Position Overview
ClearBlue Markets is seeking a motivated, analytical, dependable, and inquisitive person to join our Environmental Finance award-winning advisory team as a Carbon Analyst.
You will play an important role in analyzing existing and proposed offset project opportunities in compliance carbon markets and globally in the voluntary carbon market (VCM). The analyst will assess both nature-based and energy & industrial projects for their carbon crediting opportunity. If you have experience in carbon regulations, emissions accounting protocol or methodology development, carbon offset project analysis or offset project development and are passionate about making an impact in emissions reductions and removals globally, we want to hear from you.
As a Carbon Analyst, you will be quantifying emissions, understanding, and communicating offset policies and methodology requirements, and aiding in strategic planning to achieve sustainability goals. This will involve the development of offset strategies and carbon market capacity building for clients and setting the stage for further work with our offset project development team. The role involves a combination of technical, financial, and regulatory skills with strong communication and analytical competencies. The role offers a variety of independent project work mixed with cross-team collaborative projects.
Key Responsibilities
- Understand compliance offset programs and the VCM globally
- Research offset policies, protocols/quantification methodologies and remain at the forefront of carbon market development including Article 6 and governance initiatives
- Work with clients to understand their sustainability plans and climate targets to develop and implement offset strategies, offset portfolios and decarbonization roadmaps
- Evaluate a wide range of emissions reductions and carbon removal projects to identify existing or future carbon crediting opportunities via the evaluation of offset methodologies including nature-based projects and energy & industrial project types
- Support compliance clients in understanding offsets and their use in regulatory programs
- Assist with technical inputs to tenders and service proposal development
- Evaluate the market value of existing and future offset project credits using ClearBlue’s proprietary assessment tools in Vantage, and contribute to tool refinement
- Support outreach to prospective clients to highlight ClearBlue’s expertise
- Deliver reports and presentations summarizing offset project technical assessments, emissions reduction opportunities and carbon value
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, environmental sciences, sustainability or similar, a Master’s degree is considered an asset
- Over three years of related work experience in carbon markets, greenhouse gas accounting, sustainability and/or offset project evaluation or development
- Experience with and an understanding of programs, processes and the application of environmental attributes such as carbon credits and renewable energy certificates
- Experience in compliance carbon markets, the VCM and/or clean fuel programs
- Knowledge of carbon standards and common carbon offset quantification methodologies or protocols and the ability to decipher complex requirements
- An interest in carbon markets, sustainability and emissions reductions and removals
- Ability to work independently and proactively with minimal guidance
- Strong critical thinking, regulatory analysis and detail-oriented
- Strong interpersonal and excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Proficiency in English is required with proficiency in French considered an asset