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# Diligence Coordinator at Chestnut Carbon

- **Company:** Chestnut Carbon
- **Location:** Remote
- **Compensation:** $35–$40/hr
- **Employment:** contract
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/chestnutcarbon/86d835e4-1dc3-450a-9def-b37ae50b743e

## Job description

Forest Carbon Works, a subsidiary of Chestnut Carbon, offers private US forest landowners conservation programs that help them access carbon credit markets while preserving their land and legacy. Landowner members of Forest Carbon Works enroll their forestlands in our Improved Forest Management (IFM) conservation program (Conserve), and every opportunity that reaches contract is built on a verified land and title foundation.

Reporting to the Senior Diligence Coordinator, the Diligence Coordinator is responsible for supporting land and title due diligence for IFM carbon project opportunities, ensuring each transaction is accurately vetted and risk assessed. This role sits at the center of transaction readiness: reviewing ownership, confirming signatory authority, verifying parcel IDs, identifying risks, and coordinating issue resolution. The Diligence Coordinator will work closely with the Senior Diligence Coordinator and partner with our sales, legal, forestry, and operations teams to resolve risks and close gaps.

The ideal candidate will possess experience in real estate transactions, title review, or land-based transaction execution, along with a detail-oriented, proactive approach to managing complex documentation. This person will be comfortable managing multiple transactions at once in a fast-paced sales environment while keeping every file accurate.

This role ensures that every project we bring on is built on a clean, defensible, and well-documented land foundation. The Diligence Coordinator's work directly protects transaction integrity, reduces downstream risk, and enables scalable growth of our forest carbon portfolio, with the opportunity to work at the intersection of land, climate, and finance.

## Responsibilities

- Conduct Land and Title Due Diligence
- Obtain and review title reports, deeds, easements, mortgages, liens, and other encumbrances for each IFM opportunity
- Analyze ownership structures, including third-party mineral or timber interests, parcel configurations, and land-use restrictions
- Use GIS systems and county mapping resources to verify parcels and legal descriptions
- Confirm ownership, including signatory authority, and verify parcel IDs
- Summarize key findings in clear, structured internal diligence reports using Excel and SharePoint, and communicate with the team through Microsoft Teams
- Identify Risks and Drive Issue Resolution
- Flag title defects, encumbrances, or structural issues related to eligibility, ownership clarity, or contracting feasibility
- Partner with sales, legal, forestry, and operations teams to resolve risks and close gaps
- Maintain complete, organized, and audit-ready diligence files for each opportunity
- Support Contracting and Handoff
- Support final diligence confirmation for each transaction
- Partner with originations and legal to ensure all diligence conditions are met
- Improve Process and Standardization
- Identify recurring risks and recommend process improvements
- Help improve the speed, consistency, and quality of diligence across all transactions
- Deliver Transaction-Ready Outcomes
- All transactions reach contract with confirmed ownership, including signatory authority, and verified parcel IDs
- Title is reviewed and risks are resolved for every transaction
- Diligence materials are complete, accurate, and audit-ready
- Internal teams have high confidence in transaction readiness at signing
- Diligence timelines are efficient across the pipeline

## About You

Required Skills and Qualifications

- 6+ years of experience in real estate, title, or land acquisition/transaction work
- Substantial experience researching ownership and chain of title and reviewing title reports, deeds, easements, and encumbrances
- Understanding of legal descriptions
- Strong attention to detail and the ability to manage complex documentation
- Ability to manage multiple transactions simultaneously and work effectively in fast-paced sales transactions
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel)
- Strong communication skills, including both oral and written
- Ability to maintain a high level of professionalism and discretion in dealing with highly sensitive project deliverables
- Ability to work effectively with remote team members throughout the U.S.

## Preferred Skills and Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Experience with title companies, real estate closings, or land transactions
- Exposure to conservation, renewable energy, or infrastructure projects
- Familiarity with easements, deed restrictions, or conservation agreements
- Understanding of GIS systems
- Previous experience working in a remote environment

Physical Requirements:

- Sitting: Must be able to sit for extended periods of time.
- Standing and Walking: Occasionally required to stand and walk.
- Manual Dexterity: Frequent use of hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools, or controls.
- Repetitive Movements: Ability to perform repetitive movements, such as typing and using a mouse.
- Visual Acuity: Close visual acuity required for viewing a computer screen and reading documents.
- Communication: Ability to understand and communicate clearly with others.
- Lifting: Occasionally required to lift and carry objects weighing up to 20 pounds.
- Bending and Stooping: Occasionally required to bend, stoop, and reach.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are central to everything we do. Chestnut Carbon thrives on and celebrates different views, beliefs, and values. We are committed to our talented team and partners, regardless of background or affiliation, and to actively promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout our business. We strive to be a place where you can be you and bring yourself to work.

Chestnut Carbon is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to affirmative action planning and encourages diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, age, religion, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, genetic information, veteran, or marital status.

## About Chestnut Carbon

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Chestnut Carbon develops and manages large-scale U.S. forestry projects to generate high-quality, nature-based carbon credits for corporate buyers and landowners.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B – II; total funding $660M)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Founded by Kimmeridge (alternative asset manager); Ben Dell serves as Chief Executive Officer

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Environmental Services / Carbon Removal & Forestry
- **Target customers**: B2B – corporations seeking carbon offsets; B2B – landowners and land trusts; NGOs
- **Mission**: Build long-term afforestation (ARR) and improved forest management (IFM) carbon projects that decrease emissions by cultivating biodiverse forest ecosystems and supporting local communities. “Conservation for profit.”

## Products & Services
- **Afforestation (ARR) Carbon Projects**: Planting new forests on non-forested land to sequester carbon.
- **Improved Forest Management (IFM) Carbon Projects**: Working with existing forest landowners to improve practices, increase carbon storage, and generate carbon credits.
- **Carbon Credit Sales**: High-quality, verified credits sold to corporations to offset their carbon footprint.
- **Landowner Partnership Program**: Revenue-sharing model that enables private landowners to earn income from carbon credits while maintaining forest health.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $660M (across four rounds: $200M Seed in Mar 2022, $210M Debt in Jul 2025, $160M Series B in Feb 2025, $90M Series B – II in Oct 2025). CB Insights reports $450M total funding (conflicting reports).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Kimmeridge (lead), JP Morgan, CPP Investments, Microsoft, DBL Partners, Cloverlay
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 159% YoY to 42 employees; LinkedIn followers increased 74.8% annually (7,933 total); IFM project portfolio is one of the largest and most inclusive in the U.S., spanning 37 states.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Scale & Network**: One of the largest IFM project portfolios in the U.S. with a diverse network of private landowners across 37 states.
- **High-Quality Credits**: Projects built by expert foresters, carbon scientists, and land management specialists; emphasis on biodiversity and community support.
- **Strong Investor Backing**: Backed by major institutional investors (CPP Investments, JP Morgan) and a strategic partnership with Microsoft.
- **“Conservation for Profit” Model**: Creates a viable economic alternative to land development, aligning financial incentives with environmental outcomes.

## Strategic Focus
- Expand both ARR and IFM project portfolios across the U.S.
- Deepen landowner relationships and increase the number of enrolled acres.
- Deliver the highest-quality carbon credits to the market, maintaining transparency and integrity.
- Continue to scale the team and operational capacity to support rapid growth.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: People-first company with values of integrity, collaboration, and creative resilience. Emphasis on teamwork and employee experience.
- **Work Policy**: Remote work allowed; annual in-person townhall meeting.
- **Benefits**: Subsidized medical, dental & vision insurance; life insurance, disability and AD&D coverage; 5 weeks vacation; 4 weeks sick time; 401(k) with 3% employer match; parental leave.
- **Engineering/Technical Roles**: Opportunities in product, data, forestry, finance, and land acquisitions. AI tools used in hiring process to support recruitment.
- **Growth Trajectory**: Rapidly growing company (159% headcount growth) with significant funding and market presence, offering career acceleration.

## Sources
1. [Chestnut Carbon Careers](https://chestnutcarbon.com/careers/)
2. [Chestnut Carbon Team & Leadership](https://chestnutcarbon.com/team/)
3. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://linkedin.com/company/chestnut-carbon)
4. [CB Insights Company Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/chestnut-carbon)
5. [Lever Careers Page](https://jobs.lever.co/chestnutcarbon)