As part of the project development team within the Climate Projects business line, the Regional Senior Manager, will primarily focus on Nature-based emission reduction projects being developed in the South Asia region.
This role will majorly focus on the technical scope of Nature-based Solution (NbS) projects along with partial commercial scope. You will manage team members and support the coordination and work collaboratively with internal teams and external stakeholders such as project participants, external auditor, government agencies as well as NGO to ensure the efficient and effective delivery of carbon emission reductions.
In addition, you will also be managing the auditing process for the validation and verification of the climate projects and participate in business rounds, technical sessions, site visits, and other relevant events. This also includes closely working with the Project Owners (PO) to identify threats to a project s landscape, develop and design a long-term intervention plan and documents, and configure all the necessary preparation and work to get the project to a state of registration and issuance of credits .
The Regional Senior Manager will also focus on supporting initial assessment of new NBS opportunities in the region mainly associated with forestry such as afforestation/reforestation. In this exciting role, you will work closely with other global teams within the Climate Projects business line, allowing you a global perspective on climate finance and sustainability. You will also be dealing directly with project owners and sustainability-related actors to help collaborate and develop emission reduction projects for South Pole s global portfolio.
Main tasks & responsibilities:
Develop and ensure that projects development are in line with the company guidelines and technical requirements of relevant voluntary standards and methodologies in the NBS sector.
Management of the emission reduction projects, which includes drafting feasibility studies and project design documents, local stakeholder consultation, validation, monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) support under different carbon standards, among other local and international carbon schemes
Support and engage in GIS analysis as per the project development cycle requirements
Participate in the validation and verification processes
Assist the team member during the site visits and travel to project locations when necessary
Provide assistance on technical support for project sourcing activities
Collaborate with other teams within the South Pole globally, in regards to project development, especially the project development, finance and project implementation teams.
Where needed, develop relationships and networking with conservation organizations that might possibly play a role in implementation of the projects.
Requirements:
Essential -
University Degree in environmental sciences, forestry or climate change and carbon mitigation related fields, a Master s degree is a plus
Minimum 7-8 years of work experience in the field of climate change, preferably with experience in project management and development of CDM, VCS and Gold Standard projects
Knowledge of carbon products and markets would be a strong plus, preferably including one or more of the following:
project-based carbon standards, technologies and project development processes, e.g. GS or VCS
Familiarity with carbon standards like, CDM, VERRA, GS4GG, CCER, etc.
Ability to work on assignments that are diverse in nature, applying company policies, processes and procedures to resolve a variety of issues/problems.
Ability to create written documents (proposals and deliverables) in English
Have excellent communication skills, especially verbal and written skills in English
Ability to manage targets and priorities and develop own goals
Valid Indian passport to travel to different countries for project site visit
Desirable -
Hands On experience on carbon project development from initial project assessment to issuance
Working experiences on registration process of Forestry based Carbon projects and registration & issuance of community based sustainable technologies projects will be a plus
A good network with various market participants e.g. project owners, DOEs and government agencies will be a plus.