AnalystAssociate

Company Description

Location

London, England, United Kingdom preferred; SitgesBarcelona (office location) considered

Forests are crucial to all life on Earth. They capture and store carbon and are one of the most promising, largescale, and costeffective opportunities to combat climate change. Rainforests also sustain rainfalls, food supply, vital ecosystems, and livelihoods for over a billion people. Protecting them is not just a moral imperative, it is essential for a stable, prosperous, and sustainable future for us all. As the COVID19 crisis highlights, we live in a fragile and interconnected world where sustainability cannot be taken for granted.

There is no pathway to the goals of the Paris Agreement that does not include keeping these vital carbon sinks intact. Emergent helps safeguard the world’s tropical forests by building a global market for forest carbon credits. Countries generate these credits by reducing deforestation and tropical deforestation (called “REDD+”). For forest countries, Emergent provides a guaranteed source of demand by facilitating access to a range of highvolume buyers, backed by a purchase guarantee from donors, giving countries the certainty needed to make investments in forest protection and chart a new course For buyers, Emergent provides access to the highestquality REDD+ credits, enabling them to meet their climate neutrality goals. Emergent has recently assembled the largest ever publicprivate partnership for tropical forest protection: the $1bn LEAF Coalition, launched at the COP26 World Leaders’ Summit.

Job Description

Emergent is expanding, and looking for several new team members to join at analystassociate level. Roles are likely to involve a blend of tasks across four of Emergent’s teams: Demand, building a pipeline of corporate demand for highintegrity 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 preagreed forest protection programmes. We’re looking for exceptional people, able to exercise a high degree of autonomy and take on significant responsibility, identifying problems and recommending and implementing solutions. In return, we offer the chance to be part of an extraordinary, highimpact endeavour, intended to slow and halt tropical deforestation permanently.

Qualifications

Requirements of the Role

• 12 years of professional experience in a toptier consultancy or financial services company.
• Bachelors degree or equivalent

• Essential experience and attributes:

  • Ability to operate partly remotely. Emergent is growing a small team in London. We anticipate a blend of face to face and remote working.
  • Razorsharp analytical and problemsolving 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 startup environment
  • Ability to thrive in an entrepreneurial and often virtual team environment
  • Ability to deliver consistently high levels of accuracy, efficiency and followthrough
  • Adept at making assessments quickly and identifying the best course of action.

  • Preferred attributes:

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

    • Additional Information

      Applicants must have work authorization in the UK or the EU.

      Emergent provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, local or other applicable laws.

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