Forest Carbon Specialist

**Position Snapshot**:

- Location: Panama City, Panama
- Company: Nestlé
- Act. Rate: Full time, 100%
- Type of contract: 2-years contract
- Modern “smart office” locations providing flexible & collaborative workspaces
- Flexible working models
- Genuine opportunities for career and personal development
- Dynamic international working environment

**Position Summary**:
As part of the overall ESG-Sustainability strategy, we are looking for a Forest Carbon Specialist based in Panama City, Panama.

Reporting directly to the Sustainable Sourcing Leader, you will manage operational aspects of partnerships for forest project implementation.
Your main responsibility will be to use technical carbon expertise and forest project management experience for project management support, technical review, development of guidance, and corporate carbon reporting.

**Net Zero by 2050**

Climate change is one of society's greatest challenges. It is also one of the greatest risks to the future of our business. Solving it requires all of us to act with great urgency. Nestlé may be only one player, but we have the size, scale, and reach to influence many more and to inspire collective action. We will halve our greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and achieve net zero by 2050 - even as our business continues to grow.

We moved from a no-deforestation to a Forest Positive strategy which contributes to regenerating forest landscapes, protecting natural habitats, helping farming communities thrive, and supporting the planet in combatting the effects of climate change.

**A day in the life of a Forest Carbon Specialist**:

- Provide oversight of a portfolio of projects, including serving as an advisor on implementation, troubleshoot challenges, and maintain alignment to evolving project guidance
- Provide 'eyes on the ground' to project implementation
- Ensure on-time and accurate delivery of project progress reporting
- Respond to ad-hoc requests for project insights to deliver on internal stakeholder information requests
- Support global partnerships with carbon and forest related organizations
- Gather and generate the content brands/markets/businesses can use in communications
- Lead engagement with internal stakeholders on technical guidance to support deployment of climate roadmap interventions
- Generate and regularly update technical guidance documents on project monitoring, reporting, and verification
- Represent forest pillar projects internally and represent Nestle Group in external forums

**What will make you successful**:

- More than 3 years of experience in reforestation, restoration, and/or agroforestry implementation projects
- Experience in project management: budget, impact management, reporting, stakeholder management in fast-paced multi-national environment
- Overall knowledge in agriculture and sustainability (UN Development Goals, AFOLU carbon standards, SBTi and GHG Protocol guidance )
- Strong leadership under operational pressure, ability to operate well independently, strong organizational skills.
- Courage and emotional intelligence for on the ground exemplary excellence in climate change
- Comfortable in a field environment and available for regional travel as requested
- GIS (geographic information system) Skills and experience with ESRI, GFW Pro, or other mapping platforms a plus
- Fluency in English and Spanish

At Nestlé, we want to help shape a better and healthier world, inspire people to live healthier lives and deliver impact at a scale and pace that makes a difference. We do this by fostering a diverse, friendly, supportive, and collaborative environment, that creates positive disruption, embraces innovation, and empowers people and teams to win.
We aim to hire friendly, respectful, inspiring people who care about the people’s lives that we touch every single day.