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Carbon Fellow
BURN ManufacturingJob description
The Role
BURN is seeking a Carbon Fellow, who will be responsible for helping BURN grow and improve its carbon offset generation projects. The Carbon Fellow will be integral in contributing to BURN’s carbon offset expansion across Africa and offset delivery through a variety of global offsetting arrangements. They will work hand-in-hand with BURN’s carbon team, Marketing Intelligence team, and 3rd party carbon consultants to bring carbon offsetting to several innovative clean-energy products launching in 2020 & 2021. The Carbon Fellow will be responsible for researching carbon offset inputs, preparing and organizing carbon documentation, assisting in carbon project financial modelling, and reviewing and analyzing carbon data.
The position requires strong organizational and research experience, as well as a strong technical background, excellent analytical skills, and practical business thinking. The ideal candidate will have hands-on analytical and research experience, strong attention to detail, and some hands-on experience with carbon offset or GHG reduction projects.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Researching Carbon Offset Inputs: In depth research both online and via networking, to obtain key data required for carbon offsetting
- Financial Modelling: assisting with financial modelling for various projects using existing model templates
- Data Review and Analysis: Analyzing and quality checking BURN’s databases that interface with carbon offsetting, and identifying opportunities for improvement
- Collaboration: Be an organizer and go-between with BURN’s business intelligence, market research, sales, and senior management teams for tracking and reporting on carbon project execution
- Reporting: produce analytical reports on the development of new market entry initiatives and performance of carbon projects, including analyzing and reporting from distribution activities and staff performance
- Carbon Admin: Preparing and organizing documentation and SOPs related to BURN’s carbon offsetting
- Projects: Carrying out specific one-off carbon projects falling outside the scope of existing staff
Skills and Experience
- MBA or Bachelor degree, ideally in Economics, Finance, Engineering, or the Sciences
- Previous experience in strategic/management consulting and/or in market research or M&E
- Knowledge of sales and marketing fields
- Excellent Communication skills in both written and spoken English
- Excellent analysis/number-crunching background, ideally including financial modelling and analysis
- Excellent graphical presentation skill
- Excellent desktop and networking research skills
- Hands-on experience with carbon offset or GHG reduction projects Desired
About BURN Manufacturing
Vision
Impacting lives and forests through efficient cooking appliances.
Corporate Overview
BURN Manufacturing designs, produces, and distributes Africa’s best-selling, fuel efficient biomass, electric, hybrid and liquid fuel cooking appliances. Not only do our products save money, fuel, and natural resources, but they also dramatically reduce harmful indoor smoke emissions which can cause significant health problems, even death.
With more than 1.2Millon+ stoves sold since commencing manufacturing operations in 2013, BURN has established itself as Africa’s most trusted cookstove brand thanks to our unwavering commitment to innovative research and design, manufacturing excellence, and customer care.
BURN is now the only vertically integrated modern cookstove company in Sub-Saharan Africa. Our solar-powered facility currently has a capacity of 45,000 stoves per month. We are proud to employ 400 team members throughout Kenya and East Africa, and support a workforce which is 50 percent female, thus empowering women in roles traditionally considered to be “for men only.”
Among our national and global honors, we have received the 2018 Bloomberg New Energy Pioneers Award for being among the world’s leaders in clean energy solutions, the 2018 Swiss Energy and Climate Summit Award for our pitch on the impact of clean-burning stoves, and the 2015 Ashden Green Energy International Award for empowering women with new economic opportunities.
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