Senior Consultant

**Duty station**: the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia, OR Indonesia

**Application Deadline**: N/A

**Start date**: Q4 2025

Shape Southeast Asia’s climate future with HAMERKOP.

Hamerkop Climate Impacts is seeking a Senior Consultant with deep forestry expertise to lead and deliver high-impact, nature-based climate solutions across Southeast Asia. If you are an experienced forester passionate about scaling carbon projects and influencing the region’s carbon market landscape, we want to hear from you.

**About Hamerkop Climate Impacts**

HAMERKOP is a globally recognized, independent technical consultancy with headquarters in London and a growing presence in Singapore. We support project developers, NGOs, governments, and private sector partners in the Global South to deliver measurable climate, social, and environmental impact—especially through land use, forestry, and agriculture.

HAMERKOP is one of the very few recognised and independent technical service providers on the carbon market and we mainly work in developing countries, where we provide technical consulting services around 3 main pillars:
**1. PROJECT**: certification and implementation of projects contributing to the fight against climate change. We help mitigation projects to certify so they can partially or fully be financed by the sale of assets on the carbon markets. We support projects from early conception to early-stage feasibility studies, drafting of carbon certification studies and documents, and support the implementation of activities as well as monitor their ongoing impacts.

**2. MARKET**: independent expert advice on the carbon markets. We provide (i) technical pre-investment risk-based due diligence to carbon credit and project sponsors; (ii) strategic advice to organisations looking for positioning on the carbon market; and (iii) educational support on the structure, state, and trends of the carbon markets.

**3. POLICY**: climate change policy and finance. We help countries in the Global South to formulate and revise their climate change strategies and roadmaps. We work with international organisations and government authorities to align their policy, technical and institutional frameworks with the requirements of the Paris Agreement’s carbon and climate finance mechanisms.

HAMERKOP works at the intersection of the public and private sectors, with governments, international organisations, NGOs and private companies and is increasingly playing a crucial role in the Singaporean and Southeast Asian carbon market ecosystem.

**Role Description - Responsibilities**

This newly created consultant position will consist of growing and delivering a diverse range of stimulating technical and strategic consultancy assignments in relation to forestry, land use and management and biochar.

**What you will do**:

- ** Lead technical delivery**: oversee and deliver complex studies, analytics, and technical reports for forestry management, conservation, and restoration projects in Southeast Asia, focusing on the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Indonesia.
- **Carbon project leadership**: guide the formulation, feasibility, and certification of emission reduction projects under major standards (such as Verra, Gold Standard, Plan Vivo, ERS), ensuring technical excellence and market integrity.
- **Strategic advisory**: advise clients—including NGOs, private developers, and governments—on voluntary carbon markets, project structuring, and climate finance strategies aligned with evolving regional and international frameworks.
- **Business development**: identify and pursue new project opportunities, build regional networks, draft high-quality technical and commercial proposals.
- **Stakeholder engagement**: build and maintain trusted relationships with project teams, clients, government agencies, and partner organisations; represent HAMERKOP at regional forums and industry events.
- **Policy and market intelligence**: monitor and interpret climate policy, carbon market trends, and relevant legislation in Southeast Asia; provide thought leadership and contribute to knowledge sharing.
- **Team leadership**: mentor junior consultants, contribute to internal capacity building, and help shape HAMERKOP’s growing Southeast Asian practice.

**Who you are**

**Required**
- MSc in forestry, environmental science, conservation, ecology, or a related technical field.
- At least 5-10 years of professional experience in forestry, land management, or climate-related projects, with significant experience in Southeast Asia.
- Strong understanding of voluntary and compliance carbon markets, including regional mechanisms and international standards.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and report-writing skills; attention to detail and a track record of delivering high-quality outputs.
- Fluent in spoken and written English, plus a second Southeast Asian language (Bahasa Indonesia, Vietnamese, Khmer, Tagalog, or Malay).
- Exceptional orga