Climate Finance Data and Methodology Associate / Senior Associate / Manager

About us 
Climate Arc (Arc) is a philanthropic organization working to accelerate corporate climate transitions by unlocking the trillions of dollars of private capital required to meet global goals. We ensure that financial decision makers have the tools, data, and skillsets needed to direct capital to the necessary solutions at speed and scale. Arc implements its strategy through grantmaking and proprietary products and programs delivered by our in-house capability. 

Why this role matters 

This role sits at the forefront of climate-finance data product development and methodological innovation. 

At Arc, we are building public-good products to deliver capital to the climate transition. Our flagship tool is TransitionArc which equips financial institutions with trusted, science-aligned data to make better decisions. Building great products starts with great methodologies. That’s where you come in. 

You’ll play a key role in translating complex climate science, key frameworks (e.g. ISSB), and transition scenarios into practical methodologies that underpin our products. You’ll help ensure our approach is transparent, grounded in quality data, and ready to be integrated into real-world decision-making. 

You will help embed these frameworks into how data flows through our systems—from assessing and aligning partner datasets, to ensuring interoperability, to shaping how users experience TransitionArc. You’ll help identify gaps in existing approaches, develop innovative methods, and ensure that methodological decisions are transparent and embedded in our data structures. 

Working closely with Arc’s Tech and Research teams—as well as a network of external partners—you’ll help build products that are innovative and drive action. From using national transition pathways to assess companies and corporate resilience to climate change impacts to tracking company progress over time - your work will shape how climate transition is understood and financed. 

This is a unique opportunity to help define a new generation of open, science-based climate-finance tools that will play a key role in creating a more transparent, connected climate-finance ecosystem—one that works for the planet and the people investing in it. 

What you will be doing 

• Use your knowledge of climate science and corporate performance data to inform the development of cutting-edge data products on transition and resilience 

• Facilitate the integration of new datasets or data types into Arc’s data warehouse and front-end products and help accelerate data interoperability with our partners. 

• Develop methodologies for the creation of market leading data and analysis for financial institutions to understand the impact of climate on their investment decisions 

• Act as a bridge between the end users of Climate Arc's products, leading climate science, and the technical implementation of solutions 

• Build analytics that give users insight into company progress on the transition and resilience, and help them navigate underlying assumptions and sources 

• Work with Arc’s program team to deliver grants to institutions capable of plugging critical gaps in the climate finance data ecosystem 

• Produce high-quality materials such as quantitative and qualitative analysis, written documents and presentations  

• Communicate technical needs and requirements to technical teams, such as Arc’s Data Solutions team 

• Build and maintain a range of relevant sectoral knowledge and information resources  

• Define, structure, and implement new processes to improve efficiency and effectiveness across projects and the Research & Program team as a whole 

A day in the life 

This is a hands-on, practical role at the intersection of climate science, finance, and data product development. 

You’ll use your knowledge of climate transition and resilience (and frameworks in this area such as like ISSB, TPT, NZIF and CA100+NZB) to ensure Arc addresses critical gaps in the ecosystem and builds solutions relevant to users’ real-world pain points and use cases.  

You’ll collaborate with researchers, technical teams, and partners to align datasets and frameworks, helping build systems that deliver decision leading information where it's needed most. 

On any given day, you might be reviewing a new partner dataset, checking it for key attributes and ensuring it aligns with other methodologies. You’ll translate methodological decisions – on topics like sector pathways or industry specific transitions – into the structure of our data models and tools. Whether integrating that data into the warehouse, or shaping how it surfaces in TransitionArc, you’ll be focused on usability, transparency, and interoperability. 

Expect to work with data and data structures regularly, using Python and/or tools like Tableau. You’ll need to make smart, grounded decisions that balance scientific rigor with real-world implementation, ensuring methodologies are not just credible but operational. And you’ll work with scenario models and local pathways to ensure our data reflects lived realities, not just global averages. 

About you 

You will have some, not necessarily all, of the following experience, skills, knowledge and attributes: 

• An understanding of key scientific, policy, and market developments related to climate that shape corporate action and investment decisions, including experience applying these in the real world.  

• Experienced in the use and development of ESG / sustainability metrics are created and used in the financial sector (e.g. in investment, banking, insurance, ESG data providers or other financial services firms) and the state of the art in these tools. 

• Experience applying ESG and climate data to investment and lending decisions. 

• Knowledge across multiple use cases (e.g. impact, risk) and asset classes (fixed income, equity, sovereign, real estate). Experience with financial databases e.g., Bloomberg, Refinitiv Eikon, Capital IQ.   

• Skilled in data science and analysis including data visualisation and statistics. Experience collecting, collating, synthesising and interpreting data to derive meaningful and actionable insights. 

• Ability to communicate methods, results and recommendations from complex qualitative and quantitative analysis to expert and non-technical audiences. 

• Technical expertise with data models and experience in working with data products from prototype to production-ready. 

• Intermediate or expert knowledge of Tableau, Python, SQL, and MS Excel. Understanding of data processing tools like dbt is advantageous. Knowledge of cloud data warehouses like Snowflake is helpful. 

• Excellent time and project management skills with the ability to manage priorities and competing deadlines.  

• A proactive self-starter who is comfortable with a level of ambiguity that comes with working in a fast-paced startup. 

• Outstanding English writing and presentation skills. 

Location

For this role we can offer a remote-first working option and are open to locations across the UK and Europe.

Salary and benefits

The salary range for this role will be determined based on the candidate’s location within the UK or Europe, in line with Climate Arc’s Reward Framework and local market benchmarking.

In addition to the base salary, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes, but is not limited to:

• Generous paid time off
• Health and wellbeing program
• 9% employer contribution to retirement planning
• Enhanced family pay and leave policies
• Professional learning & development program
• Professional membership paid (if applicable)
• Nomad working policy

As well as the tangible items above, we are building a culture of trust and collaboration where we have confidence our team members will get the job done and meet the deadlines and expectations of their roles.

To apply

Please complete the Application Form including attaching an up-to-date CV as well as a Cover Letter (both in English) outlining how your skills and experience align with the above requirements and what motivates you to work with Climate Arc in this particular role.

We intend to close the advert for this role on Friday 26th September at 5pm UK time but depending on the level of response we may close it prior, so we encourage you to submit your application sooner than later.

The application and assessment process will involve the following:

• Application review (applications that do not include a full cover letter will not be considered)
• 1st round interview: Recruiting Manager (30 to 45 minute MS Teams video call)
• Offline task (2-3 hours)
• Formal interview (in person or MS Teams) with the Hiring Manager and panel (1 hour)