Registry Officer​/Registry Manager

Registry Officer/Registry Manager, Depending on Experience

U.S. remote or hybrid settings with offices in Arlington, VA and Little Rock, AR

Position

Description:

Implementing next generation carbon credit registries

Position Title:

Registry Officer or Registry Manager, depending on experience

Location:

U.S. remote or hybrid setting with offices in Arlington, VA and Little Rock, AR

Department:
Environmental Resources Trust (ERT) - ACR

Reports To:

Director, Registry Operations

The Environmental Resources Trust (ERT) is a nonprofit enterprise of Winrock International and was founded in 1996 to offer trusted solutions to environmental markets to catalyze transformational climate impacts. ERT ensures the integrity of environmental assets, including carbon credits, by developing science-based, peer reviewed accounting standards, overseeing independent third-party verification of emission reductions and carbon removals and providing transparency throughout the process including the issuance, transactions, and retirement of serialized offset credits on public registry systems.

ERT operates three carbon crediting programs:

ACR is an internationally recognized carbon crediting program that operates in global compliance and voluntary carbon markets. ACR was the first private greenhouse gas registry in the world and brings three decades of unparalleled experience and innovation to its operation as an independent carbon credit standards body and registry. ACR is also an approved Offset Project Registry for the California and Washington State Cap-and-Invest Programs (administered by the California Air Resources Board, or CARB and the Washington State Department of Ecology, or Ecology, respectively).

The Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART) was established in 2018 as the first market-based initiative to incentivize the protection and restoration of tropical forests at scale, also known as jurisdictional REDD+. ART is the leading global carbon market initiative for jurisdictional REDD+, ensuring the social and environmental integrity of climate results from protecting and restoring forests 's growing pipeline of participating jurisdictions currently includes over two dozen governments on five continents covering over 1 billion acres – 25% of the world's tropical forests.

ERT is also developing the Standard for the Transformation of the Electric Power Sector (STEPS), a first of a kind sectoral carbon crediting standard to incentivize steeper and more rapid electric sector decarbonization.

ACR and ART are approved by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to supply emission reduction and removals credits to airlines for use towards their obligations under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) pilot phase (complete), phase 1 ) and phase 2 ). The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) has assessed ACR and ART against the Core Carbon Principles (CCPs) and approved both as a CCP-Eligible programs.

Both also have an MoU with Singapore to supply credits for use towards national carbon tax obligations and are positioned for roles in new compliance offset markets and under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, as well as increased prominence in the global voluntary carbon market.

Position Summary:

The Registry Officer or Registry Manager (depending on experience) will join the Registry Operations team soon after the launch ACR and ART on a re-envisioned registry platform with a new registry technology service provider, the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE). At this juncture the team is developing support resources and supporting staff and partners in their use of our registries as well as working with ICE to enhance functionality and features as part of a phased deployment to deliver a quantum leap forward in infrastructure to enable the scaling and integration of global carbon markets.

This is an operations and client services role contributing to all aspects of registry services management. The position will engage daily with ACR's critical registry platform infrastructure and will support the technical team members and registry participants in their use of the system infrastructure and functionality developments. This includes, but is not limited to, carbon credit issuance process, onboarding of new registry participants, and maintaining accurate registry data and billing services.

The Registry Officer or Registry Manager will develop a strong functional understanding of relevant aspects of the ACR Standard, California and Washington regulations, and CORSIA and ICVCM requirements to ensure that projects move through the registry process efficiently, while upholding our program policies, regulatory compliance, technical rigor, quality and transparency. They will contribute to the maintenance and development of operational processes ensuring the integrity of the carbon credits issued and transacted.

The successful candidate may also support registry platform infrastructure…