(Associate) Director, Nbs Implementation and M&e ..

South Pole is an energetic, global company offering comprehensive sustainability solutions and services. With offices spanning all continents across the globe, we strive to create a sustainable society and economy that positively impacts our climate, ecosystems and developing communities. With our solutions, we inspire and enable our customers to create value from sustainability-related activities.

Our Project Development team is at the forefront of developing and managing climate mitigation activities. By working closely with project owners and developers as well as their local communities, we manage the complete registration, verification and evaluation of carbon projects to enable the issuance of emission-reduction certificates, in line with official carbon standards. If you are a smart, ambitious and dynamic sustainability professional with a strong passion to make a real difference in the fight against climate change, the below position may be right for you

**Job summary**:
As the (Associate) Director of NBS implementation knowledge, process and M&E within the NBS practice of the Project Design, Management & Evaluation (PDME), you work in our Climate Projects Business Line. You will be responsible to plan, develop and maintain an up to date knowledge, process and approaches/tools behind how we assess/evaluate ground implementation activities designed mainly in our NBS projects, and to some extent community based appliances such as cookstoves. This entails direct coordination with the director of NBS within the PDME, Director of Sustainable Technologies, Director of QA (DD&QC) and regional NBS teams and leaders who develop and manage the projects in the regions. The aim is to assure all implementation aspects are properly evaluated from project identification and initial assessment to project realisation, impact issuance and long term maintenance of the project.

You will own and maintain all strategic components and IPs related to NBS (and community based ST) implementation and social/community/biodiversity involvement relevant for climate mitigation/removal projects. The NBS and community based implementation function within the PDME will be supporting the NBS and ST regional technical leads/teams who draft, report and evaluate ground measures and activities for the NBS and ST community based projects locally; including overall progress and performance of the project vs. expected, progress and effectiveness of the implemented measures, financial updates and performance, governance, HSSE, ESG with local partners, communities and sub-contractors etc.

You will interact and collaborate directly with other directors and associate directors within the PDME and assure that projects, standards/methodologies, QA/QC and evaluation/optimisation topics are channeled well to regional technical teams and are embedded firmly within the global PDME processes and workflows to ensure a long term high quality outcome from our projects.

**Main tasks & responsibilities**:

- Act as the global leader on NBS and community based ST implementation, community appliances and biodiversity know how and develop/organise a progressive and up to date knowledge center around implementation activities/techniques/intelligence/evaluation/reporting in collaboration with other leaders within PDME, Tech Strategy and other teams at CP
- Support and coordinate directly with the NBS Tech Strategy Director incl. Director of NBS within PDME on their strategic technical assessments, inputs and needs in different areas and scopes relevant for implementation and community aspects
- Own, plan, direct NBS implementation latest strategic technical know how and share/link the strategic directions and outcomes with the regional technical and implementation teams globally in coordination with the project strategy director and regional leads
- With your team support and guide when necessary the regional technical heads in the NBS implementation topics; assure that the regional technical teams are using the most plausible latest approaches, in guiding and evaluating the implementation workflows and results in the highest quality possible
- Collaborate with the QA/QC, evaluation and optimisation director within the PDME to plan and develop the most efficient and effective processes for project quality assurance processes incl. During evaluation/assessment and implementation/PDME workflows
- Directly liaise with operations to review and update/improve implementation linked operational processes in direct coordination and alignment with the head of digital innovation and the director NBS within the PDME; assure that NBS project workflows within SP includes both PDME and implementation tasks embedded in one integrated project management system
- Serve as a partner to global and regional project team heads on project implementation issues
- Support knowledge and expert needs, resource plan & management for implementation team globally (in direct coordinat