Job Description
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The Head of Project Delivery will lead Natural State’s MRV implementation across all project types, including credit-generating projects, donor-funded conservation programs, compliance monitoring, and government or partner reporting.
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Duties and Responsibilities:
Strategic leadership and division establishment
- Pursue Natural State’s mission of transformational nature restoration through project partnerships underpinned by cost-effective, transparent, and robust impact monitoring using best-in-class technological solutions.
- Establish and lead the Project Delivery Division responsible for delivering all MRV- dependent projects, including credit-based MRV cycles, compliance monitoring, donor/funder reporting, ecological baselines, and landscape performance monitoring.
- Develop scalable workflows, management systems, and operational standards suitable for diverse project types and partner requirements.
- Contribute to departmental planning, pipeline prioritization, and decisions related to capacity growth and resource allocation.
- Work with the Conservation Technology division to ensure data quality, build data pipelines, and generate robust and informative metrics of performance.
- Work with the Biometrics and Lab Science divisions to iteratively improve and expand monitoring capabilities and to package these capabilities for project partners.
- Survey the credit framework landscape to identify the best standards and frameworks to robustly and cost-effectively capture project impact and build partnership with certification bodies.
Project oversight and execution
- Coordinate closely with the Biometrics, Conservation Technology, and Lab Science divisions to ensure project delivery aligns with analytical models, digital pipelines, sensor systems, and laboratory workflows used across Natural State.
- Coordinate closely with the Nature Finance division to ensure MRV delivery supports crediting pathways, verification cycles, feasibility assessments, funder expectations, and project structuring needs.
- Oversee planning, budgeting, and execution of MRV activities for existing PV Nature (PVN) projects and other active MRV workstreams, ensuring high-quality delivery against scope, timeline, and financial targets.
- Develop operational capabilities, systems, and workflows to support future delivery of MRV solutions across a broader set of frameworks
- Monitor project risks and performance; develop mitigation plans where needed.
- Lead project close-out activities, including financial reconciliation, deliverables submission, partner reporting, and lessons-learned reviews.
Required qualifications and experience
- Master’s degree or PhD in ecology, conservation biology, environmental science, natural resource management, geography, or a related field.
- Significant professional experience leading conservation, ecological monitoring, or MRV projects across diverse landscapes, with proven ability to manage complex teams and workflows.
- Strong technical knowledge of biodiversity MRV methods (e.g., ecological field surveys, bioacoustics, eDNA, camera traps, remote sensing-derived indicators).
- Proficiency in data science and ecological statistics using open source software (e.g., R, Python, Julia, SQL).Proven ability to build and manage multidisciplinary teams.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
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How to Apply
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