Carbon Technical Manager (Remote) at BURN Manufacturing

BURN designs, manufactures, and distributes aspirational fuel-efficient cooking products that save lives and forests in the developing world.BURN has revolutionized the global cookstove sector by proving the business case for selling a high quality, locally manufactured and unsubsidized cookstoves. Since 2013, BURN has sold 200,000+ high quality, locally manufactured and unsubsidized jikokoas â„¢ stoves in East Africa. These stoves have helped 1,000,000+ beneficiaries save $39 million in fuel expenditures and 626,221 tons of wood while reducing indoor air pollution by 65%. BURN currently sells ~10,000 stoves per month and intend to double sales by the end of 2017.

Summary

The position requires experience leading efforts for carbon audits and issuances, including a good network of contacts at the registries and at audit firms. The ideal candidate will have a robust track record of carbon calculation, documentation, and issuance experience, and strong attention to detail. We seek a candidate with familiarity with the design and management of carbon offset projects including managing projects through validation, verification, and registration, and the oversight of regular project monitoring, audits, and carbon credit issuance cycle.

Roles and Responsibilities:

1. Issuance Process: Leading BURN’s external work to achieve on-time and in-full issuances, minimizing review round time and maximizing the efficiency of responses. Double-checking internal verification work to ensure comprehensiveness prior to submission.


2. Audits: building and maintaining a strong network and good relationships amongst DOE/VVB firms, and working as the primary contact person for the organizations for BURN’s carbon work


3. Networking: building and maintaining relationships at Gold Standard, Verra, and other industry players including other carbon consultants and audit firms, consulting experts


4. Documentation: preparing and reviewing documentation, and mentoring BURN’s carbon team on improving skills in this area


5. ·Validations: Leading BURN’s external work to register new projects. Double-checking internal verification work to ensure comprehensiveness prior to submission.


6. Industry Tracking: Monitor other projects in the same industry to for learnings and to provide BURN with a view on the direction the space is going

Skills and Experience

Essential:

1. 3+ years Carbon experience: expertise in technical aspects of carbon calculation, documentation work, and strategizing approaches for validations and verifications. Ideally for cookstove or other household devices projects.


2. Existing network in the carbon space: good relationships with auditors, other carbon consultants, and key stakeholders at the carbon registry bodies


3. Project Management experience: demonstrated ability to coordinate complex projects with many stakeholders to deliver results on time


4. Familiarity with carbon methodologies and protocols, global carbon policy, and carbon standards


5. Very strong quantitative experience, including statistical analysis familiarity, database management familiarity, and mastery of Microsoft Excel


6. Bachelor’s Degree from University


7. Excellent English language skills

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