Carbon Strategy Manager 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.

About the Role

BURN is seeking a Carbon Strategy Manager, who will be responsible for growing and improving BURN’s carbon offset generation projects. The Carbon Strategy Manager will be spearheading BURN’s future-looking carbon activities, building BURN’s 3-5 year carbon strategy. They will also work hand-in-hand with BURN’s world-class R&D team and 3rd party carbon consultants to bring carbon offsetting to several innovative clean-energy products launching in 2021 & 2022. The Carbon Strategy Manager will be responsible for analyzing methodologies and registries, launching new carbon technologies, setting up new carbon projects, and pursuing new financing mechanisms. Their work will result in carbon offsetting for the largest modern improved cookstove operation in Africa.

The position requires strong organizational, writing, and research experience, as well as a strong technical background, excellent analytical skills, and practical business thinking. The ideal candidate will have hands-on project management experience and carbon offsetting experience, and a 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.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Expand Carbon Offsetting Footprint: Grow BURN’s carbon offsetting to new geographical territories and new products. Implement necessary data and compliance systems with diverse stakeholders across several fields and countries.


• Carbon Methodologies: Track, analyze, and compare relevant methodologies to make strategic recommendations. Lead development of new carbon methodologies relevant to BURN’s future business.


• Carbon Offset Issuance: Assist in managing a complex calendar of project monitoring and audit activities including field monitoring teams, reporting and documentation teams, DOEs, and BURN’s own Market Intelligence to issue carbon credits on time.


• Carbon Offset Sales: Assist in managing carbon sales and investment relationships. Create excellent presentations with clear quantitative communications.


• Global Offset Market: Track global carbon market and identify upcoming opportunities & pitfalls. Represent BURN at global carbon conferences/meetings.


• Carbon Finance: Tracking industry trends for deal structures and pricing, and assessing BURN’s performance against these.


• Problem Solving: Solve a variety of challenges as they arise in distribution, staffing, partnerships, and financials.


• Reporting: Produce monthly reports for the senior management team highlighting performance against KPIs.


• Strategy: Work closely with the technical carbon team, Business Development Director, and other leaders to set company strategy regarding the development and management of various carbon assets

Skills and Experience

Essential:

• 3+ years Project Management experience: expertise in project management and demonstrated ability to coordinate complex projects with many stakeholders to deliver results on time


• 3+ year Carbon experience: working on project generation, validations & verifications, credit issuance and sale


• Familiarity with carbon methodologies and protocols, global carbon policy, and carbon standards


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


• Excellent presentation and communication skills – a mastery of conveying complex quantitative information clearly and concisely


• Ability to work and coordinate with several teams and stakeholders


• Bachelor’s Degree from University. Master’s Degree / MBA is a plus


• Excellent English language skills

Desired:

• Operations and P&L management experience for B2C and B2B clean-energy product distribution


• Hands-on carbon L experience, ideally with a cookstove project, either on the implementation or auditing side


• Language skills in English and a second language, ideally French or Portuguese

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