Land Partnerships Associate / Senior Associate

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

This role helps fight climate change by transforming marginal and degraded agricultural lands into diverse, thriving forests through carbon projects, achieving positive outcomes for the environment, local communities, and landowners.

Required qualifications:

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

Living Carbon PBC offers competitive compensation, and generous healthcare, dental and vision insurance. The organization is focused on building a multicultural and inclusive team with strong representation from diverse communities disproportionately impacted by climate change.

Living Carbon is a public benefit company with a mission to fight climate change by transforming marginal land into high-value environmental assets. The team specializes in restoring abandoned mineland and degraded agricultural land into diverse, thriving forests.