Social Impact Manager

Terraformation is seeking a Social Impact Manager to lead community engagement in reforestation projects. This remote role focuses on ensuring local communities benefit from restoration efforts, managing partnerships, and upholding social standards. Key responsibilities include developing engagement strategies, overseeing consent processes, and enhancing social impact monitoring. Candidates should have 8+ years of experience in social impact management and strong communication skills. Preferred location is the United States.
Job Mission:

At Terraformation, we’re on a mission to restore native forests and tackle climate change at scale. But restoration isn’t just about trees—it’s about people. As our Social Impact Manager, you’ll ensure that local communities are at the heart of our reforestation efforts, working alongside partners to build fair, sustainable, and impactful projects. Your role will shape how we engage communities, uphold international social standards, and create lasting benefits for those who steward our forests.

Location: Remote; United States preferred (UTC +/-6)

Salary: Salary: $800,000 - $100,000, plus equity (depending on location and experience)

Responsibilities
• Lead community engagement strategies to ensure meaningful participation in restoration projects.
• Oversee and improve processes for Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) across projects.
• Support and manage partners in designing benefit-sharing mechanisms that create lasting economic and social value.
• Strengthen the oversight of local consultants and partners, ensuring high-quality social impact work.
• Drive compliance with global standards (e.g., CCB, Verra) and support certification processes.
• Deliver training sessions and workshops to empower partners and local teams.
• Develop tools and tracking systems to monitor social impact and community outcomes.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to support grant applications, investor due diligence, and impact reporting.

Minimum Qualifications
• 8+ years of experience in social impact management, community engagement, or related fields.
• Expertise in FPIC and feedback and grievance redress processes, social impact assessments, and certification frameworks (CCB, Verra, Gold Standard).
• Strong analytical skills and experience developing social impact monitoring plans.
• Experience managing international teams and working across diverse cultural contexts.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills, with the ability to build trust with stakeholders.
• Fluency in English (Spanish or French preferred).
• Willingness to travel to remote project sites (up to 25%).

Join us in scaling reforestation solutions that work for people and the planet!

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.