Data & QA Analyst — Impact Investing

Role Overview

We are looking for a Data & QA Analyst with a background or strong interest in impact investing, ESG, sustainability, and related financial or social-impact research.

The role will focus on data quality, research validation, analytical consistency, and quality assurance across data-driven products and processes.

30 hrs/week

Start: mid-September

Location: U.S. or Europe

Responsibilities

• Review and validate financial, ESG, impact, and organizational data.

• Assess the quality, completeness, and consistency of collected information.

• Support the development and testing of analytical and scoring methodologies.

• Identify data issues, inconsistencies, edge cases, and areas requiring further research.

• Perform quality assurance on analytical outputs, reports, and datasets.

• Develop test cases and benchmark examples for validating data and analytical processes.

• Support ongoing improvements to data standards and quality-control procedures.

• Work closely with research and technical teams to investigate and resolve data-quality issues.

• Document findings, assumptions, and quality-control results.

Preferred Background

• Impact investing

• ESG or sustainability

• Responsible or sustainable investing

• Financial research

• Philanthropy or nonprofit analysis

• Social-impact measurement

• Economics, finance, public policy, or related fields

Experience with spreadsheets and data analysis is expected. Familiarity with SQL, Python, or statistical tools is a plus. Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English are required.

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