CONTRACT POSTION: Technical Editor / Writer
About Verra .
At Verra , we've created a culture of flexibility + autonomy. You'll be able to work with remote teams from diverse countries and industries. Wherever possible, we aim to find mutually agreeable solutions for international hiring.
Verra is a global leader helping to tackle the world’s most intractable environmental and social challenges. As a mission-driven non-profit organization, Verra is committed to helping reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve livelihoods and protect natural resources across the private and public sectors. We support climate action and sustainable development with standards, tools and programs that credibly, transparently and robustly assess environmental and social impacts and enable funding for sustaining and scaling up projects that verifiably deliver these benefits. We work in any arena where we see a need for clear standards, a role for market-based mechanisms, and an opportunity to generate significant environmental and social value.
Verra manages a portfolio of standards, including the:
- Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) -- the world’s leading carbon crediting program, with more than 2000 registered projects in 80 countries, and accounting for two-thirds of all voluntary carbon market transaction volume.
- Sustainable Development Verified Impact Standard (SD VISta) -- a flexible framework for assessing and reporting on the sustainable development benefits of project-based activities.
- Climate, Community & Biodiversity (CCB) Standards -- to identify projects that simultaneously address climate change, support local communities and smallholders, and conserve biodiversity.
- Plastic Waste Reduction Program -- to enable robust impact assessment of new or scaled-up waste recovery and recycling projects around the globe.
Engagement Title: CONTRACT POSTION: Technical Editor / Writer
Location / time-zone overlap: Remote - Worldwide, with significant overlap with US business hours
Primary Verra contact: Senior Director, Program Development
Engagement type: Independent contractor / consultant
Estimated duration: 4 months+
Estimated hours: Initially starting at 20 hr/week; Oct-Jan 30-40 hr/wk; Feb-beyond, as-needed up to 20hr/week
Target start date: September
The Opportunity.
The VCS Program rules define the standards and processes that all projects must follow in order to be certified and are set out in a suite of documents: Requirements, Procedural, Templates, and Guidance.
Methodologies in the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) Program set out detailed procedures and requirements that VCS projects must follow to quantify GHG emission reductions and/or carbon dioxide removals and have Verified Carbon Units (VCUs) issued. Each methodology specifies applicability conditions and provides criteria for defining the project boundary, identifying the baseline scenario, assessing additionality, quantifying reductions and/or removals, and establishing monitoring procedures and requirements.
Verra is looking for a contractor to provide technical editing support during the development of methodologies and other technical documents in the VCS Program, with work on technical documents in other Verra programs as required.
Scope of Work.
The successful applicant will be responsible for tasks such as:
- Accurate technical and copy editing of documents, with tracked changes and comments
- Ensuring internal consistency across edited documents within a program both in terms of technical concepts and consistent writing voice
- Revising text to conform to general Verra style, including proper use of US English
- Facilitating user-friendly comprehension of technical concepts presented in edited documents
- Where relevant, providing suggestions to further improve documents
Collaboration with Verra .
You will work with experts across the program development and innovation team to assist in ensuring that methodologies, program documents, and other technical do