GHG Standards & Verification Manager

GHG Standards & Verification Manager

This position is remote/virtual.

As the GHG Standards & Verification Manager, you will work with the business to create the most credible, rigorous, transparent carbon offsets, insets and other assets in the market.

Your primary objective will be to develop an industry-leading, value chain-based approach for Truterra's Carbon and Livestock projects that aligns our work with best-in-class market standards and ensures high quality projects across enteric, manure, crops/ feed production and energy footprints.

A successful candidate will be adaptive and creative with a depth of knowledge of agricultural-focused standards with experience in validation and verification of carbon projects who can excel in a fast-growing startup environment.

Truterra is the sustainability and innovation business of Land O'Lakes, Inc.

As the only farmer-owned, farmer-driven food and ag sustainability program in the U.S., Truterra believes farmers have the greatest potential to protect and restore the environment.

As a member of the Truterra team, you will be helping bring row crop, dairy, and livestock production and related agronomic insights and industry connections to farmers, so they can protect and restore their land and the environment, as well as unlocking deeper value of sustainability.

As a rapidly growing business, Truterra is seeking individuals that are genuine, supportive team-players, hungry to collaborate cross-functionally to build better solutions to hard problems and have a meaningful impact in agriculture.

Key Responsibilities:


* Lead the development of verification projects for livestock, dairy, and row crop agriculture.

Maintain and regularly update documentation to reflect the most up-to-date understanding of Truterra's approaches.


* Act as a technical or subject matter expert to peers and other staff.

Interface with project stakeholders, field implementation teams, operations teams, sales and commercial teams, and science teams to ensure projects reflect standards and methodology requirements.


* Monitor external carbon and climate standards to stay up-to-date with changes and help shape Truterra's growth strategy.

Build an internal knowledge system for carbon and climate standards and public/private sector reporting best practices.


* Lead and manage relationships with third-party consultants, external verifiers and carbon credit registration bodies.

This role will provide support with internal and external due diligence and customer reporting obligations.


* Establish internal quality control and auditing processes to ensure the validity and quality of the greenhouse gas assets created through the Truterra platform.


* Assist in developing future MRV processes to constantly drive economic and quality improvement to ensure Truterra produces, transacts, and maintains the highest quality greenhouse gas assets available.


* Contribute to ongoing improvement of proprietary Scop...