Esther Githinji
- @EstherGithinji
- | She/Her
About Climate Impact Partners
Climate Impact Partners delivers solutions for action on climate and is a leading provider of high-quality carbon credit programmes. They believe that carbon markets have a critical role to play in delivering action by putting a price on carbon and funding carbon reduction activities to meet our global climate goals. Together with the world’s leading companies and quality project partners they will cut 1 billion tonnes of CO2 by 2030 to transform the global economy, improve health and livelihoods and restore a thriving planet.
Role Overview
Department: Portfolio Management
Reports to: Due Diligence Manager
Locations: UK with access to their offices in London or Oxford, or remote in US, Europe or Nairobi
Type: Full Time Permanent
Remote Status: Hybrid Remote
Reporting into the Due Diligence Manager, the role works with and across their supply teams, Global Sourcing and Project Development, executing and continuing to evolve their consistent and rigorous processes for project Due Diligence (DD) and risk assessment, keeping up to date with regulatory and methodology changes in the voluntary carbon market, and managing impact reporting for clients.
While based within the Global Sourcing team, the Due Diligence Technical Specialist will also partner with their Client Solutions and Marketing teams to ensure they have accurate information about their carbon projects to enable clear and responsible communication of their high-integrity programmes, supporting Client Solutions in client meetings as needed.
Responsibilities
- Carry out Due Diligence screening and risk assessment, including GIS mapping, for Global Sourcing opportunities; propose solutions to further explore and address issues arising.
- Help set the criteria for what ‘good’ looks like and support the implementation of rigorous and consistent processes.
- Prepare reports on the integrity and risk of carbon projects and, where needed, present to the cross-team senior Evaluation Committee for decisions on project acceptability and to recommend of solutions for specific issues.
- Maintain accurate Due Diligence documentation and record precedence of Due Diligence outcomes.
- Develop and maintain relationships with the carbon projects´ rating agencies, actively managing discussions as needed around ratings of specific projects on which you are working.
- Keep up to date with changes in voluntary carbon standards and inform Climate Impact Partners’ approach to managing risk.
Eligibility
- Extensive experience within the voluntary carbon market.
- A degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field such as forestry, ecology, biological conservation or environmental management is preferable but not essential.
- Experience in reviewing Project Design Documents is desirable, along with reviewing monitoring reports for VCS/CCB, Gold Standard, Climate Action Reserve, American Carbon Registry, and potentially other recognised standards, ideally through to validation, monitoring and verification.
- Understanding of key elements of the carbon calculation process such as additionality, baselines, permanence, leakage, land rights, carbon rights, jurisdictional risks along with social and environmental impacts; knowledgeable about the potential sources of information and tools to support project evaluation.
- Experience with GIS mapping tools highly desirable.
- The ideal candidate will have experience in a range of carbon project types including nature-based solutions, improved household technology and renewable energy solutions.