Senior Managing Consultant - Bogota, Colombia - South Pole

South Pole

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Bogota, Colombia

hace 1 semana

Publicado por:

Carolina González

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Descripción

South Pole is an energetic, global company offering comprehensive sustainability solutions and services.

With offices spanning all continents across the globe, we strive to create a sustainable society and economy that positively impacts our climate, ecosystems and developing communities.

With our solutions, we inspire and enable our customers to create value from sustainability-related activities.

Our Consultancy & Advisory Services team provides our clients with outstanding technical expertise that enables the successful implementation of complex sustainability projects.

Our expertise spans across multiple topics including land and water management, climate strategies, renewable energies, environmental impact assessments, green products, climate policy, carbon pricing, climate finance, and sustainable finance, to name just a few.

If you are a smart, ambitious and dynamic sustainability professional with a strong passion to make a real difference in the fight against climate change, the below position may be right for you

Job summary:

You will be part of the Agricultural Value Chain (AVC) team.

Your goal is to ensure the timely delivery of high-quality consultancy advice to international, regional and local clients on sustainability topics.

You will be fully accountable for the development and overall management of proposals on agriculture supply chain strategies including water stewardship and for the implementation of projects for which you will supervise project teams of varying sizes.

You will provide technical guidance to the project teams and act as the main point of contact for the client.

In addition, you may lead the development of new products and solutions at South Pole to address sustainability challenges.

You will have a strong technical knowledge on forestry and will be able to advice strategies and clients on the feasibility of forestry projects and carbon monitoring either to comply with the reporting needs of corporate forestry related interventions in their agricultural value chain or to pursue carbon certification from renowned standards.

Main tasks & responsibilities:

The topics of engagement will focus on carbon valorization in agriculture value chains, feasibility of forestry activities, guidance on the implementation in the field (e.g. farms) of good practices regarding carbon removals (mainly from trees), carbon certification standards (e.g. Verra, Gold Standard among others), Science Based Targets (SBTs), Greenhouse gas protocol (mainly Land sector and removals guidance)

Manage and supervise large/complex consulting mandates throughout their entire project cycle: initiation, planning, design, execution, monitoring, controlling and closure
Lead or collaborate on the implementation the implementation of carbon removal projects and/or emission reduction projects which includes leading/drafting feasibility studies and project design documents, validation, monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) support under different standards (CDM, VERRA and national or local Standards) and/or corporate reporting standards (SBT) among other local and international carbon schemes
Supervise AVC team members regarding the calculations of the carbon stored from forestry activities following good practices from recognized carbon certification standards and provide technical advice on the feasibility of forestry projects in terms of their planting design, implementation in the field and carbon potential
Collaborate and coordinate with other units in South Pole regarding removals from different sources (e.g. trees, soil, among other)
Plan and implement projects to ensure the most efficient and highestquality implementation
Conduct field visits to projects and travel to project locations whenever needed
Interact and build relationships with our international, regional and/or local, clients and manage the timely delivery of mandates
Develop proposals with the Key Account Management team and regularly generate own leads, actively contributing to the business development activities of the company
Provide guidance on and technical leadership in the development of proposals for the corporate sector on climate strategies mainly related forestry activities and its carbon benefits and implementation of advisory projects, as well as lead their technical review
Develop and improve specialized skills and knowledge linked to topics and services offered by South Pole
Lead and directly manage small teams of consultants in a multistakeholder and

multi-geographies context