Senior Specialist, Techinical, NBS, Climate Project at South Pole

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.