This role, the Head of Project Delivery, involves leading Natural State’s Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) implementation across all project types. This includes credit-generating projects, donor-funded conservation programs, compliance monitoring, and government or partner reporting.
Strategic Leadership and Division Establishment
The core purpose of this role is to pursue Natural State’s mission of transformational nature restoration through project partnerships underpinned by cost-effective, transparent, and robust impact monitoring using best-in-class technological solutions.
Key responsibilities in this area include:
- Establishing and leading the Project Delivery Division responsible for delivering all MRV-dependent projects, including credit-based MRV cycles, compliance monitoring, donor/funder reporting, ecological baselines, and landscape performance monitoring.
- Developing scalable workflows, management systems, and operational standards suitable for diverse project types and partner requirements.
- Contribute to departmental planning, pipeline prioritization, and decisions related to capacity growth and resource allocation.
- Working with the Conservation Technology division to ensure data quality, build data pipelines, and generate robust and informative metrics of performance.
- Collaborating with the Biometrics and Lab Science divisions to iteratively improve and expand monitoring capabilities and to package these capabilities for project partners.
- Surveying the credit framework landscape to identify the best standards and frameworks to robustly and cost-effectively capture project impact, and building partnerships with certification bodies.
Project Oversight and Execution
You will be responsible for coordinating execution across multiple internal divisions and ensuring project goals are met.
- Coordinating closely with the Biometrics, Conservation Technology, and Lab Science divisions to ensure project delivery aligns with analytical models, digital pipelines, sensor systems, and laboratory workflows used across Natural State.
- Coordinating closely with the Nature Finance division to ensure MRV delivery supports crediting pathways, verification cycles, feasibility assessments, funder expectations, and project structuring needs.
- Overseeing planning, budgeting, and execution of MRV activities for existing PV Nature (PVN) projects and other active MRV workstreams, ensuring high-quality delivery against scope, timeline, and financial targets.
- Developing operational capabilities, systems, and workflows to support future delivery of MRV solutions across a broader set of frameworks.
- Monitoring project risks and performance; develop mitigation plans where needed.
- Leading project close-out activities, including financial reconciliation, deliverables submission, partner reporting, and lessons-learned reviews.
Required Qualifications and Experience
- Education: Master’s degree or PhD in ecology, conservation biology, environmental science, natural resource management, geography, or a related field.
- Experience: Significant professional experience leading conservation, ecological monitoring, or MRV projects across diverse landscapes, with proven ability to manage complex teams and workflows.
- Technical Knowledge: Strong technical knowledge of biodiversity MRV methods (e.g., ecological field surveys, bioacoustics, eDNA, camera traps, remote sensing-derived indicators).
- Skills: Proficiency in data science and ecological statistics using open source software (e.g., R, Python, Julia, SQL).
- Management: Proven ability to build and manage multidisciplinary teams.
- Soft Skills: Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
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