Job Overview
Location
Remote, USA
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Product Management
Date Posted
June 3, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • Provide legal advice and transactional support for global climate and carbon finance initiatives, including carbon credit generation, sales, offtake agreements, and pre-payment arrangements.
- • Structure, draft, and negotiate complex commercial agreements with for-profit entities, NGOs, sovereigns, and quasi-sovereign counterparties.
- • Advise on corporate entity structuring, governance, and management issues for global programs, subsidiaries, and affiliated entities.
- • Ensure all transactions and activities comply with The Nature Conservancy’s mission, authority, policies, and procedures.
- • Apply strong analytical and risk management skills to evaluate novel legal issues, including questions of first impression, and deliver clear guidance to non-lawyer stakeholders.
- • Collaborate closely with multidisciplinary client teams across global programs to facilitate high-value conservation and climate-related transactions.
- • Support corporate governance matters for TNC subsidiaries and affiliated entities within the Corporate Services Legal Team.
- • Communicate complex legal concepts in practical, accessible terms to non-legal colleagues to enable informed decision-making and transaction execution.
- • Work remotely within the United States with approximately 20% travel for work-related engagements.
- • Maintain up-to-date knowledge of carbon market regulations, methodologies, and evolving climate policy frameworks across jurisdictions.
- • Engage and manage outside counsel, including local legal experts in multiple countries, to support international transactions.
- • Contribute to strategic program goals by directing and managing multiple concurrent projects and transactions.
- • Foster collaborative relationships across The Nature Conservancy to align legal strategy with organizational mission and operational needs.
- • Ensure all legal work reflects the organization’s values of respect, inclusion, and cultural sensitivity in a global context.
🎯 Requirements
- • Juris Doctorate or equivalent and active license to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction
- • Five (5) years of relevant legal experience, including significant drafting and negotiating of complex agreements
- • Demonstrated expertise in carbon markets, including carbon credit methodologies, offtake agreements, and pre-payment arrangements
- • Strong corporate transactional background with experience in corporate structuring and governance
- • In-house or law firm experience advising sophisticated global clients and senior management
- • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and transactions in a team environment
🏖️ Benefits
- • Starting salary range of $125,000 - $175,000, determined by location, qualifications, skills, and experience
- • Comprehensive health care benefits
- • 401(k) plan with 8% employer match
- • Parental leave
- • Accrued paid time off
- • Life insurance and disability coverage
- • Employee assistance program and other work-life well-being benefits
- • Flexible work environment supporting health and well-being
- • Opportunity for approximately 20% work-related travel
Skills & Technologies
About Springer Nature Limited
Springer Nature Limited is a global academic and professional publisher formed in 2015 through the merger of Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan, and Springer Science+Business Media. It produces journals, books, databases, and services across science, technology, medicine, humanities, and social sciences, including flagship titles Nature and Scientific Reports. The company is headquartered in London, operates worldwide, and is majority-owned by Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. Its products serve researchers, clinicians, students, educators, and professionals, supporting discovery, learning, and decision-making through peer-reviewed research, reviews, news, and educational content.
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