Climate job openings
Director of The Earthshot Prize, Africa
The Earthshot Prize is hiring a Director of The Earthshot Prize, Africa. The Head of Africa is an integral part of The Earthshot Prize’s Partnerships leadership team, playing a central role in enabling their long-term regional impact and partnership goals. They are looking for an outstanding entrepreneurial and visionary partnerships leader. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and delivering their regional impact strategy in Africa by building out an ecosystem of partners, innovators and funders in Africa. Specifically, you will be focused on increasing the number of nominations and nominators in the region, elevating the Fellowship program at the regional level and securing new sources of funding and in-kind support that can scale solutions . You will be the voice of The Earthshot Prize in the region, and the voice of the region to The Earthshot Prize.
Social Enterprise Builder
Enviu is looking for a entrepreneur with a strong strategic and conceptual mindset to analyse new markets, ideate innovative solutions and build sustainable business models to support their venture building programs and projects. The successful candidate will ideate and design desirable and scalable game-changing business concepts and be a product manager who is responsible for defining the “market – value proposition – product” triangle.
Carbon Sales Account Manager
BURN is seeking an Account Manager to support their carbon credit sales team. The Account Manager will serve as the primary point of contact for all matters related to BURN’s Carbon Clients, fostering long-term, trusted relationships. The successful candidate will be responsible for building and maintaining these customer relationships, working closely with cross-functional internal teams, including Carbon Operations and Finance, to continually enhance the overall customer experience.
Climate Solutions Manager Kenya
ETG Climate Solutions, a new business unit within ETG Commodities, is seeking a Climate Solutions Manager for Kenya. The successful candidate will scale existing projects within the broader ETG organisation and navigate the evolving regulatory landscape in Kenya. The manager will also lead business development and initiate new projects focused on cookstoves, afforestation, circularity interventions, and nature-based solutions.
Commercial Director – Carbon
BURN is looking for a Commercial Director – Carbon to oversee the monetisation of their carbon credits and related services. The successful candidate will be responsible for maximising revenue across three key areas: carbon credit sales, carbon investments, and carbon services partnerships. They will identify target markets and work to position BURN’s products and services effectively to achieve success.
Investment Officer
KCV is hiring an Investment Officer to lead deal origination, evaluation, and presentation for investment decisions. Reporting to the Investment Manager/Chief Investment Officer, the Investment Officer will manage a team of Analysts, review and prioritize investment opportunities, and build consensus. Key responsibilities include sourcing and originating deals, coordinating appraisal and due diligence, and overseeing negotiations, value creation, and exit strategies.
Waste Management Expert Consultant
Lamu Environment Foundation seeks a waste management consultant to research and design the “Lamu Waste Management Consortium.” The consultant will provide recommendations and lessons learned from up to 5 similar regional and international initiatives to identify best practices in policy advocacy and waste management partnerships, map out current SWM regulations in Lamu County and Kenya, identifying key policies to influence or change, and those in conflict with waste management goals. Additionally, the consultant will provide recommendations based on Nakuru County’s policy creation process, and review baseline data of waste management organizations and initiatives in Lamu County to identify current activities and key gaps.
Opportunity to feature your articles and research in the ERIS Journal
Rebekah Shirley, Deputy Director of WRI Africa and a guest editor at the Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability (ERIS) journal, invites you to submit your articles and research on “Cities and Local Action for Urban Resilience” to the journal.
This focus issue creates a platform for sharing experiences, innovations, successes, and challenges in local climate action at the city level. Recent milestones have elevated the role of cities in climate action. For example, the launch of the “Local Climate Action Summit” at COP28 in Dubai assembled more than 500 mayors, governors, and other subnational leaders for the first time at a COP. This is an opportune time to publish and amplify your research.
Article Types: the Focus Issue welcomes research papers, perspectives, and topical review.
Submissions Deadline: 30 Nov 2024. All open access fees are completely waived for authors submitting to ERIS by this deadline.
Carbon Sales Manager
BioLite is seeking a Carbon Sales Manager to market and sell carbon credits generated from its clean biomass cook stoves. The successful candidate will be responsible for selling these credits on global commodities markets and managing the complex capital flows from their sale back to BioLite projects. The role involves marketing and selling carbon credits to corporations looking to offset their climate impact, as well as to market intermediaries who aggregate and sell credits to their clients.
Carbon Sales Account Manager
BURN is seeking an Account Manager to support their carbon credit sales team. The Account Manager will serve as the primary point of contact for all matters related to BURN’s Carbon Clients, fostering long-term, trusted relationships. The successful candidate will be responsible for building and maintaining these customer relationships, working closely with cross-functional internal teams, including Carbon Operations and Finance, to continually enhance the overall customer experience.
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