ABOUT VERRA.

At Verra, we’ve created a culture of flexibility + autonomy. You’ll be able to work with remote teams from diverse countries and industries. Wherever possible, we aim to find mutually agreeable solutions for international hiring.
Verra is a global leader helping to tackle the world’s most intractable environmental and social challenges. As a mission-driven non-profit organization, Verra is committed to helping reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve livelihoods and protect natural resources across the private and public sectors. We support climate action and sustainable development with standards, tools and programs that credibly, transparently and robustly assess environmental and social impacts and enable funding for sustaining and scaling up projects that verifiably deliver these benefits. We work in any arena where we see a need for clear standards, a role for market-based mechanisms, and an opportunity to generate significant environmental and social value.
Verra manages a portfolio of standards, including the:

Verified Carbon Standard (VCS)

- - the world’s leading carbon crediting program, with more than 2000 registered projects in 80 countries, and accounting for two-thirds of all voluntary carbon market transaction volume.Sustainable Development Verified Impact Standard (SD VISta)
- - a flexible framework for assessing and reporting on the sustainable development benefits of project-based activities.Climate, Community & Biodiversity (CCB) Standards
- - to identify projects that simultaneously address climate change, support local communities and smallholders, and conserve biodiversity.Plastic Waste Reduction Program
- - to enable robust impact assessment of new or scaled-up waste recovery and recycling projects around the globe.

THE ROLE.

The successful applicant will be responsible for tasks such as:

• Identify and evaluate remote sensing data (optical and radar satellite imagery, LiDAR) that are most suitable for forest carbon-related methodologies and projects.
• Support geospatial information and remote sensing components of all forest carbon methodologies, with a particular focus on the consolidated REDD methodology (VM0048), and, together with the technology solutions team, support integration with the long-term monitoring system and digital measurement, reporting, and verification (DMRV)
• Develop innovative tools to support project reviews, validation/verification body (VVB) assessments, and methodology development.
• Coordinate with contractors to ensure timely and accurate delivery of data, foster effective communication channels, and adherence to project requirements.
• Organize and manage geospatial datasets effectively, implement systematic data storage and retrieval procedures to facilitate seamless access and analysis for forest carbon methodology development and improvement initiatives.

You will join a team that works closely and collaboratively to solve problems, iterate, and implement updates and improvements to forest carbon methodologies and the VCS Standard.

• Verrans come from diverse locations and backgrounds, and include carbon market experts, project developers, consultants, climate negotiators, researchers, and auditors.
• We are committed to driving finance at scale to projects and programs that advance climate action and sustainable development through high-quality standards and programs