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About the Role

At Hamerkop, we are trusted advisors supporting clients with carbon project design, certification, and monitoring. Our independence ensures reliable technical judgment. This role involves supporting or leading technical and advisory work, with a focus on clients and assignments in Francophone Africa.

Responsibilities

Contribute to the development of carbon market policies, frameworks, and jurisdictional-level mechanisms.
Advise on community engagement, free, prior and informed consent, and benefit sharing arrangements.
Advise on project design, carbon asset development, and management, focusing on environmental and social integrity.
Support clients through certification under Verra, Gold Standard, PACM, and other international or domestic standards.
Guide and quality-assure partner field teams remotely and during field trips.
Build and defend robust carbon quantification models.
Manage technical feasibility studies and due diligence on third-party projects or oversee specific workstreams.
Own workstreams and grow into full assignment ownership (Consultant level).
Run assignments end to end, owning scope, workplans, budgets, timelines, and deliverable schedules (Senior Consultant level).
Coordinate team inputs within workstreams (Consultant level).
Lead small teams of internal and external consultants, technical experts, and subcontractors (Senior Consultant level).
Be the reliable point of contact for clients, funders, and partner organisations.
Improve company processes and strengthen capabilities.
Raise company profile through thought leadership, publications, industry events, and external engagements.

Requirements

A degree in a related field is essential.
Proven project management skills: autonomously plan and track work, deliver results on time and within budget, identify and mitigate risks.
Stakeholder management skills: acted as an external organisation's point of contact, handled difficult conversations.
Comfortable remotely coordinating and managing partners, stakeholders, and collaborators.
Ability to produce clear, accurate technical writing in English and French.
Ability to communicate complex technical findings to different audiences.
Comfort with GHG accounting concepts: baselines, additionality, leakage, permanence, uncertainty.
Hands-on survey and/or inventory experience, including designing, implementing, or overseeing field plots and surveys, mensuration, and handling data.
Confident working with quantitative and qualitative data, analysing results, assessing uncertainty, and critically evaluating assumptions and methodologies.
Willingness to travel as described, weekends included.
Right to work in the UK without employer sponsorship.
Experience contributing to climate and carbon market policy (nice to have).
Experience advising governments or institutions on policy design and implementation (nice to have).
Experience taking a project through a carbon standard (nice to have).
Fieldwork experience in Africa, Central or Southeast Asia (nice to have).
Postgraduate study is desirable, not required.
Apply through our Teamtailor page by 20 November 2026.
Submit a two-page CV.
Submit a written statement of no more than two pages addressing: What would you bring to HAMERKOP? What is one aspect of forest carbon projects today that you think is done poorly, and why?

Skills

Carbon project design
Carbon project certification
Carbon project monitoring
Carbon market policies
Community engagement
Benefit sharing arrangements
Project design
Carbon asset development
Environmental integrity
Social integrity
Certification under Verra, Gold Standard, PACM
Remote team coordination
Field team guidance
Carbon quantification models
Technical feasibility studies
Due diligence
Workstream ownership
Assignment ownership
Scope management
Budget management
Timeline management
Deliverable schedule management
Team coordination
Team leadership
Client relationship management
Partner relationship management
Funder relationship management
Technical writing (English and French)
GHG accounting concepts
Survey experience
Inventory experience
Quantitative data analysis
Qualitative data analysis
Uncertainty assessment
Methodology evaluation
Climate markets
Carbon markets
Policy design
Policy implementation

Location

Farringdon, London

Work Type

Office-based advisory role in London
Primarily an office-based role
Travel required
Remote work possible
Hybrid work possible

Experience Level

2–4 years' experience (Consultant)
5 years or more experience (Senior Consultant)

Education Level

Degree in a related field

Salary/Compensations

London-benchmarked for entry level
Relevant band shared before the end of the first conversation

Benefits

Annual salary review
Performance bonus
Gym membership options
Voucher scheme
Defined next step for growth
25 days annual leave
UK bank holidays
Global training budget
Full travel and medical insurance cover for free time in country

About the Company

Hamerkop are trusted advisors who do not develop or own carbon projects.
We support project developers, NGOs, governments and investors with carbon project design, certification and monitoring.
Our independence enables reliable technical judgment.
Our global portfolio covers forestry and land use, clean and improved cooking technologies, renewable energy and waste, across both the VCM and Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.
We are a friendly, sociable UK team of 15, part of around 20 colleagues across London, Singapore and Manila.
We are united by a passion for climate action, nature and communities.
We collaborate and share knowledge with foresters, ecologists and specialists in energy, policy, finance, social safeguards, GIS and remote sensing.
We are a small, growing consultancy.
We value initiative, adaptability and accountability, alongside mutual support and positive impact.

Equal Opportunity

Eligibility: Open to candidates who already hold the right to work in the UK only.