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  • Posted: Sep 24, 2024
    Deadline: Not specified
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  • We started as a spin-off by five young, aspiring enviropreneurs. Initially focused on developing and selling high-quality carbon credits, we’ve come a long way from a purely project-driven company to what we are today: the world’s leading provider of climate solutions.
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    Senior Specialist, Techinical, NBS, Climate Project

    Main tasks and responsibilities

    • Management of climate mitigation projects and of the carbon cycle project development until the issuance of credits
    • Responsible, together with the NBS team, for writing NBS certification documents following the existent carbon standards and methodologies (e.g., VERRA, CDM, GS)
    • Define and plan content and structure to support the certification of a project: work plans, work schedules, budgets, and deliverables
    • Perform carbon credit estimation based on the existent methodologies and analyse data coming from the fields
    • Work with local partners and clients to define project development, including the data collection and analysis
    • Provide technical and budget reviews and quality checks
    • Plan and conduct site visits and other types of business trips/training whenever needed

    Essential skills and experience

    • University degree in forestry engineering, agriculture, environmental science, natural resource management, ecology, or any other related field
    • More than 3 years of work experience related to project development and monitoring preferably in Forestry, Climate Change Mitigation/Adaptation or related fields in the African context
    • Understanding of carbon project development and certification, including familiarity with carbon standards like CDM, VERRA, GS4GG, CCB, among others
    • Ability to create high-quality written documents (PDD and MR) in English  Strong calculation capacity and mathematical skills 
    • Strong calculation capacity and mathematical skills
    •  Experience in GIS analysis in the natural resource sector, particularly Land-Use and Land-Cover Change (LUCC) analysis, and in the field of natural resources management in the varied African ecosystems
    •  Excellent oral and written skills in English
    • Ability to manage targets and priorities and develop own goals

    Desired skills and experience

    • Ability to work within an interdisciplinary, global team (Junior to mid-level project coordinators) including internal and/or external collaborators sitting in different countries
    • Knowledge of one of the other major African languages such as French, Kiswahili, Portuguese, etc. will be considered a plus.

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