Carbon Technical Analyst

Role Overview

As the Carbon Technical Analyst, your core function is to convert complex geospatial, field, ecological, and carbon‑accounting data streams into clear, defensible, and high‑integrity project documentation. This role sits at the intersection of technical writing and remote sensing validation.

You will take a primary role in authoring Project Design Documents (PDDs), Monitoring Reports, and technical evidence packs required to clear intensive, third‑party validation and verification body (VVB) audits.

Competitive, dependent on experience

• Focus on project delivery in Sierra Leone.
• Preference: A top‑tier Sierra Leonean or African candidate willing to relocate and become deeply embedded within our operational landscapes.
• Alternative:
  Exceptional international candidates (particularly UK‑based) willing to spend substantial and regular periods in Sierra Leone, involving a minimum of three to four visits per year of approximately two weeks each (6 to 8 weeks annually). UK‑based staff must be located in or regular visitors to Cornwall for executive planning.
• Candidates must possess the legal right to work in Sierra Leone and/or the United Kingdom.

• Support the preparation of Project Design Documents, Monitoring Reports, technical appendices, and validation/verification evidence packs for carbon and restoration projects.
• Translate geospatial, field, ecological, and carbon‑accounting outputs into clear, structured, and defensible written documentation aligned with Verra methodologies, CCB requirements, and audit expectations.
• Prepare concise top‑down reports for senior management, investors, project partners, and third‑party reviewers, distinguishing clearly between key findings, evidence, assumptions, risks, and recommended actions.
• Contribute to geospatial and MRV analyses for project design and monitoring, including land‑cover classification, change detection, stratification, baseline assessment, degradation and restoration analysis, and integration of satellite, drone, and field data.
• Support the development and maintenance of monitoring systems that integrate field data, remote sensing outputs, carbon accounting, and project documentation.
• Work with field teams to prepare, review, and sense‑check field data, including identifying inconsistencies, gaps, or issues requiring clarification.
• Undertake field visits to support feasibility assessments, ground‑truthing, mock audits, VVB site visits, validation/verification preparation, and practical sense‑checking of remote sensing and project assumptions.
• Assist with the preparation of materials for validation and verification bodies, including map packs, monitoring summaries, data‑room evidence, method notes, and response to clarification requests.
• Contribute to practical improvements in workflows, with emphasis on reproducibility, clarity, efficiency, and audit defensibility rather than technical novelty for its own sake.
• Support coordination between technical, field, and project development teams through concise written reporting of progress, risks, constraints, and next steps.
• Maintain high standards of documentation, traceability, version control, and data management, ensuring clear links between project claims, datasets, analytical methods, assumptions, and evidence files.

• Strong technical writing skills, including the ability to produce structured, concise, and evidence‑based reports from complex technical information.
• Experience preparing technical reports, consultancy deliverables, regulatory documents, environmental assessments, academic outputs, or similar structured documentation.
• Ability to write in a top‑down reporting style, presenting key conclusions first and supporting them with proportionate technical evidence.
• Relevant MSc or PhD in environmental science, forestry, ecology, geography, remote sensing, conservation science, natural resource management, or a related field.
• Minimum five years’ professional experience in carbon projects, environmental monitoring, geospatial analysis, forestry, restoration, conservation, or related applied fields.
• Practical…