develop promotional materials that spotlight our work;
Oversee the successful closeout of all grants;
Demonstrate the relevance of grantees solutions to the broader carbon markets and anti-corruption industry;
Identify lessons learned and develop learning products, presentations, case studies, and other reports for key stakeholders, potentially within USAID, and across other donors and industry partners;
Provide technical support services to accelerate their efforts including intermittent advisory, mentorship, or coaching services both through internally sourced support, as well as externally hired consultants (which the manager would oversee);
Design, facilitate, and coordinate and manage peer learning events to enhance the capacity of solvers on topics identified to be of interest across the portfolio.

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 working in one or more of the following areas: climate, carbon markets, natural resource management, good governance, corruption;
Strong experience in project management and multi-stakeholder initiatives with high visibility;
Past experience in facilitation, co-design, 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 to learn more about the intersection between corruption and carbon markets, and their implications for development;
Proficiency with MS Office (Word, Excel, PPT) and OSX applications, and the ability to build out platforms, trackers, and other materials for managing complex inputs;
Understanding of and demonstrated passion for international development.