Overview
The Forest Carbon Markets Lead will coordinate and strengthen FCLP’s collective action on Forest Carbon Markets under the supervision and leadership of the Deputy Director - Policy.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide policy expertise and guidance to support FCLP members’ ambitions and commitments related to Forest Carbon Markets.
- Develop high-quality technical documents, briefings, and analysis.
- Coordinate member engagement and collaboration across the FCLP membership at the workstream level.
- Facilitate and enable delivery of workplan activities.
- Support the coordination of the JREDD+ Coalition.
- Foster and maintain partnerships with key stakeholders.
- Coordinate FCLP participation in major events and global convenings.
Required Experience
- A minimum of five (5) years of relevant professional experience, including experience working on forests and land-use, climate change, REDD+, environmental law, or working in tropical forest countries.
- Demonstrable experience of working on REDD+ land-use governance, carbon rights, land tenure, benefit-sharing, or related legal, policy or institutional issues in tropical forest country contexts.
- Strong understanding of the policy, legal, institutional and implementation issues affecting high-integrity forest carbon markets, particularly jurisdictional REDD+ and results-based finance.
- Excellent written communication skills and experience drafting high-level documents.
- Experience working with government systems across developed and developing country contexts.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and diplomacy skills.
- Experience delivering events at UNFCCC COPs or regional Climate Weeks.
- Legal, regulatory or commercial experience relevant to carbon markets, environmental governance, land tenure, benefit-sharing, contracts, or public-private partnerships.
- Experience within a Secretariat, coalition, partnership, donor platform, or member-led international initiative.
Qualifications
- Advanced university degree (master's or equivalent) preferably in environment, policy, law, international relations, economics or related fields with a minimum of five years of relevant professional experience is required.
- First-level university degree (undergraduate, bachelor, or equivalent), preferably environment, policy, law, international relations, economics or related fields with seven (7) years of relevant experience is desirable.
