Director, Registry Operations- Leadership of te...

POSITION DETAILS Position Description: Leadership of team implementing next generation carbon credit registries Position Title: Director, Registry Operations Location: Arlington, VA Office, US Hybrid, or US Remote Department: Environmental Resources Trust (ERT) Reports To: ACR Managing Director GENERAL The Environmental Resources Trust (ERT) is a wholly owned 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 is 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 at scale. ART’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 (2024-2026) and phase 2 (2027-2029). 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 Director is a senior role, leading the Registry Operations team focused on registry infrastructure and operations, including client services. The Director will join the team as we 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 will be developing support resources and training 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. The role directly contributes to, and manages a team dedicated to, all aspects of registry services. This includes, but is not limited to, the registry functionality, carbon credit issuance process, onboarding of new registry participants, and maintaining accurate registry data and billing services. The Registry Director 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. The Director will lead the Registry Operations team in engaging program staff and registry participants in registry operating procedures and functionality to facilitate their use of the registries. The Registry Director will track policy developments and technological advancements to lead the continued growth and innovation of the system in ways that continue to ensure integrity of the credits that are issued and transacted. Such innovations include the integration of increased function