Location: Robinson Road, Singapore

Eligibility: Open to candidates who already hold the right to work in Singapore. We are not sponsoring Employment Passes for this role.

Salary: Benchmarked to the Singapore market for the level you join at. Because we are hiring at two levels, we share the relevant band before the end of the first conversation.

Application: Through our Teamtailor page, reviewed weekly, closing 11 September 2026.

Two levels, one application

Consultant: around 2–4 years' experience. You will own workstreams and grow into full assignment ownership.

Senior Consultant: around 5 years or more. You will own assignments end to end from the start, including scope and budget, and hold client and partner relationships directly.

Apply once. We will tell you which level we think fits in the first conversation.

The role

We are advisors, not developers. We support project developers, NGOs, governments and investors through the design, certification and monitoring of carbon projects: we do not own or run projects ourselves. That independence is the point: what clients buy from us is technical judgement they can rely on.

Our portfolio runs across forestry and land use, cookstoves, renewable energy, waste and Article 6, with assignments in Asia, Africa and Europe.

This role is anchored in nature-based solutions in Southeast Asia. Your main assignment is a major forest restoration and livelihoods programme in Mindanao, the Philippines, delivered with a long-standing local NGO partner. You will lead our technical support to them: inventory design, quantification, and the route through certification. You will be their main point of contact with us.

Alongside it you will work across our wider Southeast Asian portfolio in the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia, and you will get exposure to assignments in Africa and Central Asia, and to sectors beyond land use.

What you will do

Where you go deep - forestry and land use

• Advise on forest and vegetation inventory design: plot layout, sampling strategy, mensuration protocols, allometric selection, data QA

• Guide and quality-assure the field teams our partners deploy: foresters, technicians, community enumerators, mostly remotely, in person during missions

• Build and defend carbon quantification: baselines, stratification, biomass estimates, uncertainty

• Support clients through certification under Verra, Gold Standard, PACM and other standards

• Run technical feasibility studies and due diligence on third-party projects

Where you go broad - the rest of the portfolio

Our other assignments cover cookstoves, renewable energy, waste, biochar and Article 6, in Africa and Central Asia as well as Asia. You are not expected to arrive as an expert in any of them. You are expected to be the kind of analyst who can pick up an unfamiliar methodology, work out which three parameters actually drive the result, and produce work we would stake our name on.

Assignment management, client work and growth

• Run your assignments end to end: scope, workplan, budget, timeline and deliverable schedule, across several live engagements at once

• Be the reliable point of contact for clients, funders and partner organisations: managing expectations, chasing inputs, and having the difficult conversation early rather than late

• Brief and coordinate external technical experts and subcontractors

• Draft technical and commercial proposals, concept notes and feasibility reports

Travel and field missions - please read this properly

This is primarily an office-based advisory role. Most of your work happens at a desk in Singapore: analysis, methodology work, report and proposal writing, and calls with partners and clients.

You should still expect:

• 2-5 international missions per year, more at Senior Consultant level, typically two to the Mindanao programme, plus others depending on assignments, principally in Southeast Asia

• Missions that can include weekend travel and weekend field days. Inventory campaigns run to the weather and to the field team's availability, not to a Monday-to-Friday calendar

• Field conditions may include upland forest, remote sites, basic accommodation and long days

• In return: weekend travel and weekend field days accrue time off in lieu in half-day blocks, including travel and flight time. We agree the amount before you go, confirm it within three days of your return, and cover travel, accommodation and subsistence throughout.

We spell this out because it is small enough that people assume it does not exist, and then find that it does. If a handful of weekends a year in the field is not for you, that is entirely reasonable, but better that we both know now.

What we are looking for

Essential

• Degree in forestry, forest engineering, environmental science, ecology, natural resource management or a closely related field

• Hands-on vegetation or forest inventory experience, you have designed or run field plots, done mensuration, and handled the data afterwards

• Proven project management: you have run several pieces of work at once, to deadline and to budget, without being chased. You plan the work, track it, and flag slippage before it becomes a problem rather than after

• Stakeholder management: you have been the point of contact for an external organisation and held that relationship through the awkward parts: late inputs, changed scope, bad news

• Ability to guide and quality-assure field teams you do not employ: much of it remotely, through partners

• Willingness to travel for the missions described above, weekends included

• Working competence in GIS: you can handle spatial data, produce and interrogate maps, and tell when an output is wrong. You will work alongside our GIS specialist in London, so you do not need to be a remote sensing expert, but you do need to be able to hold your end of that conversation

• Clear, accurate technical writing in English

• Comfort with GHG accounting concepts: baselines, additionality, leakage, permanence, uncertainty, whether learned formally or on the job

• Right to work in Singapore without employer sponsorship

Nice to have, genuinely optional, please do not self-reject

• A forestry degree specifically

• Experience taking a project through a carbon standard (Verra, Gold Standard, Plan Vivo, CDM, PACM, etc.)

• Fieldwork experience in the Philippines or elsewhere in Southeast Asia

• Cebuano, Tagalog, Bahasa Indonesia, Vietnamese, Khmer or Mandarin, our fieldwork and partner relationships run in these languages

• Remote sensing depth beyond working GIS competence: Google Earth Engine, Python or R, biomass modelling, change detection

• Consulting experience, particularly owning an engagement end to end, including commercial scope and budget

What we offer

Salary and progression

• Salary benchmarked against the Singapore market for the level you join at, reviewed annually, plus performance bonus. Because we are hiring at two levels, we share the relevant band before the end of the first conversation.

• A defined next step from wherever you start. At offer stage we give you the written criteria for the level above yours, not a vague promise of growth.

The work itself

• Unusual range for a firm this size. Forestry and land use, cookstoves, renewable energy, waste and Article 6, across Asia, Africa and Europe. At a larger consultancy you would get one sector and one region for several years.

• Article 6 and government-facing work that is difficult to get near anywhere else at this stage of a career.

• We advise; we do not develop. No project of our own to defend, which means you give clients the answer the evidence supports.

• You see the whole engagement: scoping, proposal, delivery, client relationship, rather than one slice of someone else's.

How we work

• A small team and no layers. Direct access to the CEO and to clients from your first week.

• Office-based at Robinson Road, with a regular work-from-home arrangement of one to two days a week.

• Time off in lieu for weekend travel and field days (see above).

• 20 days annual leave, plus up to four company days when we close over Christmas and Chinese New Year: on top of Singapore's public holidays, and not deducted from your allowance.

• Training happens mostly on the job, with senior people close enough to learn from directly. We hold a global training budget for external courses and conferences where they are worth it.

What we are not

We are a small consultancy, not a large one. There is less structure, less specialisation and less back-office support than you would find at a global firm, and correspondingly more ownership, more variety and more visibility. That trade suits some people very well and others not at all. We would rather you weighed it now than in month six.

Who you would work with

You would join a Singapore team of four, part of around 20 people across London, Singapore and Manila, reporting to our Managing Director. Day to day you would work with our Managing Director and the Singapore team, our Consultant, Senior Consultant and Associate Directors in London, and our Consultant in Manila.

How to apply

Apply through our Teamtailor page by 11 September 2026, with:

1. Your CV, three pages is plenty

2. One page answering: what you would bring to HAMERKOP, and one thing you think is done badly in forest carbon projects today

Our process, 3 steps, 4 weeks:

1. First conversation (45 minutes, video). With our Managing Director. We go through your experience and you ask us whatever you want about the role. We set out the full travel expectation, and we share the relevant salary band before the call ends.

2. Office visit (about two hours, Robinson Road): A one-hour case study based on a real anonymised project, done here rather than as a take-home (we want to see how you think, not how well something polishes over a weekend); and a conversation with our CEO and an Analyst, about how you approached it.

3. Conversation with 2 members of the team (30 minutes, video), without management in the room, including someone from our London office. Ask them what the job is actually like. We brief them to answer honestly, including the parts that are hard.

We will work around your current job (e.g. early mornings & late afternoons are fine).

We will keep you posted at every stage, whatever the answer.