About Climate Friendly
Acting to combat climate change is one of the world’s most pressing challenges. Climate Friendly was founded in 2003 as a profit-for-purpose business. Our growing team is passionate about active land management, and we are focused on finding economically viable solutions to maximise our impact on climate change.
We are one of Australia’s largest and most experienced carbon farming project developers. This includes more than 190 projects with farmers, plantation managers, agribusiness, and Indigenous groups on carbon farming projects.
Climate Friendly has delivered over 20Mt in carbon abatement as at the end of 2020. Our immediate mission is to establish partnerships, by 2025, that will store or reduce 150Mt of CO2-e, while repairing nature and supporting reconciliation. Join our team and you will be helping to build A productive, sustainable land sector that contributes to a zero net emissions & nature positive Australia by 2050
We have a genuinely friendly and supportive culture where everyone has a voice and opportunity to help shape our future and to fulfil our purpose.
About the role
The Natural Capital Analyst provides hands-on support to deliver client contracts and support senior management to operationalise natural capital products and contribute to team sales through clear documentation and practical analysis. The role connects sustainability subject matter knowledge with data analysis and commercial delivery, helping translate innovative ideas into usable processes, templates, and client-ready outputs.
The role supports senior colleagues by contributing to and executing their decisions, analysing data and reporting frameworks, performing calculations, managing stakeholder follow-ups, and writing reports. Data will primarily be sourced from remote sensing, but may also come from property records (e.g., for emissions and input use) and field work performed by colleagues internally.
You will help contribute to sales by preparing proposal sections, building select pitch materials, conducting competitor/tool reviews, and helping address questions from clients and partners. The role works collaboratively across technical and commercial teams, contributes to improving templates and playbooks, and helps streamline natural capital product delivery.
Key responsibilities include:
Natural Capital Reporting & Analysis
- Calculating property and regional metrics using agreed methods and prototype templates, documenting assumptions and data lineage.
- Researching benchmark data for relevant regions, commodities, sustainability frameworks, and market comparators.
- Analysing field, remote sensing, and property‑record data, interpreting relationships and deriving high‑level recommendations.
- Assessing data quality for completeness and accuracy, identifying gaps, and escalating clarifications.
- Reconciling internal natural capital product designs with external sustainability frameworks and tools.
- Preparing figures, tables, and technical annexes that support clear decision‑making.
- Supporting senior colleagues on site visits when required and documenting observations for later analysis.
Product Operationalisation & Continuous Improvement.
- Updating natural capital measurement protocol documentation and technical notes, including definitions, calculations, QA steps, and change logs.
- Assisting with improving product prototypes, including quality assurance, template updates, and workflow refinements for data collection, calculation, and reporting.
- Liaising with adjacent teams, including carbon project managers and data specialists, to integrate processes and ensure consistency.
- Considering efficiencies in delivery processes, including exploring appropriate uses of AI for summarising, checking, or templating.
Research & Market Intelligence
- Conducting some select competitor and tool analysis and contributing insights to product and sales strategy.
- Monitoring updates across sustainability reporting frameworks and related market drivers.
- Contributions, primarily technical, to natural capital communications materials.
Client Delivery & Documentation
- Delivering contracted client work across reporting, analysis, documentation, and stakeholder coordination.
- Drafting sections of client deliverables, including reports, technical notes, and supporting appendices.
- Documenting meeting notes clearly and ensuring action items and follow‑ups are progressed to closure.
- Synthesising input from internal and external stakeholders into coherent first‑draft documents for senior review.
Business Development Support
- Drafting sections of proposals and contributing to pitch‑deck content.
- Preparing visuals, tables, and supporting materials for proposal submissions.
- Coordinating internal inputs for proposals, ensuring clarity, alignment, and timely progress.
- Supporting thought leadership over time by preparing research summaries, insights, or draft concept notes.
This is an initial 12-month contract opportunity with the potential for longer term extension.
About you
Qualifications
- Tertiary qualification in sustainability, environmental science, commerce, statistics, engineering, accounting, or a related discipline.
- Postgraduate study or professional coursework in sustainability reporting, accounting, or data analysis is welcomed but not required.
Experience
- Working in sustainability reporting, sustainability consulting, accounting, analytics, modelling, or similar roles involving data‑driven documentation.
- Analysing quantitative datasets in commercial, environmental, or policy contexts, including assessing accuracy and completeness, alongside understanding relationships between datasets.
- Applying sustainability reporting concepts and reconciling internal methods with external frameworks and market drivers.
- Using Excel or similar tools for calculations, checks, and basic visualisations.
- Using modelling, statistics, Python, R, or AI‑enabled tools to support analysis or quality checking (advantageous, but not required).
- Supporting client delivery through documentation, reporting, and preparing first‑drafts, including supporting senior management on select proposal and pitch content.
- Supporting the development of positive client relationships through clear communication, reliable follow‑through, and high‑quality delivery.
- Communicating with experts from diverse technical and commercial backgrounds and triangulating information to support delivery.
- Presenting information clearly for both technical and non‑technical audiences in written or verbal formats.
- Documenting meetings accurately and progressing follow‑ups and action items through to completion.
- Contributing within generalist or multidisciplinary teams.
Skills & Attributes
- A team player who is enthusiastic and curious.
- Comfortable working with some uncertainty.
- Self‑motivated, proactive, and communicative.
- Diligent about quality, version control, and transparent assumptions.
- Passionate about nature, climate, and or agro-ecological production.
Why join our team?
Our goal is to be seen as an organisation that supports wholeness, lifestyle and wellbeing whilst rewarding individual and collective performance. In addition to competitive salary and transparent career progression opportunities, our benefits include:
- Work with purpose, contributing to a productive, sustainable land sector that contributes to a zero net emissions and nature positive Australia by 2050
- A fully hybrid workplace – work to your own rhythm and balance connection and productivity
- A supportive and inclusive environment that promotes diversity
- 2 all staff events a year to connect with your friends and colleagues
- Christmas holiday – 3 days of additional leave each year
- Floating public holidays
- Gender neutral paid parental leave
- 2 days each year for training / development / study leave
- Home office setup and refresh allowance
- Company performance bonus and shared equity
