Regional Manager, Technical, Nbs, Climate Projects

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 Regional Manager, Technical, NBS, Climate Projects - LatAm, you will lead specific projects and portfolios related to Nature-Based Solutions in the region, as well as, will directly supervise, supporting them based on the internal guidelines related to supervision and growth in the company. Reporting directly to the Regional Senior Manager, Technical, NBS, Climate Projects - LatAm.

You will lead specific projects and portfolios related to NBS (REDD+, Reforestation/Afforestation, Improved Forest Management, Wetlands Restoration and Conservation, Agriculture, etc.) in the region, ensuring timely delivery of credit issuance in the all project cycle, within budget and while sustaining a fluid and effective communication with the project partner.

You will lead and coordinate work with other technical collaborators within the NBS technical team in the region, who give their experience and expertise to support and complete the attainment of carbon credit issuance, ensuring the development and implementation of high-quality projects within time and budget. The coordination of experts, in topics such as environment, finance, implementation, climate, community, and others, is necessary to adequately fulfil the requirements of the carbon or biodiversity standards that certify and issue the credits from projects. You must have the ability to ensure the best quality of South Pole’s NBS projects while ensuring adequate relationship skills management, both internally and externally, including project partners, communities, standards, authorities, stakeholders, and others. And must be available to engage with other team members at the region and participate in site visits when needed.

The main skill will be the management of the NBS projects, based on the planning and monitoring (mainly technical and financial aspects), team management from a transdisciplinary point of view, as well as good communication skills with stakeholders. Additionally, will have qualities related to people and time management, supervision, leadership, high-level decision-making, and support in complex projects.

**Main tasks & responsibilities**:

- Technical, financial, and administrative development and management of NBS projects within South Pole’s LatAm pipeline, ensuring adequate completion of all the project cycle steps, from due diligence to commercial agreement, listing, validation, verification, emission, and commercialization, working closely with the commercial team and other technical collaborators for project development and implementation
- Provide leadership and troubleshooting through the project cycle, offering guidance and team coordination with other technical (climate, biodiversity, community, implementation, GIS, etc.) and administrative (legal, finance, operations, commercial, etc.) teammates, as well as, all stakeholders involved (project owners, project partners, communities, validation and verification bodies, and local/regional authorities), to achieve the NBS project objectives in the region
- Supervise the team in relation to their time management and their daily processes, aligning their career and development goals with the organization's objectives
- Delegate, assign, and distribute tasks and appropriate decisions to the supervised team
- Provide critical inputs to the Regional Senior Manager, Technical, NBS, Climate Projects - LatAm to help in the feedback loop of the Project Manager profile
- Planning and development training sessions about local and regional experiences in the Project Manager topics
- Ensure compliance with all aspects defined by the corresponding national or international certification standards (Gold standard, VERRA, and national or local standard), and South Pole’s policies and guidelines
- Implement financial and budget planning, fieldwork logistics, management, resource scheduling, communication, risk analysis, monitoring, and quality plan/protocols to develop NBS projects, following up on the objectiv