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Job Title: MRV Analyst II

Location: Remote

Terms: Full Time

Reports To: Sr. Technical Manager MRV

About us:

The American Forest Foundation (AFF) unlocks the power of family forests as a climate solution while helping thousands of landowners care for their land and improve forest health. Through its Family Forest Carbon Program, AFF expands access to the voluntary carbon market for family forest owners from all walks of life while producing high quality forest carbon credits to help companies reach their net zero goals. The organization’s strategic direction seeks to enable family forests to capture and store one billion tonnes of carbon by 2050.

We do not do this alone. AFF works across a broad coalition of conservation partners, corporations, and policymakers to equip family forest owners with financial and technical support to implement sustainable forest management practices on their lands and activate their forests as a critical tool in the fight against climate change.

AFF is in a mode of complex problem solving and rapid iteration. All teams at AFF are working to discover solutions to the planet’s most pressing climate issues through developing and iterating viable and scalable models for impact. AFF is driven by values of our shared purpose, measurable and verifiable results, and learning for continuous improvement to tackle big conservation challenges.

About the Role:

The MRV Analyst II is a technical role supporting the implementation of FFCP’s forest carbon accounting and monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) systems. This position contributes to forest carbon quantification, modeling, and statistical analyses that support carbon credit issuance and verification activities.

The MRV Analyst II performs detailed technical analyses and documentation in collaboration with senior technical staff and cross functional teams. The MRV Analyst II supports interactions with validation and verification bodies (VVBs), standards, and technical consultants as needed.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, maintain, and implement FFCP carbon accounting analyses, including baselines, additionality, leakage, uncertainty, permanence risk, and credit outputs.
• Review and contribute to FFCP monitoring reports, technical documents, and supporting calculations used in verification cycles.
• Produce clear, auditable documentation of analytical methods and decisions suitable for external verification.
• Provide support for third-party validation and verification, including responding to auditor questions related to carbon accounting, statistics, and uncertainty.
• Support continuous improvement of FFCP MRV systems to improve scalability, efficiency, and audit readiness.
• Coordinate with data and systems staff to ensure MRV datasets supporting carbon accounting are aligned with analytical and verification needs.
• Manage technical consultants, where relevant to project level carbon accounting.

Candidate requirements:

• Degree in forestry, forest biometrics, ecology, environmental science, statistics, or a closely related field.
• 3-5 years of professional experience in forest carbon, MRV, forest inventory, or applied environmental modeling.
• Demonstrated experience supporting carbon accounting under standards and interacting with third-party verifiers.
• Strong knowledge of forest carbon pools, GHG accounting principles, and statistical analysis.
• Strong analytical skills using quantitative tools (e.g., R, Python, SQL).
• Strong technical writing and documentation skills suitable for audit and verification contexts.
• Familiarity with biomass estimation and growth & yield modeling
• Ability to maintain structured datasets, model inputs, and outputs

Core Competencies:

• Agility (Level 2) – Thriving in volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environments by anticipating and responding to changes with swift, focused and flexible actions.
• Collaborating with Others (Level 3) – Working together with others in a cooperative and supportive manner to achieve shared goals.
• Ensuring Accountability (Level 1) – Holding yourself and others to high standards of accountability, creating an infrastructure and transparent organization culture that supports and measures personal and organizational responsibility and accountability.
• Problem Solving (Level 3) – Identifying problems and the solutions to them. Your contributions and leadership will be appreciated. Our staff is passionate, dedicated and good at what they do, and will be deeply grateful for your efforts to create and preserve an environment that is both fun and fair.

Job Function Competencies:

• Thinking Strategically (Level 2) - Seeing and synthesizing different sides of an issue, examining the full range of options and outcomes, and building intellectual frameworks to guide analysis and action..
• Statistical Modelling (Level 2) - Analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to conduct exploratory analysis or to develop predictive analytics and statistical models to support business decision makers.
• Data-Driven Analysis (Level 2) - Skilled at managing large, complex datasets and generating actionable insights.

What’s attractive to the right candidate:

• You have the unique and exciting opportunity to work with amazing colleagues, partners and landowners to help connect forest landowners with technical and financial assistance to better steward their land and achieve vital landscape-scale conservation impacts.
• Your contributions and leadership will be appreciated. Our staff is passionate, dedicated and good at what they do, and will be deeply grateful for your efforts to create and preserve an environment that is both fun and fair.
• We offer a flexible work environment that respects your life outside of work.
• Salary is commensurate with experience.
• AFF offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits package.

Contact us to apply:

We know there are great candidates who may not check all these boxes, and we also know you might bring important skills that we haven’t considered. If that applies to you, don’t hesitate to apply and tell us about yourself.

https://www.forestfoundation.org/who-we-are/people/careers

We are committed to creating a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status or any other basis protected by law.