Carbon Analyst

**About Us**
- Santos provides reliable, affordable energy for progress and seeks to provide lower carbon energy over time.

Santos is a global energy company with operations across Australia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste and the United States.

At Santos, our goal is to be a global leader in the energy evolution to low-carbon fuels that help the world decarbonise and continue to provide the reliable, affordable energy the world needs for modern life and human progress.

Santos is an important Australian domestic gas supplier and LNG supplier in Asia. We are committed to supplying critical fuels such as oil and gas, and abating emissions through carbon capture and storage, energy efficiency projects, use of renewables in our operations and high-quality offsets. Santos will also seek to develop low-carbon fuels as customer demand evolves.

For 70 years, Santos has been working in partnership with local communities, providing jobs and business opportunities, safely developing natural gas resources and from there powering industries and households.

Santos seeks to deliver long-term value to shareholders through our diverse portfolio of high-quality, long-life, low-cost oil and gas assets, carbon storage resources and infrastructure.

The Santos portfolio is value accretive and resilient across a range of decarbonisation scenarios. Santos has a climate transition action plan that will continue to evolve for the global energy evolution.

Santos has a regional operating model with a strong local focus. The Company’s operating structure comprises three regional business units focused on enabling and executing corporate strategy. Two divisions - Santos Energy Solutions and Santos Upstream Gas and Liquids - are accountable for global portfolio management and strategy.

**About the Role**
- Are you looking for a rewarding career in the oil and gas industry?

Do you aspire to be in a role where you can contribute to achieving Net Zero?

Santos is on the lookout for a Carbon Analyst to be part of our Carbon Solutions Department. This role will be critical to strengthen and support the programs underway to deliver on Santos’ 2040 vision and the Carbon Solutions carbon credit portfolio.

The key objective of this position is to provide spatial analysis and support for the origination, development and operations of nature and land-based carbon projects globally. The role will primarily involve analysis of spatial data to confirm eligibility of carbon projects and to calculate / verify potential carbon credit projects.

Key accountabilities include:

- Spatial analysis and assessment of potential carbon credit projects under the Australian ACCU Scheme and other recognised international standards / bodies e.g. Gold Standard and Verra
- Conduct spatial due diligence on existing carbon projects and their potential for credit delivery
- Assist in providing carbon credit yield estimates and delivery profiles using methodology determinations and standards
- Assist in developing and supplying metrics associated with land use performance and report this data appropriately through Carbon Solutions and the Santos business
- Maintain Carbon Solutions’ database of norms for nature opportunities
- Create and manage a geospatial data library from both internal and external data sources
- Assist in the delivery of mapping requests for the Carbon Solutions business to support internal and external reporting and presentations
- Assistance in discussions and the provisions of data to project auditors and verification bodies as required

**About You**
- To stand out for this role, it is essential that you have demonstrated skills and experience in:

- Expertise and direct experience with GIS software MapInfo, ArcGIS and QGIS including analysis of large raster datasets that involve forestry and land use; experience with other spatial analytics software is good to have
- Strong communication skills to liaise with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders

Other desirable experience for this role includes:

- Working in the carbon farming industry either as a project originator/developer, auditor, regulator or consultant
- Knowledge of ACCU scheme methods and their relevant eligibility
- It is essential that you have relevant tertiary qualifications, preferably in forestry, geospatial or environmental sciences. Qualification or knowledge of remote sensing analytics and / or photogrammetry are desirable.

**Supporting a Diverse Workforce**
- Santos acknowledges that we operate on the traditional lands of Aboriginal people. We recognise the traditional rights to maintain the culture, identities, traditions, and customs on their country. We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome - they are essential to our ongoing success.
- We treat each other fair