Senior Consultant - Carbon Markets Advisory

Management Level

Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary

At PwC, we help clients build trust and reinvent so they can turn complexity into competitive advantage. We’re a tech-forward, people-empowered network with more than 364,000 people in 136 countries and 137 territories. Across audit and assurance, tax and legal, deals and consulting, we help clients build, accelerate, and sustain momentum. Find out more at https://www.pwc.com/ke.
PwC has a presence in 22 African countries, including over 41 office locations. With more than 400 partners and 10,000 professionals across Africa, we serve some of the continent’s largest businesses across all industries.
In East Africa, our member firms work together across the East Market Area (EMA) to build trust in society and solve important problems. Our in-depth knowledge and understanding of operating environments in the region enable us to put ourselves in our clients’ shoes and offer tailored solutions to complex business and development challenges.
Within the Advisory Line of Service, our International Development and Public Sector Consulting team works with Governments, Development Partners, Financial Institutions, Non-Governmental Organizations, and the Private Sector to address key development challenges and contribute to sustainable, inclusive, and climate-resilient economic growth.

We are seeking a Senior Consultant – Carbon Markets Advisory to support delivery of client engagements across Kenya and the wider East Market Area (EMA).

This role will work with clients that are exploring or implementing projects and financing approaches linked to carbon crediting, broader climate finance, and related sustainable finance mechanisms. The work will involve assessing project opportunities, understanding market and regulatory considerations, developing project and financing-related documentation, reviewing technical and commercial viability, and supporting implementation planning. This includes work connected to carbon crediting pathways as well as wider climate and sustainability financing approaches, including thematic instruments such as green, sustainability, sustainability-linked, and transition bonds.

Assignments may cover sectors such as energy, waste, forestry, land use, transport, industry, water, agriculture, and nature-based solutions, including forest carbon, REDD+, restoration, blue carbon, and other land- and marine-based interventions. This role is suited to a professional with practical experience in carbon markets, climate-related project development, climate finance, and advisory work, and who can contribute to client-facing assignments at Senior Associate level.

Key Responsibilities

Carbon Markets Advisory

• Support delivery of client engagements related to carbon crediting opportunities, project development, and related climate finance and sustainable investment considerations.

• Help clients assess how carbon market mechanisms may apply to planned or existing projects and how these can support wider climate, financing, and investment objectives.

• Contribute to analysis of market developments, standards, pricing trends, demand drivers, regulatory changes, and financing considerations relevant to client assignments.

• Assess the commercial case for participation, including revenue potential, cost considerations, route-to-market options, implications for project viability, and links to broader capital mobilisation approaches.

• Prepare advisory inputs, technical notes, and recommendations that help clients make informed decisions.

Project Assessment and Development Support

• Screen and assess projects for potential across relevant sectors, including suitability for carbon market participation and alignment with broader sustainable financing approaches.

• Contribute to feasibility work, including review of technical, operational, financial, and implementation considerations.

• Assist in the preparation and review of project documents, including concept notes, project design inputs, baseline information, financing-related summaries, and supporting technical materials.

• Work with wider teams on project structuring, readiness assessments, and early-stage development of opportunities.

• Help clients identify practical steps needed to move project ideas toward implementation, investment readiness, and access to climate and sustainable finance instruments.

• Contribute to due diligence and risk assessment, including technical, regulatory, delivery, integrity, commercial, and reputational considerations.

Technical Analysis and Reporting

• Conduct research and analysis on methodologies, project eligibility, baseline approaches, monitoring requirements, and verification expectations.

• Contribute to work related to carbon accounting, Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) arrangements, data needs, and reporting processes.

• Review technical information and project data to assess emissions reduction or removal potential, climate relevance, and financing readiness.

• Support analysis related to sustainable finance eligibility, use-of-proceeds considerations, climate impact, and reporting expectations associated with broader financing approaches, including thematic capital market instruments.

• Prepare clear reports, presentations, briefing notes, and other client-facing outputs for both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Help clients consider integrity, transparency, and credibility issues linked to credit generation, climate finance, and market participation.

Stakeholder Engagement and Coordination

• Engage with clients, project developers, technical partners, government stakeholders, communities, financial institutions, investors, and other relevant parties involved in assignments.

• Assist in planning and facilitating meetings, consultations, workshops, and working sessions as part of project delivery.

• Gather stakeholder input and ensure that project development and financing processes take account of implementation realities, institutional roles, and stakeholder priorities.

• Work closely with multidisciplinary PwC teams to support joined-up delivery across carbon markets, climate finance, project finance, sustainability, and related areas.

Delivery Support and Quality

• Support day-to-day management of workstreams, including tracking tasks, timelines, inputs, and deliverables.

• Identify risks, issues, and information gaps that may affect delivery and escalate them where needed.

• Contribute to practical solutions to delivery challenges as part of wider project teams.

• Ensure outputs are well-structured, evidence-based, and aligned with client needs and PwC quality standards.

Business Development and Knowledge Building

• Support proposal development, market scanning, and opportunity identification for advisory work in this area.

• Contribute to internal knowledge building on project crediting approaches, climate finance topics, sustainable finance developments, and related market mechanisms.

• Develop presentations, short notes, and other materials for client discussions and business development purposes.

Preferred Skills and Competencies

• Practitioner experience in carbon markets, project development, climate finance, sustainability, environmental markets, sustainable finance, or related areas.

• Good understanding of how carbon credit market mechanisms apply across sectors such as energy, waste, forestry, land use, transport, industry, and nature-based solutions, including forest carbon, REDD+, blue carbon, and other ecosystem-based interventions.

• Knowledge of project development processes, including screening, feasibility assessment, baseline setting, monitoring approaches, and implementation planning.

• Knowledge of carbon accounting, MRV concepts, reporting requirements, and verification processes.

• Understanding of recognised standards, methodologies, and frameworks such as Verra, Gold Standard, or similar approaches, and how these shape project design, monitoring, and credit issuance pathways.

• Good grasp of developments in voluntary and compliance markets, including Article 6-related developments where relevant, as well as broader sustainable finance and climate investment trends.

• Understanding of broader climate finance and sustainable finance mechanisms, including the role of thematic bonds and sustainable debt instruments in mobilising capital for climate and sustainability investments.

• Working knowledge of thematic bonds and sustainable debt instruments, including green bonds, sustainability bonds, sustainability-linked bonds, transition bonds, and related market frameworks and principles.

• Familiarity with relevant sustainable finance frameworks and market principles, including the ICMA Green Bond Principles, Sustainability Bond Guidelines, and Sustainability-Linked Bond Principles.

• Ability to assess the financial implications of participation, including revenue assumptions, pricing scenarios, project viability considerations, and broader financing implications.

• Ability to conduct technical, market, financial, and policy analysis and turn findings into clear, practical recommendations.

• Experience preparing technical reports, project documentation, financing-related materials, and client-facing presentations.

• Good stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical groups.

• Strong analytical, organisational, and project management skills.

• Ability to work across multiple assignments, sectors, and teams in a consulting environment.

Qualifications

Master’s degree in a relevant field such as climate change, environmental management, sustainability, finance, economics, development studies, or a related discipline.

Relevant training or certification in carbon accounting, MRV, climate change, environmental markets, sustainability, sustainable finance, or related areas.

Experience

A minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in carbon markets, project development, climate-related advisory, sustainable finance, or related areas.

Demonstrated experience supporting or delivering work related to project assessment, development, technical documentation, financing support, or implementation support.

Experience in one or more of the following:

• assessing projects for market potential

• supporting feasibility or baseline studies

• contributing to project documentation for carbon-related projects

• supporting MRV, reporting, or verification-related processes

• conducting market, policy, or regulatory analysis

• supporting work related to climate finance, sustainable finance, or financing approaches linked to low-carbon or sustainability investments

• working with clients, technical experts, project developers, government stakeholders, financial institutions, investors, or implementation partners

Experience across sectors such as energy, waste, forestry, land use, transport, industry, or nature-based solutions, including forest carbon, REDD+, blue carbon, or other ecosystem-based interventions.

Experience working in advisory, consulting, development programmes, or multi-stakeholder project environments.

Application Requirements

Applicants are required to submit:

• A Curriculum Vitae (CV), no more than 4 pages. The CV should highlight relevant professional experience, key assignments undertaken, and the candidate’s specific role and contribution in each assignment.

• Academic and professional certificates and transcripts

How to Apply

PwC Kenya only processes applications submitted online and does not charge any fee at any stage of the recruitment process. Applicants are advised not to remit any funds to anyone purporting to facilitate employment in PwC Kenya.

If you are keen to grow your career your own way and to discover how a career with PwC will benefit you, please visit https://www.pwc.com/ke and apply online by 15 August 2026

Travel Requirements

Not Specified

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Job Posting End Date

August 15, 2026