Data Analyst - ACT Assessment

Job purpose and background

Are you passionate about using data to drive change? Do you have excellent data analysis skills alongside the ability and desire to work with users of data and to communicate well?

We are looking for a Data Analyst - ACT project to be responsible for delivering tasks to meet the goals of Assessing low-Carbon Transition (ACT) and World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) project. The ACT project aims to measure a company’s contribution to a low-carbon economy, and in partnership with the WBA, assesses and benchmarks companies within different sectors. This will involve the development of assessment models and incorporation of third-party data inputs into the assessment framework. The successful candidate will ensure their data model delivery is aligned with the principles of the ACT project. The candidate will report to the Head of Data for delivery of tasks to time and budget.

This role requires experience of defining data models and mapping, for use in analysis and further assessment. This role will build data models and scripts to operationalise ACT sector methodologies, working collaboratively with the ACT assessment team to deliver assessments for the Climate and Energy Benchmark. They will need to demonstrate capability to work and communicate effectively with others, including stakeholders and thematic teams, to ensure processes are followed, deliverables are aligned to milestones and outputs are built to agreed quality standards. A knowledge of environmental issues and how they affect, and are affected by, businesses, cities, states, and regions would be an advantage.

Key responsibilities include:

• Delivery of CDP’s ACT data assessment process, focusing on the construction of data models and API / imports of third-party data on time, within budget and to a high standard of quality
• Defining clear data management processes for the collection of data in preparation for assessments of companies to maintain traceability of the data and reproducibility of assessment results.
• Managing the data collection process: from CDP data, data mining of other sources, data cleaning, consolidation into a common data structure and map any transformations of indicators into derived indicators.
• Preparation of scripts so that assessments can be automated for assessment of raw indicators, derived indicators and calculation of numeric indicators to provide automated benchmark scores.
• Liaising with IT and the team to develop and deliver system requirements for the data management and processes.
• Other tasks as required:
• Working with the Data and Insights Department to run data assessment models.
• Any other tasks required to support the development of CDP’s Data Analytics Team objectives more broadly.

Required skills and experience:

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Statistics and Mathematics, Environmental Sciences or similar
• At least 2 years of data analysis experience using Python/R.
• Experience of data mining and cleaning approaches, using basic Python and R libraries such as pandas, dplyr and tidyr.
• Experience in developing statistical models and products within a data science framework, with some knowledge of machine learning approaches and algorithms.
• Experience of SQL (or T-SQL) for querying relational databases
• Great data wrangling skills.
• Good technical & communication skills in English.
• Strong numeracy and good statistical skills.
• Be able to work in a matrix environment with flexibility to perform a range of analytical activities when coordinating with thematic teams
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• A positive and enthusiastic team player with the ability to work collaboratively and to deadlines in a fast-paced environment;

Desired skills and experience:

• Familiarity with GitHub, Linux, Shell scripting (bash).
• Experience of data visualization skills using Power BI or similar BI tools.
• Some basic understanding of text mining and NLP pre-processing steps with relevant libraries in Python or R, such as beautiful soup, nltk etc.
• Experience working as part of a scrum team.
• A good understanding of GHG and sustainability data.
• An awareness of environmental issues, particularly as they relate to Climate Change and the ecological transition.
• An awareness of questionnaire and survey design, for both quantitative and qualitative downstream analysis.
• Ambition to start to enable and coach colleagues as part of an expanding organisation with growing data science capabilities.

This is a fixed term 12-month contract, full time role based at CDP’s London office reporting to the Head of Data.

Salary and benefits: Between £28,000 - £38,000 per annum dependent on experience, 30 days holiday excluding bank holidays, flexible working opportunities and others benefits.

Interested applicants must be eligible to work legally in the United Kingdom.

Before you apply

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To apply please email your CV and cover letter describing how you meet the required skills and experience, to [email protected] with ‘ACT Data Analyst, Your First name, Surname’ in the subject by 23.59 GMT on 13 October 2020.