[Hiring] Project Manager @One Tree Planted

Role Description

The Project Manager role is responsible for supporting the design, delivery, and performance of One Tree Planted’s reforestation portfolio across Latin America & the Caribbean, with a primary focus on Central America & the Caribbean. This role supports high-quality, landscape-aligned restoration by managing assigned projects across the full lifecycle from origination through implementation, monitoring, and reporting.

The Manager ensures projects are strategically aligned, operationally rigorous, and deliver measurable outcomes across biodiversity, climate, and community benefits. This includes supporting implementing partner relationships, ensuring compliance with OTP and industry standards, and delivering verified, donor-ready reporting and communications.

This position plays a critical role in contributing to One Tree Planted's regional presence across Latin America by identifying high-impact opportunities, supporting strategic partnerships, and ensuring consistent execution excellence across all projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or acceptable combination of equivalent experience in Environmental science, forestry, natural resources, international development, project management, or a related field required; advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum 5-7 years experience in project management or program coordination, ideally within conservation, reforestation, nature-based solutions.
• Demonstrated experience supporting multi-country or global programs, including coordination across diverse geographies and time zones.
• Experience working with implementing partners, NGOs, or community-based organizations, including managing relationships and supporting delivery of field-based projects.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end project lifecycle management, including planning, budgeting, implementation, monitoring, and closeout.
• Experience supporting Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) processes or similar frameworks, ensuring strong data quality and consistency.
• Experience preparing or supporting donor reports and donor-facing communications, translating technical outputs into clear, outcome-oriented narratives.

Requirements

• Proven ability to coordinate across remote, distributed teams, driving coordination, follow-through, and timely delivery without direct supervisory authority.
• Ability to review and synthesize technical project data, including geospatial information and impact metrics (e.g., survival rates, hectares restored, carbon and biodiversity indicators).
• Proficiency with project management and data systems (e.g., Airtable, Salesforce, Excel/Sheets), including managing large datasets and maintaining data integrity across platforms.
• Fluency in Spanish (written and spoken) is essential; additional languages (e.g., French or Portuguese) are a plus.
• Strong communication, organization, and problem-solving skills, with demonstrated cultural awareness and ability to work effectively across diverse geographic and cultural contexts.
• Willingness to travel (~25%).

Benefits

• The anticipated starting salary range for this role is $55,000-$65,000 USD for select markets.
• Flexible work environment.
• Competitive PTO Plan.
• Health and Wellness plans for U.S. Staff.
• Retirement plans with competitive employer contributions for the U.S. Staff.

Company Description

One Tree Planted is a leading global nonprofit organization dedicated to reforestation and nature-based solutions. Our mission is to foster a sustainable and resilient future through innovative nature-based solutions rooted in the science of trees. We envision a future where climate change is mitigated, biodiversity thrives, and the well-being of life on Earth is transformed through the power of trees. With a global network of partners and volunteers, we're committed to restoring vital ecosystems, mitigating climate change, and supporting local communities one tree at a time.