Internship Nature Projects

Location:
Hybrid (Ecologi has offices in Bristol and London)

Job type:
Internship – 3-months fixed term, part-time (20 hours per week)

Compensation:
£18 per hour

We are on the lookout for an Intern to join our Impact team on a fixed term, part-time basis to assist our team with designing a new quality assessment framework for nature restoration projects. In this role, you will gain real-world experience in climate tech, working in a dynamic team operating right at the intersection of ecological science and the corporate world.

Company Profile

Ecologi is the UK's most trusted climate action platform. Our mission is to inspire and empower businesses to accelerate global climate action through funding high quality, high integrity climate solutions including reforestation, habitat restoration, carbon avoidance and removal projects around the world. We work with over 24,000 businesses; Co-op, O2, BAFTA Albert, ITV, Ubisoft, Oracle, Capgemini, Mulberry including 300+ B Corps.

Our community has collectively funded the planting of over 89 million trees, avoided 3.5 million tonnes of verified CO2e, over 39,000m2 of habitat restored and permanently removed 14,000 tonnes of CO2. We're science-led and impact driven, aligned to the SBTi and Oxford Principles and guided by our impact team and expert independent climate committee. We support leading industry standards and work with leading third-party quality assessments from our partners Sylvera, BeZero Carbon, Calyx Global and Renoster. We're a proudly certified B Corp, in the Top 5% for Environment and Governance, and the most trusted climate action brand in the UK with an average 4.8 rating on Trustpilot.

As a team, we're easy-going and take great pride in our work. From brand marketing to product development, we're all striving to move the needle on the climate emergency. Our culture is about being honest and transparent so we trust each other, and about feeling part of something bigger than yourself. We're willing to do something good with our lives and for our planet. If you feel the same, we could be the right company for you!

Our Values

• Planet First: We are science-led and impact-driven. We hold ourselves to the highest scientific standards and collaborate with the best global partners. We provide leading-edge solutions for our planet that customers love.
• Always Accountable: We gain trust through transparency. We do our due diligence and seek out the best possible data to inform our decisions. We value authenticity, openness, honesty, and operate with integrity and autonomy.
• Changemakers: We drive meaningful change. We are agents of change. We're progress-driven, setting ambitious goals even when faced with uncertainty and ambiguity. We test, we learn, we move forwards. We're brave, optimistic, resilient and enjoy the challenge that change brings.
• Act, Together: We believe in the power of collective action. We inspire and empower our people and businesses to make a positive difference. Together, we challenge, we communicate, we collaborate. We celebrate and champion diversity and inclusion.

As a Climate Account Specialist, you'll guide and deliver vital greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting work across our diverse client portfolio. You'll empower organisations with the services and insights needed to thoughtfully calculate, monitor, set meaningful targets for, and ultimately reduce their GHG emissions.

About you:

• Academic credentials: a strong academic background, such as an advanced degree or PhD candidateship in a relevant field (e.g. environmental science, conservation, ecology, sustainable development); or equivalent professional qualifications or memberships.
• Data and research literacy: highly proficient in spreadsheets and project management tools with the ability to aggregate, analyse, and summarise complex information. Confident in seeking out, understanding, and applying knowledge from academic research and complex technical documentation to your work.
• Exceptional organisation, diligence, and pride in your work: able to take a methodical approach to your work. Ability to be proactive, work independently and collaboratively, and produce solutions to novel challenges, with a pragmatic and strategic mindset and an excellent eye for detail.
• Contextual knowledge: a broad understanding of climate change and conservation science, and issues in corporate sustainability.

What is nice to have:

• GIS: previous experience using GIS tools such as QGIS, Google Earth Pro, ArcGIS, Earth Blox and/or Restor.
• Remote sensing: experience or detailed theoretical knowledge of remote sensing tools used in restoration monitoring – such as bioacoustic monitoring, trail cameras, LiDAR etc.

Job responsibilities

The Intern will report to our Impact Partnerships Manager, and the role will involve refreshing and updating our existing project assessment processes by co-designing and developing a new, industry-leading framework for due diligence and monitoring of our supported landscape and habitat restoration projects around the world. The role is quite autonomous, but with regular touch points and direct collaboration with the Impact Partnerships Manager, as well as group meetings and collaboration with the wider business and senior team.

This newly-updated assessment framework will underpin Ecologi's work in continuing to find and fund some of the world's most impactful restoration projects. You'll need exceptional research, analytical, and written communication skills – once the assessment framework is complete, you'll have the opportunity to be a co-author on a whitepaper summarising and explaining the new framework, which Ecologi will publish later in 2025.

With this role, we’re looking for someone with a deep understanding of nature projects and ecosystem restoration best practice – which might be through fieldwork, academic qualifications or research in Ecology, Conservation, Biology, or similar field, or demonstrated experience using field monitoring tools and GIS software.

The day-to-day

• Co-design a new Nature Project Assessment Framework (50%): which is informed by peer-reviewed research and restoration industry best practice, and allows for holistic assessment of nature restoration projects.
• Background research (25%): into individual nature projects and restoration best practice, including reviewing academic literature and industry reports and sharing findings into the business.
• Writing technical reports (10%): research summaries, individual project or technology explainers, and whitepapers on specific relevant topics – as opportunities arise.
• Carry out dynamic gap analysis to provide recommendations (15%): for how to develop the Nature Project Assessment Framework in the future, as well as how to develop the design and customer interactivity of Ecologi's nature project monitoring processes.