Climate Metrics & Impact Analyst

USA The Nature Conservancy; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 69,000 - 104,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care benefits

401(k) with employer match

Parental leave

Job summary

The Climate Metrics Specialist at The Nature Conservancy provides technical leadership for climate metrics and indicators to support the 2030 goals. You will ensure metrics are robust, reliable, and accurately reflect conservation impact, collaborating with Global Climate, CCO, and field teams.

The role involves developing metrics for nature-based solutions, carbon accounting, and climate adaptation, with data management, analyses, and visualization to inform monitoring and learning.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in science-related field and 2 years of experience or equivalent combination.
• Experience collecting, manipulating, analyzing, and interpreting data.
• Experience synthesizing, interpreting, and communicating scientific information, including translating scientific concepts to general audiences.
• Experience preparing technical reports, or scientific publications, and creating engaging visualizations of findings.
• Experience leading and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• Experience working with a wide range of people.
• Experience working with conservation or climate programs.
• Experience in developing metrics, monitoring, evaluation, outcome reporting, or related expertise.

Responsibilities

• Serve as primary expert and point of contact for the Global Climate team on all aspects of impact metrics and tracking systems, and support priority field projects and strategies with metrics selection and use.
• Work with the MEL Lead to develop and deploy climate mitigation or adaptation metrics, proxy metrics, or methods in service of 2030 climate goal progress reporting.
• Develop adaptive management and MEL plans and support the design and implementation of adaptive management and monitoring protocols with a focus on data, indicators, and metrics.
• Design and conduct quantitative analyses as relevant to inform baselines and measure impact, drawing on conservation knowledge and methodological variety including carbon accounting, additionality principles, impact evaluations, surveys, field sampling, and more.
• Support climate adaptation and mitigation metric refinement and help teams develop and utilize high-quality program monitoring approaches and impact metrics.
• Help develop MEL systems and protocols to inform 2040 and beyond goals, outcomes, adaptive management, and reporting approaches to demonstrate ongoing conservation impact.
• Deliver tools and training to staff and partners, as appropriate.
• May supervise staff, interns, or volunteers on a project basis.

Skills

Data analysis

Scientific communication

Cross-functional teamwork

Climate programs

Metrics development

Education

Master's degree in science-related field

Tools

R

Python

Geospatial analysis

Job description

The Climate Metrics Specialist at The Nature Conservancy provides technical leadership for climate metrics and indicators to support the 2030 goals. You will ensure metrics are robust, reliable, and accurately reflect conservation impact, collaborating with Global Climate, CCO, and field teams.

The role involves developing metrics for nature-based solutions, carbon accounting, and climate adaptation, with data management, analyses, and visualization to inform monitoring and learning.