Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Emergent helps safeguard tropical forests by building a global market for forest carbon credits. The Analyst/Associate will support work across Demand, Supply, Transactions, and Fund Management & Reporting, while independently identifying problems and recommending and implementing solutions.
Responsibilities
- Building a pipeline of corporate demand for high-integrity credits
- Securing the right to sell these credits from tropical forest governments around the world
- Matching buyers and sellers in order to execute credit contracts and transactions
- Ensuring funds from credit sales are deployed to pre-agreed forest protection programmes
- Identifying problems and recommending and implementing solutions
Skills
- 2-5 years of professional experience in management consulting, social impact organizations, start-ups or finance; and/or demonstrated experience supporting project management, operations, or implementation
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Ability to operate remotely
- Razor-sharp analytical and problem-solving skills
- Advanced analytical and numerical competency
- Passion for the mission of Emergent
- Excellent interpersonal, presentation, and communication skills
- Willingness and ability to work within a small team start-up environment
- Ability to thrive in an entrepreneurial and often virtual team environment
- Ability to deliver consistently high levels of accuracy, efficiency and follow-through
- Adept at making assessments quickly and identifying the best course of action
- Applicants must have work authorization in the US, UK, or Spain
- Experience working in a start-up environment
- Some experience of carbon markets, development funders, and international climate policy would be an advantage
Benefits
- Remote work / largely virtual team environment
- The chance to be part of an extraordinary, high-impact endeavour intended to slow and halt tropical deforestation permanently
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