Project Officer

**About Us**:
UpEnergy delivers high-impact, emission reducing projects that accelerate decarbonization and create long term benefits in local communities. We do so by making life-improving clean technologies available to local communities and environments across Africa. Whether it’s protecting the local environment, delivering health benefits, or reducing poverty through financial savings and employment, our projects sustainably benefit and enable people to live better lives within climate resilient communities.

**About the role**:
We are looking for an experienced Project Officer - Carbon who is passionate about our mission and motivated by the challenge to help UpEnergy manage carbon related operational activities. The Project Officer will be responsible for coordinating with different countries for carbon activities, this will include providing training and technical support to ensure compliance to carbon crediting programs and requirements. This role will not only require someone who is very organized, capable of co-ordinating with different cross functions but has a good understanding of carbon offset projects, has good interpersonal and leadership skills, likes conducting research, and testing out new ideas.

This a full-time position and will report to the Carbon Operations Lead. The role is based in Chennai, India.

**Why Join Us?**

**Not your average 9-to-5**

UpEnergy encourages teamwork, creativity, and we’re not afraid to get our hands dirty. We stay close to our market, understand our customers, and have a lot of fun while doing our work If you’re looking for a conventional 9-to-5, you’d be missing out on our adventures

**Opportunity to do things in a new way**

As one of the largest compliance credit issuer in Africa, we need to be constantly improving and rethinking our way of work. This means endless opportunities for a self-starter to initiate new ways of doing things or experimenting ways to help us improve.

**Personal and Career Growth**

Wouldn’t it be a pity to spend so much time working but not growing and learning? At UpEnergy we value both personal and professional growth, and we want to grow as a team. From classroom training to coffee chats to performance review, we want to support every team member to grow into the best version they can.

**Create Lasting Impact**

Our clean energy products bring positive impact to both our planet earth and for the low-income communities we work in. We don’t just focus on sales - we follow up and truly understand our customers to make sure that they continue to benefit from our products. Your work will create much longer-lasting impact than what you can see

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Support and manage overall project cycle in collaboration with project technical team and data team.
- Supporting country teams in MRV activities through sampling, enumerator training, progress tracking, review of monitoring results, finalization of results, plan site audit, etc to adhere to quality and timeline.
- Analyse monitoring results and field test data. Review and validate it for use in the monitoring reports and emission reduction sheets.
- Support Carbon Technical Team in verification audit, documentation, reports, emission calculations and other activities that arise during issuance process.
- Support country teams in planning and execution of baseline studies and field tests. Review and finalize study reports within the stipulated timeline.
- Conduct local stakeholder consultation as per the project need by co-ordinating with country teams. Initiate feedback rounds and finalize the LSC reports.
- Plan and conduct different capacity building training and processes training for different cross functions like distribution, carbon operations, etc on a regular basis or as per the need.
- Develop and maintain standard templates and forms used in surveys and reporting. Carry out periodic updates as per the changes in the methodology.
- Conduct research, desk reviews for new carbon project ideas and properly documenting findings.
- Maintain different dashboards and trackers like ER inventory tracker, Monitoring tracker, SDG tracker, Distribution tracker, Carbon Policy Tracker, ClickUp/Carbon HQ, etc., to help visualize and give insights for progress tracking, business intelligence and decision making.
- Develop, train, and ensure adoption of different operational procedures (SoPs) for different functions to help them align for smooth operations and an efficient carbon program.
- Participating in coordination and review meetings within UpEnergy Group (both with carbon team, and other teams within UpEnergy).
- Support the coordination of other field activities as requested and as guided by management. Activities here may include supporting due diligence exercises, research studies among others.

**Does this sound like you?**

**Must Have**
- Graduate or postgraduate degree in Environmental Sciences, Energy Engineering, or related discipline.