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 Portfolio Management team oversees and develops business for the sale and trading of carbon credits and Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs). By working collaboratively with both our internal Sales and Projects teams, we play a crucial role in balancing the demand and supply of certificates, in order to best match the needs of our clients with our sourcing capabilities. 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:

 The Project Development Coordination - Specialist is responsible for supporting the coordination between PMs and Carbon standards/registries to process carbon projects through all development stages until credit issuance. The Specialist will also be tasked with supporting the team in providing a high-level regional view of issuance timelines and challenges to the rest of the Portfolio team.

Main tasks & responsibilities:

• Project Development Cycle Support
• Support coordination with carbon standards on the project development steps required from registration to credit issuance
• Submission of all reports required for projects needed to register, validate, and verify the project
• Coordination of project review deadliness
• Placing Issuance as requested by Registries teams
• Managing and approving all invoice payment to standards with Accounting including development and issuance fees
• Ongoing coordination between carbon standards and PMs
• Be the key point of contact between the carbon standards and South Pole’s portfolio of projects in regards to carbon project development
• Manage accounting and legal challenges as necessary
• Internal point of contact for project issuance information
• Ad-hoc follow up on specific projects with PMs regarding issuance
• Adding project updates to iMOT
• Monthly calls with PDME and Project Account Manager
• Market demands
• Future sales
• Critical projects and issuances
• Challenges in the regions
• Policy updates
• Technical development
• Pre-sales Lead Support
• Maintain & update agreed upon rules for CPO regarding the pre-sale of credits in order to manage risk based on data.
• Guidebook
• Norpa

Requirements:

Essential -

• Comfortable working in a nascent team where tasks and priorities that will evolve over time
• Comfortable in leading the strategic direction for a team to continuously increase efficiency and effectiveness of the Portfolio team
• Experience aggregating and processing diverse types information across various teams into actionable tasks and procedures
• Comfortable working in an international position that works with teams across all regions and time zones

Desirable -

• Familiarity with carbon project development process
• Experience working directly with third party carbon standards (Gold Standard, Verra, CDM)
• Commercial understanding of carbon sales
• Familiarity with legal agreements
• Familiarity with accounting arrangements and invoicing procedures

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 a job, we offer you a career. By joining our team, you will find strong purpose and deep meaning in everything you do. You will have the chance to make a real difference for our clients and for the planet, working alongside a passionate team of like-minded colleagues, while building your knowledge/skills and developing your career in a fun, dynamic, international and fast-growing organisation. 

We’re a planet of 7.5 billion unique and different people. We all have a contribution to make; South Pole is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, marital status or disability. Our recruitment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.