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Manager, Technical Editing

(Remote – Worldwide)

Location: All Cities, District of Columbia

Department: Program Development & Innovation

Employment Type: Full-Time

Minimum Experience: Manager/Supervisor

Compensation: USD $81,300-$92,300

Program Development & Innovation · All Cities, District of Columbia

Job Title: Manager, Technical Editing

Location: Remote – Worldwide (with significant overlap with US business hours)

Start Date: Immediately

Reports to: Senior Director, VCS Program Development

Verra is a global leader helping to tackle the world’s most intractable environmental and social challenges. As a mission-driven non-profit organization, Verra is committed to helping reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve livelihoods, and protect natural resources across the private and public sectors. We support climate action and sustainable development with standards, tools and programs that credibly, transparently, and robustly assess environmental and social impacts and enable funding for sustaining and scaling up projects that verifiably deliver these benefits. We work in any arena where we see a need for clear standards, a role for market-based mechanisms, and an opportunity to generate significant environmental and social value.

Verra manages a portfolio of standards, including the:

• Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) – the world’s leading carbon crediting program, with more than 1600 registered projects in 80 countries and accounting for two-thirds of all voluntary carbon market transaction volume.
• Sustainable Development Verified Impact Standard (SD VISta) – a flexible framework for assessing and reporting on the sustainable development benefits of project-based activities.
• Climate, Community & Bioersity (CCB) Standards – to identify projects that simultaneously address climate change, support local communities and smallholders, and conserve bioersity.
• Plastic Waste Reduction Program – to enable robust impact assessment of new or scaled-up waste recovery and recycling projects around the globe.

Verra’s Program Development and Innovation team is seeking a Technical Editing Manager to ensure that existing and new standards and related methodologies are written in a way that facilitates comprehension and their effective use. Examples of documents for which the Technical Editor would be responsible include those listed in the rules and requirements section of each program’s webpage and methodologies.

A day with Verra’s Program Development and Innovation Department might include…

• Reviewing the text of a newly developed VCS methodology for crediting regenerative agricultural practices and advising on ways to improve clarity and conciseness.
• Proofreading and editing a revision to the SD VISta Program Guide to make it more accessible and understandable.
• Providing advice to colleagues on the structure, formatting, and flow of technical documents needing to be developed.
• Apply writing style guides to revise program documents or methodologies.

Specific functions you will be responsible for leading…

• Technical editing:
  • Reviewing and edit newly developed and/or revised program documents (requirements, process, templates, and guidance documents), methodologies and related documents involving specialized technical content.
  • Ensuring that these documents are, inter alia, grammatically, and syntactically correct, clear, consistent, concise, aligned with stylistic guidance, and factually correct.
  • Providing authoritative review of documents and preparing copy for final production before their release.
  • Assisting with minor formatting issues in MS Word and PowerPoint.
• Reviewing the content of communications-related Program Development and Innovation documents (e.g., announcements, blogposts, press releases) to ensure that they are well expressed, reasoned, and structured.
• Providing one-on-one guidance or small group trainings to help colleagues improve their technical writing skills.
• Collaborating with Verra Communications counterparts to add or revise organizational technical writing standards.
• Contributing to organizational standard operating procedures for developing written materials.
• Managing supplemental technical editing and formatting contracts.

You bring with you…

• Relevant experience in technical and/or scientific editing, copyediting, and/or proofreading in U.S. English, typically gained through professional employment or consulting in one or more of these areas.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with an appreciation for concise and direct expression. Fluency in English is essential.
• Experience communicating complex concepts to non-technical and non-native English-speaking audiences.
• An understanding of subject matter related to the voluntary carbon market, climate science, environmental management, and/or sustainable development.
• Willingness to learn and a ‘can-do’ attitude.
• Willingness to help others improve their technical writing through the editing and review process.
• Very close attention to detail, as you will be responsible for ensuring that all Program Development and Innovation documents are free from factual, grammatical, syntactical, and typographical errors before public release.
• Strong organizational skills and self-discipline to be able to prioritize and work eciently and effectively under deadlines in an independent manner.
• Ability to work in a 100% remote work environment with colleagues from a erse range of backgrounds across many time zones.

In this role, you will grow and expand your expertise by…

• Supporting a high-functioning team to deliver a broad range of technical documents related to Verra’s portfolio of standards.
• Expanding your technical expertise on subject matters related to mitigation of climate change and advancement of sustainable development.
• Potential to grow your technical editing capacity-building skills by training and mentoring colleagues.
• Improving comprehension of Verra’s standard programs through clear and concise writing.
• Expanding your network of professionals working on climate and sustainable development, including government ocials, private-sector actors, NGOs, and others.
• Collaborating with a erse group of climate and sustainable development leaders and innovative thinkers.

You will know you are successful, if…

• The documents you help create and revise facilitate user-friendly comprehension of technical concepts and scaled up climate action and sustainable development.
• The products that you help the team create and distribute resonate, reach their target audiences, and help Verra make measurable progress toward its goals.
• You support your team to achieve deliverables across the nish line on schedule.
• Your deliverables maintain consistency across all documents with accurate text, no copy errors, tracked changes with comments, and proper use of U.S. English.
• Your colleagues see you as a reliable resource to improve the quality of their documents.

You will join a team…

• From erse locations and backgrounds, including carbon market experts, project developers, consultants, climate negotiators, researchers, auditors, and more.
• Committed to driving finance at scale to projects and programs that advance climate action and sustainable development through high-quality standards and programs.
• That embodies the values Verra has established for itself, and which include Teamwork, Results, Integrity, Balance, and Exploration.

Compensation at Verra

To help us attract and retain top talent, Verra pays employees competitively to the market. In return, we expect each employee to, at a minimum:

• Meet expectations in terms of work effort and performance.
• Take the initiative to build the skills and knowledge needed to do their job effectively; and
• Embody Verra’s values.

For this position, the salary range is $81,300-92,300 USD, depending on experience.

We will recognize employees who go beyond expected performance with salary increases and/or promotions, but the bar for earning those rewards is high.

Salary is one component of Verra’s total compensation package which also includes:

• Health, vision and dental care, and life insurance;
• Verra contributions to each employee’s retirement plan;
• Verra contributions as required by national labor laws in countries where staff are located;
• Paid Time Off (PTO), comprising 22-30 days plus eleven floating holidays, sabbatical after five years of service, and other leave allowances; and
• Funds to support professional development.

Verra provides equal opportunity for all job applicants and employees and is committed to providing a work environment free of discrimination. We conduct our recruitment and hiring without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital status, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, genetics, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, and local law.