Reporting Coordinator

About us

Acting to combat climate change is one of the world's most pressing challenges. Climate Friendly was founded in 2003 as a profit-for-purpose business. Our growing team is passionate about active land management, and we are focused on finding economically viable solutions to maximise our impact on climate change.

We are one of Australia's largest and most experienced carbon farming project developers. This includes more than 160 projects with farmers, plantation managers, agribusiness, and Indigenous groups on carbon farming projects.

Climate Friendly has delivered over 20Mt in carbon abatement as at the end of 2020. Our immediate mission is to establish partnerships, by 2025, that will store or reduce 150Mt of CO2-e, while repairing nature and supporting reconciliation. Join our team and you will be helping to build A productive, sustainable land sector that contributes to a zero net emissions & nature positive Australia by 2050

We have a genuinely friendly and supportive culture where everyone has a voice and opportunity to help shape our future and to fulfil our purpose.

The role

As Reporting Coordinator you will work within a small team to deliver technical reports and support the issuance of Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) for a portfolio of existing and developing carbon farming projects.

The role leads projects through the reporting process, including preparing offsets reports for second and subsequent reporting periods, performing quality assurance on key input data, and updating grazing trackers and project monitoring information. It involves quality checking technical products received from the Spatial Team to determine abatement results, drafting offsets reports and report packs for HIR, Avoided Deforestation, and Savanna Burning projects, and assisting with the reporting of Environmental Plantings and Plantation Forestry projects.

The position also provides additional support for other aspects of the project reporting process as required.

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Developing second and subsequent offsets reports, reporting packs, and responses to Clean Energy regulator (CER) Requests For Information (RFIs) as appropriate.
• Assisting in submitting relevant forms and key communications to the Clean Energy Regulator
• Drafting and reviewing project abatement forecasts, as required
• Acquiring project monitoring data in a timely fashion, and updating grazing trackers for each project
• Liaising with other internal teams, Project managers, and project proponents, to ensure Climate Friendly complies with reporting timelines for meeting obligations under delivery contracts, Service Agreements, and legislative requirements
• Ensuring the accurate and timely documentation of project information in the Climate Friendly CRM, including CER requests for further information and responses provided.
• Analysing legislation as required to provide guidance to the CER which supports signoff on submitted reports and issuance
• Supporting team process improvement projects

About you

Essential

• Skilled in report writing, MS Excel, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) such as QGIS
• Very high attention to detail, or experience in quality assurance/quality control processes
• Ability to work on multiple, complex projects at the same time, which may all be at different stages of the reporting cycle
• Experience in research and analysis of legislation
• Ability to perform well under tight, sometimes self-imposed deadlines
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work unsupervised, yet as part of a small team

Desirable

• Familiarity with abatement modelling, such as the Reforestation Modelling Tool (RMT) and/or Full Carbon Accounting Model (FullCAM)
• Background in forestry or other environmental fields
• Knowledge about the agricultural sector
• Familiarity with the Emissions Reduction Fund

Climate Friendly encourages people from different backgrounds to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from different cultural backgrounds and people with disabilities.

Why join our team?

Our goal is to be seen as an organisation that supports wholeness, lifestyle and wellbeing whilst rewarding individual and collective performance. In addition to competitive salary and transparent career progression opportunities, our benefits include:

• Work with purpose, contributing to a productive, sustainable land sector that contributes to a zero net emissions and nature positive Australia by 2050
• A fully hybrid workplace - work to your own rhythm and balance connection and productivity
• A supportive and inclusive environment that promotes diversity
• 2 all staff events a year to connect with your friends and colleagues
• Christmas holiday - 3 days of additional leave each year
• Floating public holidays
• Gender neutral paid parental leave
• 2 days each year for training / development / study leave
• Home office setup and refresh allowance
• Company performance bonus and shared equity