Project Officer

Based in Tingo Maria or Juanjui, Peru

Full time position, local contract

Starting date: May 2025

PUR Description

PUR is a global, impact-focused B-Corp specializing in the development of environmental restoration projects, known as 'nature-based solutions' (NbS). Since 2008, we have been helping the world’s largest organizations meet their ESG targets, reduce their environmental footprint, and regenerate the ecosystems they depend on across complex supply chains. Having developed over 45 projects in more than 30 countries, PUR is recognized as both a pioneer and leader in a sector that is now at the forefront of global efforts to address the ongoing climate and biodiversity crisis.

At the heart of our mission is a commitment to fostering and operationalizing insetting strategies—interventions by companies within their own value chains designed to reduce GHG emissions while creating positive impacts for communities, landscapes, and ecosystems. By championing this insetting approach, we aim to create a holistic range of benefits that extend beyond ecological restoration, encompassing social and economic dimensions through enhanced agricultural yields and resilience to climate change-induced stresses, among others.

One of the distinctive features of our work is our ability to tailor projects to the specific needs of different regions and communities. By recognizing the unique characteristics of each ecosystem and the cultural context of the communities involved, we ensure our initiatives are contextually relevant and have a meaningful and sustainable impact. All our projects are developed in close collaboration with local actors, including cooperatives, NGOs, governments, and corporations.

Today, we employ 200 staff across 16 countries with key offices in Paris (HQ) and Toronto.

www.pur.co

Industry Description

PUR operates within the dynamic and rapidly evolving sector of environmental consultancy services and nature-based solutions markets. These markets are closely linked with the voluntary carbon markets (VCM) when NbS projects produce carbon credits that can be traded on the VCM. The NbS market has recently gained traction as society recognizes the invaluable services provided by nature and the need to preserve, restore, and harness these services to mitigate and adapt to environmental challenges. To be considered a nature-based solution, projects must effectively address real societal challenges and offer strong environmental, economic, and social benefits for local communities.

Market KPIs:

• If combined with deep decarbonization efforts, NbS projects could provide up to 30% of the mitigation needed to limit global warming to 1.5ºC above pre-industrial levels by 2030 (World Economic Forum, 2023)
• NbS project credits make up the largest volumes of carbon credits available in the VCM (voluntary carbon markets ) with $9bn invested between 2020 and 2022 (Sylvera, 2023)
• In 2021, the VCM was estimated to be worth $2 billion, four times its 2020 value. By 2030, the market is expected to reach $10 to $40 billion (BCG, 2022).
• 5,307 companies have set science-based targets - a 4.2x increase since 2022 – and a significant driver of demand within the NbS and VCM markets (SBTi, 2024)

SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES

The main role of a Project Officer at PUR is to coordinate and monitor launched projects with the objective to drive positive impact in the projects’ landscape, coordinating PUR teams and external partners to leverage technical expertise, field knowledge and data insights.

S/he is responsible for the subprojects’ successful roll out, i.e.meeting quantitative and qualitative targets in time while ensuring that the project budget is respected, until the end of the project. S/he works hand in hand with Project and Data team members, KAMs and Specialists.

The Project Officer’s main responsibilities are:

• Project management (coordinate, supervise and monitor)
• Stakeholders management (Engage and train)
• Internal coordination & reporting during the project implementation
• Team management & administration for implementing partners

S/he supports other teams in 3 main areas:

• Project design (validation of retro planning, financial and human resources)
• Reporting to internal and external audiences
• Representing PUR’s operational expertise in external events when needed
  (meetings, webinars, conferences)

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

The main individual responsibilities will be, but not limited to:

INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITIES :

Project Management

• Coordinate and manage the project’s quantitative & qualitative targets and the chronogram to meet them.
• Train field partners on reporting and monitoring tools needed to execute the project and measure project impacts.
• Implement a quality control plan: ensure regular contract verification from the desk and in the field according to the continuous verification protocols
• Review and validate project deliverables before approving technical and financial reports.
• Contribute to the Adaptive Management process by leveraging data analysis and feedback from internal & external stakeholders (clients, partners, farmers). Contribute to challenge and adjust the project design annually using your technical expertise and your operational experience, to enhance the project’s permanence.
• Monitor budgets to enable informed decision-making and keep control on costs.
• Contribute to the development of communication and marketing content.
• Coordinate and monitor the implementation of data collection with local partners and local teams, providing training when necessary.

Internal coordination & reporting

• Ensure that the subproject data is validated in time and that qualitative reports are available to enable the timely reporting to internal & external stakeholders
• Coordinate the local partner’s team and PUR teams (Data, KAMs, Carbon, Specialists, Controlling, etc.) to ensure the successful roll-out of the project
• Provide feedback to managers, team members and other colleagues to improve proceedings and enhance collaboration

Stakeholders Management

• Contribute to the negotiation of contracts signed with the implementing partners, with the support and review of the PM and Legal team
• Supervise & work with local partners (cooperatives, associations, farmers, implementing partners
• Organize regular meetings with the partners, leveraging data analysis and insights, to co-build adaptive management plans and enable agile decision-making
• Train the implementing partners’ teams on PUR methodologies, and provide timely feedback to implementing partners to improve project proceedings
• Organize consultation and information-sharing events with local stakeholders (incl. FPIC process)
  Administration
• Monitor the financial cashflows of local partners.
• Communicate to the finance team if there is any delay.
• Accountable for own use of the company tools (ex. Timesheets, ERP, etc.), providing guidance and validating timesheets, expense reports, letters of mission, etc.
• Use own expertise to provide feedback for tool improvement