Senior Advisor - Nbs Carbon

Openspace Ventures has been established since 2014 and operates five funds currently with over US$650mm under management. It has been recognized by Preqin and Cambridge as a leading investor in Southeast Asia by financial performance. The existing portfolio covers a wide range of Technology companies that are accessing local, regional and global markets, including GoTo, Halodoc, Tradegecko, Whispir, FinAccel, Pluang, Biofourmis and more, for more information please visit us at https://www.openspace.vc/

Currently we are hiring for one of our portfolio companies based in Jakarta, indonesia, which is building a tech-enabled platform (building software, and setting up operations) to seed and develop an order of magnitude more nature based carbon projects, in order to deliver significant GHG positive outcomes, and co-benefits in the long run.

Specific Needs

We are looking for senior experts who are ‘Nature Based Solutions’ carbon specialists, with deep experience developing and validating nature-based carbon projects, to advise our team. Ideally, you should have the skillset to independently codify the entire process with a deep understanding of underlying methodologies and science, and advise on actual field work essential for project development.

• Experts may have a background in biology, ecology, climate, or environmental sciences / engineering, natural resource management or related field
• Experience collecting, manipulating, analysing and interpreting scientific data, spatial analysis and/or GIS
• Professional experience in Southeast / South Asia is essential
• Experience involved in end to end project development for multiple tropical forestry and peatland projects - primarily REDD+ with a mix of APDD, AUDD, WRC and ARR scenarios based on Verra (VCS) methodologies, including associated documentation preparation (e.g. feasibility assessments / project idea notes / project design documents, validation and verification documents)
• Deep understanding of calculations essential to articulate carbon baselines, and project scenarios, and the data essential to perform those calculations
• Connections in the Natural Climate Solutions ecosystem, specifically with other technical experts, and ability to leverage inputs from different quarters
• 5-10 years of experience in nature-based carbon project development and certification with experience leading the Verra registry related process
• Additional experience with other structures (e.g. blue carbon, agriculture related) is a plus
• Additional experience with other registries (Gold Standard, Plan Vivo, Climate Action Reserve, American Carbon Registry, and/or other compliance market standards) and an ability to compare and contrast is a plus

Responsibilities

Work hand in hand with our carbon team and advise and deliver in these key areas:

• Codify back-end data structures required to streamline the technical analysis e.g. methodology applicability, carbon yield calculations etc
• Build templates for calculating GHG emission reductions and removal potential of conservation & restoration initiatives
• Capacity building
• Create collateral for various stakeholders to streamline the onboarding process and on-going implementation of analysis and design.
• Identify challenges in current approaches to technical analysis and design
• Technical development
• Oversee the technical aspects of monitoring, reporting and verification activities
• Co-design project activities along with project implementers following the applicable carbon standards and methodologies
• Procedures
• Travel as required to project sites in SEA
• Support the wider team in gaining a deeper understanding of processes used at various stages of the analysis and design of carbon projects
• Collaborate with the project implementers, consultants and service providers to deliver required technical analysis (pre-feasibility and feasibility studies) for projects launched in multiple countries across SEA
• Co-develop solutions with the carbon, product and engineering teams including QA/QC, gathering feedback and iterating on offering