We are on the lookout for an Intern to join our Impact team on a fixed term, part-time basis to assist our team with carrying out project assessments of carbon credit projects using our recently-updated Carbon Projects Assessment Framework. In this role, you will gain real-world experience in climate tech, working in a dynamic team operating right at the intersection of ecological science and the corporate world.

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Company Profile

Ecologi is the UK’s most trusted climate action platform. Our mission is to inspire and empower businesses to accelerate global climate action through funding high quality, high integrity climate solutions including reforestation, habitat restoration, carbon avoidance and removal projects around the world. We work with over 24,000 businesses; Co-op, O2, BAFTA Albert, ITV, Ubisoft, Oracle, Capgemini, Mulberry including 300+ B Corps.

Our community has collectively funded the planting of over 89m trees, avoided 3.5m tonnes of verified CO2e, over 39,000m2 of habitat restored and permanently removed 14,000 tonnes of CO2. We’re science-led and impact driven, aligned to the SBTi and Oxford Principles and guided by our impact team and expert independent climate committee. We support leading industry standards and work with leading third-party quality assessment from our partners Sylvera, BeZero Carbon, Calyx Global and Renoster. We’re a proudly certified B Corp, in the Top 5% for Environment and Governance, as well as the most trusted climate action brand in the UK with an average 4.8 rating on Trustpilot.

As a team we’re easy going and take great pride in our work. From brand marketing to product development, we’re all striving to move the needle on the climate emergency. Our culture is about being honest and transparent so we trust each other, and about feeling part of something bigger than yourself. We're willing to do something good with our lives and for our planet. If you feel the same, we could be the right company for you!

Our Values

• Planet First: We are science-led and impact-driven. We hold ourselves to the highest scientific standards and collaborate with the best global partners. We provide leading-edge solutions for our planet that customers love.
• Always Accountable: We gain trust through transparency. We do our due diligence and seek out the best possible data to inform our decisions. We value authenticity, openness, honesty and operate with integrity and autonomy.
• Changemakers: We drive meaningful change. We are agents of change. We’re progress driven, setting ambitious goals even when faced with uncertainty and ambiguity. We test, we learn, we move forwards. We’re brave, optimistic, resilient and enjoy the challenge that change brings.
• Act, Together: We believe in the power of collective action. We inspire and empower our people and businesses to make a positive difference. Together, we challenge, we communicate, we collaborate. We celebrate and champion diversity and inclusion.
  
  As a Climate Account Specialist, you'll guide and deliver vital greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting work across our diverse client portfolio. You'll empower organisations with the services and insights needed to thoughtfully calculate, monitor, set meaningful targets for, and ultimately reduce their GHG emissions.

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Job responsibilities

The Intern will report to our Carbon Portfolio Manager, and the role will involve applying our new, industry-leading due diligence framework for carbon credit projects to a wide range of projects on the voluntary carbon market – from forest conservation projects, to tech-based carbon dioxide removal projects. The role is quite autonomous, but with regular touch points and direct collaboration with the Carbon Portfolio Manager, as well as group meetings and collaboration with the wider business and senior team.

In the role you’ll be leveraging a vast wealth of data from our project assessment partners to assess a range of projects and gain a holistic understanding of the project’s quality across our three core impact pillars: Climate, Nature and People – so you’ll need exceptional research and analytical skills, and an eye for detail.

With this role, we’re looking for someone with a deep understanding of carbon projects and restoration best practice – which might be through direct experience of the voluntary carbon market, academic qualifications or research in Carbon Management, Forest Conservation, CO2 Removal, or similar field, or demonstrated experience using field monitoring tools and GIS software.

The day-to-day

• Project assessment (60%): apply our Carbon Project Assessment Framework to a range of specific projects available on the voluntary carbon market, and leverage our extensive access to third-party data to produce project assessment outcomes for carbon credit projects.
• Background research and writing technical reports (20%): background reading of peer-reviewed literature and producing research summaries, individual project or technology explainers, and whitepapers on specific relevant topics – as opportunities arise.
• Support translating and elevating key results (10%) to help communicate the process, findings and outcomes from our project assessment process to the wider business and to our customers.
• Carry out dynamic gap analysis to provide recommendations (10%) for how to develop our Carbon Project Assessment Framework in the future.
  
  

What you'll need:

• Academic credentials: a strong academic background, such as an advanced degree or PhD candidateship in a relevant field (e.g. environmental science, carbon dioxide removal technologies, carbon management, sustainable development); or equivalent professional qualifications or memberships.
• Data and research literacy: highly proficient in spreadsheets and project management tools with the ability to aggregate, analyse, and summarise complex information. Confident in seeking out, understanding, and applying knowledge from academic research and complex technical documentation to your work.
• Exceptional organisation, diligence, and pride in your work: able to take a methodical approach to your work. Ability to be proactive, work independently and collaboratively, and produce solutions to novel challenges, with a pragmatic and strategic mindset and an excellent eye for detail.
• Contextual knowledge: a broad understanding of climate change and the voluntary carbon market, and issues in corporate sustainability.

What is nice to have:

• GIS: previous experience using GIS tools such as QGIS, Google Earth Pro, ArcGIS, Earth Blox and/or Restor.
• Remote sensing: experience or detailed theoretical knowledge of remote sensing tools used in carbon project monitoring – such as LiDAR.

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Compensation: £18 per hour

Job type: Internship – 3-months fixed term, part-time (20 hours per week)

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Location

Hybrid (Ecologi has offices in Bristol and London)