Carbon Operations Director at BURN

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Operational Excellence: Help scale and improve data capture at the end consumer distribution points. Trial and scale new data capture and data management systems, develop and implement SOPs for carbon compliance.
• Expand Carbon Offsetting Footprint: Grow BURN’s carbon offsetting to new geographical territories and new products. Implement necessary data and compliance systems with diverse stakeholders across several fields and countries.
• Carbon Database Management: Coordinating continuous improvement of database management with BURN’s well-staffed Market Intelligence team, including quality control and SOP development to ensure offsetting compliance.
• Monitoring and Evaluation: Own the M&E requirements of this distribution project, including measuring specific social and environmental impact metrics through surveys and home observations.
• Carbon Offset Issuance: Manage a complex calendar of project monitoring and audit activities including field monitoring teams, reporting and documentation teams, DOEs, and BURN’s own Market Intelligence to issue carbon credits on time.
• Global Offset Market: Track the global carbon market and identify upcoming opportunities & pitfalls. Represent BURN at global carbon conferences/meetings.
• Problem Solving: Solve a variety of challenges as they arise in distribution, staffing and partnerships.
• Reporting: Produce monthly reports for the senior management team highlighting performance against KPIs.

Skills And Experience

• 3+ years of Project Management experience: expertise in project management and demonstrated ability to coordinate complex projects with many stakeholders to deliver results on time
• 3+ years of Monitoring and Evaluation Experience: experience managing M&E in the field, ideally for a carbon offsetting project
• Familiarity with carbon methodologies and protocols, global carbon policy, and carbon standards
• Very strong quantitative experience, including statistical analysis familiarity, database management familiarity, and mastery of Microsoft Excel
• Excellent presentation and communication skills – mastery of conveying complex quantitative information clearly and concisely
• Ability to work and coordinate with several teams and stakeholders
• Bachelor’s Degree from University. An A A Master’s Degree / MBA is a plus
• Excellent English language skills
• Operations and P&L management experience for B2C and B2B clean-energy product distribution
• Hands-on carbon L experience, ideally with a cookstove project, either on the implementation or auditing side
• Language skills in French and/or Portuguese