Project Manager

About the Role

At Rize, we are building the digital infrastructure powering the future of sustainable rice cultivation across Southeast Asia.

Rice farming supports the livelihoods of millions of smallholder farmers, yet it is also one of the world’s largest contributors to methane emissions, accounting for nearly 12% of global methane emissions and close to 30% across Southeast Asia. The transition toward modern, measurable, and lower-emission farming is no longer optional. It is inevitable.

Rize exists to accelerate that transition.

Founded through a joint venture between Temasek, 100x100 (Previously Wavemaker Impact), Breakthrough Energy Ventures, and GenZero, Rize combines climate technology, agricultural intelligence, and last-mile operational infrastructure to help make rice cultivation more productive, resilient, and sustainable.

What We Are Building:

• We are building a technology platform that enables large-scale sustainable rice farming through:
• Field operations and task management
• Cultivation and farm activity tracking across millions of hectares of paddy fields
• Agricultural data capture and verification
• Agri-input supply chain management
• Access to financing and third-party agricultural services
• Climate and sustainability reporting infrastructure

This ecosystem helps farmers become more climate-resilient, improve yields, reduce farming costs, and adopt modern agricultural practices with measurable impact.

Our Mission:

• Decarbonise rice agriculture: Eliminate 100 megatons of carbon emissions by 2040
• Improve farmer livelihoods: Increase yields, reduce cost-to-farm, and improve access to financing
• Build trusted agricultural infrastructure: Create a scalable and verifiable platform for sustainable farming practices

Where We Operate:

• Vietnam(Mekong Delta region)
• Indonesia(Java Island and expansion regions)

Why Join Rize:

At Rize, you will work on problems that sit at the intersection of climate, agriculture, technology, and livelihoods. Our work directly impacts farmers, food systems, and sustainability outcomes across the region.

We are building with urgency, ownership, and long-term impact in mind.

You can learn more about us here:

www.rize.farm

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Position Overview

The Project Coordinator - Carbon and Innovation will coordinate program delivery across Indonesia and Vietnam, with a particular focus on planning discipline, milestone management, risk control, and stakeholder communication. The role works across agronomy, MRV, GIS, partnerships, finance, product, and documentation functions to ensure that field implementation, verification preparation, innovation pilots, and reporting outputs stay aligned.

Responsibilities

Project Planning & Delivery

• Lead integrated project planning, budgeting support, milestone tracking, and execution follow-up for carbon and sustainability programs across multiple geographies.
• Translate team OKRs into project plans, task trackers, ownership matrices, review cadences, and escalation routines for timely execution.

Governance & Cross-Functional Coordination

• Build and maintain project governance systems, including workplans, meeting cadences, risk registers, action logs, and dependency tracking across teams.
• Coordinate with agronomy, implementation, MRV, GIS, finance, legal, and partnerships teams to keep activities synchronised and unblock delivery issues.

Carbon Standards & MRV Readiness

• Support alignment of project activities with relevant carbon standards and protocols, including preparation timelines for registration, monitoring, verification, and issuance activities.
• Work with MRV and implementation teams to ensure onboarding, field data, evidence, and documentation are collected, organized, and ready for internal review and third-party use.

Reporting & Stakeholder Communication

• Support preparation of dashboards, progress reports, investor updates, partner presentations, and management reviews using project KPIs and milestone data for carbon metrics, farmers wellbeing and ESG.
• Conduct or coordinate market, policy and landscape research on sustainability practices, carbon methodologies, pricing, ESG reporting expectations, and regulatory developments relevant to business decisions.

Innovation & Continuous Improvement

• Support development of new project concepts and pilots in areas such as sustainable rice cultivation, water management, residue management, farmer engagement, and traceability-linked programs.
• Drive lessons-learned reviews, process improvement, and standardization of implementation and reporting practices across the carbon program portfolio.

Requirements

Experience & Education

• Master's degree or equivalent in environmental science, climate change, sustainability, agriculture, finance, engineering, or a related field.
• 4–6 years of relevant experience in project management within sustainability, carbon markets, agritech, or adjacent sectors.
• Experience managing multi-stakeholder or multi-country programs with measurable outcomes.

Technical & Domain Skills

• Strong working understanding of agriculture-based mitigation programs, sustainability standards, and carbon project workflows.
• Demonstrated ability to connect technical detail with business logic and convert complex programs into practical execution systems.
• Strong analytical, organizational, communication, and reporting skills.
• Comfort working in a fast-moving, cross-cultural environment with distributed teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to carbon market modeling, MRV systems, or climate project documentation.
• Experience supporting ESG reporting, market analysis, or investor-facing reporting.
• Familiarity with digital tools for project management, dashboards, and agri-data systems.
• Ability to interpret GIS or remote-sensing outputs is an advantage.
• Fluency in English