Carbon Technical Specialist

South Pole is an energetic, global company offering comprehensive sustainability solutions and services. With offices spanning all continents across the globe, we strive to create a sustainable society and economy that positively impacts our climate, ecosystems and developing communities. With our solutions, we inspire and enable our customers to create value from sustainability-related activities.

**Job summary**:
As a Carbon Technical Manager of Sustainable Technologies (ST) projects development, you will oversee the timely and effective generation and delivery of emission reductions, as well as the management of several full project cycles globally. Reporting directly to Technical Head ST Africa, you will support other project offices with global Project Development and other Sustainable Technologies related project development topics.

**Main tasks & responsibilities**:

- Conduct the full technical development of viable carbon finance projects. This includes but is not limited to developing carbon emissions baseline and project scenarios, contributing to the identification and design of field implementation activities, contribute to writing project certification documents including PDDs and MIRs, designing and managing work plans and budgets for technical activities related to carbon project development, and leading projects through audit and validation/verification processes under different standards (VERRA, The Gold Standard) among other local and international carbon schemes.
- Oversee all the technical aspects of carbon offset projects, different registries, and processes for issuance.
- Oversee the technical sections of carbon project feasibility studies, Project Documents and Monitoring Reports.
- Innovate and drive improvement in the carbon markets and efficiencies for scaling carbon project development opportunities.
- Be a key point of contact and maintain a good relationship with the team members inside the company, project owners, clients, validation and verification bodies, and other counterparts
- Provide technical and business development support with project sourcing
- Follow up with the internal procedures in our internal project management tool regarding all signed ERPAs
- Prepare proposal and deliverables and finalise them to the quality required by South Pole and the client
- Define and plan content and structure to support the certification of the project: work plans, work schedules, budgets, and deliverables
- Schedule Technical Reviews and Quality Checks
- Draft invoices to be approved by the supervisor and sent to accounting for submission to clients
- Managing project owners' accounts in our internal project management tool
- Update proposal/project information in project management tool and ensure all relevant documents are accessible on the drive at any time
- Keep general information, milestones and cash flow in the project management software up to date

**Requirements**:
Essential
- Experience and high interest in project development in the African context in the field of Sustainable Technologies (Renewable Energy, Efficient Cookstoves, Safe Water Supply, etc);
- Proven team player, able to work effectively across cultures and within and across organizations.
- Highly organized and strong attention to detail.
- Demonstrated problem-solving skills and ability to build on existing knowledge to develop new approaches.
- Undergraduate/Bachelors/Masters in any of the following fields: Sustainable Technologies, Engineering, Carbon Methodology, Market research, Monitoring and Evaluation, Project Management, Data and Analytics
- The capacity to solve relatively complex project-related problems independently, and receive general direction on new assignments or projects
- Have excellent communication skills, especially verbal and written skills in English and French
- Ability to create high quality written documents (proposals and deliverables) in English
- Ability to manage targets and priorities and develop own goals

Desirable
- Good statistical skills
- Experience working with different stakeholders

**What we offer**:
At South Pole, we care about our employees as much as we care about the planet. South Pole is not just an employer, we are a Team. South Pole does not just offer people a job, we offer you a career. By joining our team, you will find strong purpose and deep meaning in everything you do. You will have the chance to make a real difference for our clients and for the planet, working alongside a passionate team of like-minded colleagues, while building your knowledge/skills and developing your career in a fun, dynamic, international and fast-growing organisation.

We’re a planet of 7.5 billion unique and different people. We all have a contribution to make; South Pole is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, marital status or disability