(6 months project base or freelance)
Profile
We are looking for a highly climate-ambitious person to bring structure, clarity and CRCF-aligned professionalism to all core methodology related processes within Oncra.
Oncra.org is a nature-based carbon removal certification service and financing platform built to align fully with the EU Carbon Removal Certification Framework (CRCF). It provides a standard and automated system for quantification, certification and registration of carbon removal projects of any size. Oncra empowers farmers, builders and innovators to access carbon removal markets and scale regenerative climate solutions.
You will coordinate and optimise workflows across the organisation, ensuring that Oncra’s operations, standards and platform design fully align with the EU Carbon Removal Certification Framework (CRCF), ICROA, and ICVCM.
Supported by Oncra team, management, the Climate Cleanup board, and working closely with the team and network, you translate strategy and regulatory requirements into practical processes. You love regulatory red tape and thrive with structure and structural simplification. You are responsible for mapping, improving and implementing procedures that enable Oncra to scale as the global leader in nature-based carbon removal accounting.
Your role is central to ensuring quality, compliance, transparency and operational excellence as Oncra develops into the “Uber of carbon removal accounting.”
Vision: Empowering Nature-Based Carbon Removal
In five years, Oncra will be the global leader in financing nature-based carbon removal solutions in the voluntary market. Our vision is to revolutionise the market by becoming the “Uber of carbon removal accounting.” We will provide a seamless process and standard, based on the EU carbon removal regulation (CRCF), that connects entrepreneurs and organisations of all sizes with the financial resources they need to scale effective carbon removal projects.
From small-scale farmers managing a single hectare to large-scale builders and innovators, Oncra will enable access to carbon removal markets and policies. For construction sector actors, Oncra will enable the swift transition from concrete to biobased building. Oncra further enables innovators in enhanced rock weathering and ocean-based blue carbon innovations. Our rigorous, efficient, and highly automated processes will set the industry standard, making it easier than ever to participate. By facilitating the valorisation of nature-based solutions, Oncra will play a pivotal role in shifting resources from fossil fuel-based systems to regenerative practices. Through these efforts, we will catalyse a global movement creating a sustainable and resilient future for all.
Responsibilities
Organisation coordination
- Evaluating and mapping workflows and translating CRCF/ICROA requirements (MRV, reporting, permanence, sustainability) into simple standard procedures.
- Co-developing process guidelines that ensure professional quality and regulatory alignment.
- Improving and implementing operational processes based on strategic and CRCF-driven decisions.
- Facilitating internal and external communications to ensure alignment with removers, verifiers and other stakeholders.
Requirements and skills
- Passionate about Nature Based Solutions and reversing climate change.
- Understanding of organisational structures, systems thinking and strategy translation.
- Experience with process development, operational optimisation or quality systems (startups/scale-ups preferred).
- Familiarity with carbon removal, climate policy, MRV or certification systems; affinity with the CRCF, ICROA or ICVCM and ability to master it quickly.
- Proficient in Dutch and English.
- Detail-oriented while flexible in changing circumstances.
- Positive energy.
Benefits
- Have a meaningful and potentially substantial role in reversing climate change.
- Monetary compensation is aligned with the sector.
- Public transport travel expenses covered.
- Join a self-motivated and diverse team of innovators with contagious energy.
- Office at Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam Noord, right behind Central Station.
Oncra.org is a steward-owned company designed to ensure mission-first governance and long-term public benefit. It operates under the Climate Cleanup Foundation, which safeguards its purpose and independence. Together, they build an open, trustworthy system for nature-based carbon removal and CRCF-aligned accounting.
Please send your email to: Hanny van Hout (operations Climate Cleanup) Hanny@climatecleanup.org