Junior Data Analyst - Data Acquisition

Job purpose and background

Are you passionate about using data to drive change? Do you enjoy working with data, alongside the ability and desire to work with users of data and to communicate well?

CDP’s Data Analytics Team are looking for a skilled, enthusiastic, and ambitious data analyst who is passionate to use data to drive companies, investors, and governments to build a thriving economy which works for people and planet.

You will work on a project to gather data and improve the quality of data acquired by CDP. This piece of work supports key internal stakeholders as well as the Data & Insight department at CDP. You will also be documenting 3^rd party data within CDP and managing robust processes for organizing this documentation.

The Data Analytic team works to improve the usability of the data disclosed to CDP. The team also manage third party suppliers to enrich CDP’s data offering through data Products/Services. The team develop and apply robust and transparent methods for data cleaning and modelling.

You will also work on supplying data for vital data products, such as the Full GHG data set and other key data products:

Key responsibilities include:

• Gathering and collating data from 3^rd party data sources for internal stakeholders.
• Wrangling and analyzing data for use in Data Products and Data Services.
• Support colleagues in the use of 3^rd party data and make better decisions from this data.
• Documenting 3^rd party data sources for internal management.

Required skills and experience:

• At least 1 year of data analysis experience using R/Python using relevant functions e.g.(Pandas, Beautiful soup, Scrapy, Tidyverse, Tidy web scraping, rvest)
• Experience of SQL (or T-SQL).
• Data wrangling skills.
• Experienced in data cleaning.
• Good communication skills in English.
• Strong numeracy and good statistical skills.
• An awareness of environmental issues, particularly as they relate to our core themes of Climate Change, Deforestation and Water Security.

Desired skills and experience:

• Familiarity with GitHub or other code repository tools.
• Data visualisation tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
• An understanding of GHG accounting methods and sustainability data.
• Knowledge of the financial system and capital markets.
• An awareness of environmental issues, particularly as they relate to our core themes of Climate Change, Deforestation and Water Security.

This is a 6-month contract, part time role (22 hours per week) based at CDP’s London office as part of the Data Analytics team.

Salary and benefits: £7,200 for 6 month – pro rata (£24,00 per annum), 15 days holiday excluding bank holidays, flexible working opportunities and others benefits.

Interested applicants must be eligible to work legally in the U.K.

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 ‘Junior Data Analyst - Data Acquisition, Your First name, Surname’ in the subject by 23.00 GMT by September 27^th 2020