Snabbfakta
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- London
Ansök senast: 2024-11-30
Content Assistant (Postgraduate)
Expected Start Date:
January 2025UK-based with flexible working arrangements and regular (or ’semi-regular') travel to project sitesThe position offers a unique opportunity to work with two of the industry’s most respected thought and action leaders, where the successful candidate will play an important role in shaping the next phase of growth - both in consolidating and scaling the successes of an award-winning carbon project development company (Carbon Tanzania), and in being at the forefront of the emerging markets for biodiversity credits, and innovating in the understanding of social value in nature investment space. It is an opportunity to help shape the strategy and growth of this ambitious and mission-driven company.
It will offer the candidate the chance to feed into and operationalise strategic initiatives, including travelling with the Founders to remote project sites and to support them at strategically important conferences and events. The position will allow them to build broad content expertise in the rapidly growing and fast-evolving carbon and biodiversity credit markets and financing space, including being exposed to rapid advances in methodological, technical and technological applications. It is a great opportunity for professional development and growth as the company continues to expand both in size, scope and geography.
It currently navigates this through its wholly owned subsidiary Carbon Tanzania which is Tanzania’s leading producer of nature-based carbon credits through its community-led, award winning forest conservation projects. As a dedicated sales and marketing platform for Carbon Tanzania, is has developed financing arrangements for business development and project development funding, as well as negotiating long term purchase agreements for the carbon credits generated by Carbon Tanzania’s NbS projects, and it has supported these commercial relationships with an innovative, forward-looking and sector-leading communications strategy.
We are committed to exploring and exploiting opportunities in the emerging biodiversity crediting space to develop or co-develop managed natural assets, or to offer skills and expertise to those doing the same. At the same time we are packaging and bringing to market a social value research solution called “Reflect” that helps nature conservation organisations, investors and implementers to better understand the lived experiences and impacts on communities that are involved in NBS projects. It also allows the organisations themselves to better identify, characterise and manage areas of risk within their operations and activities.
Level is in a phase of strategic growth and exploration of commercial opportunities in the nature finance and investment space. Supports the CEO and CIO (the Founders) when visiting field sites and potential project development areasSupports executive team in conducting appropriate commercial analyses, and developing strategyWork with CEO / CIO (Founders) to communicate and disseminate the mission and commercial objectives of the business - inc events / conferences etc…
Bachelor’s / Master’s degree (or equivalent experience)Relevant work experience includes: strategy consulting, international business, operations, public sector / regulatoryAbility to operate in remote off-grid locations, and comfortable with challenging logistical situations
Master’s degree (or equivalent experience) in business administration, accounting, business accounting, economics or financeWe are
agile
(quick thinking, responding positively to change or lack of structure)# We
respect and encourage one another - ( Communicating with Impact/Driving High Performance)# We champion fresh ideas through
Innovation
(commercial acumen, leading change)
