South Pole is an energetic, global company offering comprehensive sustainability solutions and services. With offices spanning all continents across the globe, we strive to create a sustainable society and economy that positively impacts our climate, ecosystems and developing communities. With our solutions, we inspire and enable our customers to create value from sustainability-related activities.
Sourcing high-impact carbon projects requires a powerful analytical backbone to turn complex market data into forward-looking commercial decisions. This position is central to managing our global pipelines, cleaning datasets, performing web scraping, and building the dashboards that drive our strategic offerings. If you are a smart, ambitious and dynamic sustainability professional with a strong passion to make a real difference in the fight against climate change, the below position may be right for you!
As a global sustainability solutions provider, South Pole works with clients in public and private sectors to build solutions for a sustainable society and economy. The Compliance Market team sits in a business line responsible for sourcing carbon projects, developing them and bringing resulting certified carbon credits to market.
The team is seeking a data analyst to join our Compliance Market team. This role is central to our mission of sourcing and developing high-impact carbon projects by providing the analytical backbone for our global pipeline and understanding of market trends to drive strategic decision making. You will be responsible for transforming complex market data and project metrics into actionable insights, helping the team identify emerging risks, commercial opportunities, and future market offerings. The ideal candidate will bridge the gap between technical carbon project data and commercial strategy, ensuring our origination and monetization decisions are data-driven and forward-looking.
The data analyst collects, cleans, and interprets complex datasets to provide actionable insights, creating reports and dashboards to support decision-making. auditing data quality, and improving data systems.
Main tasks & responsibilities:
Data Collection & Cleaning: Gather data from various sources (internal systems, web scraping) and clean it to ensure accuracy, and integrity.
Analysis & Modeling: Track technical shifts and developments across pipeline and market. Perform analysis to identify trends, patterns, and insights, as well as , risks and opportunities for South Pole's "Certificates" business line.
Visualization & Reporting: Prepare high-quality analytical reports, briefs, and data visualizations for internal and external stakeholders.
Data Management: Liaise with our digital team to assist in improving design of data systems for evolving market and company needs. Recommend improvements to data systems, enhance data collection efficiency, and create automated workflows.
Knowledge management: Maintain and continuously improve internal data tools, dashboards, and knowledge resources.
Requirements:
Essential profile requirements
Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, statistics, computer science, Environmental Science, Economics or a related quantitative field.
2-4 years of professional experience in carbon markets in a relevant fields
Strong analytical skills with a proven ability to perform complex data analysis and policy evaluation
Proficiency in data analysis, risk metrics, environmental or financial modelling
Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (advanced Excel) and Google Suite applications, SQL, and data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI).
Ability to work in a fast-paced, multi-time zone environment and convey complex data to diverse audiences.
Desirable profi le requirements
Fluency in English.
Proficiency in cloud computing and programming languages like Python or R, JavaScript, is highly valued for automating market analytics.
What we offer:
At South Pole, we care about our employees as much as we care about the planet. South Pole is not just an employer, we are a Team. South Pole does not just offer people a job, we offer you a career. By joining our team, you will find strong purpose and deep meaning in everything you do. You will have the chance to make a real difference for our clients and for the planet, working alongside a passionate team of like-minded colleagues, while building your knowledge/skills and developing your career in a fun, dynamic, international and fast-growing organisation.
We’re a planet of 7.5 billion unique and different people. We all have a contribution to make; South Pole is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, marital status or disability. Our recruitment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.
South Pole is the world's leading carbon asset developer and climate consultancy.
Since 2006, South Pole has been a trusted partner and advisor to governments, public sector organisations, and leading businesses on their decarbonisation journeys. South Pole serves over 1,000 clients across the world, and its global team of experts has helped many Fortune 500 businesses implement comprehensive strategies that help build resilience and turn climate action into long-term business opportunities.
In line with its mission to deliver climate impact at scale, South Pole has used the power of markets to help channel climate finance to over 850 projects in more than 50 countries across the globe. To date, these projects have helped reduce over 200 million metric tonnes of CO2 emissions, accelerated low-carbon transformations across several sectors, and provided measurable benefits to communities vulnerable to climate change.
The business is supported by world-class investors, including Temasek's GenZero, Lightrock, Corisol, and Salesforce Ventures.
South Pole is a social enterprise recognised by the World Economic Forum's Schwab Foundation, and committed to becoming a B Corp globally across all of its local entities.
