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Director of Carbon Finance

This is a significant opportunity for an experienced Climate Finance and Carbon Markets specialist to take a leading role in the next stage of this innovative project, providing strategic and operational direction as the project moves from minimum viable product testing phase through to a live deployment. The successful candidate will head a small team and will need to apply leadership skills to take this innovation into its scale-up phase. The successful candidate will head a small team and will need to apply leadership skills to take this innovation into its scale-up phase.

Candidates will have a deep understanding of the structure and functioning of Voluntary Carbon Markets and the regulatory frameworks that govern the creation and sale of credits internationally and nationally, particularly in the Global South. The Candidate will drive forward the processes through which projects can access the platform, working with technical teams and external specialists to design and put in place protocols for a range of use cases and project types. The candidate will also oversee the development of an independent validation process, that places emphasis at the system level rather than at the project-level.