Compassionate Carbon Tanzania Ltd is a mission-driven organization launched by Compassionate Carbon LLC and Eden: People+Planet (Eden). Specializing in developing and implementing landscape-scale forest carbon projects through Afforestation, Reforestation, and Revegetation (ARR) and Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+), we collaborate with local communities to restore landscapes, create jobs, protect ecosystems, and mitigate climate change.  

Our projects integrate nature-based solutions to help meet global emissions targets while ensuring community ownership and long-term sustainability. The Rubeho Mountains Carbon Project, a significant initiative in Tanzania, focuses on native forest restoration and community-based conservation efforts. 

Position Summary 
The Community Engagement Coordinator leads all Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) and community consent processes for the Rubeho Mountains Carbon Project. The role ensures communities are fully informed, meaningfully engaged, and able to make voluntary decisions throughout the project lifecycle, while providing secondary support to conservation and forest protection activities.

Essential Responsibilities 

• Lead and coordinate all FPIC processes across the four phases: awareness, governance clarification, project design, and benefit-sharing/contract review. 
• Facilitate community engagement and awareness sessions on carbon project objectives, rights, responsibilities, risks, and benefits.
• Serve as the primary liaison between the project and communities on consent and decision-making matters. 
• Identify and ensure inclusion of all relevant community stakeholders, including women, youth, pastoralists, and vulnerable groups. 
• Translate technical project information into clear, accessible language. 
• Ensure FPIC processes meet standards of integrity, transparency, inclusivity, and full documentation. 
• Document FPIC meetings, decisions, attendance, and feedback for compliance, verification, and reporting. 
• Act as the primary liaison for grievances related to FPIC, participation, benefit-sharing, and community decision-making. 
• Support conflict prevention and resolution related to consent and engagement processes.
• Support VNRCs and communities to understand conservation and protection responsibilities linked to project agreements. 
• Participate in conservation-related community meetings where consent or agreement is required. 
• Coordinate closely with other team members on community issues affecting protection activities. 
• Support community understanding of how conservation activities contribute to carbon outcomes and long-term benefits. 
• Other duties as assigned.  

Education + Work Experience  

• Bachelor’s degree in Community Development, Environmental Studies, Sociology, or related field.  
• Minimum two (2) years of experience in community engagement, community outreach, facilitation, or field coordination, preferably in rural or indigenous contexts.  
• Experience working with rural, indigenous, or marginalized communities is highly desirable.  
• Exposure to carbon project standards (e.g. Verra, Gold Standard) and social safeguard frameworks (e.g. IFC Performance Standards, UNDRIP). 

Skills + Abilities  

• Models the Ethos in all professional interactions, demonstrating a commitment to the organization's values, vision, and conduct standards.   
• Facilitation + Communication: Excellent communication, facilitation and interpersonal skills; skilled in leading group discussion, community meetings, and workshops with clarity and empathy.  
• Cultural Understanding + Sensitivity: Strong understanding of local cultures, social dynamics, and community development principles; ability to engage respectfully with diverse communities and adapt communication styles to local norms.  
• Proactive + Self-Driven: takes initiative to move work and project milestones forward with minimal direct supervision. 
• Documentation + Reporting: Proficient in recording meeting minutes, feedback forms, and engagement logs with accuracy and detail.  
• Conflict Sensitivity: Awareness of local dynamics and ability to identify and deescalate tensions during engagement activities.  
• Organizational Skills: Capable of managing multiple tasks, maintaining schedules, and coordinating logistics for field activities.  
• Digital Tools: Familiarity with mobile data collection apps (e.g. KoboToolbox), messaging platforms, and basic office software.  
• Team Collaboration: Willingness to work closely with field teams, technical staff, and community members in a supportive role.  
• Learning orientation: open to feedback, eager to learn, and committed to professional growth in community-centered work.  
• Ethical Integrity: Commitment to transparency, accountability, and respectful engagement practices. 
• Able to work independently and as part of a team.  

Work Conditions 

• Work Environment: The position is primarily field-based, but does have some office task requirements. Fieldwork occurs in rural villages and agricultural areas, with varying weather conditions such as heat and humidity. Responsibilities may include interacting with farmers and field staff, and walking across uneven terrain like hillsides, degraded land, or dense vegetation during landscape assessments and supervision. Office amenities include standard desk space, a computer, and internet access; field facilities may be basic.  
• Work schedule: The typical workweek is 40 hours a week; flexibility is required due to community work, including occasional early mornings, evenings, or weekends for meetings or fieldwork. Adjustments are planned where possible to flex working schedules. While a standard schedule is aimed for, adaptability to project needs and agricultural cycles is essential.  
• Physical Requirements: The role requires moderate fitness for frequent fieldwork, including walking long distances on rough terrain, standing for extended periods, demonstrating farming techniques, marking plots, and carrying equipment or materials weighing 10-20 kg. The Community Engagement Officer must tolerate various climates. Office tasks require standard abilities such as computer work and attending meetings. These requirements will be met with or without reasonable accommodation, as Eden is committed to providing necessary support to enable all individuals to perform the essential functions of the job.  
• Travel: Regular domestic travel to rural project sites, often requiring challenging logistics and occasional overnight field stays.  
• Safety + Special Conditions: Adherence to all applicable safety protocols, including the use of personal protective equipment and compliance with regulations governing the operation of farming tools and machinery, is required. All activities must align with established environmental and social safeguards. Candidates must possess valid legal authorization to reside and work in Tanzania; Compassionate Carbon is unable to provide sponsorship for work visas.  

• Lead and coordinate all FPIC processes across the four phases: awareness, governance clarification, project design, and benefit-sharing/contract review.
• Facilitate community engagement and awareness sessions on carbon project objectives, rights, responsibilities, risks, and benefits.
• Serve as the primary liaison between the project and communities on consent and decision-making matters.
• Identify and ensure inclusion of all relevant community stakeholders, including women, youth, pastoralists, and vulnerable groups.
• Translate technical project information into clear, accessible language.
• Ensure FPIC processes meet standards of integrity, transparency, inclusivity, and full documentation.
• Document FPIC meetings, decisions, attendance, and feedback for compliance, verification, and reporting.
• Act as the primary liaison for grievances related to FPIC, participation, benefit-sharing, and community decision-making.
• Support conflict prevention and resolution related to consent and engagement processes.
• Support VNRCs and communities to understand conservation and protection responsibilities linked to project agreements.
• Participate in conservation-related community meetings where consent or agreement is required.
• Coordinate closely with other team members on community issues affecting protection activities.
• Support community understanding of how conservation activities contribute to carbon outcomes and long-term benefits.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Excellent communication, facilitation and interpersonal skills; skilled in leading group discussion, community meetings, and workshops with clarity and empathy.
• Strong understanding of local cultures, social dynamics, and community development principles; ability to engage respectfully with diverse communities and adapt communication styles to local norms.
• Takes initiative to move work and project milestones forward with minimal direct supervision.
• Proficient in recording meeting minutes, feedback forms, and engagement logs with accuracy and detail.
• Awareness of local dynamics and ability to identify and deescalate tensions during engagement activities.
• Capable of managing multiple tasks, maintaining schedules, and coordinating logistics for field activities.
• Familiarity with mobile data collection apps (e.g. KoboToolbox), messaging platforms, and basic office software.
• Willingness to work closely with field teams, technical staff, and community members in a supportive role.
• Open to feedback, eager to learn, and committed to professional growth in community-centered work.
• Commitment to transparency, accountability, and respectful engagement practices.
• Able to work independently and as part of a team.

• Bachelor’s degree in Community Development, Environmental Studies, Sociology, or related field.
• Minimum two (2) years of experience in community engagement, community outreach, facilitation, or field coordination, preferably in rural or indigenous contexts.
• Experience working with rural, indigenous, or marginalized communities is highly desirable.
• Exposure to carbon project standards (e.g. Verra, Gold Standard) and social safeguard frameworks (e.g. IFC Performance Standards, UNDRIP).