Analyst/Associate

Summary

Emergent is a company dedicated to safeguarding the world’s tropical forests by building a global market for forest carbon credits. They are seeking several new team members at the analyst/associate level to handle tasks across various teams focused on demand, supply, transactions, and fund management.

Responsibilities

• Roles are likely to involve a blend of tasks across four of Emergent’s teams: Demand, building a pipeline of corporate demand for high-integrity credits; Supply, securing the right to sell these credits from tropical forest governments around the world; Transactions, matching buyers and sellers in order to execute credit contracts and transactions; and Fund Management & Reporting, 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. Emergent is a largely virtual team, although we aim to build the team out in 2-3 hubs as the COVID-19 pandemic passes
• 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

Qualifications

Must Haves

• 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. Emergent is a largely virtual team, although we aim to build the team out in 2-3 hubs as the COVID-19 pandemic passes
• 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

Nice to Haves

• Experience working in a start-up environment
• Some experience of carbon markets, development funders, and international climate policy would be an advantage

Benefits

• Workplace type: remote
• Emergent is a largely virtual team, although we aim to build the team out in 2-3 hubs as the COVID-19 pandemic passes
• Ability to operate remotely