Senior Project Forester
- Experience
- Senior
- Employment
- Full-time
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Senior Project Forester for a climate tech company focused on restoring abandoned mineland and degraded agricultural land into forests. Requires rigorous training in forest carbon dynamics or disturbance ecology, ideally from a research context. Responsibilities include project management of reforestation activities, field reconnaissance, GIS analysis, and contractor coordination.
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Living Carbon is a public benefit company with a mission to fight climate change by transforming marginal land into high-value environmental assets. Our team specializes in restoring abandoned mineland and degraded agricultural land into diverse, thriving forests. We’re backed by prominent investors including Temasek, Toyota Ventures, Lowercarbon Capital, Felicis Ventures, and YCombinator.
This is a rare role at the intersection of forest ecology, carbon science, and large-scale land restoration. We are seeking a practitioner-scientist who brings rigorous training, ideally in a research context, to the field and can translate ecological insight into operational outcomes. You will support forest carbon project design and implementation, guiding both strategy and hands-on field execution across our growing Appalachian and Southeastern project portfolio.
The ideal candidate has a grounding in forest carbon dynamics, disturbance ecology, or related fields - potentially demonstrated through graduate research - and is energized by the challenge of applying that expertise at scale in the real world. You will spearhead project management of reforestation activities on degraded mine land and agricultural sites. Your responsibilities will include field reconnaissance, GIS analysis, contractor coordination/supervision and data reporting. You will work directly alongside our carbon science, supply chain, and land teams to build systems, shape methodology, and most importantly put trees in the ground.
What you'll do
- Support forest carbon project design and implementation
- Guide strategy and hands-on field execution
- Spearhead project management of reforestation activities
- Conduct field reconnaissance
- Perform GIS analysis
- Coordinate and supervise contractors
- Handle data reporting
- Build systems and shape methodology with carbon science, supply chain, and land teams
What they require
- Rigorous training in forest ecology, carbon science, or related fields
- Experience in a research context
- Ability to translate ecological insight into operational outcomes
- Spearhead project management of reforestation activities on degraded mine land and agricultural sites
- Work alongside carbon science, supply chain, and land teams
Benefits
- Equal opportunity employer
- Multicultural and inclusive team
- Public benefit corporation mission
Living Carbon is a public benefit company that transforms marginal land into high-value environmental assets. Living Carbon’s team turns previously mined land and degraded agricultural land into diverse, thriving forests, and develops underperforming land for sustainable feedstock purposes.