Senior Climate Analyst at Root Capital

Reports To: Associate Director of Social & Environmental Performance
Region: Central America & Mexico - East Africa - South America - United States
Location: Costa Rica (San Jose or remote), Kenya (Nairobi or remote), Peru (Lima or remote), OR United States (Cambridge, MA or remote)
Start Date: Immediate
Contact: Please apply by filling out the form below.

Summary

Root Capital seeks a Senior Climate Analyst to support and shape our Climate Resilience Roadmap, our strategy to build the resilience of hundreds of agricultural businesses reaching half-a-million smallholder farmers through a targeted blend of climate advisory and climate finance. The Sr. Climate Analyst will contribute to strategy evolution, implementation, and monitoring via research, analysis, writing, and cross-team coordination. The position includes collaboration with Root Capital colleagues across our global advisory, lending, impact, and innovation teams and with external technical partners and funders. The role will report to Elizabeth Teague, Director of Climate Resilience.

We supply these businesses with vital credit and capacity building to foster their growth and resilience. We work in hard-to-serve communities where others don’t. To date, we’ve distributed $1.6 billion to improve the lives of over 10 million people in farming families. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Root Capital currently has associated offices in Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Colombia, Peru, Ghana, and Kenya.

Responsibilities

Research & Analysis to Inform Climate Resilience Strategy & Programs (33%)

• Conduct research and analysis to inform the strategic and programmatic evolution of Root Capital’s Climate Resilience Roadmap, with an initial focus on our expanding ambitions related to climate finance.
• Research and support engagement of potential technical partners working in areas such as carbon accounting, climate risk analysis, and climate finance.
• Prepare and present internal briefs for decision makers on research and analysis findings.

Program Management & Coordination (33%)

• Coordinate internal and external meetings related to Root Capital's climate resilience programming, assisting with scheduling, agenda setting, note taking, and follow up.
• Support internal knowledge sharing and collective learning across Root Capital’s global team.
• Serve as a resource to other teams on our Climate Resilience Roadmap, providing updates on activities and achievements, maintaining key documents, developing new content for communications and fundraising, and generally serving as a technical reference on climate action.

Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (33%)

• Provide technical input into the design of monitoring and evaluation tools for Root Capital’s Climate Resilience Roadmap.
• Monitor and prepare internal reports on the implementation of Climate Resilience Roadmap activities against milestones and goals.
• Conduct internal and external research and contribute writing for learning reports on Roadmap activities.

Perform other relevant duties as assigned.

Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree and at least four years of professional experience in research, analysis, capacity building, finance, and/or advocacy for climate action, ideally related to smallholder agriculture or natural climate solutions more broadly.
• Understanding of basic principles of climate change science; familiarity with measurement and reporting frameworks for climate-related impacts and risks. Detailed knowledge of or experience in financial analysis of climate-related investments and/or carbon accounting is a plus.
• Experience with research and analysis to inform program strategy and design. Proven ability to produce and present compelling presentations and reports for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with geospatial analysis, preferably using the ESRI ArcGIS platform.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with a wide variety of audiences, including Root Capital staff across our global offices, donors and investors, and technical partners.
• Superior written and oral communication skills in English. Working proficiency (ability to read and write internal communications; ability to converse with colleagues) in Spanish is a firm requirement.
• Attention to detail. Excellent organization and project management skills.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel; proficiency in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint. Experience with Salesforce preferred.
• Self-starter with ability to flexibly manage and prioritize multiple competing tasks; ability to thrive in a dynamic team environment within a matrix management structure.
• Willingness to occasionally (1-2 times per year) travel in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, often in remote areas. After COVID-19 travel restrictions are lifted.
• Commitment to Root Capital’s mission.
• Must be authorized to work in a country with a Root Capital office.

Salary

Commensurate with experience.