Varaha is hiring a Carbon Methodology Specialist (AFOLU) to lead the technical development and registration of agricultural carbon projects under Verra (VCS), Gold Standard, and Isometric. Our AFOLU portfolio spans rice methane, regenerative agriculture (soil carbon and emissions reductions), and agroforestry across India, South & Southeast Asia, and Africa.

This is a methodology-and-documentation role at its core. You will translate field data and management-practice changes into audit-ready carbon documentation, author the PDDs and Monitoring Reports that carry each project through registration, and serve as the primary PDD-level interface with Validation and Verification Bodies (VVBs). The value you bring is methodological command, defensible technical writing, and precision — the ability to produce documents that survive VVB scrutiny with minimal rework.

You will coordinate across Varaha's Project, Science, Technology, and Commercial teams and represent Varaha to registries and VVBs, but the center of gravity is the rigor and clarity of what goes into the registry,



not delivery logistics.

What You Will Own

End-to-end authorship of Project Design Documents (PDDs) and Monitoring Reports (MRs) under methodologies including VM0042 (Improved Agricultural Land Management), VM0047 (ARR), VM0051 (Rice Methane), the Isometric Rice Methane Reduction protocol, and equivalent Gold Standard methodologies.
Correct interpretation and application of methodology requirements to project-specific contexts — baseline construction, additionality demonstration, leakage assessment, and integration of ex-ante and ex-post quantification outputs from the Science team into PDDs and MRs.
Direct VVB engagement on PDD- and MR-level Corrective Action Requests (CARs), Clarification Requests (CLs), and Forward Action Requests (FARs) drafting logical, defensible responses that close audit findings quickly; coordination with the Modeling Lead on model-specific queries.
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📌 Carbon Methodology Specialist (India)
🏢 Varaha
📍 India