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Carbon Removals Pavilion – COP31 (Antalya)

Contract: part-time (4 months) → full-time (6 months)
Location: Remote (Turkey), with travel to Antalya before and during COP
Start: March 2026 (or as soon as possible)
Application deadline: Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis

We’re hiring a Project Manager to lead the end-to-end delivery of the Carbon Removals Pavilion at COP31. This role owns the integrated delivery plan across governance, sponsorship, programme, design/build, logistics, hybrid delivery, communications, partnerships, and on-site operations.

This is a hands-on delivery role for someone comfortable coordinating senior stakeholders while managing real-world execution in a fast-moving COP environment.

Key responsibilities

• Own the master delivery plan, budget, and decision cadence across all pavilion workstreams.
• Set up and run project governance, steering groups, and delivery rhythms as COP approaches.
• Support sponsorship delivery, ensuring sponsor benefits are integrated into the programme, design, and on-site experience.
• Oversee programme delivery (on-site and virtual), including timelines, speaker management, and production readiness.
• Oversee the planning and delivery of the CDR31 (Carbon Removals 31) social event, including venue sourcing.
• Coordinate pavilion design, build, AV/streaming, logistics, staffing, and day-to-day COP operations.
• Lead installation, go-live, and contingency planning ahead of and during COP.
• Ensure strong close-out: financial reconciliation, impact reporting, and handover documentation.
  
  Ideal background
  
• Experience delivering complex, multi-stakeholder projects or international events.
• Strong project management, coordination, and operational execution skills.
• Knowledge of the climate industry and broader stakeholder ecosystem is essential; familiarity with the carbon removals community is a plus.
• Comfortable with climate jargon.
• Comfortable working across policy, finance, communications, and on-site logistics.
• Calm under pressure, highly organised, and delivery-focused.
• Language skills: native Turkish speaker; strong working level of English.

Please send:

• Your CV
• Your ideal remuneration
• A short written response (max 300–500 words) describing what success looks like for you in this role, and one example of delivering a complex event or multi-stakeholder project (including your role and what you delivered).

Send applications to cdr31@negative-emissions.org.

What to expect

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to an interview with members of the CDR31 Steering Group.