Mangrove and Blue Carbon Analyst

Package: Competitive, details available as part of the interview process

Location: Remote, international. Applicants encouraged from Central or Southern America. 

Employee or contractor roles considered depending on location.

Summary:

RePLANET is rebuilding nature. We are a global leader in the design and delivery of large-scale nature restoration projects. By unlocking private sector funding through carbon and biodiversity credits, we create projects that not only restore ecosystems but also generate significant social co-benefits for communities worldwide.

The Mangrove & Blue Carbon Analyst will join our Project Development team to help design and implement cutting-edge mangrove restoration strategies. Our key projects are primarily based in Central and South America, with scope to expand globally. Working closely with our teams in our UK headquarters and locally, you will ensure our projects are grounded in best-practice science and methodologies, delivering impact for both climate and biodiversity.

This is a hands-on, analytical role requiring expertise in blue carbon methodologies, scenario modelling, emissions and sequestration calculations, and MRV (Monitoring, Reporting, Verification) processes. The successful candidate will play a central role in safeguarding the technical integrity of our carbon accounting and ensuring projects meet the highest market standards.

Key Responsibilities

Blue Carbon Analytics

Conduct carbon modelling and data analysis (stocks, SOC, biomass growth, leakage, uncertainty), and lead tidal hydrology modelling and hydrological restoration design.

Methodologies & Compliance

Apply and monitor updates to carbon market standards (e.g., VM0033), ensuring projects remain compliant, credible, and best-in-class.

Certification & Documentation

Support projects from feasibility through validation and verification, preparing Project Design Documents (PDDs), monitoring reports, and submissions to standards (e.g., VERRA).

Project Design & Implementation

Contribute to the development of mangrove restoration strategies, operational analytics, internal SOPs, and analytical tools for carbon project assessment.

Monitoring, Reporting & Verification (MRV)

Design monitoring strategies for long-term carbon benefits, including GIS and remote sensing analyses of land use, cover change, and biomass estimation.

Stakeholder Engagement

Work closely with project partners, auditors (VVBs), and internal teams to support validation, verification, and due diligence processes.

Experience:

• Practical experience in planning and implementing mangrove restoration projects.
• Expertise in mangrove ecosystem analysis, including carbon stock assessment and restoration success evaluation.
• Proficiency in blue carbon assessment techniques and mangrove carbon modelling.
• Knowledge of tidal pattern analysis and hydrological restoration in coastal/tidal settings, including use of hydrological modelling software.
• Familiarity with carbon certification processes (e.g., VERRA, Plan Vivo) and carbon accounting methodologies (e.g., VM0033, VM0007, Gold Standard mangrove, VM0024, ACR, SCM0010).
• Experience preparing or reviewing technical project documentation (e.g., PDDs, MRVs, baselines).
• Strong analytical and data modelling skills, including biomass, carbon stock, and soil carbon estimation.
• Proficiency in coastal remote sensing (e.g., SAR, hyperspectral).
• Knowledge of aquaculture and its interaction with mangrove systems.
• Experience engaging with VVBs and supporting validation/verification audits.
• Marine fieldwork competencies and water safety skills.
• Proven ability to deliver multi-stakeholder projects to agreed contracts, targets, and budgets.

Skills and Knowledge:

• Strong written and verbal English and Spanish
• Ability to analyse and evaluate data and other evidence to inform decisions
• Understanding of core concepts, best practices and technologies and approaches related to Mangrove Restoration & Blue Carbon
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office tools and setup
• Basic understanding of a programming language (e.g. R, Python, Java)
• Familiarity with core concepts from carbon accreditation, such as additionality, leakage and dynamic baselines is beneficial

Personal Attributes:

• Ability to manage workloads self-sufficiently
• Strong interpersonal skills to manage internal and external relationships
• Ability to work in a team both in-person and remotely
• Freedom to travel overseas for periods of time
• Ability to write clearly, accurately and concisely whilst working towards tight deadlines
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced working environment and able to adapt with the evolution of the business.
• Demonstrable interest in the protection and restoration of species, habitats and ecosystems through the stimulation of private finance

Qualifications

• Undergraduate or Higher (Masters or PhD) degree in a relevant discipline

Working Arrangements

Working arrangements will differ depending on the location of the successful applicant.

rePLANET works on projects around the world and there is an expectation that all staff are prepared to work for extended periods in the field, including overseas.

About rePLANET

rePLANET is a purpose-driven company restoring and protecting ecosystems at scale by unlocking private sector finance. Founded in 2021, we have rapidly become one of the most trusted and innovative project developers in the fast-growing nature-based solutions sector.

Our mission is to restore and conserve vital ecosystems by designing and managing landscape-scale projects that generate verified carbon and biodiversity credits. Central to our approach is a commitment to equity and inclusion: at least 60% of project revenues are reinvested directly into local communities and stakeholders, ensuring ecological recovery delivers lasting benefits for both people and planet.

Backed by significant equity investment, rePLANET is scaling a diverse global portfolio, including:

• Tropical forest restoration and the creation of wildlife corridors on degraded cattle pastures using regenerative practices.
• Mangrove recovery, transforming abandoned or underutilised shrimp ponds while integrating sustainable aquaculture.
• Agroforestry innovation, repurposing stranded timber plantations and replacing end-of-life crops, with set-asides to restore native habitats and biodiversity corridors.
• Biodiversity led projects are projects where carbon funding alone is insufficient to fund the project and an additional biodiversity credit income stream is needed

With projects underway in Indonesia, Costa Rica, Panama, Mexico, Colombia, and Argentina; rePLANET is at the forefront of delivering scalable, high-integrity nature restoration solutions. Our expertise in project development and our technically-robust, science-driven methodologies are recognised globally, positioning us as a leading actor in this critical and rapidly evolving sector.