Climate Data Analyst

PROTECTING OUR ENVIRONMENT WITH INTELLIGENCE. The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is a 501(c)(3) independent, international, non-profit advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C., with a proven record of triggering and affecting systemic change to protect the Earth’s environment. For more than three decades, EIA has established a unique paradigm of methods to drive change – including pioneering the use of undercover investigative techniques to expose environmental crime and drive impact.

These crimes include illegal trade in endangered wildlife, illegal logging and associated trade in illegal timber, environmental violations in the extractives sector, and the trade in both climate-damaging and ozone-layer-depleting gases.

EIA’s Climate Campaign combines data analysis, research, investigations, and policy advocacy to drive change at the international, national, and sub-national levels. Our work includes analyzing emissions and industry data, tracking production and trade in fluorinated gases, developing public-facing data and mapping tools, evaluating climate policies, and translating technical evidence into compelling advocacy.

EIA is seeking a Climate Data Analyst to join our Climate Campaign and support our efforts to reduce emissions of potent greenhouse gases and ozone-depleting substances, particularly fluorinated gases used in cooling.

The Climate Data Analyst will analyze environmental, emissions, industry, trade, and other datasets; conduct technical and policy research; and translate findings into useful products for EIA’s Climate investigations, advocacy, and public-facing work.

We are looking for a highly curious, resourceful, and technically adventurous candidate with strong quantitative and Excel skills, who can work with messy, complex datasets, identify meaningful patterns, take ownership of defined analytical questions, and learn unfamiliar tools and subject-matter quickly. Our ideal candidate demonstrates high-agency and eagerness to learn and is comfortable tackling unfamiliar problems, teaching themselves new approaches, experimenting with technology, and turning analysis into useful campaign work.

Early-career candidates are encouraged to apply.
This role offers significant opportunity to develop technical and subject-matter expertise.

Candidates are not expected to enter the role with expertise across every technical area used by the campaign.
Relevant professional, academic, or other applied experience may demonstrate the skills we are seeking.

• Analyze environmental, emissions, industry, trade, and other datasets to identify trends, inconsistencies, emerging issues, and opportunities for climate action.
• Collect, clean, organize, validate, document, and maintain datasets from government, industry, scientific, and open-source sources.
• Explore and proactively engage in defined analytical questions and develop thoughtful approaches to investigate them.
• Conduct policy and technical research on fluorinated gases, cooling technologies, emissions, production and trade, and related climate issues.
• Use advanced Excel and analytical/programming tools to conduct quantitative analysis and develop clear, reproducible findings.
• Conduct advanced analyses using Python, R, or similar languages to manipulate datasets, automate processes, and support more sophisticated research projects.
• Translate quantitative and technical findings into clear reports, briefings, fact sheets, presentations, web content, and other campaign products.
• Use AI tools like Claude Code or Codex to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of coding projects.
• Support the development of maps, data visualizations, databases, and other public-facing…