Head of Carbon Project Delivery

Climate Impact Partners
London

ABOUT US

Climate Impact Partners delivers solutions for climate action. We are carbon market specialists and a go-to partner for every stage of the net zero journey.

With over 25 years of industry experience and fuelled by a relentless drive for rapid action and results, we have made it our mission to urgently ensure a thriving future for all life on earth.

We do this by providing an end-to-end service that delivers high-quality, thoroughly vetted climate projects which reduce carbon emissions, improve health and livelihoods, and enhance biodiversity.

Together with our clients and project partners we have been responsible for the reduction or removal of more than 144 million tCO2e.

What sets us apart:

· Boundless, urgent ambition. We are accountable, relentless, resilient.

· Courage to innovate. We are courageous, creative, curious.

· Integrity without compromise. We are trustworthy, credible, committed.

· Empowered to serve. We are respectful, inclusive, collaborative.

THE ROLE

Step into a high-impact leadership role at the heart of global climate action. As Head of Carbon Project Delivery, you’ll drive the strategy and execution of a fast-growing portfolio of Nature-Based Solutions and Energy carbon projects across emerging markets. From early-stage development through to implementation and long-term monitoring, you’ll shape projects that deliver verified emissions reductions and measurable environmental and social impact.

You’ll lead a talented team of project managers and collaborate across commercial, technical, policy, and finance functions to manage multi-year, high-value contracts. Your work will directly influence the success of Climate Impact Partners’ global portfolio, strengthening our reputation and delivering value to clients and investors. As our portfolio scales, so will your opportunity to build and lead a world-class global team and help redefine what high-integrity carbon delivery looks like. 

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Manage our portfolio of long-term contracts with project implementation partners to ensure that projects deliver the committed carbon and other benefits on-time, with quality, and within budget, enabling us to meet our commitments to our investing clients.
  • Oversee portfolio monitoring and reporting activities to track project performance against key performance indicators and targets. Regularly review the project status and outlook of your portfolio.
  • Become a subject matter expert in all material contracts associated with your portfolio, improving on our framework for contract compliance and risk management.
  • Assist in due diligence and formulation of operating assumptions for possible new additions to the portfolio.
  • Identify and maintain relationships with key stakeholders and partners relevant to your portfolio. Make timely recommendations for actions required by Climate Impact Partners and/or project partners to resolve issues, mitigate risks, and enable project delivery. Where needed, lead any material disputes or contract amendment renegotiations to a conclusion.
  • Identify opportunities for portfolio optimisation and performance enhancement. Anticipate and position the company to capitalise on upside and expansion opportunities.
  • Visit key project sites in your portfolio, including internationally, at least annually, Work with your project management team to put in place pragmatic health and safety place prior to project visits, facilitate project visits for client teams as required, and provide feedback internally and to project partners on the findings of the visits.
  • Ensure consistent project quality and lessons learned across the portfolio, consolidated and shared with the Origination and Technical teams.
  • Evaluate and deploy best-in-class technologies to enhance monitoring and data collection. Partner with the Technical team to implement and continuously improve monitoring and data management protocols and operational project SOPs.
  • Continue to develop and implement a transformation plan to establish a robust portfolio management operating system by leading and developing people as well as investing in processes and systems.
  • Provide timely, accurate, and concise project reporting internally to the Senior Management Team, Board, and, in collaboration with client management colleagues, externally to our investing clients.
  • Provide line management of three Project Managers and one Project Coordinator. There is an opportunity for the team size to grow as the portfolio expands.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Project & Contract Management

  • Significant experience and relevant track record in management of long-term project development and operational contracts or investments with budgets of at least $10m. Evidence of adapting applying project and contract management skills across multiple industries.
  • “Knows what good looks like”. Prior experience as a portfolio manager at a company with international operations and a strong project management culture.
  • Commercial contract management experience, including managing commercial negotiation of contract amendments and dispute resolution.
  • Exposure to the challenges of working in emerging markets with a variety of delivery partners, including smaller companies and NGOs, with an understanding of the on-the-ground realities of project delivery and local stakeholder issues.

Industry Knowledge or Learning Agility

  • Experience in NBS, energy carbon project development and impact investing, or exposure to carbon markets. For example, experience in sustainable infrastructure, energy or construction project development, and operational asset management would be relevant experience.
  • Experience in forestry carbon project management and/or development, including an understanding of the social dimensions of forestry projects in emerging markets.
  • Experience of managing funding or investment from large corporate entities or investors.
  • In lieu of prior carbon experience, a desire to learn quickly about carbon project development and carbon markets is essential.

Behavioural Skills & Competencies

  • Has a strong commercial mindset and can assess risk.
  • Has a strong intellect with the ability to dive deep into the details but has judgement on when to pull up to think strategically.
  • Is solution-focused and pragmatic.
  • Exceptional attention to detail, organisational skills, and follow-through.
  • Ability to manage multiple objectives simultaneously and prioritise appropriately.
  • Strong written and oral communicator tailoring communication styles to the needs of a given situation.
  • Alignment with company values of ambition, integrity, innovation, and service, with a demonstrated commitment to leveraging your role to drive positive impact and meaningful change.

Leadership Capabilities:

  • Building great teams, including team design and recruitment, effective team management as well as ability to coach and mentor.
  • Leading with accountability by fostering an ownership mindset, setting ambitious goals and KPIs and utilising data-driven decision-making.
  • Commerciality with excellent strategic planning skills, utilising industry knowledge and effective stakeholder management to drive outcomes.
  • Focus on innovation and continuous improvement to foster a growth mindset, drive process optimisation and add value to our business and clients.

PERKS

  • Hybrid working
  • 25 days paid holiday
  • Private Health Insurance (we've teamed up with Vitality to offer you a wide range of perks, including free coffees, travel deals, and gym discounts)
  • Enhanced Pension Scheme
  • Bonus Scheme (subject to company and individual performance)
  • Enhanced Parental Leave
  • Green Commute Bike Scheme
  • LinkedIn Learning License & Professional Training Budgets
  • Summer Fridays (start your weekend early if you've finished everything on your to-do list)
  • Working from Abroad (up to 4 weeks a year)
  • Global Volunteering Day
  • Modern, state of the art office in Paddington, London, which is dog friendly and includes showers, a mother's feeding room, a wellness room and barista coffee bar.

Climate Impact Partners is an equal opportunities employer. Our goal is to be a diverse and inclusive workforce, that embraces our differences, and so all aspects of employment including the decision to hire and promote, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business need. We do not discriminate on the basis of characteristics protected under federal, state, or local law. To support this, all applications are anonymised until the interview stage which means that regardless of who has applied, your characteristics are totally anonymous.

Posted 2025-06-20

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