Climate Metrics Specialist

YOUR POSITION WITH TNC

The Climate Metrics Specialist is an impact scientist who provides technical and scientific support and leadership for climate metrics and indicators in service of TNC’s 2030 goals and beyond.

Specifically, they provide technical support and advice and ensure climate metric accounting is consistent, reliable, and accurate. They work closely with the Global Climate team, the Chief Conservation Office, and TNC field teams to refine and report outcome and intermediate result indicators and metrics in service of programmatic monitoring, evaluation, and learning plans and internal tracking systems.

The Climate Metrics Specialist is an impact scientist who supports the quality and accuracy of conservation impact indicators and metrics for both the Global Climate team and key priority climate projects and strategies across TNC.

The Specialist will inform the development of climate mitigation metrics, particularly through carbon accounting for nature-based solutions and clean energy programs, as well as climate adaptation and resilience metrics.

They will help ensure the effectiveness and overall accountability of priority strategies and programs in service of TNC’s 2030 climate goals.

They will support the Chief Conservation Office’s (CCO) Conservation Data and Conservation Strategy teams in ensuring that appropriate metrics robustly and accurately capture the impact of climate projects and programs.

As relevant, they may also conduct analysis and research in support of improving baselines, measuring and monitoring impact and/or co-benefits, and adaptive management.

The Specialist may develop metrics and MEL capabilities in line with TNC’s Conservation Impact System and other organizational needs.

The Specialist will report to the Global Climate Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Lead and will work closely with climate strategy teams, the CCO’s Conservation Data Team, and relevant field teams.

They will serve as the Global Climate team’s primary expert on climate monitoring and metrics, leading and advising the Global Climate team and other TNC teams on the development of direct and proxy metrics and measures in service of the 2030 Climate goals.

Serve as primary expert and point of contact for the Global Climate team on all aspects of impact metrics and tracking systems, and support priority field projects and strategies with metrics selection and use.

Work with the MEL Lead to develop and deploy climate mitigation or adaptation metrics, proxy metrics, or methods in service of 2030 climate goal progress reporting.

Develop adaptive management and MEL plans and support the design and implementation of adaptive management and monitoring protocols with a focus on data, indicators, and metrics.

Design and conduct quantitative analyses as relevant to inform baselines and measure impact, drawing on conservation knowledge and methodological variety including carbon accounting, additionality principles, impact evaluations, surveys, field sampling, and more.

Support climate adaptation and mitigation metric refinement and help teams develop and utilize high-quality program monitoring approaches and impact metrics.

Help develop MEL systems and protocols to inform 2040 and beyond goals, outcomes, adaptive management, and reporting approaches to demonstrate ongoing conservation impact.

Deliver tools and training to staff and partners, as appropriate.

Manage spatial, tabular, and other data, develop new datasets and tools as necessary, and ensure access to collaborators.

May include fieldwork to collect data.

May conduct applied, reproducible statistical and geospatial analyses on climate actions and outcomes, as well as the impact of the Global…