Forest Carbon Manager, Natural Climate Solutions

General Summary: Anew seeks a dedicated forest industry professional to join the forest carbon implementation team and participate through every stage of carbon project evaluation, execution, verification, and monitoring. The successful candidate will have the unique mix of analytical skills and educational background necessary to oversee forest carbon project development.  Day-to-day responsibilities will cover a broad spectrum of activities including project viability and eligibility assessments, document preparation and drafting, data management, ongoing project activity monitoring, and assisting verifications throughout the US and Canada. Ideal candidates will be comfortable spending most of their time in the office but will enjoy occasional fieldwork at project locations across the nation. This is an excellent opportunity for an early or mid-level professional seeking a dynamic position in the center of the forest carbon market.

Primary Responsibilities and Competencies:

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Lead field work during verifications and in training new inventory crews
• Manage training of new carbon analysts
• Lead on technical quality control and senior internal review of forest carbon projects
• Develop verification and inventory schedules to meet ongoing monitoring obligations
• Prepare written project documents for verifiers, management, and stakeholders
• Update and maintain forest carbon inventory methodologies consistent with existing standards
• Estimate timber production and financial returns of alternative forest management plans
• Perform statistical analyses of inventory and other data sets
• Conduct silvicultural research and conduct interviews with local experts across project regions
• Analyze financial costs and benefits of carbon project development
• Travel when necessary to project sites and/or conferences

Required Education, Experience and Certification:

• At least 5-years of experience in a forestry-related occupation
• Master’s degree in forestry or forest sciences, or Bachelor’s with equivalent work experience
• Experience in forest management plans and/or harvest plan design
• Experience with FVS or similar growth and yield models
• Experience in ArcPro mapping and analysis
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Excel
• Knowledge of Forest Carbon Accounting
• Knowledge and Application of North American Forest Carbon Protocols and Methodologies
• Knowledge and Experience in forest mensuration for both timber and carbon-specific accounting
• Knowledge of database management and manipulation
• Experience cleaning and troubleshooting data
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Expertise in project management and demonstrated ability to coordinate among various stakeholders
• Strong interest in climate change and environmental issues
• Experience in Forest Carbon Verifications and Validations under North American Compliance and/or Voluntary Standards

Preferred Education, Qualifications & Experience:

• Master’s degree in forestry or forest sciences
• Experience using at least one peer-reviewed forest growth simulation tool that applies to at least one North American forest type (e.g., Forest Vegetation Simulator, OSM)
• Experience developing, evaluating, and/or implementing forest management plans and/or harvest plan design
• Experience with statistical analyses
• Familiarity with remote sensing for forestry
• Knowledge of forest carbon policy, carbon protocols, and carbon accounting standards

Skills:

• FVS or other growth and yield models
• ArcGIS
• Excel, Access, Word, PowerPoint
• Data cleaning Experience
• Spatial data management
• Statistics
• Strong written and communication Skills
• Highly self motivated