Community Engagement Coordinator

Community Engagement Coordinator

Location: São Paulo, SP – with frequent travel to deployment regions
Languages: Fluent in Portuguese and English

About the Role

We are hiring a committed and culturally intelligent Community Engagement Coordinator to lead Terradot’s engagement efforts with local communities across our operational territories. As Terradot rapidly expands its field footprint, this role will be essential to building trust, securing stakeholder alignment, and ensuring full compliance with ESG and carbon certification requirements.

Working under the SOP Manager and closely with the ESG and Deployment teams, the Community Engagement Coordinator will act as the primary interface between Terradot and the communities where we operate. This individual will also play a central role in fulfilling social and environmental expectations from certification entities such as Isometric, as well as from investors and clients like Microsoft.

We are hiring the Community Engagement Coordinator to:

• Ensure that Terradot meets certification, legal, and ethical obligations regarding local communities.
  

• Build proactive, transparent, and long-term relationships in zones of operation.
  

• Minimize the risk of social conflict or opposition during scale-up.
  

• Provide a strong foundation of local acceptance and legitimacy to support our long-term success.
  

Role Responsibilities

• Design and implement a scalable community engagement strategy tailored to Terradot’s deployment regions.
  

• Serve as the primary liaison between Terradot and local stakeholders, including farmers, cooperatives, community leaders, NGOs, and government agencies.
  

• Organize community consultations, listening sessions, and townhall-style meetings to ensure informed participation and local buy-in.
  

• Maintain clear and organized documentation of all community engagements as required by carbon certifiers and auditors.
  

• Monitor local sentiment and proactively identify and mitigate risks of resistance, misunderstanding, or reputational damage.
  

• Collaborate with the ESG team to ensure alignment with environmental and social policies.
  

• Assist in designing and implementing initiatives that create local value and demonstrate positive impact (e.g., education programs, environmental awareness, job creation).
  

• Generate periodic reports on engagement activities, stakeholder mapping, and field-level sentiment to support internal decision-making and external disclosures.
  

• Provide training and capacity-building to operational teams on respectful community interaction, cultural awareness, and communication.
  

• Support incident response protocols and ensure that all community grievances are recorded, investigated, and resolved transparently.

What Success Looks Like (90 Days, 6 Months, 12 Months)

In the First 90 Days

• Establish a stakeholder map and engagement calendar for Q3 deployments.
  

• Document all interactions to comply with Isometric’s requirements.
  

• Build trust with key community leaders in each deployment zone.
  

• Deliver the first engagement report aligned with ESG and certification standards.
  

In 6–12 Months

• Institutionalize community engagement processes across all deployment cycles.
  

• Ensure full compliance with social requirements from certifying entities.
  

• Reduce community-related operational risks to zero through early identification and mitigation.
  

• Become a recognized, trusted face of Terradot in strategic territories.

Must-Have Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Social Sciences, Public Relations, Sustainability, Anthropology, Environmental Management, or related fields.
  

• 3+ years of experience in community relations, stakeholder engagement, or sustainability.
  

• Deep understanding of rural and agricultural community dynamics in Brazil.
  

• Experience working with ESG frameworks and/or certification programs.
  

• Excellent communication, active listening, and conflict-resolution skills.
  

• Strong documentation and reporting capabilities.
  

• Ability to travel frequently and work closely with field operations.
  

Nice-to-Have

• Experience in carbon markets, environmental certifications, or ERW-related projects.
  

• Background in agribusiness, rural extension services, or development programs.
  

• Familiarity with certification processes (e.g., Verra, Gold Standard, Isometric).
  

• Experience working in startups or high-growth mission-driven companies.

Compensation

Market-competitive salary based on experience, with performance-based incentives and meaningful growth opportunities in a mission-driven organization.

About Terradot

Our mission is to stabilize Earth’s climate by transforming nature’s most powerful permanent carbon removal process into a global climate solution. By advancing science, building technology, and assembling a global coalition, we are catalyzing a global initiative to scale Enhanced Rock Weathering within the next decade, starting in Brazil.

Founded out of the Stanford University ecosystem, Terradot is led by the world’s leading experts to advance the science and technology of ERW. Our unique structure bridges industry, academia, and government and allows our team to contribute with speed & scale. We have raised $58.2M in total funding from John Doerr, Sheryl Sandberg & Tom Bernthal, George Roberts, Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund, Google, Cisco and Venture Funds, Floodgate, Kleiner Perkins, Acre Venture Partners, Gigascale Capital, Valor Capital, Ponderosa Ventures and others. We have sold ~300,000 tons in offtakes from leading CDR buyers like Frontier and Google.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Research suggests that qualified people from historically marginalized groups may self-select out of opportunities if they don't meet 100% of the job requirements. We encourage individuals who believe they have the skills necessary to thrive to apply for this role.