Specialist - Carbon Project Development Coordination

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.

Our Portfolio Management team oversees and develops business for the sale and trading of carbon credits and Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs). By working collaboratively with both our internal Sales and Projects teams, we play a crucial role in balancing the demand and supply of certificates, in order to best match the needs of our clients with our sourcing capabilities. If you are a smart, ambitious and dynamic sustainability professional with a strong passion to make a real difference in the fight against climate change, the below position may be right for you!

Job summary:

The Specialist position on the Project Development Coordination team is responsible for supporting the coordination between Carbon Project Managers (PMs) and Carbon standards/registries to process carbon projects through all development stages until credit issuance. The Specialist is also responsible for improving overall communication and information flow between Portfolio and PMs.  

Main tasks & responsibilities:

• Carbon Project Development Cycle Support
  • Support coordination with carbon standards on the project development steps required from registration to credit issuance
    • Submission of all reports required for projects needed to register, validate, and verify the project
    • Coordination and follow up of project review deadliness
    • Placing Issuance as requested by Registries teams
    • Managing and approving all invoice payment to standards and platforms with Accounting including registration t and issuance fees
  • Ongoing coordination between carbon standards and PMs
    • Be the key point of contact between the carbon standards and South Pole’s portfolio of projects in regards to carbon project development
    • Manage accounting and legal challenges as necessary

• Portfolio point of contact for project issuance information
  • Ad-hoc follow up on specific projects with PMs regarding issuance timeline and expected volume
  • Adding project updates to iMOT (portfolio tool)
  • Providing a high-level regional view of issuance timelines and challenges
  • Monthly calls with PDME (Project Design Monitoring & Evaluation) and Project Account Managers on:
    • Market demands
    • Upcoming deliveries
    • Future sales
    • Critical projects and issuances
    • Challenges in the regions
    • Policy updates
    • Technical development

• Feedback to PMs for relevant sales and market demand information
  • Sales successes - especially for priority projects
  • Signed contracts for future delivery especially for unissued credits
  • Demand signals for products from specific regions or technology
  • Any other information to further improve communication between portfolio and Climate Projects activities

Requirements:

Essential -

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• 1-3 years of relevant experience
  
• Experience working directly with third party carbon standards (Gold Standard, Verra, CDM)
  
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
  
• Comfortable working in a nascent team where tasks and priorities that will evolve over time
  
• Comfortable in leading the strategic direction for a team to continuously increase efficiency and effectiveness of the Portfolio team
  
• Experience aggregating and processing diverse types information across various teams into actionable tasks and procedures
  
• Comfortable working in an international position that works with teams across all regions and time zones
  

Desirable - 

• Self-motivated and able to work asynchronously with team members

• Finds fulfillment in collaborating with and building relationships with peers

• Familiarity with carbon project development process

• Commercial understanding of carbon sales

• Familiarity with legal agreements

• Familiarity with accounting arrangements and invoicing procedures

• Experience managing direct reporting lines

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. Our recruitment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.