Carbon Finance & REDD+ Specialist — Forest Carbon Projects

Requirement

Forest carbon has become one of the few climate finance instruments that moves capital directly to communities holding standing forest. It has also become one of the most scrutinised. Buyers who were content with a registry serial number three years ago now ask for community consent documentation, leakage analysis and evidence that baselines were not inflated — and projects that cannot answer are discounted or refused outright. An impact investment firm developing forest carbon projects across Central and East Africa is engaging a specialist to carry that technical and social burden. The work spans the full project development arc: selecting and applying the appropriate Verra VCS methodology, constructing defensible baselines and additionality arguments, designing and running Free Prior and Informed Consent processes with forest-adjacent communities, structuring benefit-sharing agreements that survive audit, and preparing validation and verification documentation for third-party auditors. Equally important is the demand side. The specialist is expected to bring or build relationships with corporate and intermediary carbon credit buyers, since offtake certainty determines whether a project reaches financial close at all. Engagements are scoped from $15,000 for a methodology and feasibility assessment on a single site through $45,000 for full project development support through to validation.