Carbon Product Associate

401 9th Avenue SW, Suite 1930 Calgary Alberta,T2P 3C5

BMO Capital Markets is a leading, full-service financial services provider. We offer corporate and investment banking, treasury management, as well as research and advisory services to clients around the world. #bmocapitalmarkets

BMO Radicle is advertising for 3 open positions with a common skills and experience profile across the Credit Development Service, to be based in either a specific technical product portfolio (e.g. Methane, Low Carbon Fuels, Carbon Capture & Storage) or the Client Success team (working directly with internal stakeholders and corporate clients) to deliver successful carbon offset instruments.

**What kind of team member we are looking for (and what kind of team you will be joining)**:

- Detailed, and interested in the technical aspects of everything
- Curious, savvy, and ready to take on novel tasks and projects
- Calm and honest in the face of multiple deadlines and drivers
- Open-minded and willing to learn new tasks and initiatives
- A solution-oriented initiator, and a driver of change and progress

**More about the teams**

**Client Success Team**:
The Client Success Team’s objectives are to deliver an exceptional client experience to maximize client retention, enhance and inform the success of new and existing product development, and drive consistent revenue growth from existing products.

**Portfolio Teams**:
The Product Portfolio Teams each manage a portfolio of profitable emission reduction/removal monetization products across their lifecycle from ideation, piloting, scaling and sunsetting in alignment with firm-wide and Credit Development Service strategies, and in collaboration with Client Success, Operational Excellence & Technology, Sales, and other business units.

**Core expectations and responsibilities of the role**
- Be client obsessed - understand that our clients are at the center of everything we do, and build systems, structures, tools and product collateral that optimizes our clients’ experience and meets or exceeds the expectations
- Ability to manage competing priorities effectively and work both independently and collaboratively as needed
- Be an active member of a motivated, engaged, and positive team environment.
- Collaborate with system users and stakeholders to be able to understand challenges with existing processes and continually work towards better processes and systems
- Provide mentorship to junior team members, helping to shape their professional progression.
- Contribute to project verification activities, including addressing technical and client-related questions/ issues identified by third-party verification bodies
- Analyze and QA/QC data, execute on program monitoring, reporting, and auditing requirements
- Provide technical (technological, regulatory, project management) insight to assist the scaling of carbon credit development products by identifying risks and opportunities

**Experience and Skills**:

- Minimum of 5 years of experience in greenhouse gas reduction projects, carbon credit markets, emissions management, and/or related fields
- Proven experience with project management/implementation success across multiple stakeholders and/or jurisdictions
- Strong technical, engineering or scientific background (chemical/mechanical engineering, petroleum engineering/diploma, environmental sciences/engineering, instrumentation, environmental chemistry, etc.) or demonstrated economics experience in environmental commodities markets
- Strong written and verbal communication skills across cross-disciplined and cross-functional stakeholder groups
- Understanding of all stages of the product development and offset credit development lifecycle (including ideation, business planning, credit delivery, and all other related stages)
- Ability to review technical carbon offset policy documentation and extract and document key information
- Experience delivering complex projects on time and within budget
- Demonstrated experience in North American policy which impacts offset project development opportunities.
- Previous carbon advisory experience is a plus - see example/keywords below.

**Additional desired skills and experiences**
- Familiarity with jurisdictional and sectoral standards and regulations in one or more product areas (Methane, Low Carbon Fuels, Carbon Capture & Storage)
- Examples/Keywords: GHG, Energy Transition, Sustainability, TIER, NPRI, GHGRP, OBPS, CFR, LCFS, WCI, RFS, ETS, VCM, ICVCM, VCMI, ICROA, CDR, CAR, ACR, MRV/MMV
- Collaboration on the creation of effective system requirements documentation for Software Development and participating in software development cycles
- Authoring Offset Project Plans/Project Design documents and policy documentation to guide internal stakeholders and inform third-party verification work
- Participation in strategy development on new projects to identify key components of a winning strategy
- Development of KPIs and product goals
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