Analyst Intern
Type: full-time internship, Jan.–May 2015, monthly stipend, potential extension
Organization: Climate Smart Business Inc. https://climatesmartbusiness.com/
Location: Vancouver, BC
Climate Smart is a Vancouver-based social enterprise, providing small-
and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with training, tools, and
certification to profita
bly reduce GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions
generated by their business operations. Climate Smart emphasizes the
business case for GHG reduction: operational efficiencies, cost
savings, and competitive advantage. Climate Smart builds capacity
within SMEs by training key staff to develop strategies for ongoing
reductions in emissions and associated costs from energy, fuel and
waste that create economic as well as environmental benefits.
In 2010, Climate Smart launched the first municipally supported
climate change program designed specifically for the local SME
business community. Climate Smart’s training, certification, and
innovative data services are designed to link business-sector actions
to community-wide carbon emission reduction targets, while
simultaneously addressing economic development and green job plan
goals. Since 2009, Climate Smart has built out extensive data reports,
case studies and analysis for community-emission modeling – utilized
by both partners and businesses to benchmark their progress against
emission and cost-saving goals. Climate Smart has worked with 775+
businesses and organizations to date.
We are looking for a data analyst with long-term potential to grow
with our team as we launch new reporting products. You are detail
oriented, with superb technical and quantitative skills, fluent in
Excel and familiar with data visualization. In addition to being a
team player you have interest and/or experience in some combination of
the following:
• the power of data to drive social change,
• GHG management,
• climate change,
• the business case for sustainability,
• energy and operations management,
• InDesign or other graphic design program (an asset but not essential)
The internship will be focused on our research, analysis and
aggregated data projects:
1. Work with Climate Smart on growing demand for our latest data
product, Business Energy and Emissions Profiles (BEEPs). BEEPs were
developed to provide a sectoral analysis of GHG emissions within a
community, looking at the proportion and sources of community-wide
emissions that result from business-sector activity. BEEPs give
insight into business emissions from industry sectors and allow
comparison between sectors and activity types, informing community
planning around emissions reduction projects and business engagement
programs—critical initiatives for BC municipalities working to reduce
community-wide emissions.
Responsibilities will include:
• deriving sectoral emission intensities from the Climate Smart
dataset using Excel
• cleaning up data
• aggregating and sorting community business data
• applying the emission intensities to the community data using
Climate Smart methodology
• summarizing the information, creating charts, deriving insights
• other related tasks as required
2. Support Climate Smart’s work to develop benchmarks and predictive
profiles for different business sectors.
The benchmarks developed from our data will be used to evaluate the
performance of businesses currently working with Climate Smart to
reduce GHG emissions, to help businesses to prioritize different
reduction strategies, and to motivate others to begin to track and
reduce emissions.
Responsibilities will include:
• assisting in the development of the predictive profiles &
benchmarking initiative
• becoming familiar with how Climate Smart tracks and stores information
• helping to prepare data for analysis
• creating a description of Climate Smart online tool improvements
required to implement benchmarking
• applying the benchmarking methodology to the data
• other related tasks as required
This is a full-time position from January – May 31st, 2015, with the
possibility for extension. Please note this position offers a modest
monthly stipend funded by the JW McConnell Family Foundation.
Deadline for applications: Monday, December 30th, 2015.
To apply, please email cover letter and resume to:
Elizabeth Sheehan
elizabeth@climatesmartbusiness.com
Subject line: “Climate Smart Data Analyst Intern”
Learn more about Climate Smart at http://www.climatesmartbusiness.com.
All qualified applicants are invited to apply for this position. While
we truly appreciate all applications, only those selected for an
interview will be contacted.
