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I am seeking a partner for a new business venture. The business will be targeting the carbon forestry market and REDD, offering both market leading consultancy and verification and validation services.

The senior Director will be a co-owner of the firm. He/she will have strong experience of forestry and carbon forestry developments and will help shape the business from the start, including:

• Contributing to the development of business strategy and planning
• Shaping the proposition to market
• Specifying and supporting the building of technical capacity within the firm
• Leading on methodological development
• Representing and promoting the company externally to expert industry audiences and customers
• Leading major projects and key client relationships

• Taking responsibility for management systems and quality assurance processes.

Requirements:

• Advanced university degree in forestry
• At least 12 years professional forestry related expertise
• Direct experience of leading carbon forestry projects, as manager/developer and/or validator/verifier
• International experience, including work in developing countries or countries in transition
• Strong understanding of key methodology issues in forestry (CDM, VCS, CAR, CCX)
• Passionate about effective and sustainable forest management and motivated by the desire to make a difference
• Excited about the challenge, independence and reward that comes with creating a new business
• Strong team leader
• An effective and credible communicator
• Well organised, proactive and self-starting
• Strong values and ethics
• Decent understanding of commercials
• Fluent english

• Willingness to travel / spend time abroad.

The candidate is likely:

• To have an international forestry profile, or to be starting to establish one
• To have relationships across the industry, including with senior government policy makers, commercial organisations and NGOs
• To have had a senior role(s) in forestry consulting and/or with one of the DOEs
• To have a strong sense of the market opportunity in carbon forestry
• To be ambitious and thinking about his/her next move
• To have entrepreneurial flair and be comfortable taking considered risks; the candidate may have considered starting a business on their own but has maybe lacked the confidence or opportunity to do so

• To speak at least two languages.

This is the technical lead role for the firm and will represent a unique personal development opportunity for the right candidate. I am a successful entrepreneur with a track record of business start up, growth and trade-sale and have worked across both the private and public sectors. I am passionate about the need to reduce carbon emissions and have considerable interest in and knowledge of carbon-related forestry developments.

Interested or intrigued?

Please send email with contact details and brief description of experience or full CV to dgmrecruit@gmail.com. Do feel free to email if you have any questions.

Thanks, Guy

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Published at 03-12-2009

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