Carbon Technical Associate Specialist - Brussels, België - South Pole

South Pole

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Brussels, België

3 weken geleden

Geplaatst door:

Sophie Dubois

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Beschrijving

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 Project Development team is at the forefront of developing and managing climate mitigation activities.

By working closely with project owners and developers as well as their local communities, we manage the complete registration, verification and evaluation of carbon projects to enable the issuance of emission-reduction certificates, in line with official carbon standards.

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:

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 problemsolving 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 projectrelated 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 th