Climate Metrics Lead - Impact & MEL Specialist

The Nature Conservancy (All); Arlington (TX); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

The Nature Conservancy is seeking a Climate Metrics Specialist to provide technical leadership for climate metrics and indicators across our programs. This role supports the Global Climate team, CCO data groups, and field teams to refine and report outcome indicators, ensuring rigorous measurement of climate actions and co-benefits.

Based in a flexible U.S. location with preference for DC area, the position involves advanced data analyses, development of metrics, and training staff and partners

Qualifications

• Master's degree in science-related field with 2 years experience or equivalent.
• Experience collecting, manipulating, analyzing, and interpreting data.
• Experience synthesizing, interpreting, and communicating scientific information.
• Experience preparing technical reports and visualizations of findings.
• Experience leading and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• Experience working with conservation or climate programs.
• Experience 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.
• Develop climate mitigation or adaptation metrics, proxy metrics, or methods in service of 2030 climate goal progress reporting.
• Design 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 to inform baselines and measure impact, drawing on conservation knowledge and methodological variety including carbon accounting and impact evaluations.
• Support climate adaptation and mitigation metric refinement and help teams develop and utilize high-quality program monitoring approaches and impact metrics.
• Deliver tools and training to staff and partners, as appropriate.
• May supervise staff, interns, or volunteers on a project basis.
• May manage a grant, contract, or request for proposal.
• Must be able to work in variable weather conditions, at remote locations, in hazardous terrain and under physically demanding circumstances.

Skills

Data analysis

Geospatial analysis

R/Python

Scientific communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Master's degree in science-related field

Tools

R

Python

GIS

Job description

The Nature Conservancy is seeking a Climate Metrics Specialist to provide technical leadership for climate metrics and indicators across our programs. This role supports the Global Climate team, CCO data groups, and field teams to refine and report outcome indicators, ensuring rigorous measurement of climate actions and co-benefits.

Based in a flexible U.S. location with preference for DC area, the position involves advanced data analyses, development of metrics, and training staff and partners