Mangrove Restoration Specialist - MRV

Responsibilities

Own the in-country technical and MRV execution for the Keta Blue mangrove restoration project, ensuring compliance with approved carbon methodologies, monitoring plans, Terraformation standards, and mangrove restoration best practices.

Provide technical guidance on mangrove restoration design and implementation, including site assessment, species selection, hydrology, planting approaches, maintenance, and adaptive management.

Translate project designs, technical standards, carbon-monitoring protocols, and sampling methodologies into practical field implementation plans for Terraformation staff, implementing partners, and contractors.

Maintain a strong field presence to assess restoration performance, verify adherence to protocols, identify technical, ecological, and data-quality risks, and oversee corrective actions.

Familiarity with Verra VM0033 Methodology for Mangrove Restoration or equivalent blue carbon methodology, including carbon monitoring requirements, sampling design, allometric equations, and verification documentation standards.

Oversee the collection, validation, and submission of field data supporting carbon accounting, including survival, growth, and ecological data.

Own spatial data quality and integrity across field implementation and verification, including maintaining accurate field GIS records, ensuring spatial evidence is traceable and audit-ready, and coordinating geospatial data collection with field teams.

Establish quality assurance and quality control processes that ensure field data is complete, accurate, auditable, and compliant with applicable carbon standards.

Coordinate and provide technical direction to local partners, field technicians, consultants, survey teams, and contractors.

Train and coach implementing partners and field teams on mangrove restoration practices, MRV protocols, data-collection tools, sampling procedures, monitoring schedules, and technical documentation to ensure consistent implementation of carbon monitoring requirements.

Work cross-functionally with Ghana-based project, safeguards, partner-quality, and country leadership teams to integrate monitoring requirements into project plans, budgets, schedules, partner workplans, and reporting cycles.

Identify technical and data-integrity issues affecting restoration performance or carbon monitoring, and implement corrective actions or escalate material risks when appropriate.

Support third-party validation and verification audits by ensuring MRV records, field evidence, and technical documentation are complete, traceable, and audit-ready.

Capture field lessons and use them to continuously improve Keta Blue’s restoration practices, partner capabilities, and Terraformation’s broader mangrove and MRV standards.

Minimum Qualifications

Must be willing to spend up to 50% of their time onsite. 

7+ years of relevant technical experience in mangrove restoration and conservation, coastal ecology, forest carbon, environmental monitoring, or a related technical field.

Demonstrated field experience designing, implementing, or overseeing mangrove restoration, including site assessment, hydrology, species selection, planting, maintenance, and performance monitoring.

Demonstrated experience implementing MRV systems for forest-carbon, mangrove restoration, or other nature-based projects.

Strong knowledge of field-monitoring protocols, sampling methodologies, ecological and geospatial data collection, data-quality assurance, and technical documentation across large or remote project areas.

Experience translating technical designs and standards into practical field guidance for implementing partners, field teams, consultants, and contractors.

Demonstrated ability to identify restoration, ecological, or data-quality issues, conduct root-cause analysis, and implement corrective actions.

Experience training and strengthening the technical capabilities of implementing partners and field teams.

Demonstrated GIS competency, including field data collection, spatial data management, and producing audit-ready geospatial evidence.

Strong data-management and analytical skills, including proficiency with spreadsheets and experience using field data-collection platforms, databases, or project-monitoring software.

Master's degree or equivalent technical field experience in mangrove restoration, coastal ecology, or a related discipline.

Fluent in English. Professional proficiency in Ewe is strongly preferred.