Carbon Specialist - Canada

Local Unit & Position Description

Are you looking to lead the growth of ESG, sustainability and climate change services in an innovative, digitally enabled, purpose driven business? Are you motivated to support customers to achieve business success and sustainability in their businesses and their extended supply chains?

We’re recruiting for a growth focused Carbon Specialist with consulting/assurance experience in the domain of climate change services with focus on carbon offset assurance program and support with GHG Inventory, Product footprint assurance to join our Global Sustainability, Assessment & Assurance team to help us achieve our vision and goals.

This position will preferably be based out of our DNV office in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, St Johns with flexible work arrangement (home/office).

This is an exciting opportunity to take an active role supporting the delivery of projects and ensuring service excellence for clients.  We help clients implement, improve and demonstrate their commitment and progress towards authentic sustainability.

You will get the opportunity to \work on a wide range of sustainability services primarily focused on GHG Inventory, GHG emission reduction project, carbon removal project, science-based targets and task force for climate related financial disclosures.

When doing this, you will get the opportunity to engage with many of the region’s leading companies and brands across a wide range of sectors and to leverage a suite of services and digital technologies to scope sell and deliver innovative solutions.

What You'll Do

The Carbon Specialist  will support the delivery for a range of climate change services and may have specialism and expertise in several of them, including:

• Carbon offset assurance program management
• Carbon offset project validation and verification GHG Inventory development/assurance
• Regulatory GHG Inventory Reporting for ARB/ Canada Provincial Reporting
• Product carbon footprint development/assurance
• Science Based Target setting or modelling
• Sustainability Report Assurance
• ESG, green bonds & sustainable finance consulting
• Climate change

This role is responsible for keeping up to date with the requirements of the voluntary and regulatory offset programs and ensuring that internal process is aligned with any changes in the program requirements. You will be expected to lead projects and help ensure consistent and high quality customer care through the following  activities:

• Proactively seeking to identify customer needs throughout the course of delivering sustainability solutions
• Developing tailored solutions with our technical experts to ensure that we can effectively support our customers in their GHG reporting and meeting their carbon reduction objectives
• Coordinating projects, ensuring they are executed to clients’ expectations, on time, on budget and to DNV quality standards
• Leading and communicating effectively within the other sustainability team members and clients

Position Qualifications

What is Required

• Bachelor degree or higher relevant to environmental engineering, mathematics or other STEM streams

• 5 years of relevant work experience with 2 years of experience delivering consulting/verification services in carbon offset market

• Proven experience as project  manager and/or team leader, delivering service excellence

• Strong analytical, research and problem-solving skills

• Proficiency in excel and Microsoft products

• Proficient in one or more of the following:

• GHG inventories calculation

• Carbon offset project development or assurance

• Life cycle assessments

• Can effectively communicate technical calculations to a non-technical audience

• Willingness to travel up to 50% and work around the Americas and on occasions overseas.

• Must be able to travel to the U.S. for business purposes

• Must have current Valid drivers license

• We conduct a pre-employment background check

What is Preferred

• Good understanding of the voluntary/regulatory carbon offset market (Output based pricing system, VERRA, Gold Standard, or CARB)

**Immigration-related employment benefits, for example, visa sponsorship, are NOT available for this position**

How We Do It

We Care, We Dare, We Share

DNV is a proud equal-opportunity employer committed to building an inclusive and diverse workforce. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, or business need, without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

DNV is proud to announce being named one of Houston’s best places to work in the 2022 Houston Business Journal – Best Places to Work competition.

DNV is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity, including providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with a disability.

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Diversity at DNV

Meet our Employees

About DNV

Careers in DNV

What We Offer

• Generous paid time off (vacation, sick days, company holidays, personal days)
• Multiple Medical and Dental benefit plans to choose from, Vision benefits
• Spending accounts – FSA, Dependent Care, Commuter Benefits, company-seeded HSA
• Special programs – Employee Assistance Program, ID theft protection, and accident and critical illness options for you and your family
• RRSP / NRSP
• Company provided life insurance, short-term, and long-term disability benefits
• Tuition assistance
• Consumer discounts and rewards
• Flexible work schedule with hybrid/remote opportunities
• Advancement opportunities

**Benefits may vary based on position, tenure, location, and employee election**

Please visit our website at www.dnv.com

Company & Business Area Description

DNV Supply Chain & Product Assurance

DNV is an independent assurance and risk management provider, operating in more than 100 countries. Through assessment and digital assurance solutions, DNV helps companies build trust and transparency around products, assets, supply chains and ecosystems.

Whether certifying products, verifying claims or optimizing and decarbonizing supply chains, DNV helps companies manage risks and realize their long-term strategic goals, improving ESG performance and generating lasting, sustainable results.

Combining sustainability, supply chain and digital expertise, DNV works to create new assurance models enabling interaction and transaction transparency across value chains. Drawing on our wide technical and industry expertise, we work with companies worldwide to bridge trust gaps among consumers, producers and suppliers.

Driven by its purpose, to safeguard life, property, and the environment, DNV helps tackle the challenges and global transformations facing its customers and the world today and is a trusted voice for many of the world’s most successful and forward-thinking companies.

Equal Opportunity Statement

DNV is an Equal Opportunity Employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to gender, religion, race, national or ethnic origin, cultural background, social group, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age or political opinion. Diversity is fundamental to our culture and we invite you to be part of this diversity!