Forest Carbon Accounting Specialist

Daemeter Consulting is a leading independent consultancy specializing in sustainable natural resource management, with a strong focus on forestry, climate change, and landscape-based solutions. Operating across Indonesia and internationally, Daemeter partners with a wide range of clients, including governments, NGOs, donor agencies, and the private sector, to deliver impactful and innovative projects that drive positive environmental and social outcomes.

The Forest Carbon and Carbon Accounting Specialist will support Daemeter’s expanding portfolio of carbon, climate change mitigation and sustainable forestry projects. The role is responsible for delivering high-quality technical expertise in carbon accounting, forest monitoring, and natural resource management. The Specialist will contribute to analysis, project implementation, proposal development, and capacity building within the Forest Nature Climate Knowledge Area team.

• Participate in multi-disciplinary teams to deliver projects related to forest carbon, carbon accounting, and natural resource management, ensuring alignment with national and international standards.
• Support the design, planning, and implementation of carbon assessments and inventories, particularly within the Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector.
• Ensure all carbon accounting outputs are robust, transparent, consistent, complete, and audit-ready for third-party validation and verification.
• Provide end-to-end technical support across the forest and peatland carbon project cycle, from early-stage scoping and feasibility through the preparation and technical review of PRA, PIN, PDD, and MR, ensuring robust application of recognised carbon standards and methodologies, effective responses to validation and verification findings, and alignment with national and international standards.
• Integrate carbon accounting and MRV with Indonesia’s forestry governance instruments (MUK, Perhutanan Sosial, RKU/RKT, and forest certification systems), while ensuring alignment of project design and MRV with the Carbon Economic Value (NEK) regulation and applicable carbon trading regulations.
• Prepare and review technical documents, including project proposals, reports, and presentations, ensuring accuracy, clarity, and consistency across all deliverables.
• Conduct data analysis, manage QA/QC processes, and maintain thorough, well-documented records of project data and outputs.
• Support geospatial analysis for MRV, coordinating with GIS and KA teams to ensure consistent data standards, metadata, and QA/QC protocols; maintain structured and audit-ready project data and documentation; and support uncertainty, QA/QC, and conservativeness assessments, including Monte Carlo simulations where applicable.
• Coordinate with project managers, sub-consultants, and partners to ensure timely and successful delivery of project milestones.
• Stay abreast of industry trends, regulatory developments, and best practices in forestry, climate change, and carbon accounting, and integrate these insights into project work.
• Support knowledge management through training and capacity-building activities for internal teams and external partners, as required.

Bachelor’s degree in forestry, Geography, Environmental Science, Natural Resource Management, or a related field from a reputable university is required.

A master’s degree in a relevant field is a strong advantage.

• Minimum of five years’ experience in forestry, AFOLU-sector GHG accounting, and forest carbon accounting, preferably within an environmental, climate, or sustainability consultancy context.
• Demonstrated experience working with carbon standards and methodologies, such as Verra VCS/CCB, Gold Standard, Plan Vivo, ART-TREES, or equivalent, including application in project design, monitoring, validation, or verification, as well as familiarity with Indonesian forestry and carbon regulations, including SRN-PPI and relevant FOLU policies.
• Proven capability in natural resource valuation and environmental or economic analysis, including interpretation of…