Field Data & Reporting Coordinator

About veritree:

veritree is an award-winning climate tech start-up based in Vancouver. Launched in 2021, our technology measures and verifies the impact of global restoration efforts from the ground up. We are a small team on a big mission to plant 1 billion verified trees by 2030 with our community of businesses, planting organizations, and consumers who believe in the transformative power of verified restoration projects to create real and meaningful impact for the planet, nature and people.

About the role:

veritree is seeking a technical coordinator to join its Innovation and Field Operations team. This role will support quality checking, processing and managing data from planting locations around the world. This includes field evidence, field reports, field surveys and other data streams. This individual will be accountable for setting up automated workflows to ensure data quality and consistency, processing and analyzing varying data outputs from the field, and producing insightful reports and client materials. The successful candidate will report to the Geospatial and Field Technology Lead and work closely with members of the Innovation, Customer Success, and Science Teams. This new role will ensure veritree maintains the highest-standards of data and reporting as it scales planting efforts across the globe.

Key outcomes for this role in the next 12 months include:

• Support the Geospatial and Field Technology Lead to create systems and processes for streamlining data quality checks, processing, analysis, automation, and management.
• Own the verification procedures for planting sessions, tasks and field reports.
• Develop a reporting plan for Impacts and Risks within veritree’s portfolio of planting sites with a consistent cadence.
• Work closely with planting partners to solve issues related to data consistency, data upload, data quality and data frequency.
• Travel to planting sites to understand how to better scale data collection processes.

What will you be doing?

1. Building out manual and automated processes for quality checking incoming data within the veritree platform
• Manage incoming evidence uploads (images, videos and forms) from planting partners ensuring metadata consistency
• Create automated flagging systems when there are errors with uploaded or attached evidence or planting sessions
• Liaise with planting partners to streamline evidence upload procedures and remedy flagged errors
2. Performing the verification of planting sessions, tasks and field reports
• Maintain the company tree supply by verifying planting sessions on a consistent basis across all planting organizations
• Ensure the quality of data being received through automated tasks within the veritree system
• Ensure that task evidence is correctly fed to appropriate field reports and that field
3. Create a field report plan for Impacts and Risks
• Process and manipulate geospatial data layers and extract layer statistics to be attached to Impact and Risk reports
• Assess current reporting backlog across all planting partners and create Impact and Risk reports to stay up to date
• Create an automated system to identify when field report updates are required

Requirements

Professional Requirements:

• 2+ years of relevant professional experience, working in a highly collaborative team environment.
• BSc in Physical Geography, Environmental Science, Applied Science, Remote Sensing or other related technical fields.
• Technical experience with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analysis to assess, monitor and verify nature-based climate solutions.
• Technical experience creating automated QA processes or flagging systems
• Experience with statistics and an understanding of the potential applications of GIS, data science and machine learning within dMRV.
• Experience manipulating and visualizing geospatial datasets
• Working knowledge of creating scripts in either Java, Python, JavaScript, or SQL
• Experience using geospatial tools such as QGIS, GDAL, Geopandas, Rasterio, Google Earth Engine and WhiteBoxTools

Personal Strengths:

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and external stakeholders/contractors. 
• Ability to effectively communicate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Embraces a continuous improvement mindset.
• Resourceful with capital, with strong negotiation and influencing skills.
• Strong quantitative, analytical and problem-solving skills and excellent attention-to-detail. 
• You enjoy working in a fast-paced, agile and lean environment.
• Enthusiasm for the topic of climate action and nature restoration. 

Benefits

• Extended healthcare plan
• Generous paid days off
• Ability to work remotely
• Opportunities for training and development
• Employee discounts at tentree

A typical hiring range for this position is $55,000 - $65,000 CAD per year with the final salary offer based on your qualifications, job-related skills, and relevant experience. In addition, veritree's total rewards offering also includes comprehensive benefits, a certified inspiring workplace, and exclusive perks to reward your exceptional performance and contributions.

veritree is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business needs