Carbon Accounting Support Officer

The purpose of the job is for the Carbon Accounting Support Officer to contribute to reducing MSF’s impact on climate and the environment. This includes calculating carbon emissions and providing practical assistance to all MSF Institutional Members. The Support Carbon Accountant also aims to improve efficiency and cohesion by streamlining and consolidating efforts across different MSF entities. Additionally, she/he assists the Carbon Accounting Referent in creating a centralized, standardized, and high-quality database of carbon and environmental data.

Key Accountabilities:

• Improved data collection and quality within OCs, ESCs, and PSs.
• Accurate carbon footprint calculation for entities without dedicated accountants.
• Effective guidance for accurate carbon emissions calculation and compliance.
• Comprehensive analysis at entity level.
• Timely reporting, compliance with methodology, and facilitated meetings for efficient data collection and analysis.

Activities:

• Assist OCs, ESCs, and PSs in their data collection for calculating carbon emissions while striving to enhance the quality of the data collected.
• Calculate the carbon footprint for those OCs, ESCs, and PSs that do not have a dedicated carbon accountant.
• Provide guidance to OCs, ESCs, and PSs with a carbon accountant on calculating carbon emissions as needed.
• Actively contributes to the automation of carbon footprint calculations at the movement level.
• Support the analysis of carbon emissions and environmental data at the entity level.
• Assist OCs in collecting, analysing, and reporting on carbon emissions and environmental data, considering their specific requirements.
• Ensure that local reporting adheres to the agreed MSF-wide carbon accounting methodology.
• Attend meetings organized for IMs to facilitate the collection, calculation, analysis, and reporting of carbon and environmental data.

Facilitation role:

• Enhanced collaboration and knowledge sharing among IMs.
• Improved integration of carbon accounting into decision-making.
• Collaborated with Carbon Accounting Referent to refine framework.
• Communication of methodology updates.
• Provided progress reports to Carbon Accounting Referent on data collection and analysis outcomes.

Activities:

• Foster collaboration and sharing of carbon accounting practices among IMs.
• Support the Community of Practice for carbon accounting.
• Assist IMs in integrating carbon accounting into steering actions and decision-making processes.
• Collaborate with the Carbon Accounting Referent on refining the carbon accounting framework, incorporating IMs’ perspectives.
• Communicate updates on the carbon accounting methodology from the Carbon Accounting Referent to IMs.
• Provide progress reports to the Carbon Accounting Referent on data collection, carbon emissions calculations, and entity-level analysis outcomes.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in environmental management, environmental science, sustainability, economics, business management, finance or a similar discipline.
• Previous professional experience of carbon accounting of at least 1 year.
• Experience with MSF or any other NGO either at HQ and/or in the Field, is an asset.
• Experience in GHG accounting.
• Practical experience with managing big data volumes, with different levels of completeness and quality.
• Working experience with Power BI reports and data collection from multiple sources.
• Excellent analytical skills.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Strong organizational skills, ability to handle multiple priorities at the same time.
• Demonstrates independent initiative, drive for change and improvement.
• Cooperating with people / achieve acceptance of actions / changing behaviour of others (courtesy, tact, inform, argue, develop, motivate, inspire…)
• Excellent communication skills, assertiveness, negotiation and influencing skills.
• Ability to work in a cross-cultural and cross-functional environment.
• Team player with strong customer orientation.
• This includes proficiency in standard office tools such as Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Power BI, and data management tools,
• Fluency in spoken and written English, with a good command of French being advantageous,
• Willingness to travel as needed.

Source: https://msf.recruitee.com/o/carbon-accounting-support-officer