Senior Carbon Technical Manager (A.6.2 & Electric / Metered Cookstove Lead)

BURN MANUFACTURING • Full-time • Nairobi • 1w ago

About the role
BURN is seeking a Senior Carbon Technical Manager (A.6.2 & Electric / Metered Cookstove Lead) to lead the technical management of its carbon portfolio, ensuring timely, compliant, and high-quality carbon credit issuance across multiple markets. The role will drive Article 6.2 programmes, oversee MRV systems, and collaborate cross-functionally to maintain data integrity, regulatory compliance, and strategic alignment.

Duties and Responsibilities

Ownership of BURN's carbon (A.6.2, Electric and metered projects) portfolio health — ensuring issuance volume delivery on time, on scope, and on budget.

Assign projects to SCTEs and SCTOs; set reporting targets and reporting functions with junior technical teams, QA/QC, and other internal BURN customers.
Working with the Carbon Policy and QA/QC teams — ensure that BURN's portfolio of projects is compliant with all methodological and industry-approved integrity benchmarks.
Lead VVB contract management for the assigned project portfolio.
Information management — working with the QA/QC officer to manage all carbon technical documentation and access, including certified documentation; craft and provide technical responses on new methodologies, ratings agencies, press, and investor updates.
Review emergent trends in the ICVCM and forecast technical threats and opportunities in relation to BURN's corporate interests.
Oversee implementation of BURN's capacity building and training programme.
Provide quarterly SMT reports on BURN's portfolio health and inter-departmental initiative tracking.
Lead or participate in technical workshops, methodology reviews, and industry seminars.
Develop and update investor update decks and carbon portfolio briefing materials.
Conduct onboarding programmes for senior BURN staff on carbon technical matters.
Lead internal inter-departmental training.
Manage inter-departmental Carbon Asset Development assignments, including but not limited to Supply deals.
Resource management — provide monthly updates to the HOD / Director on technical staffing needs.
Develop and maintain relationships with VVBs and GHG certification registries.
Appraisals and check-ins for immediate direct reports; oversee the appraisal structure for junior talent under the SCTE.
Carry out specific one-off special carbon assignments falling outside the scope of the existing JD, as directed by the HOD / Director.

Article 6.2 Bilateral Programme Leadership

Lead the full technical management of BURN's Article 6.2 bilateral carbon programmes — currently including the KLIK Ghana EIC project under the Switzerland–Ghana bilateral agreement.
Serve as BURN's primary technical liaison with Article 6.2 counterparties: FOEN (Switzerland), the Ghana Carbon Market Office (CMO), Designated National Authorities, and Gold Standard.
Work with carbon policy and government relations teams to manage the Corresponding Adjustment (CA) process — tracking the authorization, issuance, transfer, and cancellation of Internationally Transferred Mitigation Outcomes (ITMOs); ensure full compliance with host country authorization requirements and bilateral agreement schedules.
Monitor UNFCCC COP Article 6.2 guidance developments and translate new requirements into updated project procedures, documentation, and reporting templates.
Lead preparation and submission of Article 6.2 authorisation requests, monitoring reports, and VVB verification packages to Gold Standard, FOEN, and the respective host parties.
Oversee the quarterly sampling plan submission to Focal Point / CMO; ensure random household selection processes comply with bilateral agreement requirements and the project MADD.
Manage BURN's registry accounts for Article 6.2 projects — project uploads, fee payments, ITMO issuance bookings, and all other registry and bilateral reporting obligations.

- EIC and Metered Cookstove Technical Management
Own the technical interpretation and application of EIC-specific methodology requirements — including the KLIK Ghana MADD, Gold Standard GS4GG Cookstove Requirements for electric stoves, and any applicable metered or IoT-specific MRV guidance.
Lead the design, quality control, and continuous improvement of IoT-based and metered MRV systems — including Nexus platform electricity consumption data (EGp,d,y), smart meter integration, data validation pipelines, and cross-checking of field-measured and platform reported electricity usage.
Ensure KOBO survey instruments (Baseline Survey, Baseline KPT, Usage Survey, Project KPT) are fully MADD-compliant, localised for each project country, and updated ahead of each quarterly survey campaign.
Lead the quarterly KPT and ex-post monitoring survey cycle: stratified sampling, field quality control, statistical outlier analysis, plausibility benchmark checks, and CDM 95/5 reliability assessments for EIC projects.
Lead preparation and review of quarterly and annual monitoring reports — ensuring all monitored parameters are correctly sourced, calculated, and documented.
Manage the annual desk review of overlapping carbon projects in programme countries; ensure overlap prevention measures are documented and maintained.

Verification and Registry Operations

Lead preparation of all VVB verification packages for Article 6.2 and EIC projects — monitoring reports, supporting evidence dossiers, audit trails, and structured responses to VVB queries.
Track and document all A.6.2 certification processes and work with the carbon policy lead to ensure that all processes that are tied to host and receiving country processes are adhered to strictly.
Act as the primary technical contact during VVB audits; manage all VVB communications, FARs, and CARs through to closure.
Manage BURN's registry accounts for Article 6.2 projects — ensuring all projects are uploaded on time, fees paid, ITMO issuance bookings completed, and all bilateral reporting obligations met on schedule.

Data Quality and Cross-Functional Coordination

Develop, maintain, and enforce SOPs and QA/QC plans for all Article 6.2 and EIC MRV processes. Collaborate with the Data & Analytics (DnA) team to ensure database fields, GPS records, photo archives, and reporting templates meet MADD and verification requirements — including household ID linkage, urban/rural classification methodology, and the Nexus kWh cross-check process.
Work with the QA/QC team to maintain the evidence archive for VVB review — including carbon waivers, customer verification call records, Kijani Lab test results (IEC 60350-2), EUA records, stove swap logs, and repair documentation.
Coordinate with Carbon Excellence and Customer Experience teams on e-waste compliance (Ghana Act 917), stove swap documentation, grievance mechanism records, Day 3 welcome call compliance, and ISO 14001 certification.
Maintain annual desk parameter updates for EIC projects — electricity emission factor (EFel,y), transmission and distribution losses (TDL), non-renewable biomass fraction (fNRB) — with version-controlled documentation.

Skills and Experience

Minimum 5 years' experience in voluntary or compliance carbon markets, with demonstrated expertise in MRV, monitoring report preparation, and VVB verification management.
Direct, hands-on experience with Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement — including bilateral agreement frameworks, ITMO authorisation and tracking, Corresponding Adjustment processes, and DNA / Focal Point engagement.
Strong working knowledge of Gold Standard methodology requirements for electric or metered cookstove programmes, including GS4GG Cookstove Requirements and the Gold Standard Registry.
End-to-end ownership of at least 3 projects certified within the last 36 months as lead carbon technical advisor or equivalent.
At least 1 Programme of Activities (PoA) or multi-project programme developed and certified within the last 36 months as lead technical advisor.
Demonstrable experience contracting and managing at least 2 VVB audit firms through a full validation or verification cycle, including FARs and CARs.
Proven experience managing KPTs and household energy surveys in a metered or EIC programme context, including IoT data validation and cross-checking.
Proficiency in statistical methods for IoT-based and metered MRV: stratified sampling design, CDM reliability analysis, confidence/precision intervals, outlier analysis, and data plausibility benchmarking.
Experience managing KOBO-based survey pipelines for carbon MRV and resolving data export quality issues.
Demonstrable experience managing lead technical resources — supervision, training, and appraisals of Carbon Technical Officers and junior teams.
Minimum 2 years managing a team of 5–15 technical or project management professionals.
Experience with Ghana's carbon market regulatory environment — Ghana CMO, Ghana Carbon Registry, and the Switzerland–Ghana bilateral agreement framework (KLIK / FOEN).
Demonstrable experience participating in technical stakeholder working groups, methodology reviews, or UNFCCC Article 6 rule-setting processes.
ISO Lead Auditor training or equivalent QMS audit qualification preferred.
French or other relevant language for bilateral partner engagement.

Qualified Female Candidates encouraged to Apply

BURN does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview, meeting, processing, training, or any other fees).