- Pay
- $80–90k
- Where
- Portland, Maine, United States
- Level
- Mid
Every day, we work together for what matters – bold, swift, and equitable climate action.
ABOUT THE ROLE
3Degrees' mission is to enable our global customers to reduce their environmental impact and achieve their renewable energy and sustainability goals. We do this by offering a full suite of climate and renewable energy products and services, including renewable energy certificates (RECs), RNG certificates, carbon credits, GHG strategy consulting, and renewable energy procurement advisory services (PPAs and VPPAs). The Environmental Markets division procures and sells these commodities to meet our customers' needs. As a member of the North America Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) team, you will focus specifically on the United States and Canada, supporting middle-office operational execution across over 55 REC markets in every power pool in the country.
This is a dedicated operations contract management role designed for someone who thrives on organization, procedural excellence, paperwork management, and operational clarity. You are the operational backbone of our North American REC business, ensuring that complex environmental commodity transactions move flawlessly through contract review, negotiation triage, counterparty coordination, and bilateral execution. This role is centered on driving the contract pipeline, managing external communications, identifying contractual risks, and maintaining alignment between the commercial desks and legal counsel. This is a full-time 3Degrees Environmental Markets position located in Portland, ME and will report to the Director of North American RECs.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
This role requires a strong operational focus, effective counterparty management, sharp legal intuition, and meticulous execution on a fast-paced trading team. You will own the unexecuted agreement and confirmation pipeline for the North America Portfolio, ensuring that transaction details are accurately captured in our legal documentation and mirrored across internal systems. A central part of your work involves close collaboration with the commercial desks and the legal team to streamline the execution of confirmations, master agreements, and one off contracts. Your proactive problem-solving, stakeholder diplomacy, and workflow optimization are essential to the team’s success. Your work will involve the following:
Contract Review & Execution
Prioritizing and managing the contract queue for REC transactions, seeing contracts through to execution in a dynamic environment
Owning the generation, review, and execution of contracts, ensuring accurate alignment in deal terms and expectations
Building a functional operational understanding of renewable energy voluntary and compliance markets and related regulatory frameworks.
Cross-Functional & External Collaboration
Navigating across departments to efficiently problem-solve contractual issues, bridging trading desk priorities with legal risk standards and operational compliance, collaborating with external trading firms, ensuring alignment in deal terms and expectations in order to see deals through to execution.
Coordinating and engaging with emerging contractual risks across the portfolio, in consultation with the legal and regulatory teams
Logistics & Process Optimization
Refining and automating contractual operational workflows, scaling team efficiency
Serving as an operational and contract subject matter expert during platform migration, assisting with workflow requirements and testing
Understand deal entry and basic trade administration tasks to support the trading team as needed
Requirements
ABOUT YOU
You have a strong foundation in transactional contract execution, operational problem-solving, and stakeholder management. You bring paralegal-level rigor or middle-office commodity execution experience, with an ability to parse commercial and legal language, streamline workflows, and drive cross-functional alignment. You excel and thrive at managing daily administrative…