Careers

Offsetters is Canada’s leading carbon management solutions provider, supporting organizations in voluntary and regulated carbon markets. We provide carbon and water footprinting services, life cycle assessments, environmental and sustainability reporting, and sustainability marketing support. We also help our clients meet voluntary and compliance carbon offset obligations with our portfolio of projects, including clean technology and land based offsets from North America and around the world. 

We believe that Offsetters is the place for smart, fun and passionate people. We're a small company with lots of interesting people from a variety of backgrounds, and we all agree it's a great place to work.

Current Opportunities

• Project Analyst

Project Analyst 

Role Description

As part of the Projects Team, the Project Analyst (6 month contract position) will be responsible for assisting with the timely and efficient coordination and delivery of emission reductions projects for key clients. The Analyst may also be responsible for administrative and other support tasks, such as business development and proposal writing. This is a 6 month contract position, with the potential to grow into a permanent position.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to

• Assisting Project staff in various project management related duties.
• Technical report writing and data analysis.
• Participating in project meetings and ongoing project communication with the client
• Designing and developing voluntary and compliance market offset projects under a range of standards and frameworks
• Supporting business development, including targeted business meetings, financial analysis, proposal preparation

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or science required, with a solid understanding of chemistry and chemical processes preferred
• Experience working on industrial projects, ideally across a range of industry types, such as chemical, buildings, mining, and renewable energy
• Experience in a climate change related field, with some experience developing offset projects preferred
• Knowledge of various mitigation technologies and a passion for clean technology and identifying new climate solutions
• Good command of evolving climate policy and regulatory landscape
• Experience with corporate GHG footprints and/or product life cycle analysis preferred, but not required

Skills

• Excellent communication skills
• Collaborative: works closely with internal and external partners to generate innovative ideas and execute on projects that meet multiple stakeholders’ needs

• Demonstrates good business principles and possesses strong presentation skills
• The ability to work with minimum supervision and to make decisions that ensure the success of the deliverable
• A resourceful, proactive, and flexible systems thinker

 

Key Reporting Relationship

Reports to: Director, Clean Technology Projects

Apply: Submit CVs and Cover Letters to careers@offsetters.ca. Open until suitable applicant found.

 

Working at Offsetters

We offer a ‘holistic’ benefits package, including:

• Competitive salary and performance based bonuses
• Flexible work hours
• Health benefits package
• Flexible work location - work from home or a coffee shop or on the go when you need to
• Regular performance reviews and engagement surveys to make sure everyone is challenged and happy
• Continual learning – just keeping up with the fast changing sustainability industry keeps us all on our toes. Plus there are opportunities for conferences, webinars, seminars, etc.
• Coworkers who are passionate about the environment, their jobs, and life in general.

Values and Culture:

It sounds cheesy, but we've learned from experience that 'cultural fit' really is an important factor when hiring new team members. Our 'core values' are passion, integrity, and possibility and when we did some brainstorming about what this means, we came up with this list:

PASSION

• Commitment to the end goal, flexibility to the process
• Enthusiastic conviction
• Relentless education of ourselves and our clients and partners
• Driven, responsive

INTEGRITY

• We are true to ourselves and honest with others
• We act with courage and make hard choices
• We are open and transparent in our communication with each other
• We build relationships based on collaboration and shared values

POSSIBILITY

• We create new ways to catalyze change
• We demonstrate knowledge and willingness to learn
• We recognize opportunities and anticipate outcomes
• We inspire stakeholders
• We visualize success
• We imagine and experiment
• We get ‘er done

Offsetters provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or genetics. 

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