Community Engagement Manager

Climate Impact Partners is seeking a Community Engagement Manager in India to oversee community engagement for Project Aranya, ensuring equitable outcomes and adherence to carbon standards. Responsibilities include managing the Community Benefit Fund, supporting FPIC processes, and enhancing safeguarding mechanisms. The role involves training field staff and partners, ensuring inclusion of marginalized groups, and maintaining grievance resolution systems to build trust with local communities and improve project delivery.
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



We partner with Pebl to offer you the best benefits and employment practices in your home location. Some of our global benefits include:




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


Climate Impact Partners is an equal opportunities employer. Our goal is to be a diverse and inclusive workforce, that embraces our differences, and so all aspects of employment including the decision to hire and promote, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business need. We do not discriminate on the basis of characteristics protected under federal, state, or local law. To support this, all applications are anonymised until the interview stage which means that regardless of who has applied, your characteristics are totally anonymous.


Department
Carbon Project Delivery
Locations
Madhya Pradesh, India
Remote status
Hybrid

About Climate Impact Partners



Climate Impact Partners delivers solutions for action on climate. Together with the world’s leading companies and quality project partners we will reduce 1 billion tonnes of CO2 to transform the global economy, improve health and livelihoods, and restore a thriving planet.



Climate Impact Partners builds on the expertise, integrity, and innovation of two companies that have led the voluntary carbon market, Natural Capital Partners and Climate Care. Fueled by a relentless drive for rapid action and results, our global team continues to pioneer the market’s development, and set the standards for quality that will maximize its impact.


What we do


We believe that carbon markets have a critical role to play in delivering action by putting a price on carbon and funding carbon reduction projects to meet our global climate goals.


We develop and deliver the highest quality carbon financed projects from which we create carbon credit and energy attribute certificate portfolios for our clients. This enables organizations to offset the emissions they can’t reduce, put a price on carbon to incentivize change, and meet their ambitious climate goals.


Who we work with


We work with leading corporates, NGOs, and governments to deliver solutions for climate impact, ensuring they meet their carbon neutral, net zero, and renewable energy goals.