Carbon Verification Executive - Forestation (Hybrid)

Greenated Clima Tech is hiring a Carbon Verification Executive for a hybrid role in Bengaluru, Karnataka. The candidate will lead carbon credit verification, compliance, and project development for forestation projects. Responsibilities include conducting feasibility analyses, developing tools for carbon credit generation, managing verification processes, and supporting investment due diligence in natural climate solutions. A background in carbon accounting and relevant regulatory frameworks is essential.
Position Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Carbon Verification Executive to lead carbon

credit verification, compliance, and project development efforts. The ideal candidate will have a

strong background in carbon accounting, verification standards (such as VCS, Gold Standard, or

CDM), and regulatory frameworks. This role involves managing carbon credit generation for

Forestation projects, ensuring compliance with carbon offset standards, and optimizing carbon

revenue streams.

Key Responsibilities:

Carbon Offset Project Development:

Conduct carbon feasibility analyses at various levels of detail that supports decision

making around acquiring new forestland acquisitions and carbon project development.

Work with our inter-disciplinary team of foresters and biometricians to develop in-house

tools, credit generation models, and use geo-spatial data sets that help identify carbon

stocks associated with different ecosystems across different spatial resolutions.

Technical lead for forest carbon projects during the project development life cycle,

including researching protocols & methodologies, managing quantification models,

authoring technical project documentation, and managing the verification process.

Build and maintain credit generation worksheets that calculate available offsets under

varying scenarios for improved forest management projects, avoided deforestation

projects, reforestation projects under different third-party standards like ACR, VCS and

ARB

Resource to the Manager of Forest Information Systems to ensure the project baselines,

project scenarios, carbon cruises, and stratification requirements meet the required

standard and methodology guidelines.

Responsible for overall project management to ensure that issuance timelines are met.

This will require working with colleagues and external consultants, verifiers, and

contractors.

Support RFPs and offset marketing efforts.

Keep up to date on new methodologies, standards, tools, and remote-sensing

technologies that influence carbon and ecosystem markets.

Natural Climate Solutions Investments:

Support due diligence and recommendations on investments spanning reforestation/afforestation, blue carbon, regenerative ag, avoided deforestation and IFM strategies.

Review proposed project designs and evaluate relative climate, environmental and social impacts while comparing against best practices and regulatory or policy requirements.

Develop understanding of relevant regulatory policies in project regions and trends in voluntary and compliance carbon markets related to nature-based carbon removal.

Lead technical analysis on carbon or environmental credit generation potential of land use based strategies and maintain library of carbon ‘efficiency’ factors across various sectors.

Required Skills and Experience:

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Natural Sciences or Natural Resource management. Business or Economics ideal.

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Natural Sciences or Natural Resource management. Business or Economics ideal.

Experience working with forest carbon or ecosystem modeling and quantification is highly desirable.

Understanding of carbon accounting standards and methodologies in a technical capacity or within an investment or project development context.

Familiarity with the carbon project development process, including quantification, monitoring, and/or verification.

Strong scientific and technical skills that include a mixture of financial modeling, statistical analysis, remote sensing, GIS, carbon modeling, and/or forest biometrics.

Familiarity with forest growth and yield systems, including FPS or FVS is preferred.

Strong communication (presentation and written) skills, including communicating to non-technical audiences

Experience with Microsoft Excel, GIS and database management are required.

Skills & Competencies:

Analytical and problem-solving skills with a keen attention to detail.

Strong project management and organizational skills.

Ability to collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams.

Language:

Fluent in English with excellent reading and writing skills.

Any of Indian languages like Kannada, Tamil and Malayalam is must.

Travel and Stay:

Part of work involves travel across Indian states along with Project co-ordinators

Short Stay in the Project site less than 2 weeks will be taken care by company.

More than two weeks, relocation to the Project site is must.