The Program Operations Manager will streamline operations, guide teams, analyze challenges, and enhance project efficiency in carbon sequestration initiatives.
Job Mission:
Terraformation is on a mission to restore native forests to capture carbon, revive ecosystems, and support communities worldwide. Our Accelerator program develops high-impact carbon sequestration projects, and we need a Program Operations Manager to make it even stronger. In this role, you’ll streamline operations, guide teams through key processes, and identify opportunities to improve how we work. You’ll collaborate across teams—helping projects move faster, ensuring smooth execution, and driving changes that make a real impact.
Join us and be part of a team building the world’s largest native forest restoration effort!
Location: Remote; US, EST preferred (or GMT)
Salary: $70,000 - 90,000, plus equity (depending on location and experience)
Responsibilities:
- Guide internal teams through Accelerator processes and serve as the go-to expert for operations
- Maintain clear documentation of requirements, best practices, and workflows
- Identify bottlenecks, analyze challenges, and recommend solutions to keep projects on track
- Track project progression, risks, and key performance indicators to support project and portfolio reporting and strategic decision-making
- Plan and lead change management initiatives, ensuring smooth adoption of improvements
- Coordinate resources and support collaboration across project leads, technical teams, and stakeholders
- Develop tools, templates, and resources to enhance efficiency
- Support governance processes by documenting and communicating key changes
Minimum Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in operations, supply chain, or program management
- Proven success in process improvement and change management
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to influence and collaborate across teams
- Experience analyzing operational challenges and implementing effective solutions
- Track record of driving strategic initiatives in complex, multi-stage projects
- Experience designing and implementing international development, forest-based, or carbon-certified projects in complex environments
- Flexibility to work across time zones and cultures; some travel required
- Bachelor’s degree required
About Terraformation
Terraformation is committed to addressing climate change through the power of native forest restoration. Our portfolio of high-quality projects is designed to restore forests that will remove high quantities of carbon, renew ecosystems, enhance biodiversity, and create sustainable long-term community income and benefits. Our project teams have planted over one million biodiverse and native trees, stored 131 million seeds, supported 19 forestry projects, and created over 700 jobs through reforestation efforts worldwide.
Our innovative approach not only equips local forestry teams with training, technology, and access to capital, but also empowers businesses to be a part of the solution to climate change. By investing in our projects, businesses can directly address climate change, offset carbon emissions, meet net zero commitments, and enhance corporate sustainability initiatives.
Terraformation’s mission-driven global team, which includes experts in forest science, carbon markets, operations management, and business development, demonstrates how diverse backgrounds drive innovation and create significant impact.
Learn more at terraformation.com
We are an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable laws, including the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, where relevant.
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