Sustainability Program Lead
About The Position
Gradable is hiring Sustainability Program Leads to join our team to enable farmers participating in programs. The primary regenerative practices our programs promote include conservation tillage, cover cropping, and precision nitrogen application. Environmental outcomes our programs strive for include increased nitrogen efficiency, reduced carbon emissions, soil carbon sequestration, reduced soil runoff, and enhanced water quality. Our sustainability programs are successful when farmers can profitably integrate regenerative practices into their farm business. The primary responsibility of this role is to support farmers in understanding requirements, executing contracts, submitting data, and meeting quality control and quality assurance standards. This individual will work remotely and be responsible for outbound contact and support of farmers over phone, text, and email. A successful candidate works efficiently with a high attention to detail. You have experience with row crop agronomics and enjoy talking to farmers about their practices and farm business. You are professional and will communicate clearly with technical service providers and grain merchants at our partner commercial agriculture companies. You are interested in ecosystem service markets and expanding the use of regenerative practices. This is an opportunity to grow sustainability markets in agriculture from the ground up.
Requirements
- Works efficiently with a high attention to detail.
- Experience with row crop agronomics.
- Enjoy talking to farmers about their practices and farm business.
- Professional and will communicate clearly with technical service providers and grain merchants at our partner commercial agriculture companies.
- Interested in ecosystem service markets and expanding the use of regenerative practices.
Responsibilities
- Provide a great customer experience to farmers enrolled in a sustainability program. This includes farmer outreach via email, phone, and in-person meetings, working with farmers to gather required farm information, and helping farmers understand the impact of sustainable agriculture.
- Work with Gradable partners (usually commercial grain buyers) to manage farmers in a region and ensure that sustainability programs succeed in your territory.
- Help farmers learn about Gradable and how our platform can support their farm.
- Work with Gradable's product and data science team to help guide the development of new tools that make sustainable agriculture more accessible to farmers.
Benefits
- equity compensation (dependent upon job level)
- incentive/bonus plans (dependent upon position)
- paid holidays plus an additional floating holiday
- work flexibility including paid time off and remote work if your role is eligible
- parental leave
- medical
- dental
- vision
- wellbeing
- short & long term disability
- life insurance
- 401k
- HSA employer contributions
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
