Policy & Partnerships Manager - South East Asia

Role responsibilities

• Market entry strategy and intelligence. Support the Head of South East Asia and the C-suite in shaping Mitti's compliance market pathway and country sequencing: Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia on the supply side, and Singapore, Japan and CORSIA on the demand side. Build and maintain a dossier for each target country covering its regulatory landscape, Article 6 architecture, LoA requirements, timeline to first compliance revenue and addressable market size, giving leadership the policy insight they need to prioritise.
• Host-country authorization (LoAs). Working alongside the Head of South East Asia, identify the decision-makers in each host government and drive LoA applications through to approval, making sure each one aligns with the country's NDC, sustainable development criteria, corresponding adjustment approach and environmental integrity requirements. Country heads lead local stakeholder engagement while you engage at national and ministerial level, so the two move in step. Together, spot and resolve blockers early, from hyper-local issues through to national policy. Where needed, bring in local partners, in-country experts or Mitti's senior advisor network to open doors, and manage them to deliver tangible progress towards LoAs.
• Representation and coalitions. Represent Mitti, alongside the Head of South East Asia, at SEA and Asia-Pacific policy forums, ministerial roundtables, and COP and SB sessions. Help build partnerships on shared priorities with regional organizations such as IRRI, ADB, the World Bank and JICA, as well as national rice research institutes, NGOs and other agricultural carbon developers. Work with the India team to draw on Mitti's track record there and strengthen these partnerships across SEA.
• Demand-side compliance access. Support the co-founders and commercial team in establishing how Mitti credits qualify under CORSIA, Singapore's international carbon credit framework and bilateral Implementation Agreements, and Japan's JCM and GX-ETS. Attend compliance demand conferences and help get Mitti into closed-door meetings with buyers and intermediaries to understand demand and price points.
• Policy and standards horizon scanning. Track and anticipate regulatory, Article 6 and methodology developments across the region, including at JCM Joint Committees and the Article 6.4 Supervisory Body. Work with our science and operations teams so Mitti's dMRV stack and ground operations keep pace, and provide insight to the commercial team on pricing and contracting implications. Where the commercial value is high advocate for changes in regulatory text that serve Mitti's position.

Essential

• 5 to 7 years in carbon markets, climate policy, international environmental governance or a closely related field, including significant time working in South East Asia.
• Strong understanding of compliance carbon markets relevant to Asia: CORSIA, Singapore's carbon tax and international carbon credit framework, Japan's JCM and GX-ETS, and emerging domestic schemes across SEA. If you're not yet fluent in every one, you have a track record of getting to expert level fast.
• Working command of Article 6 mechanics: 6.2 cooperative approaches, 6.4 (PACM), ITMOs, LoAs, corresponding adjustments, DNA roles and reporting obligations.
• A clear understanding of how LoAs are secured in SEA: who decides, what a strong application contains and what it takes to move the process along.
• Experience navigating complex, multi-stakeholder government and policy environments across the region's business and government cultures, including Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore and Japan. You're highly personable, and you know outcomes depend on relationships as much as paperwork.
• Exceptional written and spoken communication, with a strong eye for detail. You get to grips with new methodologies quickly, distil dense regulation into sharp strategic insight, and can show how a project's environmental benefits contribute to a country's NDC and net zero strategy.
• Fluent English.

Strongly preferred

• Direct experience securing an LoA, or equivalent host-country authorisation, from a SEA government.
• Strong existing relationships in envir