Contract Role. Remote, based in Singapore or Southeast Asia, with travel to project sites in Southeast Asia and Australia. Minimum 50 percent time, 80 percent or more preferred.
Please note: candidates need to have existing right to work in the intended work location.
Phi Earth is looking for a Head of Carbon Methodology and MRV to build and own the measurement, reporting and verification system behind its biomass projects: which standards and methodologies our MRV is built to satisfy, the specification of the system that produces the evidence, the dossiers that go to independent verification, and the technical answers auditors, certification bodies, offtakers and financiers need.
About Phi Earth. Biofuel demand is heading toward 215 billion litres by 2030, with two thirds of the growth in emerging economies (IEA). Regulation and buyer policy have closed off food land as a source, so that growth has to come from marginal and degraded land, which is harder to farm and much harder to prove anything about. Phi Earth builds for that land in three parts. Grow: soil biology that restores degraded ground and raises yield. Predict: a digital twin that turns satellite, drone and field data into an operating calendar. Prove: MRV that gives every batch origin and chain of custody in the form GGL, ISCC and RED III auditors accept, running in pilot at Sana Fortis in Malaysia. Phi Earth is pre-revenue, with field pilots running.
Responsibilities
- Select the standards, methodologies and certification schemes our MRV is built to satisfy across voluntary carbon, biofuel and bio-materials certification, and compliance markets.
- Monitor regulatory and scheme developments, including RED III, ISCC EU, ISCC CORSIA, GGL, CORSIA and Article 6, and assess what each change means for our projects and claims.
- Write the monitoring plans: parameters, methods, frequency, sampling design and record formats.
- Define the greenhouse gas accounting approach, including baselines, boundaries, additionality, leakage, permanence and uncertainty, documented so a third party can reproduce it.
- Specify chain of custody and mass balance rules for feedstock and product batches.
- Turn all of it into written requirements for our data platform, and set the acceptance criteria for satellite and remote sensing inputs.
- Prepare and own the documentation submitted to certification and verification bodies, and manage clarification and corrective action requests to closure.
- Write the field data collection procedures, train the site teams on them, and set the data quality controls.
- Answer methodology, eligibility and data questions in offtaker, partner and lender due diligence.
Minimum Requirements
- Six years or more in carbon methodology, MRV, greenhouse gas accounting or sustainability certification, including time on projects that reached issuance, classification or certification.
- Hands-on experience with at least one of: voluntary carbon standards (Verra VCS, Gold Standard, ACR, CAR, Puro, Isometric); biofuel and bio-materials certification (ISCC EU, ISCC CORSIA, RSB, GGL); or verification and audit work against either.
- Experience authoring or reviewing project design documents, monitoring plans, monitoring reports or sustainability declarations.
- Working knowledge of greenhouse gas accounting and life cycle assessment.
- Knowledge of chain of custody methods, including mass balance and book and claim.
- Direct experience dealing with certification or verification bodies.
- Professional English, written and spoken.
Additional requirements
- Degree in environmental science, agricultural science, forestry, engineering, chemistry or a related technical field.
- Experience specifying requirements for software or data systems.
- Project experience in Southeast Asia.
- Article 6 bilateral arrangements.
- Digital MRV, remote sensing or satellite data products.
- Biomass, bioenergy or feedstock supply chains.
- Bahasa Malaysia or Bahasa Indonesia.
Compensation. Equity only, with a salary starting on the close of our Series A. Details are discussed during the interview process.
How to apply. CV to [Confidential Information] with a short note answering two questions. First, name a project you managed that resulted in carbon credits being issued or assigned, or in a fuel or feedstock batch being classified as compliant, and state your role in it and what the hardest part was. Second, name a methodology or certification scheme you consider weak, and explain why.
