Senior Consultant - Carbon Markets Advisory at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

Key Responsibilities

Carbon Markets Advisory

• Support delivery of client engagements related to carbon crediting opportunities, project development, and related climate finance and sustainable investment considerations.
• Help clients assess how carbon market mechanisms may apply to planned or existing projects and how these can support wider climate, financing, and investment objectives.
• Contribute to analysis of market developments, standards, pricing trends, demand drivers, regulatory changes, and financing considerations relevant to client assignments.
• Assess the commercial case for participation, including revenue potential, cost considerations, route-to-market options, implications for project viability, and links to broader capital mobilisation approaches.
• Prepare advisory inputs, technical notes, and recommendations that help clients make informed decisions.

Project Assessment and Development Support

• Screen and assess projects for potential across relevant sectors, including suitability for carbon market participation and alignment with broader sustainable financing approaches.
• Contribute to feasibility work, including review of technical, operational, financial, and implementation considerations.
• Assist in the preparation and review of project documents, including concept notes, project design inputs, baseline information, financing-related summaries, and supporting technical materials.
• Work with wider teams on project structuring, readiness assessments, and early-stage development of opportunities.
• Help clients identify practical steps needed to move project ideas toward implementation, investment readiness, and access to climate and sustainable finance instruments.
• Contribute to due diligence and risk assessment, including technical, regulatory, delivery, integrity, commercial, and reputational considerations.

Technical Analysis and Reporting

• Conduct research and analysis on methodologies, project eligibility, baseline approaches, monitoring requirements, and verification expectations.
• Contribute to work related to carbon accounting, Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) arrangements, data needs, and reporting processes.
• Review technical information and project data to assess emissions reduction or removal potential, climate relevance, and financing readiness.
• Support analysis related to sustainable finance eligibility, use-of-proceeds considerations, climate impact, and reporting expectations associated with broader financing approaches, including thematic capital market instruments.
• Prepare clear reports, presentations, briefing notes, and other client-facing outputs for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Help clients consider integrity, transparency, and credibility issues linked to credit generation, climate finance, and market participation.

Stakeholder Engagement and Coordination

• Engage with clients, project developers, technical partners, government stakeholders, communities, financial institutions, investors, and other relevant parties involved in assignments.
• Assist in planning and facilitating meetings, consultations, workshops, and working sessions as part of project delivery.
• Gather stakeholder input and ensure that project development and financing processes take account of implementation realities, institutional roles, and stakeholder priorities.
• Work closely with multidisciplinary PwC teams to support joined-up delivery across carbon markets, climate finance, project finance, sustainability, and related areas.

Delivery Support and Quality

• Support day-to-day management of workstreams, including tracking tasks, timelines, inputs, and deliverables.
• Identify risks, issues, and information gaps that may affect delivery and escalate them where needed.
• Contribute to practical solutions to delivery challenges as part of wider project teams.
• Ensure outputs are well-structured, evidence-based, and aligned with client needs and PwC quality standards.

Business Development and Knowledge Building

• Support proposal development, market scanning, and opportunity identification for advisory work in this area.
• Contribute to internal knowledge building on project crediting approaches, climate finance topics, sustainable finance developments, and related market mechanisms.
• Develop presentations, short notes, and other materials for client discussions and business development purposes.

Preferred Skills and Competencies

• Practitioner experience in carbon markets, project development, climate finance, sustainability, environmental markets, sustainable finance, or related areas.
• Good understanding of how carbon credit market mechanisms apply across sectors such as energy, waste, forestry, land use, transport, industry, and nature-based solutions, including forest carbon, REDD+, blue carbon, and other ecosystem-based interventions.
• Knowledge of project development processes, including screening, feasibility assessment, baseline setting, monitoring approaches, and implementation planning.
• Knowledge of carbon accounting, MRV concepts, reporting requirements, and verification processes.
• Understanding of recognised standards, methodologies, and frameworks such as Verra, Gold Standard, or similar approaches, and how these shape project design, monitoring, and credit issuance pathways.
• Good grasp of developments in voluntary and compliance markets, including Article 6-related developments where relevant, as well as broader sustainable finance and climate investment trends.
• Understanding of broader climate finance and sustainable finance mechanisms, including the role of thematic bonds and sustainable debt instruments in mobilising capital for climate and sustainability investments.
• Working knowledge of thematic bonds and sustainable debt instruments, including green bonds, sustainability bonds, sustainability-linked bonds, transition bonds, and related market frameworks and principles.
• Familiarity with relevant sustainable finance frameworks and market principles, including the ICMA Green Bond Principles, Sustainability Bond Guidelines, and Sustainability-Linked Bond Principles.
• Ability to assess the financial implications of participation, including revenue assumptions, pricing scenarios, project viability considerations, and broader financing implications.
• Ability to conduct technical, market, financial, and policy analysis and turn findings into clear, practical recommendations.
• Experience preparing technical reports, project documentation, financing-related materials, and client-facing presentations.
• Good stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical groups.
• Strong analytical, organisational, and project management skills.
• Ability to work across multiple assignments, sectors, and teams in a consulting environment.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a relevant field such as climate change, environmental management, sustainability, finance, economics, development studies, or a related discipline.
• Relevant training or certification in carbon accounting, MRV, climate change, environmental markets, sustainability, sustainable finance, or related areas.

Experience

• A minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in carbon markets, project development, climate-related advisory, sustainable finance, or related areas.
• Demonstrated experience supporting or delivering work related to project assessment, development, technical documentation, financing support, or implementation support.
• Experience in one or more of the following:
• assessing projects for market potential
• supporting feasibility or baseline studies
• contributing to project documentation for carbon-related projects
• supporting MRV, reporting, or verification-related processes
• conducting market, policy, or regulatory analysis
• supporting work related to climate finance, sustainable finance, or financing approaches linked to low-carbon or sustainability investments
• working with clients, technical experts, project developers, government stakeholders, financial institutions, investors, or implementation partners
• Experience across sectors such as energy, waste, forestry, land use, transport, industry, or nature-based solutions, including forest carbon, REDD+, blue carbon, or other ecosystem-based interventions.
• Experience working in advisory, consulting, development programmes, or multi-stakeholder project environments.