Technical Carbon Markets Consultant

November 12

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Allied Talent Partners

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B2B • Marketplace • Social Impact

Allied Talent Partners is a talent marketplace focused on connecting experienced professionals with climate-related projects and businesses. The company aims to support climate action initiatives, particularly within Africa, by making specialized climate-related talent more accessible. Being incubated by the Three Cairns Group, ATP serves various stakeholders in the climate sector, including infrastructure developers, governmental bodies, NGOs, and consulting firms. Their services include project scoping, tech-enabled matching, and providing back-end support to ensure successful project delivery.

2 - 10 employees

🤝 B2B

🏪 Marketplace

🌍 Social Impact

📋 Description

• Conduct due diligence on identified projects and provide holistic viability view, including: • Review of technical design, additionality, permanence, leakage, legal alignement, robust MRV and co-benefits. • Assessment of commercial viability and scalability. • Identification of key technical, regulatory, commercial, and counterparty risks with mitigation recommendations. • Assess applicable national and international regulatory requirements (Article 6 approvals, host country authorisations, benefit-sharing frameworks, registry requirements). • Advise on likely timelines, sequencing, and key dependencies for regulatory approvals. • Identify potential policy risks (e.g. moratoria, rule changes) and recommend engagement strategies with DNAs and government stakeholders. • Advise on the ease and feasibility of actual project implementation, including: • Key milestones (project registration, validation, verification, credit issuance). • Dependencies such as land tenure, community agreements, or offtake commitments. • Realistic delivery timelines and critical path items. • Flag bottlenecks that could delay credit issuance or revenue realisation, allowing for more accurate financial modelling. • Develop or review project and portfolio financial models, ensuring: • Realistic forecasts of carbon credit generation and issuance schedules. • Market-aligned assumptions for prices, costs, discount rates, and verification cycles. • Sensitivity and scenario analyses to inform structuring and risk assessment. • Aggregate project data into portfolio-level models where needed for financial instrument design. • Analyse funding requirements for each project stage (feasibility, development, construction, operations) and recommend appropriate instruments (grants, concessional finance, guarantees, equity, debt). • Advise on structuring solutions such as results-based finance, carbon revenue securitisation, carbon-linked bonds, and blended finance stacks. • Map potential sources of capital – including local financial institutions (banks, pension funds, insurers), development finance institutions, impact investors, and corporates. • Recommend strategies to de-risk participation of local capital (e.g. first-loss tranches, partial credit guarantees, revenue floors). • Identify opportunities to leverage carbon revenues to unlock additional climate finance (green bonds, adaptation-linked instruments). • Provide input on aligning financing structures with host country climate strategies, benefit-sharing frameworks, and NDC commitments. • Review ERPAs, benefit-sharing agreements, term sheets, and partnership agreements. • Ensure alignment between contractual terms, financial assumptions, and delivery milestones. • Highlight gaps, risks, and negotiation points. • Prepare and input into IC/Board papers and presentations, including risk matrices, sensitivities, and delivery timelines; ensuring materials are decision-ready and highlight key risks and mitigations clearly. • Join IC meetings as a subject-matter expert where required. • Provide insights on pricing benchmarks, methodology updates, and regulatory trends. • Recommend adjustments to structuring approaches or project prioritisation based on market shifts. • Provide insights on emerging climate finance opportunities and recommend how the Client can position its carbon initiatives to attract innovative finance (domestic and international). • Share lessons learned to build institutional knowledge. • Support sourcing and validation of projects required to anchor specific financial instruments. • Apply eligibility criteria to select projects with the right scale, credit type, geography, and risk profile. • Provide gap analysis where pipeline volume or credit profile does not meet instrument design requirements.

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum 10 years’ relevant experience in carbon markets, climate finance, or project finance. • Demonstrated track record supporting investment or IC/Board-level decision processes with risk and sensitivity analyses. • Proven experience advising on project structuring, risk allocation, and financial or contractual negotiation. • Experience engaging with host-country authorities, DNAs, or regulators on carbon-market or climate-finance transactions. • Prior advisory experience with DFIs, climate funds, or development institutions is advantageous. • **Technical Requirements:** • Deep understanding of carbon markets — voluntary, Article 6, and CORSIA — and of integrity frameworks such as VCMI and ICVCM. • Familiarity with nature-based and technology-based carbon project methodologies. • Strong grasp of MRV systems, registry processes, and linkages between project-level activities and NDC implementation. • Competence in developing and reviewing financial models for carbon or infrastructure projects, including sensitivity and scenario analysis. • Understanding of blended-finance mechanisms, portfolio aggregation, and instruments linking carbon revenues with broader climate-finance structures. • Ability to interpret ERPAs, benefit-sharing frameworks, and term sheets from both financial and legal perspectives. • Working knowledge of local financial-market instruments (e.g. local-currency bonds, guarantees, and credit-enhancement tools). • **Other Skills:** • Analytical and structured thinker with exceptional written and verbal communication skills. • Collaborative and proactive, comfortable working across multidisciplinary teams and institutional boundaries. • Strong judgment, with ability to integrate technical, regulatory, and commercial inputs into clear recommendations. • Highly organised, responsive, and able to prioritise in a dynamic, multi-project environment. • Commitment to knowledge-sharing and institutional capacity-building.