Job Description

Duty station: London
Application Deadline: N/A
Start date: as soon as possible
Shape HAMERKOP's 2030 growth strategy while leading operations to empower our teams and drive global climate impact
Join us in shaping and scaling a climate-positive future! HAMERKOP envisions a world where climate finance drives measurable impact for people and the planet. Our mission is to empower changemakers through high-quality, science-based, and tailored technical advice that catalyses climate action, builds resilience in vulnerable communities and ecosystems, and unlocks the potential of climate finance. Internally, we foster an inclusive, collaborative, and empowering workplace that champions learning, values employee well-being, and cultivates excellence.
About Hamerkop Climate Impacts
HAMERKOP is an independent, technical climate consultancy headquartered in London, with offices in Singapore. We support carbon project developers in the Global South and the carbon market ecosystem, enabling emission reductions with strong environmental and social integrity. Our work spans energy access and nature-based solutions (e.g., forestry, agriculture, biochar).
We operate across three pillars:

• Projects: certifying and implementing climate mitigation projects, from early feasibility to monitoring impact.

• Markets: independent advisory on carbon markets, including pre-investment due diligence, strategy, and education.

• Policy: supporting Global South countries in designing climate change strategies, policies, and finance frameworks aligned with the Paris Agreement.

Role overview
HAMERKOP is seeking a dynamic Head of Strategy & Operations to drive our 2030 growth strategy while ensuring seamless, efficient, and scalable operations. This hybrid role blends strategic influence with operational leadership:

• Strategic Partner to the CEO: Translate long-term vision into actionable initiatives, drive company-wide priorities, and strengthen internal and external relationships.

• Operational Leader: Oversee support functions--including HR, finance, marketing and events, IT, compliance, and office management--enabling teams to focus on client impact, business development, and thought leadership.

You will play a pivotal role in shaping HAMERKOP's future while fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing culture across offices in the UK and Singapore.
Key Responsibilities:

• Act as a trusted advisor to the CEO, providing guidance, perspective, and alignment across the firm.

• Translate the 2030 growth strategy into actionable plans with clear milestones, supporting both short- and long-term objectives.

• Lead special initiatives such as new office setups, AI integration, and process improvements to enhance client delivery.

• Drive the execution of the company-wide marketing strategy to strengthen visibility, reputation, and impact.

• Oversee support functions, ensuring operations across HR, finance, IT/cybersecurity, marketing, compliance, and office management are seamless and scalable.

• Mentor and coordinate junior staff and manage relationships with external providers, fostering growth and professional development.

• Ensure robust financial processes, compliance, and reporting across jurisdictions (UK, Singapore).

• Champion recruitment, onboarding, internal policies, culture, and staff engagement initiatives, promoting a diverse and inclusive workplace.

• Build and nurture strong relationships across teams, offices, and external stakeholders to encourage collaboration and shared success.

What we are looking for:

• 8-12+ years of professional experience, with at least 3 years in leadership or operational roles in consulting, professional services, or mission-driven organisations.

• Proven success in both strategic project delivery and operational oversight.

• Experience in financial and HR management, including budgeting, reconciliations, and policy implementation.

• Experience in supporting and delivering successful organisational growth strategy

• Strategic thinker with excellent execution skills, highly organised, and detail-oriented.

• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, able to inspire trust and collaboration internally and externally.

• Tech-savvy, open to using AI and automation to enhance operations.

• Culturally adaptable and experienced in international work environments.

• Have the right to work in the UK

Desirable:

• Strong understanding of consulting business models, with experience or exposure to multinational operations

• Relevant professional qualifications (e.g. Chartered Management Institute, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, or equivalent).

Why Join Us?
This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of a growing climate consultancy, contributing directly to impactful climate solutions while ensuring daily operations are efficient, resilient, and innovative. You will work closely with the CEO and senior team, gaining exposure to global strategic decision-making, market expansion, and pioneering sustainability initiatives, in a supportive and inclusive environment that values collaboration, development, and work-life balance.
Term of the position
This is a full-time, London-based role with flexibility for hybrid working. The position offers a competitive salary aligned with experience, plus performance-based bonus. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace and actively encourage applications from women and candidates of diverse backgrounds. You will report directly to the CEO and have a leading role in shaping both strategy and operations across the firm.
HAMERKOP IS AN ENABLER - AN INDEPENDENT TECHNICAL CONSULTANCY OPERATING WORLDWIDE.
Headquartered in London & with offices in Singapore, HAMERKOP supports carbon project developers in the Global South and the carbon market ecosystem, to enable emission reductions associated with strong environmental and social integrity. We support energy access and nature-based solutions projects (e.g., forestry and agriculture).
HAMERKOP is one of the very few recognised and independent technical service providers on the carbon market and we mainly work in developing countries, where we provide technical consulting services around 3 main pillars:
1. PROJECT: certification and implementation of projects contributing to the fight against climate change. We help mitigation projects to certify so they can partially or fully be financed by the sale of assets on the carbon markets. We support projects from early conception to early-stage feasibility studies, drafting of carbon certification studies and documents, and support the implementation of activities as well as monitor their ongoing impacts.
2. MARKET: independent expert advice on the carbon markets. We provide (i) technical pre-investment risk-based due diligence to carbon credit and project sponsors; (ii) strategic advice to organisations looking for positioning on the carbon market; and (iii) educational support on the structure, state, and trends of the carbon markets.
3. POLICY: climate change policy and finance. We help countries in the Global South to formulate and revise their climate change strategies and roadmaps. We work with international organisations and government authorities to align their policy, technical and institutional frameworks with the requirements of the Paris Agreement's carbon and climate finance mechanisms.
HAMERKOP works at the intersection of the public and private sectors, with governments, international organisations, NGOs and private companies and is increasingly playing a crucial role in the Singaporean and Southeast Asian carbon market ecosystem.
We help our clients design, implement, manage and monitor projects and activities in the energy (e.g., clean cooking, transportation, energy efficiency, etc.) and land use sectors (e.g., forestry, agriculture, biochar, etc.), that deliver measurable social and environmental impacts and are eligible to climate finance mechanisms.

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