Carbon Analyst - London

What is Sylvera anyway?

Sylvera provides trusted ratings, tools and data for carbon credits and CDR. Our mission is to incentivize investment in real climate action.

Purchasing carbon credits and CDR through the carbon markets is one of the most established and scalable ways to channel finance to effective climate solutions and work toward societal net zero. Unfortunately, the carbon markets were plagued with mistrust and a lack of effectiveness since they've emerged - until Sylvera.

To help organizations ensure they're making the most effective investments, Sylvera provides trusted ratings, tools and data for carbon credits and CDR. Our data and software independently and accurately validate the impact of carbon projects that capture, remove, or avoid emissions whether they are up and running, or in development. Our data and tools allow users to optimize both the climate and economic performance of projects as well as understand the past and future of the market. With Sylvera businesses, governments and developers can confidently invest in, benchmark, deliver, and report real climate impact.

Our team is made up of leading minds in climate change from scientists to policy, finance, and carbon market experts. We work in partnership with scientific organizations, universities, governments, and think tanks to develop and implement rigorous and holistic project assessment methodologies, leveraging the latest technology. We also partner with actors and institutions across the whole market to make data higher quality, more standard and more accessible. Founded in 2020, Sylvera has 130+ employees globally with offices in London, New York, Belgrade, and Singapore. We've raised over $96 million from leading investors like Fidelity, Balderton Capital, Index Ventures, and Insight Partners to date.

What will I be doing?

Having found an early product-market fit in a nascent, rapidly growing space, we're scaling our Ratings Team at pace to support our carbon data platform. We're looking for a mission-driven analyst to conduct carbon project assessments and help build our expert assessment frameworks ensuring that everything we do is built on robust and comprehensive data and analysis. It's a critical role at the heart of our business - you'll work within a large team of multidisciplinary analysts, working together to leverage all the skills and insights necessary to drive value for our customers. You will report to our Head of Ratings.

Specific responsibilities will include:

• Conducting carbon project assessments, providing deep due diligence on carbon projects focused on providing value to the customer through timely and robust data and insights
• Contributing toward process improvement initiatives and the design of systems and tooling to improve the speed and quality of our assessments
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the business, notably in technology, product, commercial, and our data teams
• Ensuring that critical quality assurance processes are upheld to maintain our status as the market's most trusted data provider with our carbon project assessments
• Promote and uphold best practices in the team, including keeping customer value at the heart of what we do
• Conduct quantitative and qualitative research, such as assessing project documentation, scientific literature, news reports, modelling formulas, time series data, and geospatial data

We're looking for someone who:

• Is based in London (this role is on-site, with five days a week in our London office)
• Has deep critical thinking skills and the ability to apply logical principles in order to quickly determine actionable solution pathways to complex problems
• Has experience delivering data insights as well as innovating new analytics
• Has established knowledge of quantitative analysis techniques and high familiarity with common quantitative tools (Sheets, GIS software, SQL, Python)
• Excellent English written communication and collaboration skills
• Is a fast learner, self-starter, intellectually curious, quantitative and ready to get up-to-speed in a complex and technical domain
• Has a basic knowledge of carbon offsets or carbon markets - ideally through academic or professional experience
• Takes initiative, has excellent time-management skills, and adapts easily to change especially when operating toward deadlines
• Is a self-starter who thrives in constantly evolving environments, ideally with early-stage experience
• Cares deeply about the climate and ecosystems of the Earth

We'd like someone highly ambitious, motivated and eager to propel their career forward. We prioritize grit, positivity, and the willingness to get stuck in, and encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't exactly match this job description.

Benefits:

• Equity in a rapidly growing startup
• Private Health Insurance and Life Assurance
• Unlimited annual leave
• Enhanced parental leave
• Access to Mental Health support via Spill
• Office bar tab once a month
• Weekly drinks in the office
• Catered lunch once a month in office
• Monthly Deliveroo/equivalent allowance

Location: London, Old Street.

Our Values:

• Own it: We make new mistakes. We build on the momentum of our wins and reflect on and learn from our failures.
• Stay curious: We keep our focus on the long-term, even if that means short-term challenges.
• Do what's right - even when it's hard: We take a growth mindset to our work, our customers, our market and the opportunities ahead of us.
• Collaborate and challenge with empathy: Our teams deliver through active collaboration. We invest in each other's success and make the company stronger in the long-run.
• Empower Customers: Make extraordinary efforts to exceed our customer expectations. If we're serving our customers to the fullest, we can help direct more investment into real climate impact.

What if you're a partial fit?

We prioritize grit, positivity, and the willingness to get stuck in, and encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't exactly match this job description.

Equal employment opportunity:

Sylvera is an equal opportunity employer: we value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.