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Carbon Investment Director
BURN ManufacturingJob description
About the Role
BURN is seeking a Carbon Investment Director, who will be responsible for managing, growing, and improving BURN’s carbon offset generation projects. The Investment Director will be spearheading the financing for BURN’s carbon offset expansion across Africa and offset delivery through a variety of global offsetting arrangements. Their work will result in carbon offsetting for the largest modern improved cookstove operation in Africa.
The position requires strong organizational, writing, and research experience, as well as a strong technical background, excellent analytical skills, and practical business thinking. The ideal candidate will have hands-on project management experience and carbon offsetting experience, and a strong attention to detail. We seek a candidate with familiarity with the design and management of carbon offset projects including managing projects through validation, verification, and registration, and the oversight of regular project monitoring, audits, and carbon credit issuance cycle.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Carbon Offset Sales: Together with members of the Senior Management Team, represent BURN in ERPA and carbon investment negotiations.
- Create Investment Decks: Create excellent presentations with clear quantitative communications.
- Global Offset Market: Track global carbon market and identify upcoming opportunities & pitfalls. Represent BURN at global carbon conferences/meetings.
- Problem Solving: Solve a variety of challenges as they arise in distribution, staffing, partnerships, and financials.
- Reporting: Produce monthly reports for the senior management team highlighting performance against KPIs.
Skills and Experience
Essential:
- 5+ years fundraising experience: expertise in creating in pitch decks for investors. Proven experience in securing multi-million-dollar complex high-stake deals with several players at the same time.
- 5+ years strong quantitative experience, including statistical analysis familiarity, database management familiarity, and mastery of Microsoft Excel
- Excellent presentation and communication skills – a mastery of conveying complex quantitative information clearly and concisely
- Ability to work and coordinate with several teams and stakeholders
- Bachelor’s Degree from University. Master’s Degree / MBA is a plus
- Excellent English language skills
Desired:
- Operations and P&L management experience for B2C and B2B clean-energy product distribution
- Hands-on carbon experience, ideally with a cookstove project, either on the implementation or auditing side
- Language skills in French and/or Portuguese
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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