Trade Administrator

Every day, we work together for what matters - bold, swift, and equitable climate action.

ABOUT THE ROLE

3Degrees' mission is to enable our global customers to reduce their environmental impact and achieve their renewable energy and sustainability goals. We do this by offering a full suite of climate and renewable energy products and services, including renewable energy certificates (RECs), RNG certificates, carbon credits, GHG strategy consulting, and renewable energy procurement advisory services (PPAs and VPPAs). The Environmental Markets division procures and sells these commodities to meet our customers' needs. As a member of the North America Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) team, you will focus specifically on the United States and Canada, supporting middle-office operational execution across over 55 REC markets in every power pool in the country.

This is a dedicated operations contract management role designed for someone who thrives on organization, procedural excellence, paperwork management, and operational clarity. You are the operational backbone of our North American REC business, ensuring that complex environmental commodity transactions move flawlessly through contract review, negotiation triage, counterparty coordination, and bilateral execution. This role is centered on driving the contract pipeline, managing external communications, identifying contractual risks, and maintaining alignment between the commercial desks and legal counsel. This is a full-time 3Degrees Environmental Markets position located in Portland, ME and will report to the Director of North American RECs.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

This role requires a strong operational focus, effective counterparty management, sharp legal intuition, and meticulous execution on a fast-paced trading team. You will own the unexecuted agreement and confirmation pipeline for the North America Portfolio, ensuring that transaction details are accurately captured in our legal documentation and mirrored across internal systems. A central part of your work involves close collaboration with the commercial desks and the legal team to streamline the execution of confirmations, master agreements, and one off contracts. Your proactive problem-solving, stakeholder diplomacy, and workflow optimization are essential to the team’s success. Your work will involve the following:

Contract Review & Execution

• Prioritizing and managing the contract queue for REC transactions, seeing contracts through to execution in a dynamic environment
• Owning the generation, review, and execution of contracts, ensuring accurate alignment in deal terms and expectations
• Building a functional operational understanding of renewable energy voluntary and compliance markets and related regulatory frameworks.

Cross-Functional & External Collaboration

• Navigating across departments to efficiently problem-solve contractual issues, bridging trading desk priorities with legal risk standards and operational compliance, collaborating with external trading firms, ensuring alignment in deal terms and expectations in order to see deals through to execution.
• Coordinating and engaging with emerging contractual risks across the portfolio, in consultation with the legal and regulatory teams

Logistics & Process Optimization

• Refining and automating contractual operational workflows, scaling team efficiency
• Serving as an operational and contract subject matter expert during platform migration, assisting with workflow requirements and testing
• Understand deal entry and basic trade administration tasks to support the trading team as needed

Requirements

ABOUT YOU

You have a strong foundation in transactional contract execution, operational problem-solving, and stakeholder management. You bring paralegal-level rigor or middle-office commodity execution experience, with an ability to parse commercial and legal language, streamline workflows, and drive cross-functional alignment. You excel and thrive at managing daily administrative priorities and executing complex processes accurately and effectively in a dynamic, cross-functional environment.

In addition, you bring the following:

• 2+ years of professional experience in mid-office operations or trade administration, with a focus on contract execution
• Experience reviewing basic legal contracts and navigating contracting processes
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with meticulous attention to detail
• Experience working in fast-paced environments with comfort handling counterparty and customer outreach
• You are energized by operational rigor and administrative precision
• You are someone who finds professional satisfaction in seamless workflows and delivering high-touch, responsive service to counterparties and stakeholders
• Strong commitment to diversity and inclusion as a key driver to business success and demonstrated passion for our mission

HOW WE DEFINE SUCCESS

Within 30 days,

• Complete onboarding and understand 3Degrees' mission, the Environmental Markets division, and the North America REC team's operational workflows
• Become proficient in transactional details on contracts
• Establish initial working relationships with key stakeholders across relevant departments
• Develop a clear understanding of team processes, tools, and workflows, identifying potential improvements

Within 90 days,

• Achieve complete mastery of daily confirm letter management, operational accuracy, and independent handling of the routine contract pipeline
• Proactively identify and resolve routine contract issues, collaborating effectively with internal stakeholders

• Consistently execute contract generation and delivery to counterparties, meeting accuracy and quality standards
• Become proficient in updating transactional details in internal systems

Within 6 months,

• Independently manage increased contracting responsibilities and complex agreement processing
• Proactively identify and implement operational process improvements within contract management and deal entry workflows
• Effectively collaborate with external counterparty operations teams, ensuring alignment in deal terms and smooth operational execution

Within 1 year,

• Serve as the primary operational subject matter expert for contract management and execution
• Proactively identify and manage transactional contractual risks across the portfolio
• Build and maintain standard operating procedures (SOPs) for cross-functional contract workflows
• Lead operational workflow enhancements during the transition to new software systems
• Propose operational solutions for complex contract issues, demonstrating advanced problem-solving skills

Benefits

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

• Compensation: The starting base pay for this position is $80,000 - $90,000 in the US. The total compensation package for the successful candidate in this role may exceed the base pay as it includes other incentive pay. The base pay is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.
• Benefits: this position is eligible for a benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, 401k, flexible paid time off and more. Additional information regarding the benefits available for this position can be found at: https://jobs.jobvite.com/3degrees/jobs/jointheteam
• Supplemental Pay: this position is eligible for discretionary bonus programs including the company’s profit sharing program and an annual team Bonus Pool.
• This compensation and benefits information is based on 3Degrees’ good faith estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future.