Summer Intern
This job is posted for Earth Finance via Parallel
Earth Finance is hiring Summer Interns to support our growing business. We will be hiring 3 positions and these roles will be based in Seattle, WA or New York, NY.
We are looking for Masters Candidates with 3+ years of professional work experience in corporate sustainability strategy, financing strategy, water and nature strategy, impact reporting, spatial finance, and geospatial technology. Prior experience working in these sectors is a plus. We will also consider candidates with comparable skills & experience.
What you’ll gain:
- Work on impactful analysis and research with guidance from industry experts with decades of experience in corporate strategy and finance, public policy, sustainable and renewable fuels, climate tech, and investing.
- Acquire a deep understanding of how to effectively drive large scale change using sustainable corporate, financing, and policy tools to help mitigate corporate risk and maximize sustainable business growth.
What you’ll do:
- Build sustainability and financing models to understand the business impact of new technology adoption and business model innovation
- Further methodology of measuring and quantifying co-benefits of climate initiatives and related investments
- Support the development of impact reporting initiatives
- Support custom research as we build client-facing deliverables.
- Work with the Sustainability teams at client organizations to align financial, expense, and corporate reporting with climate transition goals and objectives.
Skills you’ll need to be successful in the role:
- Passion for sustainable business solutions and experience (academic and/or professional) in sustainability, corporate strategy, financial analysis and modeling, climate policy, and /or geospatial technology
- Experience designing, building and launching new business models (including circular and regenerative business models).
- Comfortable with asking “why” in the ambiguity of climate data and business uncertainty.
- An interest in learning how to apply first principles analysis and boundary conditions to problem solving.
- Strong research skills and ability to quickly distill industry reports, policy news, and scholarly research into relevant context.
- Competent and comfortable with the Microsoft Office Suite and Google products.
- Comfort in agentic environments
- Clear and direct communication skills, with the ability to distill complex ideas from a variety of disciplines into actionable client take aways in various written and visual formats.
Compensation and Benefits:
- This is a 10-week summer internship paying $50 - $60 / hour. This role is not eligible for overtime.
- Interns will receive June 19th and July 4th as paid company holidays (if your internship spans those dates)
- A super fun, passionate, dedicated team of colleagues committed to creating a sustainable, and financially sound, future for organizations, people, and the planet.