Executive Director

Core responsibilities:

• Articulate and advance a clear, compelling vision for CarbonPlan's evolving mission and strategy, identifying high-impact opportunities grounded in emerging climate needs and the organization's unique capabilities
• Lead with humility, fostering a collaborative, low-ego, and intellectually rigorous culture while supporting and building a high-performing interdisciplinary team
• Lead fundraising strategy with a focus on sustaining and growing a diversified funding base, including individual donors and foundations
• Serve as a credible thought partner to a highly technical team, engaging meaningfully across science, policy, and technology while championing open science principles

This role creates positive change by leading an organization that uses science and data to accelerate climate action, ensuring the scientific integrity and transparency of climate services and solutions while guiding strategic evolution to maximize impact in a rapidly shifting climate landscape.

Required skills and experience:

• Strategic leadership experience guiding organizations, programs, or research initiatives through periods of growth or transition
• Experience leading and partnering with research or technical teams, with appreciation for the nature and pace of scientific work
• Demonstrated fundraising success, particularly in cultivating relationships with individual donors and foundations
• Deep experience in one or more of: climate, environmental work, public interest technology, and policy

Compensation and benefits:

• Annual salary: $215,000
• Health insurance (99% of costs covered for employees, 75% for dependents)
• Dental and vision insurance
• Flexible health spending accounts and dependent care spending accounts
• Life insurance
• 401(k) retirement fund with employer contribution
• Generous paid time off policy
• 16 weeks paid parental leave
• Remote work expense reimbursements
• Remote work environment

CarbonPlan is a nonprofit research organization using science and data to accelerate climate action. Their highly interdisciplinary team analyzes the design and implementation of climate programs across public and private sectors, and builds open datasets, models, and interactive tools focused on carbon accounting and climate risks.