Position details: Full Time, Permanent

Position title: Coordinator, Carbon Projects

Taking care of our environment has never been more important than it is today. The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) is looking for a Coordinator, Carbon Projects to join a team committed to protecting our most important natural areas and the plants and animals they sustain.

NCC is the nation’s leading not-for-profit, private land conservation organization, working to protect our most important natural areas and the species they sustain. Since 1962, we have brought people together to conserve and restore more than 20 million hectares across Canada. NCC takes a collaborative, evidence-based approach to achieve conservation success for the sake of nature and Canadians. With a national office in Toronto and seven regional offices across the country, NCC delivers results you can walk on.

NCC recognizes that we work on lands that have long been cared for by Indigenous Peoples under their own laws and knowledge systems. We are committed to transforming how we do our work, advancing Reconciliation through conservation, and working with Indigenous Peoples in meaningful, respectful, and supportive ways.

Position Summary

The Nature Conservancy of Canada is one of Canada’s largest carbon project proponents, with three nature-based projects currently active across over 280,000 hectares of private conservation lands. Since 2008, carbon projects have been an essential tool to enable NCC’s delivery of large-scale conservation projects and unlock vital, long-term funding in support of NCC’s conservation mission. The Coordinator, Carbon Projects will work closely with the Program Director to meet monitoring, reporting, and verification requirements for three large-scale Improved Forest Management carbon projects. Spanning project and administrative support, contractor management, technical analysis, and reporting, the Coordinator must be a highly organized problem-solver with strong communication skills.

Key Responsibilities:

Administrative carbon project support work, ensuring carbon project verifications are completed on schedule and on budget. This includes coordinating a suite of contractors across projects, including project developers, validation/verification bodies, and technical contractors. Tracking project spend against budget, coordinating invoicing and reporting.
Supporting on-time delivery of carbon project commitments, including communications with local communities and other monitoring and reporting requirements according to the relevant methodology and standard.
Technical project support including QA/QC of quantitative outputs, reviewing technical reports, ensuring consistency with NCC's values and approach to carbon project development.
Supporting the Accelerator team in delivery of NCC’s carbon sales portfolio. Includes administrative support such as coordinating risk screening, invoicing, record keeping, data management, sales metrics and reporting.

Position Requirements

Post-secondary, preferably in environmental science, forestry, sustainable business, or environmental studies. Specialized training or certificate in forest carbon project development, management, and/or modeling considered a strong asset.
1-3 years experience in sustainability, carbon project development, environmental consulting, conservation, or a related field.
Specialized training in forest carbon project development, management, and/or modeling considered a strong asset
Experience working with Indigenous communities considered a strong asset.

Skills & Aptitudes

Highly organized – you can spread your focus across multiple projects with competing timelines and priorities.
Problem-solver – you are driven to make sense out of complex technical concepts, distilling ambiguity into clear insights and actions.
Comfortable living in the details – you have a detail-oriented mindset and thrive on working to understand every piece of the puzzle.
Self-starter with an enterprising/entrepreneurial mindset and drive – comfortable with ambiguity and keen to take initiative
Collaborator who thrives in a fast-paced environment – you have excellent interpersonal skills and are a team player. You collaborate and influence in a “win as a team” environment.
Strong communication – you speak plainly and truthfully and listen with care. You communicate complex ideas in a clear and easy-to-understand way
General technical skills – you are comfortable analyzing and transforming data with Microsoft Excel, have experience working with large datasets, and the ability to apply general data analysis tools. GIS experience is an asset.
Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office applications including Microsoft Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint.
A personal commitment to innovation, community, nature and conservation.

Application Deadline

July 17, 2026 | 11:59pm EST, 9:59pm Mountain Time, 8:59pm Pacific Time, 10:50pm CST, 00:59 am +1 AST

At NCC, we're committed to providing a healthy, safe, barrier free and inclusive, workplace, where respect and diversity are recognized assets. We strive for bold conservation achievements in which equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) are the norm. We welcome applications from racialized persons/visible minorities, women, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, ethnic minorities, and persons of minority sexual orientations and gender identities, as well as from all qualified candidates with the skills and knowledge to productively engage with diverse communities. NCC implements an employment equity program and encourages members of designated groups to self-identify.

Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. For a confidential inquiry, contact us by email at hr@natureconservancy.ca to make any required arrangements. If you have questions regarding accessible employment at NCC, please email us at hr@natureconservancy.ca.

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