Group carbon Credits Manager

The Role You will build and run IEA's group carbon credit business: turning the emissions avoided by our solar, clean cooking and mini-grid customers into issued, high-integrity credits, and selling them. Carbon revenue is becoming a core layer of our model, alongside PAYGO repayments. It improves unit economics, lowers prices for customers and funds expansion. You will own the full lifecycle across all markets: methodology selection, registration, MRV, verification, issuance and commercialisation. This is a builder role: you set the strategy, stand up the processes, and hold a revenue line. We are looking for an operator who has done this before: someone who has personally taken projects from design to issued and sold credits, sat on the developer or asset-owner side of the table, and is ready to do it again at greater scale. Strong advisory careers are valuable, but this role is built for someone who has carried the outcome.

Key Responsibilities
Strategy and portfolio
• Build and own IEA's group carbon strategy and multi-year issuance pipeline across SHS, clean cooking, mini-grids and C&I.
• Select standards and methodologies per product (e.g. Gold Standard, Verra VCS, CDM/Article 6.4 metered-energy and cookstove methodologies) and structure programmes (PoA / grouped projects) for scale.
• Track market and regulatory shifts: ICVCM Core Carbon Principles, CORSIA eligibility, Article 6.2 bilateral deals, and host-country carbon frameworks and levies. Registration, MRV and issuance
• Lead project design, registration and listing end to end: PDDs, baseline studies, additionality, stakeholder consultations, host-country approvals and Letters of Authorization.
• Design MRV that runs on our data: work with the Software team to embed monitoring in SolRM (usage telemetry, PAYGO payment data, surveys) so measurement is a platform capability, not a side process.
• Manage validation and verification bodies (VVBs), monitoring reports and issuance cycles to plan and budget. Commercialisation
• Originate and close offtake: spot sales, forward contracts, pre-financing / carbon-backed facilities and Article 6 deals.
• Build a buyer book across corporates, traders, compliance buyers and DFIs; negotiate ERPAs and pricing.
• Model carbon revenue into product unit economics and pricing (e.g. cashback or subsidy models for clean cooking). Governance and partners
• Own benefit-sharing, safeguards and integrity: no double counting, clear claims, audit-ready records.
• Manage developers, consultants, registries and VVBs; decide what to build in-house vs. partner.
• Report carbon pipeline, issuance and revenue to leadership, the Board and investors. Requirements Must have
• 8+ years in carbon markets, including substantial time on the operator side (project developer, carbon-asset owner or DRE company) with direct ownership of credit issuance and revenue.
• Track record taking projects through registration and issuance under Gold Standard and/or Verra as the accountable lead (named projects and volumes issued).
• Direct commercial

experience:
credits sold, offtakes or ERPAs negotiated, buyer relationships built.
• Strong grasp of methodologies, additionality, baselines and MRV design; comfortable working with large datasets.
• Ability to build a financial model linking carbon volumes, prices and costs to unit economics.
• Excellent written English; able to work independently in a lean, fast-moving organisation. Strong plus
• Experience with DRE carbon: solar home systems, mini-grids, solar lighting or clean cooking / e-cooking programmes.
• Experience with digital or metered MRV (IoT, PAYGO data, remote monitoring).
• Experience operating in Sub-Saharan Africa, including host-country approvals and Article 6 processes.
• Familiarity with results-based finance, DFI programmes or carbon-backed financing structures.