Role Overview
As a Senior Consultant in Carbon Markets Advisory at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), you will support the delivery of client engagements related to carbon crediting opportunities, project development, climate finance, and sustainable investment considerations. The role involves assessing how carbon market mechanisms apply to planned or existing projects, conducting technical and market analysis, preparing advisory inputs, engaging stakeholders, and supporting business development in the climate and sustainable finance space.
Key Responsibilities
Carbon Markets Advisory
- Support delivery of client engagements related to carbon crediting opportunities, project development, and related climate finance and sustainable investment considerations.
- Help clients assess how carbon market mechanisms may apply to planned or existing projects and how these can support wider climate, financing, and investment objectives.
- Contribute to analysis of market developments, standards, pricing trends, demand drivers, regulatory changes, and financing considerations relevant to client assignments.
- Assess the commercial case for participation, including revenue potential, cost considerations, route-to-market options, implications for project viability, and links to broader capital mobilisation approaches.
- Prepare advisory inputs, technical notes, and recommendations that help clients make informed decisions.
Project Assessment and Development Support
- Screen and assess projects for potential across relevant sectors, including suitability for carbon market participation and alignment with broader sustainable financing approaches.
- Contribute to feasibility work, including review of technical, operational, financial, and implementation considerations.
- Assist in the preparation and review of project documents, including concept notes, project design inputs, baseline information, financing-related summaries, and supporting technical materials.
- Work with wider teams on project structuring, readiness assessments, and early-stage development of opportunities.
- Help clients identify practical steps needed to move project ideas toward implementation, investment readiness, and access to climate and sustainable finance instruments.
- Contribute to due diligence and risk assessment, including technical, regulatory, delivery, integrity, commercial, and reputational considerations.
Technical Analysis and Reporting
- Conduct research and analysis on methodologies, project eligibility, baseline approaches, monitoring requirements, and verification expectations.
- Contribute to work related to carbon accounting, Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) arrangements, data needs, and reporting processes.
- Review technical information and project data to assess emissions reduction or removal potential, climate relevance, and financing readiness.
- Support analysis related to sustainable finance eligibility, use-of-proceeds considerations, climate impact, and reporting expectations associated with broader financing approaches, including thematic capital market instruments.
- Prepare clear reports, presentations, briefing notes, and other client-facing outputs for both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Help clients consider integrity, transparency, and credibility issues linked to credit generation, climate finance, and market participation.
Stakeholder Engagement and Coordination
- Engage with clients, project developers, technical partners, government stakeholders, communities, financial institutions, investors, and other relevant parties involved in assignments.
- Assist in planning and facilitating meetings, consultations, workshops, and working sessions as part of project delivery.
- Gather stakeholder input and ensure that project development and financing processes take account of implementation realities, institutional roles, and stakeholder priorities.
- Work closely with multidisciplinary PwC teams to support joined-up delivery across carbon markets, climate finance, project finance, sustainability, and related areas.
Delivery Support and Quality
- Support day-to-day management of workstreams, including tracking tasks, timelines, inputs, and deliverables.
- Identify risks, issues, and information gaps that may affect delivery and escalate them where needed.
- Contribute to practical solutions to delivery challenges as part of wider project teams.
- Ensure outputs are well-structured, evidence-based, and aligned with client needs and PwC quality standards.
Business Development and Knowledge Building
- Support proposal development, market scanning, and opportunity identification for advisory work in this area.
- Contribute to internal knowledge building on project crediting approaches, climate finance topics, sustainable finance developments, and related market mechanisms.
- Develop presentations, short notes, and other materials for client discussions and business development purposes.
Preferred Skills and Competencies
- Practitioner experience in carbon markets, project development, climate finance, sustainability, environmental markets, sustainable finance, or related areas.
- Good understanding of how carbon credit market mechanisms apply across sectors such as energy, waste, forestry, land use, transport, industry, and nature-based solutions, including forest carbon, REDD+, blue carbon, and other ecosystem-based interventions.
- Knowledge of project development processes, including screening, feasibility assessment, baseline setting, monitoring approaches, and implementation planning.
- Knowledge of carbon accounting, MRV concepts, reporting requirements, and verification processes.
- Understanding of recognised standards, methodologies, and frameworks such as Verra, Gold Standard, or similar approaches, and how these shape project design, monitoring, and credit issuance pathways.
- Good grasp of developments in voluntary and compliance markets, including Article 6-related developments where relevant, as well as broader sustainable finance and climate investment trends.
- Understanding of broader climate finance and sustainable finance mechanisms, including the role of thematic bonds and sustainable debt instruments in mobilising capital for climate and sustainability investments.
- Working knowledge of thematic bonds and sustainable debt instruments, including green bonds, sustainability bonds, sustainability-linked bonds, transition bonds, and related market frameworks and principles.
- Familiarity with relevant sustainable finance frameworks and market principles, including the ICMA Green Bond Principles, Sustainability Bond Guidelines, and Sustainability-Linked Bond Principles.
- Ability to assess the financial implications of participation, including revenue assumptions, pricing scenarios, project viability considerations, and broader financing implications.
- Ability to conduct technical, market, financial, and policy analysis and turn findings into clear, practical recommendations.
- Experience preparing technical reports, project documentation, financing-related materials, and client-facing presentations.
- Good stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical groups.
- Strong analytical, organisational, and project management skills.
- Ability to work across multiple assignments, sectors, and teams in a consulting environment.
Qualifications and Experience
- Master’s degree in a relevant field such as climate change, environmental management, sustainability, finance, economics, development studies, or a related discipline.
- Relevant training or certification in carbon accounting, MRV, climate change, environmental markets, sustainability, sustainable finance, or related areas.
- A minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in carbon markets, project development, climate-related advisory, sustainable finance, or related areas.
- Demonstrated experience supporting or delivering work related to project assessment, development, technical documentation, financing support, or implementation support.
- Experience working in advisory, consulting, development programmes, or multi-stakeholder project environments.
