Monitoring, Verification & Reporting (MVR) Technical Specialist - NATURE+

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type:
Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)
Job Description:
The MRV Technical Specialist will lead the development and continuous improvement of the NATURE+ Carbon Project’s MRV and data management systems to accurately quantify and report GHG emission reductions and removals. The role will provide technical leadership in monitoring frameworks, field data collection, forest inventories, biomass and socio-economic assessments, spatial analysis, and carbon accounting. The MRV Specialist will support project design, registration, validation, verification, and credit issuance processes, while ensuring robust QA/QC standards.

Working with project partners, relevant government agencies, and auditors, the role will strengthen MRV capacity, address audit findings, and ensure compliance with carbon standards, national carbon registry requirements, and international reporting obligations.

Please Note: World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization with a mission centred on following Jesus Christ in service to the world´s most vulnerable children. Therefore, in all locations to the fullest extent legally permissible, the successful applicant will affirm our core documents, observe conduct compatible with Christian principles, serve at a high level of professional ethics, and strive to act in accordance with cultural sensitivities. Furthermore, regular attendance with team and office devotions, chapel, and prayer gatherings are expected in line with policies in the World Vision host location and its departments

Job Responsibilities:
Technical-MRV

• Lead the design, development, deployment, and management of field data collection protocols, tools, and systems (including Kobo Toolbox, ArcGIS Field Maps, and related platforms) to facilitate efficient and accurate data capture by field teams.

• Support the design and implementation of forest inventories, biomass assessments, socio-economic surveys, and the design and establishment and monitoring of permanent and temporary sample plots in accordance with approved carbon methodologies and best-practice standards.

• Oversee the collection, management, analysis, and reporting of inventory and survey data to ensure accuracy, consistency, and compliance with project monitoring and applicable standard requirements.

• Deploy and manage Geographic Information Systems (GIS), remote sensing technologies, and spatial analysis tools (such as Google Earth Engine, QGIS, and ArcGIS) to support project monitoring of land-use changes, deforestation, forest degradation, and other project performance indicators.

• Support the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of Monitoring Plans that comply with applicable carbon standards and methodologies, including Verra VCS and Gold Standard requirements.

• Support the preparation, compilation, and maintenance of validation/verification-ready project documentation, including Project Design Documents/Project descriptions (PDDs/PDs), Monitoring Reports (MRs), spatial maps, calculation spreadsheets, field datasets, and auditable evidence packages, in collaboration with relevant project stakeholders and counterparts.

• Serve as the primary technical focal point for third-party identified Validation/Verification Bodies (VVBs)

• Coordinate and ensure timely resolution of validation and verification findings, Corrective Action Requests (CARs), Clarification Requests (CLs), and other auditor observations to achieve successful project registration, verification, and carbon credit issuance.

• Support continuous improvement of project monitoring systems through the integration of emerging technologies, data management best practices, and lessons learned from validation and verification processes

• Ensure that all greenhouse gas (GHG) data, carbon accounting processes, and project reporting requirements are aligned with Kenya's National Carbon Registry (KNCR) systems, relevant regulatory frameworks, and applicable international transparency and reporting requirements.

Quality Assurance - Implementation, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning

• Lead the development, implementation and strengthening of Quality Assurance and Quality Control (QA/QC) systems for field-collected project level data, spatial datasets, and monitoring processes to ensure data integrity, accuracy, and audit readiness.

• Ensure that an effective monitoring, evaluation, accounting and learning system is established and maintained to track project performance and impacts.

• Ensure submission of timely and quality periodic project reports to the WVK, project stakeholders, and donors and other relevant stakeholders

• Document lessons learned and best practices to improve project implementation and inform future initiative

• In liaison with the communications department, ensure regular documentation of best practices, success stories / innovation and lessons learnt over the project implementation period for sharing across the partnership and project stakeholders.

Capacity Building

• Facilitate capacity building and training for field teams, local communities and project partners on monitoring methodologies, data collection protocols, GIS applications, and long-term Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) systems.

• Lead in the identification/assessment of MRV capacity building gaps among project staff, communities and other relevant stakeholders.

• Lead and participate in the planning, mobilisation, coordination, and promotion of capacity building of MRV events/activities such as training workshops, webinars for NATURE+ project staff/stakeholders etc

Partnership, Coordination and Networking

• Liaise with relevant government institutions and project partners to facilitate data harmonization, reporting consistency, and compliance with national and international carbon market requirements.

KNOWLEDGE/QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE ROLE
Required Professional experience

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in development and implementation of MRV systems for forest carbon projects.

• Strong technical expertise in forest inventory, forest mensuration, forest carbon accounting and MRV systems

• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in designing and implementing field inventories, permanent sample plots, sampling methodologies and biomass measurement

• Proficiency in GIS tools e.g. QGIS, ArcGIS Pro, Google Earth Engine for satellite data monitoringStrong understanding of carbon data QA/QC, uncertainty, audit trails, validation and verification readiness

Required Education & Certification

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Forestry, Environmental Science, Geospatial sciences, Climate Change, Natural Resource Management, or a related discipline

• Certification in GIS tools e.g. QGIS, ArcGIS Pro and/or Google Earth Engine

• Certification in GHG accounting

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications

• Demonstrated knowledge of the carbon project lifecycle, including carbon accounting and monitoring protocols, and international carbon standards e.g. VCS, Gold Standard, Plan Vivo e.t.c

• Demonstrated knowledge of national carbon market policies and schemes, including evolving government policies and regulations, in the forest and biodiversity sectors.

• Familiarity with GHG emissions calculation methodologies used in the AFOLU sector is an asset.

• Carbon MRV training is highly preferable

World Vision Kenya:

• Has not outsourced its recruitment process to any organization or agency that, through website postings, e-mail messages, newsletters or otherwise, claim to be doing recruitment on its behalf.

• Does not solicit money for any part of its recruitment processes including short-listing, interviews, or medical checks.

• Will not be responsible for such fraudulent correspondence or any loss of money or theft, which may result from anyone engaging in such recruitment activity.

• Victims of such fraudulent correspondence may wish to report it to law enforcement authorities.

World Vision Kenya is part of the Inter-Agency Scheme for the Disclosure of Safeguarding-related Misconduct in Recruitment Process within the Humanitarian and Development Sector and all candidates will thus be screened as appropriate for any safeguarding related misconduct

Applicant Types Accepted:
Local Applicants Only