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Do you want to help save the world's forests and contribute to solving the climate and biodiversity crisis? Do you enjoy working with data? CDP is seeking a highly motivated individual to assist in all aspects of the operation and development of its ground-breaking forests work. If you are a motivated self-starter who enjoys taking ownership of a project and you want to contribute significantly to the vital work of CDP in reducing and ultimately removing deforestation from corporate supply chains, this is the role for you.
Deforestation currently accounts for 10-15% of the world’s GHG emissions and halting it is critical for the ending climate change and biodiversity loss. Businesses’ production and procurement decisions have the power to alter global demand for the agricultural commodities that are the primary drivers of agricultural deforestation and forest degradation: soy, palm oil, cattle and timber products, natural rubber, cocoa, coffee.
About CDP
CDP is a not-for-profit charity that runs the global disclosure system for investors, companies, cities, states and regions to manage their environmental impacts. The world’s economy looks to CDP as the gold standard of environmental reporting with the richest and most comprehensive dataset on corporate and city action.
About the Forests Team
CDP’s forests work aims to remove commodity-driven deforestation from corporate value chains to effectively contribute to a no more than 1.5°C, water secure world. The work provides critical forests-related data from the world’s largest corporations that buy, sell or trade key forests risk commodities (cattle products, palm oil, soy products and timber products). The data is used to inform the global marketplace on investment risk and commercial opportunity, and to catalyze action, supporting companies in their efforts to remove deforestation from their supply chains.
Key responsibilities include
The role of the Junior Analyst will be to support existing analysts on a range of projects. Specific ongoing work at the moment includes:
- Supporting the presentation and accessibility of CDP forests data
- Supporting the analysis of CDP’s forests and biodiversity datasets to identify headline messages and trends and inform the production of reports
- Supporting regional and thematic teams in the analysis of forests and biodiversity datasets specific to their needs
- Selecting companies for disclosure through CDP forests questionnaire
- Additional analysis requests occur on an ad hoc basis and the role may involve supporting existing work or picking up additional requests.
The precise description and nature of your job may be varied from time to time and you may be required to carry out other duties as necessary to meet business needs.
You will have the following skills and experience
Essential criteria:
- A degree, ideally in environmental studies, forest management, ecology, conservation, statistics or related field;
- Strong quantitative data analysis skills - experienced user of Excel, experience of programming in R, experience with Power-BI or similar an advantage;
- Demonstrable knowledge of forests and land use change related to commodity supply chains;
- Competent user of Microsoft Office Apps;
- High detail orientation and an eye for consistency and accuracy;
- Excellent research, data synthesis, written and verbal communication skills - ability to communicate complex analysis and arguments in a concise, easy to follow manner;
- A high level of self-motivation and drive;
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work with teams of individuals and colleagues.
The role is a full-time role based in CDP’s London office on Great Tower Street and reports to the Manager, Forests. Suitable candidates are likely to be recent graduates looking to gain experience at an international environmental organisation working at the heart of the challenge of addressing the environmental impacts of economic activities. The work can be conducted from home, with regular engagement with the Forests team through online channels.
The role will be for an initial period of 12 months with the potential to extend.
Salary and benefits
£25,967 - £32,000 per annum (depending on professional experience and meeting required + desirable skills), 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, generous non-contributory pension provision, Employee Assistance Programme, life assurance, training and development, flexible working opportunities and other benefits.
Interested applicants must be eligible to work legally in the UK. We cannot sponsor this role.
