Senior Director, Carbon Science and Technical Development

Summary

Join our team as a Senior Director, Carbon Science and Technical Development to lead our technical team in advancing Native's leadership position with Nature-Based Solutions projects.

Requirements

• PhD in soil, ecology, climate, or closely related sciences
• Experience with academic research, publication of peer-reviewed journal articles, and applications relevant to land-based conservation, restoration, or payment for ecosystem service programs
• Experience leading carbon science and modeling activities with extensive experience in applying best practices in science and technology to quantify landscape level change through soil, crop, and/or forest carbon removals
• Deep understanding of statistical and ecosystem process-based models used to quantify carbon and ecosystem change
• Fluency in R and Python
• Familiarity with utilizing cloud-based database systems and structures for project data (e.g., SQL)
• 5+ years of direct leadership experience
• Comfortable working with projects concurrently across multiple geographies and time zones
• Comfortable working in a fluid environment with fast deadlines to meet internal and external deadlines
• A high degree of emotional intelligence

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical lead for climate, landscape, and data science and associated analyses
• Design and implement tools and solutions to assess project feasibility, support design and implementation, and facilitate ongoing MRV, ensuring high quality across Native’s project value chain, from origination to delivery
• Oversee and work within the technical team to implement high quality climate science quantification strategies, including direct measurement protocols, ecosystem process modeling, and other strategies aligned with third-party approved project methodologies
• Review and refine protocols and oversee all data collection and analysis related to field, remote sensing, and other data
• Advance existing and design new quality assurance and quality control procedures across all science and data analytics related to project portfolio activities; implement QA/QC procedures with technical team
• Manage technical team of data, soil, landscape, and geospatial science professionals, along with technical priorities based portfolio needs
• Partner with Native’s leadership and external stakeholders to define Native’s technical approach to Nature-Based Solution projects to create the gold standard for NBS projects across Native’s global portfolio
• Guide and support project origination and development efforts to undertake appropriate studies to calibrate and validate soil models
• Support field teams in the design of data collection for MRV systems to demonstrate carbon and ecosystem benefits
• Support team to facilitate capacity transfer to local stakeholders and field teams including technical training and developing Standards Operating Procedures
• As needed for internal and external purposes, review and synthesize scientific literature on relevant topics for diverse audiences
• Support technical members of the PDD team to execute ecological, process-based models to estimate soil organic carbon stocks based on project activities
• Collaborate with Native’s Market Strategy and Engagement team to support clients’ technical understanding of projects

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with project management software
• Experience with remote sensing and geospatial analysis, but in an applied context, not just academic