Company Description

SYSTEMIQ is a different kind of company. Our purpose is to catalyse good disruptions in critical economic systems, with a current focus on land use/forestry, energy, and materials/circular economy. These disruptions are not only vital to the future of humanity and our planet, they also open up immense opportunities for the businesses that drive them. The UN Global Goals and the Paris Agreement have set the targets we must reach to protect the earth and make sure everyone in the growing global population has a chance to prosper. But, so far, most change has been incremental. We need to transform economic systems much faster to hit the targets and stop the degradation of natural resources.

SYSTEMIQ connects the right people, ideas, technologies, and capital to transform economic systems. We do this through four five activities:

1. Convene and support coalitions of leaders to shape policies and business strategies that will rapidly transform economic activity
2. Work with companies that want to be pioneers in and drivers of change towards more sustainable systems
3. Co-create and incubate the market solutions most likely to build regenerative economic systems
4. Invest our own venture capital and expertise in opportunities with the biggest potential to drive rapid system change
5. Direct larger pools of capital into regenerative economic systems, so that these scale and multiply.

In order to deliver in these areas, we recruit and develop distinctive and varied individuals who strive to achieve our mission, challenge the status quo and act as change leaders.

ANALYTIQ – the SYSTEMIQ analytics backbone

World-class analytics is not sufficient to drive true system-level change, but it is a necessary ingredient. That's why SYSTEMIQ has ANALYTIQ, a dedicated core unit designed to apply top-tier analytics to address the most complex system challenges.

ANALYTIQ harnesses a diverse array of analytical methodologies, from system optimization techniques like power and material flow modelling, to GIS modelling, as well as digital app development, which ranges from creating simple dashboards to designing tailor-made web applications. We employ these techniques to accelerate transitions across all SYSTEMIQ impact platforms, including energy, materials, sustainable finance, nature, and cities.

We have a long track-record of driving system-changing impact through our GIS analytics which have provided the foundational insights for programmes such as Partnership for Forests, Regeneration, and SPACES to name a few. We are looking to expand our expertise in this area to embed GIS capabilities into each of our five activities and establish as a core function of our scaling 15 person Analytiq team.

We're seeking a talented Geospatial Data Scientist / Engineer with data engineering experience to join our ANALYTIQ team. In this role, you'll work across all our platform areas, leveraging your skills to create first-rate analytical models that address a myriad of topics. As part of your journey, you'll cultivate expertise in areas like strategy advisory, sustainable finance, coalition building, and venture capital.

Your work will be highly strategic and involve collaboration with leading institutions in the field. This international role is aimed at delivering substantial, system-level impact on the world. You'll become part of a dynamic team of analytic experts who are dedicated to fostering system change through their work.

To thrive in this role, you'll need to showcase advanced problem-solving, analytical, and relationship-building skills that can drive breakthrough insights and actions, leading to impactful results.

We're seeking individuals with a strong analytical track record, proven achievements, and impactful problem-solving skills. You've demonstrated your abilities in various contexts and have an interest in contributing to an entrepreneurial environment where your work can make a significant impact. You share SYSTEMIQ's passion for system change.

This role is available in our offices in London, Amsterdam or Munich.

Responsibilities:

• Create bespoke geospatial optimisation models and insight tools to accelerate and scale system change for clients
• Build out and manage ANALYTIQ’s internal geospatial datasets and suite of tools that enable accelerated impact to our SYSTEMIQ project teams
• Work as part of a development and project team to deliver analytical insights to SYSTEMIQ’s impact partners
• Liaise with SYSTEMIQ’s platforms on energy, materials, nature, finance and cities to design and build new geospatial insights and tools
• Work with SYSTEMIQ’s partners and wider sustainability analytics community to stay up to date with the latest methods to bring to projects

Skills / Experience:

Required

• Strong quantitative/analytical background, owning a master’s degree or higher in computer science, earth science, geography, remote sensing, engineering, environmental management, maths, physics or equivalent area
• Recent graduate or up to 2 years of work experience
• A strong track record of working with geospatial vector and raster data, conducting GIS assessments, and conducting remote sensing analysis.
• Experience working with various GIS software applications such as ArcGIS, QGIS, Google Earth Engine, etc.
• Experience building complex geospatial data pipelines, working with PostGIS and other tool to be able to efficiently deploy geospatial data layers
• Familiarity with Python programme and working with relevant Python packages (geoPandas, Rasterio, GDAL, xarray, etc)
• Understanding of open source and proprietary datasets
• A keen willingness to learn a broader set of skills to deliver impact

Beneficial additional skills

• Experience with data visualization software such as Dash, PowerBI, and/or Tableau
• Experience and interest in delivering geospatial applications with accompanying skills (Dash, HTML/CCS, Django/JS/HTMX)
• Experience with Geoserver or other tile server applications
• Knowledge of carbon and nature accounting methodologies and methodologies to measure and value impact on nature

Other information

We are keen to receive applications from all parts of the community.

Diversity & Inclusion

We believe that diversity and inclusion are at the heart of system change and the mission we have set ourselves. So we commit ourselves to:

· Embedding diverse and inclusive ways of working from day to day. This includes recruitment, performance management, and people processes and policies.

· Providing a supportive environment. We want people to be themselves and be at their best, regardless of their background, personality, gender, sexual orientation, race, mental health, religion, or other characteristics.

· Enabling a long-term, sustainable approach to work and life more generally. We want to support our people at all stages of their lives – as parents or caregivers, through changing life circumstances – and to accommodate personal priorities where they matter most.