Head of Nature Based Solutions, Latam

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**:
You will oversee a timely and effective generation and delivery of Forestry and Land Use emission reduction/removals projects and the management of the complete carbon project cycle in Latin America. Reporting directly to the NBS Global Head, you will also support other project offices with global sourcing and project development and implementation topics if required and assign relevant project coordinators to help the team with such activities.

You will work very closely and collaborate/coordinate on NBS PDI topics, knowledge management and NBS global resource planning/exchange with the PDI Global Heads.

You will manage and be fully responsible for a team of project coordinators and managers based in the Latin America region. Ensuring that project leads are screened and assessed efficiently and that projects are implemented as per agreed budget and timelines, maximising Verified Emission Reduction (VER) output and allowing to reach the yearly gross margin targets.

You will work closely with the commercial Sourcing team, the Director of Projects Development and other Associate Directors, including the NBS Global Head, the Head of implementation, and the Key Account Management, Portfolio, Global Accounting, Central Functions and HR teams as well as Marketing teams.

As a part of the NBS team, you will be accountable for the delivery of all milestones proposed for projects under the carbon and co-benefits standards (e.g. VCS, The Gold Standard, CCBS) and collaborate with other members of the Projects and Development team around the world. You will be responsible for designing, developing and implementing NBS projects.

In addition, you will be responsible for developing carbon estimations and delivering high-quality products (project documents, monitoring reports and others) in English. You will assist in the audit process to validate and verify NBS projects. You will participate in business rounds, technical sessions, site visits, and other relevant events.

**Main tasks & responsibilities**:

- Overall responsibility and lead for project screening, assessment and emission reduction generation, full carbon project cycle, quality checks for deliverables, project-related consultancy mandates and new project sourcing
- Team management and ensure issues are actively communicated and discussed with the Regional Director, NBS Global Head, Head of implementation, Accounting and HR
- Client, Project Partner (PP), Registry Entity, and Auditor (third party independent certifier) relationship management and related administrative tasks such as invoices, payments and accounting follow-ups
- Support communications of the commercial team in Project Partner (PP) relations where needed
- Support the Key Account Management and the Portfolio team with tenders and proposal preparation, the Marketing team in project information requests and the Climate Solutions team based on availability
- Budget control and human resource management at the individual project and project portfolio level; make use of the new upcoming internal database feature to manage the budget of all tasks and activities with optimum efficiency and effectiveness and ensure the assigned time budget per staff is respected and on track
- Managing project budgets of at least 200k EUR in size
- Prepare a six-monthly internal project progress report in accordance with South Pole Monitoring & Evaluation guidelines
- Support project teams in other offices with new leads, proposal preparation and project development cycle were required
- Take part in growing our NBS teams/offices and activities in the LatAm region and globally together with other relevant internal stakeholders; including building the most optimum teams structures and talented/ambitious project managers
- Leading the recruitment process of new team members, as well as estimating annual budgets for the proper operation of the LATAM team

**Requirements**:
Essential
- University Degree in forestry, agriculture, natural res