ERS - Ecosystem Restoration Standard

• Shape our financial strategy and performance • Lead financial planning, forecasting, and budgeting. • Create and manage a multi-year roadmap for building our financial infrastructure. • Advise the executive team and board on performance, risks, and the impact of strategic decisions. • Build clear KPI frameworks, dashboards, tools, and processes to improve unit economics. • Oversee accounting, cash flow, and compliance. • Strengthen financial processes, internal controls, and reporting standards. • Ensure strong governance, compliance, and risk management • Oversee legal, tax, and regulatory compliance across jurisdictions. • Manage external counsel, auditors, and key partners. • Structure and negotiate critical contracts and vendor agreements. • Anticipate and mitigate financial, operational, and data risks. • Act as a trusted partner to investors and key stakeholders • Support board reporting and investor communications. • Support due diligence and strategic transactions. • Build strong relationships with investors, banks, auditors, and regulators. • Collaborate cross-functionally with other senior leaders to drive organisational success. • Oversee people operations, payroll, and core policies.

• Oversee the full lifecycle of validations and verifications under the Programme (VVB selection, audit mandate negotiation and approval), ensuring timely, compliant, and high-quality audit delivery. • Support onboarding, technical training, and performance management of independent VVBs. • Establish and monitor quality assurance and quality control processes for all validations and verifications, including implementation of the VVB performance evaluation system to ensure continuous improvement. • Lead the strategic development of validation and verification functions within the Equitable Earth Programme. • Oversee periodic procedure and guidance updates, integrate feedback from VVBs and other stakeholders, and explore and implement innovative approaches to improve audit efficiency, scalability, and credibility. • Build strategic relationships and partnerships with accreditation bodies, represent Equitable Earth in industry forums, and keep the Programme aligned with ISO principles and best practices in the voluntary carbon market.

• Lead full-cycle recruitment for both individual contributor and leadership roles across multiple international locations. • Partner with hiring managers to define role requirements, scope, and hiring strategy. • Draft and publish job advertisements across relevant channels. • Conduct proactive sourcing, headhunting, direct outreach, and pipeline development. • Coordinate candidates throughout the recruitment process to ensure a seamless experience. • Build and nurture talent pools to anticipate future hiring needs. • Support onboarding to ensure new hires have a smooth and engaging start. • Support selected parts of the employee lifecycle, including HR administration and compliance-related tasks. • Contribute to HR process improvements. • Support the people team's projects, such as offsite planning, learning initiatives, employee engagement, and talent culture actions. • Help foster an inclusive, collaborative, and positive remote culture.