Due-diligence framework for assessing ecological restoration programs - BC-1043

Genre de projet: Innovation
Discipline(s) souhaitée(s): Sciences de l’environnement, Sciences naturelles, Foresterie, Ressources et gestion environnementales
Entreprise: veritree
Durée du projet: 4 à 6 mois
Date souhaitée de début: 11/01/2026
Langue exigée: Anglais
Emplacement(s): Vancouver, BC, Canada
Nombre de postes: 1-2
Niveau de scolarité désiré: MaîtriseDoctoratRecherche postdoctorale
Ouvert aux candidatures de personnes inscrites à un établissement à l’extérieur du Canada: No

Au sujet de l’entreprise: 

Veritree’s platform supports partners across a variety of ecosystems, spanning site selection, planting execution, and long-term impact verification. The company works across the full restoration lifecycle—from project assessment and site design through implementation and ongoing monitoring and evaluation—developing complementary standards and tools at each stage to help ensure restoration outcomes are ecologically verifiable and accountable to the communities and ecosystems involved. As veritree's portfolio has scaled, so has the need for standardized, defensible criteria for evaluating which projects and partners meet its ecological, ethical, and operational requirements. This project supports that broader effort by focusing on the due diligence and assessment processes that underpin responsible project selection at scale.

Veuillez décrire le projet.: 

Ecological restoration spans five interlinked stages: Assessment, Planning & Design, Implementation, Ongoing Management, and Monitoring & Evaluation. veritree is actively developing tools and standards across several of these stages; this project addresses the assessment stage. As veritree's restoration portfolio grows, project teams regularly face ethical and operational edge cases that current processes don't resolve consistently. Examples include: how volunteers should be represented in evidence photography; whether and how close to disputed political borders planting should occur; whether to work in "working forests" where land is periodically harvested. veritree currently requires a standardized due-diligence framework to guide these decisions before a project is approved and to support consistent judgment as new edge cases emerge.
This project will scope a due-diligence framework covering the project lifecycle from pre-planting partner and site vetting through post-planting verification. The candidate will review existing sector frameworks to identify approaches transferable to veritree's context. Drawing on this review and on veritree's own edge cases, the candidate will produce a report scoping what a veritree-specific framework needs to address, which decisions are best handled by a scorable risk model versus a structured decision framework, and how the framework would be built and maintained going forward.
Project Summary: structured review of existing assessment and MRV frameworks; comparative analysis against veritree's documented and undocumented edge cases; synthesis into a practical framework.

Expertise ou compétences exigées: 

Background in ecosystem restoration, sustainability standards, environmental policy, or a related environmental/social science field with familiarity in MRV standards. Strong research synthesis and written communication skills; comfort reviewing technical and policy documents. Familiarity with land tenure, environmental risk assessment, or due-diligence processes in a conservation or international-development context is an asset.