Verification Scientist I, GHG Forestry

🕒 September 22

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $60k - $88k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

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SCS Global Services is a global leader in third-party certification, validation, and verification services with a strong focus on sustainability. The company provides a comprehensive range of certification services for various industries, including apparel and textiles, climate change, corporate sustainability, food safety, green building, and sustainable forestry. They offer certifications for organic products, recycled content, carbon neutrality, and sustainable supply chains, among others. Through their services, SCS Global Services aims to drive positive global change by promoting sustainable practices and supporting environmentally conscious companies.

📋 Description

• Conduct assessments as lead auditor under voluntary and compliance carbon offset standards • Assess management practices and project documentation of carbon projects • Review documents and perform quantitative analyses, including inventory calculations, forest growth and yield models, GIS, and/or remote sensing information • Conduct site visits, interviews with project personnel, site reconnaissance, and evaluation of forest inventory practices • Issue verification findings and write technical audit reports • Oversee contract auditors and consultants • Coordinate audit processes with clients • Ensure clients provide necessary data and information • Respond to client questions and concerns • Manage a portfolio of audits concurrently • Maintain current knowledge of program standards and protocols • Recommend and implement program changes to maintain ISO quality compliance • Participate in internal and external audit processes • Participate in training staff and contract auditors/consultants • Perform work involving forestry and land-use projects such as improved forest management, afforestation/reforestation, REDD+, wetlands, mangroves, soil carbon, and landscape-level sustainability programs worldwide

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Forestry or a relevant scientific field • 2+ years of professional experience in a related field • Experience with standard forest inventory techniques in the field • Experience with field measurement techniques • Proficiency in ArcGIS and/or remote sensing applications • Exceptional quantitative skills • Excellent writing, communication, and organizational skills • High proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, and Access • Ability to work independently under pressure in a changing environment • Responsive and adaptive to a team environment • Ability to travel domestically to conduct audits • Preferred: Master's Degree or higher in a relevant scientific field • Preferred: quantitative skills emphasizing biometrics, statistics, and growth and yield modeling • Preferred: financial analysis and/or natural resource economics experience • Preferred: California Registered Professional Forester or other Certified Forester credential • Preferred: ARB-accredited Lead Verifier for the Compliance Offset Protocol - US Forest Projects • Preferred: CAR Lead Verifier

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote, home-office based role • Flexible work arrangements • Domestic and international travel opportunities

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