Senior Associate, Sustainable Development

Senior Associate, Sustainable Development

Carbon and Sustainability Accounting Team (CSAT)

Are you looking to make a real difference on a global scale? As a Senior Associate in C-Quest Capital’s Carbon and Sustainability Accounting Team (CSAT), you will have the opportunity to work on methodology development, methodology applications to new concepts, assist in transformational and sustainable strategies, assist in developing monitoring survey and design sampling approaches across various regions in a truly global, multicultural workspace.  Join us in making a difference in this world.

C-Quest Capital LLC (CQC) is a social impact project developer & carbon finance business that works in the poorest communities around the world providing access to sustainable energy services and clean energy technologies that help reduce humanity’s carbon footprint, mitigate global climate change and improve the health of those in the greatest need. Our Transformation Carbon Projects (TCP), provide investors with verified carbon offset credits sourced from social welfare projects in developing countries under our three operational platforms: Cleaner Cooking, Efficient Lighting & Sustainable Energy. These projects are conducted at scale with our internationally based teams & on-the-ground implementation partners resulting in measurable impacts for the families and communities we serve worldwide.

CQC is headquartered in Washington DC, USA, with subsidiaries in India, Malaysia, Singapore, Cambodia and Australia and operations in over 20 countries across Sub-Saharan Africa, Central America, South Asia and Southeast Asia.

More information can be found at www.cquestcapital.co****m.

The Carbon and Sustainability Accounting Team (CSAT), is responsible for all aspects of carbon and sustainability accounting and compliance management for CQC’s growing portfolio of projects, which currently number more than 90 projects and growing. CQC is active in a number of different carbon verticals in both reductions and avoidance including household devices, fuel switching, industrial energy efficiency, renewable energy, avoided methane emissions and methane capture and use, as well as nature-based carbon credits, including, but not limited to those associated with bamboo afforestation, restoration forestry, farmer managed natural restoration, assisted natural restoration, other forms of regenerative agriculture and sustainable forestry management and soil carbon accumulation.

This position is based in New Delhi and will report to the Unit Head of Sustainable Development, who is based in Delhi, India.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide technical support in project conceptualization, planning, implementation and monitoring to adhere to the guidelines outlined under the GHG crediting program, specifically SD VISta.
• Assist in determining the sustainable development related benefits achievable from different project activities under other programs like Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS), Gold Standard (GS) etc.
• Playing a key role in ensuring the quality of documents in various stages of validation and verification, including reviewing project documentation, analyzing survey results, etc.
• Assisting in planning and development of data collection tools such as developing questionnaires designed to understand baseline scenarios and monitoring project activities in different countries
• Assist and gradually take responsibility for providing technical training to the on-field team members at regular intervals, to ensure smooth functioning of the project.
• Providing regular trainings to CSAT team members regarding latest guidelines, tools, methodologies, etc. to enable constant up-skilling of the team.

The successful candidate must have experience working in a carbon/ climate change domain. Prior experience would include:

• Minimum 3+ years of relevant working experience in a fast-paced environment with a matrix organization structure.
• Solid understanding of the concept of sustainable development and attributes associated with the sustainable development goals
• In-depth understanding of various GHG crediting programs such as the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), Verified Carbon Standard (VCS), SD VISta, Gold Standard, Article 6.
• Experience in carbon project methodology development is preferred
• Strong knowledge of sampling approaches for household energy efficiency projects.
• Working experience with a multi-country/multi-cultural team and/or with developmental agencies.
• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree.
• A master’s degree in the field of energy and/or environment, engineering is preferred.

Key Skills/Abilities:

• Strong project management skills, including the ability to prioritize and deliver efficiently and effectively under deadlines.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills and the ability to articulate their communications when reporting/representing data clearly and concisely.
• Ability to coordinate with teams spread across different locations in India, Africa, Southeast Asia.
• Able to work well in culturally diverse environment.
• A passion to actively help the rural poor in less developed countries in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
• Good numerate skills.
• An ability to fit in with the high-performance and collaborative culture of CQC.
• An ability to self-manage day to day activities.

Travel:  The expectation is that the Senior Associate will have occasional travel in the operating regions, but the majority of the time this role will be Pune/Delhi-based.

Hiring entity: CQC Indian Entity (Brightspark Energy Pvt. Ltd.)

Location: New Delhi, India

We offer a highly competitive, full compensation package to include Base Salary, Annual Bonus (Performance Linked) and other generous corporate benefits.