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Duties and Responsibilities:

• First level Draft and review of all carbon reports and submit them on time to the Carbon Technical manager as per the annual calendar prepared by the Carbon Technical Manager
• Prepare a Project Level annual Gantt chart that is a more detailed version and at the project level clearly showing what happens when and by whom. They will be responsible to ensure all tasks are done on time and within the correct scope.
• First Level Draft of clear Standard Operating Procedures and Quality control and Quality Assurance plans and strategies for All reporting and technical aspects of carbon processes, to be implemented by the Project Management teams and all support departments in BURN (Commercial Team, Business Intelligence department, Carbon Project Management team, and Carbon Technical Officers)
• First Level Review, and draft where required, all Carbon reports and support documents – e.g., but not limited to VPA DD, Monitoring reports, Local Stakeholder consultation reports, and all related Support documents, and submit them to the Carbon Consultant on time and in scope
• Responsible for drafting and preparing robust operating procedures and systems to ensure all carbon reports and their supporting documents are saved on BURN’s SharePoint and uploaded on the Sustaincert app on time and in the correct level of quality
• Run all Training and capacity building to ensure compliance with carbon standard requirements from BURN, and make sure the carbon project Management team is following the requirements of the standards based on the SOPs developed
• Provide First level responses to all reviews from BURN to either VVBs and/or the Standards in each stage of Project reviews e.g., but not limited to Preliminary review in GS or Listing in VERRA.
• First level preparation of all Ex-ante and Ex-post ER calculations for BURN cookstove projects, including ensuring all Projects hit the maximum ER generation per stove possible
• Provide weekly updates (or any frequency set by the Carbon technical Manager) on the status of the Projects – quality, risk assessment, reporting – in a clear concise manner
• Lead and coordinate all reviews from BURN to either VVBs and/or the Standards in each stage of Project reviews e.g., Preliminary review in GS or Listing in VERRA. The Carbon Technical Manager ensures that all feedback is provided on time and in scope in conjunction with the Carbon Consultant
• First Level drafting, refining, and updating of all BURN Carbon data collection questionnaires in line with the standard requirements and in a way to maximize opportunities for Carbon Credit Generation
• Identify and Manage the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats that face BURN’s projects from Standards or Markets where BURN operates and come up with strategic plans to de-risk any aspects that would affect the issuance of credits on time, on the scope, and budget
• Manage, coordinate, and take lead in any Design changes to existing POAs
• Manage Ad hoc communications with Standards (e.g., VERRA/GS) for topics such as but not limited to technical changes to methodology rules, deviation requests, clarification requests, and relationship building with the standards (e.g. finance, technical reviewers, etc.) VBS as needed
• Carrying out specific one-off special carbon assignments falling outside the scope of existing JD
• Keep up to date on all Standard (GS/VERRA/CDM, etc) updates and always make sure BURN is ahead of any strategic and required changes in how projects are run
• Carrying out specific one-off special carbon assignments falling outside the scope of existing JD

Skills and Experience:

• 3+ Years’ experience in Carbon Standards Project Document preparation in gold standard or VERRA (CDM experience is desired)
• 3+ Years’ experience in Emission reductions calculations
• 3+ years of experience in Project Management
• 3+ years of experience in Managing Carbon Audits and responding to Standard (VERRA/CDM/GS) comments
• Proven track record in Quality control and Quality Assurance experience in carbon Projects
• Strong communication skills in both written and spoken English language

Desired

• Certification in Microsoft Programmes – MS Excel, MS Word, and MS PowerPoint
• Excellent graphical presentation and reporting skills.
• Enthusiastic, motivated, and a desire to ‘Get things done
• Proven track record demonstrating excellent time management skills

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Duties and Responsibilities:

• Defining needs for reporting and nurturing the culture of performance to set the bar for speed and quality.
• Operationalizing MRV field teams to run 3 to 5 different types of heavy data collection projects within the 1st year with higher growth thereafter.
• Work closely with the Head of MRV/Country Reps to mobilize & track roll out of effective MRV teams within the country, timelines, cost & quality expectations
• Develop country-customized training materials for MRV-focused studies enumerators borrowing from the master training document under the supervision of the FS project manager.
• Inject fresh ideas on the effective execution of carbon-related MRV activities across the board within the country from feasibility studies to verification
• Maintain a highly optimized & strategic calendar to achieve maximum results with optimal resources.
• Defining goals and metrics for research areas and running effective operational reviews with leadership.
• Ownership over in-country MRV metrics for communicating progress against goals. Identifying if extra roles are needed to support you (e.g. data analyst to deploy KPI dashboards if needed)
• Defining the project plan with the support of internal business processes by which work gets done on the MRV teams

• Recruit, train and supervise an in-country, location-efficient team of contractor field team leaders and/or enumerators that can execute household-level feasibility studies.
• Initiate and follow through in the mobilization of budgets and other resources for efficient and timely execution of feasibility studies.
• Working closely with the Head of MRV and other critical internal stakeholders, develop sops and checklists for maintaining the highest quality processes for efficient output from data and related units.
• Continuously review and audit the processes and surveys necessary to complete MRV studies projects in time both quantitatively and qualitatively.
• Ensure data and documentation are compliant with laid down SOPs and methodologies
• Collaborate and liaise closely and regularly with the relevant team members across the critical departments including but not limited to data and analytics, call centers, carbon, and commercial.
• Manage routine corrections of erroneous output and work to continuously improve this environment by harvesting and documenting lessons towards continuous improvement.
• Creating comprehensive monthly reports on the Pareto of issues, including root causes, examples, trends, and options for solutions.

Skills and Experience:

• 3+ years of relevant career experience
• Strategic planner
• Large field teams’ management and coordination
• Large field project management
• Training & QA/QC experience
• Comfortable with digesting heavy data
• Organizational, communication, and team-building skills
• High-level presentation skills
• Resource mobilization & accountability experience; HR, funds, material
• Fast learning capabilities (for technical carbon internalization)
• In-country travel ready
• Individuals will need excellent technical abilities to carry out audit-like work in a data-heavy environment.

• Team leadership and management of field teams in multiple locations.
• Relevant technical data handling skills in areas of collection using tools like Kobo and analysis using Ms. Excel.
• Required soft skills include people and teamwork skills, critical thinking, and problem-solving.
• The role-holder is expected to have strong field monitoring and evaluation skills including effective communication skills to constantly liaise with the team members to ensure all enumerators or team leaders are achieving both their qualitative and quantitative targets.
• This specialist should also have effective communication skills to interact with team members or customers, as well as provide training as needed to colleagues.

• Possess 3 to 5 years of experience in field team leadership and management in areas like data collection or sales.
• Excellent Communication skills in both written and spoken English.
• Strong experience in field teams’ leadership and management

• Data collection using platforms and mobile apps like Kobo
• Team coordination
• Project coordination
• Process audit experience