<div><p><strong>Job Mission</strong></p><p>The Senior Specialist, MRV &amp; Technical Implementation will serve as Terraformation's senior in-country technical lead for the Keta Blue project, providing mangrove restoration expertise and technical guidance across field implementation, monitoring, reporting, and verification. This role will ensure that restoration and monitoring protocols are implemented accurately, project data is complete and reliable, and technical standards are consistently applied by Terraformation teams, implementing partners, and contractors. They will translate project designs, carbon requirements, and mangrove best practices into effective field execution, troubleshoot technical and ecological challenges, strengthen partners’ technical capabilities, and use field learning to continuously improve project performance, MRV systems, and restoration practices.</p><strong>Location:  Ghana, Anloga</strong> (Must be willing to relocate)</div><div> </div><div><strong>Salary</strong>: Competitive Salary</div><br><br><h3>Responsibilities</h3><ul><div><li><p>Own the in-country technical and MRV execution for the Keta Blue mangrove restoration project, ensuring compliance with approved carbon methodologies, monitoring plans, Terraformation standards, and mangrove restoration best practices.</p></li><li><p>Provide technical guidance on mangrove restoration design and implementation, including site assessment, species selection, hydrology, planting approaches, maintenance, and adaptive management.</p></li><li><p>Translate project designs, technical standards, carbon-monitoring protocols, and sampling methodologies into practical field implementation plans for Terraformation staff, implementing partners, and contractors.</p></li><li><p>Maintain a strong field presence to assess restoration performance, verify adherence to protocols, identify technical, ecological, and data-quality risks, and oversee corrective actions.</p></li><li><p>Familiarity with Verra VM0033 Methodology for Mangrove Restoration or equivalent blue carbon methodology, including carbon monitoring requirements, sampling design, allometric equations, and verification documentation standards.</p></li><li><p>Oversee the collection, validation, and submission of field data supporting carbon accounting, including survival, growth, and ecological data.</p></li><li><p>Own spatial data quality and integrity across field implementation and verification, including maintaining accurate field GIS records, ensuring spatial evidence is traceable and audit-ready, and coordinating geospatial data collection with field teams.</p></li><li><p>Establish quality assurance and quality control processes that ensure field data is complete, accurate, auditable, and compliant with applicable carbon standards.</p></li><li><p>Coordinate and provide technical direction to local partners, field technicians, consultants, survey teams, and contractors.</p></li><li><p>Train and coach implementing partners and field teams on mangrove restoration practices, MRV protocols, data-collection tools, sampling procedures, monitoring schedules, and technical documentation to ensure consistent implementation of carbon monitoring requirements.</p></li><li><p>Work cross-functionally with Ghana-based project, safeguards, partner-quality, and country leadership teams to integrate monitoring requirements into project plans, budgets, schedules, partner workplans, and reporting cycles.</p></li><li><p>Identify technical and data-integrity issues affecting restoration performance or carbon monitoring, and implement corrective actions or escalate material risks when appropriate.</p></li><li><p>Support third-party validation and verification audits by ensuring MRV records, field evidence, and technical documentation are complete, traceable, and audit-ready.</p></li><li><p>Capture field lessons and use them to continuously improve Keta Blue’s restoration practices, partner capabilities, and Terraformation’s broader mangrove and MRV standards.</p></li></div></ul><h3>Minimum Qualifications</h3><ul><div><li><p>Must be willing to spend up to 50% of their time onsite. </p></li><li><p>7+ years of relevant technical experience in mangrove restoration and conservation, coastal ecology, forest carbon, environmental monitoring, or a related technical field.</p></li><li><p>Demonstrated field experience designing, implementing, or overseeing mangrove restoration, including site assessment, hydrology, species selection, planting, maintenance, and performance monitoring.</p></li><li><p>Demonstrated experience implementing MRV systems for forest-carbon, mangrove restoration, or other nature-based projects.</p></li><li><p>Strong knowledge of field-monitoring protocols, sampling methodologies, ecological and geospatial data collection, data-quality assurance, and technical documentation across large or remote project areas.</p></li><li><p>Experience translating technical designs and standards into practical field guidance for implementing partners, field teams, consultants, and contractors.</p></li><li><p>Demonstrated ability to identify restoration, ecological, or data-quality issues, conduct root-cause analysis, and implement corrective actions.</p></li><li><p>Experience training and strengthening the technical capabilities of implementing partners and field teams.</p></li><li><p>Demonstrated GIS competency, including field data collection, spatial data management, and producing audit-ready geospatial evidence.</p></li><li><p>Strong data-management and analytical skills, including proficiency with spreadsheets and experience using field data-collection platforms, databases, or project-monitoring software.</p></li><li><p>Master's degree or equivalent technical field experience in mangrove restoration, coastal ecology, or a related discipline.</p></li><li><p>Fluent in English. Professional proficiency in Ewe is strongly preferred.</p></li></div></ul><br><div><div><strong style="font-size:18px;">About Terraformation</strong></div><div> </div><div>Terraformation is committed to addressing climate change through the power of native forest restoration. Our portfolio of high-quality projects is designed to restore forests that will remove high quantities of carbon, renew ecosystems, enhance biodiversity, and create sustainable long-term community income and benefits. Our project teams have planted over one million biodiverse and native trees, stored 131 million seeds, supported 19 forestry projects, and created over 700 jobs through reforestation efforts worldwide. </div><div> </div><div>Our innovative approach not only equips local forestry teams with training, technology, and access to capital, but also empowers businesses to be a part of the solution to climate change. By investing in our projects, businesses can directly address climate change, offset carbon emissions, meet net zero commitments, and enhance corporate sustainability initiatives. </div><div> </div><div>Terraformation’s mission-driven global team, which includes experts in forest science, carbon markets, operations management, and business development, demonstrates how diverse backgrounds drive innovation and create significant impact.</div><div> </div><div>Learn more at <a href="http://terraformation.com/">terraformation.com</a></div><div> </div><div> </div><div><em>We are an equal-opportunity employer.  We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable laws, including the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, where relevant.</em></div></div>

<p>We&rsquo;re an early-stage startup that cares passionately about solving the climate crisis.</p>
<p>We believe that forests are the most effective, safe, and scalable carbon drawdown solution.</p>
<p>Our mission is to accelerate restoration of 3 billion acres of degraded lands to their native ecosystems, activating the most massive carbon drawdown effort on the planet. We help partners secure diverse native seed supply, tackle freshwater shortages with solar-powered desalination, design sustainable business plans, access high quality training, and more.</p>
<p>Read more at terraformation.com</p>

Senior Specialist, MRV & Technical Implementation

<div><p><strong>Job Mission</strong></p><p>The Senior Specialist, MRV &amp; Technical Implementation will serve as Terraformation's senior in-country technical lead for the Keta Blue project, providing mangrove restoration expertise and technical guidance across field implementation, monitoring, reporting, and verification. This role will ensure that restoration and monitoring protocols are implemented accurately, project data is complete and reliable, and technical standards are consistently applied by Terraformation teams, implementing partners, and contractors. They will translate project designs, carbon requirements, and mangrove best practices into effective field execution, troubleshoot technical and ecological challenges, strengthen partners’ technical capabilities, and use field learning to continuously improve project performance, MRV systems, and restoration practices.</p><strong>Location:  Ghana, Anloga</strong> (Must be willing to relocate)</div><div> </div><div><strong>Salary</strong>: Competitive Salary</div><br /><br /><h3>Responsibilities</h3><ul><div><li><p>Own the in-country technical and MRV execution for the Keta Blue mangrove restoration project, ensuring compliance with approved carbon methodologies, monitoring plans, Terraformation standards, and mangrove restoration best practices.</p></li><li><p>Provide technical guidance on mangrove restoration design and implementation, including site assessment, species selection, hydrology, planting approaches, maintenance, and adaptive management.</p></li><li><p>Translate project designs, technical standards, carbon-monitoring protocols, and sampling methodologies into practical field implementation plans for Terraformation staff, implementing partners, and contractors.</p></li><li><p>Maintain a strong field presence to assess restoration performance, verify adherence to protocols, identify technical, ecological, and data-quality risks, and oversee corrective actions.</p></li><li><p>Familiarity with Verra VM0033 Methodology for Mangrove Restoration or equivalent blue carbon methodology, including carbon monitoring requirements, sampling design, allometric equations, and verification documentation standards.</p></li><li><p>Oversee the collection, validation, and submission of field data supporting carbon accounting, including survival, growth, and ecological data.</p></li><li><p>Own spatial data quality and integrity across field implementation and verification, including maintaining accurate field GIS records, ensuring spatial evidence is traceable and audit-ready, and coordinating geospatial data collection with field teams.</p></li><li><p>Establish quality assurance and quality control processes that ensure field data is complete, accurate, auditable, and compliant with applicable carbon standards.</p></li><li><p>Coordinate and provide technical direction to local partners, field technicians, consultants, survey teams, and contractors.</p></li><li><p>Train and coach implementing partners and field teams on mangrove restoration practices, MRV protocols, data-collection tools, sampling procedures, monitoring schedules, and technical documentation to ensure consistent implementation of carbon monitoring requirements.</p></li><li><p>Work cross-functionally with Ghana-based project, safeguards, partner-quality, and country leadership teams to integrate monitoring requirements into project plans, budgets, schedules, partner workplans, and reporting cycles.</p></li><li><p>Identify technical and data-integrity issues affecting restoration performance or carbon monitoring, and implement corrective actions or escalate material risks when appropriate.</p></li><li><p>Support third-party validation and verification audits by ensuring MRV records, field evidence, and technical documentation are complete, traceable, and audit-ready.</p></li><li><p>Capture field lessons and use them to continuously improve Keta Blue’s restoration practices, partner capabilities, and Terraformation’s broader mangrove and MRV standards.</p></li></div></ul><h3>Minimum Qualifications</h3><ul><div><li><p>Must be willing to spend up to 50% of their time onsite. </p></li><li><p>7+ years of relevant technical experience in mangrove restoration and conservation, coastal ecology, forest carbon, environmental monitoring, or a related technical field.</p></li><li><p>Demonstrated field experience designing, implementing, or overseeing mangrove restoration, including site assessment, hydrology, species selection, planting, maintenance, and performance monitoring.</p></li><li><p>Demonstrated experience implementing MRV systems for forest-carbon, mangrove restoration, or other nature-based projects.</p></li><li><p>Strong knowledge of field-monitoring protocols, sampling methodologies, ecological and geospatial data collection, data-quality assurance, and technical documentation across large or remote project areas.</p></li><li><p>Experience translating technical designs and standards into practical field guidance for implementing partners, field teams, consultants, and contractors.</p></li><li><p>Demonstrated ability to identify restoration, ecological, or data-quality issues, conduct root-cause analysis, and implement corrective actions.</p></li><li><p>Experience training and strengthening the technical capabilities of implementing partners and field teams.</p></li><li><p>Demonstrated GIS competency, including field data collection, spatial data management, and producing audit-ready geospatial evidence.</p></li><li><p>Strong data-management and analytical skills, including proficiency with spreadsheets and experience using field data-collection platforms, databases, or project-monitoring software.</p></li><li><p>Master's degree or equivalent technical field experience in mangrove restoration, coastal ecology, or a related discipline.</p></li><li><p>Fluent in English. Professional proficiency in Ewe is strongly preferred.</p></li></div></ul><br /><div><div><strong>About Terraformation</strong></div><div> </div><div>Terraformation is committed to addressing climate change through the power of native forest restoration. Our portfolio of high-quality projects is designed to restore forests that will remove high quantities of carbon, renew ecosystems, enhance biodiversity, and create sustainable long-term community income and benefits. Our project teams have planted over one million biodiverse and native trees, stored 131 million seeds, supported 19 forestry projects, and created over 700 jobs through reforestation efforts worldwide. </div><div> </div><div>Our innovative approach not only equips local forestry teams with training, technology, and access to capital, but also empowers businesses to be a part of the solution to climate change. By investing in our projects, businesses can directly address climate change, offset carbon emissions, meet net zero commitments, and enhance corporate sustainability initiatives. </div><div> </div><div>Terraformation’s mission-driven global team, which includes experts in forest science, carbon markets, operations management, and business development, demonstrates how diverse backgrounds drive innovation and create significant impact.</div><div> </div><div>Learn more at <a href="http://terraformation.com/">terraformation.com</a></div><div> </div><div> </div><div><em>We are an equal-opportunity employer.  We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable laws, including the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, where relevant.</em></div></div>

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