Community Engagement Manager

ABOUT US

Climate Impact Partners delivers solutions for climate action. We are carbon market specialists and a go-to partner for every stage of the net zero journey. With over 25 years of industry experience and fuelled by a relentless drive for rapid action and results, we have made it our mission to urgently ensure a thriving future for all life on earth.   

We do this by providing an end-to-end service that delivers high-quality, thoroughly vetted climate projects which reduce carbon emissions, improve health and livelihoods, and enhance biodiversity. Together with our clients and project partners we have been responsible for the reduction or removal of more than 144 million tCO2e.  

What sets us apart:  

• Boundless, urgent ambition. We are accountable, relentless, resilient.  

• Courage to innovate. We are courageous, creative, curious.   

• Integrity without compromise. We are trustworthy, credible, committed.   

• Empowered to serve. We are respectful, inclusive, collaborative.   

YOUR IMPACT

As Community Engagement Manager, you will ensure that Project Aranya delivers meaningful, equitable outcomes for local communities while meeting high-quality carbon standards. You will oversee the implementation of the Community Benefit Fund, support FPIC processes, and strengthen safeguarding and grievance mechanisms to protect participants and ensure transparency.

Through training, coaching, and technical backstopping, you will build the capacity of field staff and partners to implement community engagement processes effectively, ensuring inclusion of marginalized groups and compliance with VCS and CCB standards. By maintaining robust systems for grievance resolution and FPIC quality control, you will enhance accountability and trust with local stakeholders.

Your work will directly influence how communities benefit from climate projects, strengthen the integrity of project delivery, and help shape best-practice approaches to community engagement in nature-based climate solutions globally.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Community Benefit Fund

• Fund Management: Manage the implementation of the Community Benefit fund to ensure that funds are allocated per VCS & CCB best practice.

• Technical Support: Train, coach and support project staff and partners in the implementation of the carbon fund

• Carbon standards adherence: Ensure that the distribution and Community Benefit Fun

Free Prior & Informed Consent

• FPIC Delivery: Working with the Project Team, lead on ensuring that the project incorporates FPIC into the long-term delivery of the project to ensure all project participants are fully informed of their risks and rights within the project.

• FPIC Materials and training: Development and iteration of FPIC materials, SOPs and trainings for CIP teams and partners.

• FPIC Quality Control: With CIP field staff support, assess and support partners to ensure FPIC is delivered at the required standard.

Safeguarding

• Marginalised populations: Within project boundaries, ensure that marginalised populations are not deliberately excluded from project delivery.

• Risks identification and mitigation: With project staff and implementing partners, ensure the project identifies safeguarding risks in implementation and puts in place mitigating actions.

Grievance Redress Mechanism

• Grievance Redress Mechanism Management: Manage the Grievance Redress Mechanism ensuring that all stakeholders are aware of how to access the GRM, and that project grievances are satisfactorily assessed, processed and recorded.

• GRM access points: Periodically assess and iterate the operational effectiveness of the GRM to improve it’s ability to by accessed by stakeholders and submissions be addressed.

Project Support

Project Support: General support for the project and CIP as directed.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Extensive, hands-on experience as a practitioner in rural development in India, in fields such as poverty reduction, gender, agriculture, WaSH, market systems development, agroforestry or other related areas working as a practitioner in rural development in India in a relevant field, i.e. poverty reduction, gender, agriculture, rural development, WaSH, market systems development, agroforestry or any related field.

• Strong experience in safeguarding, including Free Prior & Informed Consent, Grievance Redress Mechanisms and the inclusion of marginalized community groups.

• A basic understanding of CCB & VCS safeguarding standards.

• Bachelors degree in Sustainable Development, Social Work, Agriculture or a related field.

VALUES ALIGNMENT

• Passionate about Climate Impact Partners’ mission to deliver climate action and make a measurable difference for people and the planet. 

• Alignment with company values of ambition, integrity, innovation, and service, with a demonstrated commitment to leveraging your role to drive positive impact and meaningful change.

WHAT WE OFFER

• An opportunity to work in an exciting, fast-paced team 

• Hands-on experience in the sustainability sector 

This role is a 12 month Fixed Term Contract

• Remote working

• Generous annual leave

• **Bonus scheme, subject to company and individual performance

• Summer Fridays (start your weekend early if you've finished everything on your to-do list)

• Working from Abroad (up to 4 weeks a year)

• Mental Health First Aiders

• LinkedIn Learning Licence and Professional Training Budgets