Senior Project Coordinator-nature Based Solutions

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 Senior coordinator of the Climate Projects Unit, you will coordinate with the Project Development and Implementation team to implement new Nature Based Solutions strategies and complement projects design and implementation approach for the timely and effective generation of biodiversity projects. Reporting directly to the Head of Project Implementation and Global Biodiversity and Head of Colombian Biodiversity Compliance markets, you will support the Design and Implementation for biodiversity assets.

**Main tasks & responsibilities**:

- Support all the necessary due diligence activities (risk assessment, implementation models, etc) to ensure the development of projects
- Working closely with sourcing team responsible for client relationships on submission of implementation proposals to project proponents
- Working with external partners, to develop project investment in implementation and liaising with other members of the PDI team on project implementation financial and technical structuring (preparing of budgets and implementation models)
- Manage financial resources (own-risks investments or additional from partners) and the implementation of Nature Based Solutions for biodiversity credits generation
- Report semi-annually to the board on implementations, budget needs and management of new resources
- Follow up with the internal procedures in our internal project management tool regarding all signed agreements
- Leading project coordinators and overseeing compliance with commitments to partners and communities associated with the on-going projects
- Providing technical and development support by contracting projects
- Identify possible partners and collaborators for the development of projects associated with biodiversity and nature-based solution projects, compensations and incentives for conservation, environmental assessment, and land use planning
- Ability to implement projects by keeping the supervisor and team informed on the progress of the project, responsible for ensuring the quality of deliverables and financial viability in the implementation of projects
- Availability to interact with internal and external stakeholders associated with the projects. This includes working closely with the South Pole management team in the country to engage/liaise with respective national and sub-national governments in terms of project’s compliance with in-country regulation
- Planning and development of site visits and other types of business trips/training

**Requirements**:
Essential
- A University degree in Natural Resources Management, Sustainability, Biologist, Agronomist, Forestry Engineer, Environmental Engineer or related fields, ideally with evidence of a focus on conservation strategies, biodiversity offsets and management of investment funds. A Masters degree would be an advantage
- 5-9 years of relevant Design and Implementation of conservation projects experience, preferably in ecosystem services, restoration or preservation related field
- Relevant experience in biodiversity offsetting
- Affinity for working with local communities and excellent communication skills to manage relationships with them
- Ability to create high quality written documents (proposals and deliverables) in English and other languages could be an advantage
- Proven ability to work across multiple teams, in multi-disciplinary projects
- Capacity to solve relatively complex project-related problems independently, and receive general direction on new assignments or projects strategy and planning:

- Ability to think ahead and plan strategic guidelines and steps for internal processes

Desirable
- Knowledge of and experience on carbon, biodiversity and ecosystem services project-based frameworks, standards, technologies and project implementation processes

**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