Nature & Climate Funding Analyst
1 day ago
About the Role
The National Trust is seeking a highly skilled and experienced professional to join our Treasury and Investments team as a Nature & Climate Funding Analyst. This is an exciting opportunity to play a critical role in supporting and driving forward our ambition to raise significant sums of Nature and Climate Finance across a wide range of sources and apply them in the most efficient and optimal way possible.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop clear, inspiring, and innovative ways to showcase and report on our Nature delivery impacts and outputs for both external and internal audiences.
- Devise, create, and evolve the tools, financial models, and data analysis to robustly identify the financial, planning, and delivery requirements of our Nature plans.
- Work across a wide range of stakeholders and internal/external experts to evolve internal capabilities, tools, processes, and models to better understand and optimize funding for nature and climate projects and enable the sharing of data, insight, and best practice.
- Support the development of innovative strategies for accessing finance to support action on climate change and nature restoration initiatives.
Requirements
- Experience of financial analysis and modeling of complex financial products through to financial budgets and forecasts.
- Analytical skills, including knowledge of Excel and Tableau or SPSS, or Alteryx to connect multiple sources of data to develop insights that support strategic decision-making.
- Capability to engage and work closely with technical specialists in our Climate & Environment and Nature and Science teams.
- Strong leadership, organizational, and communication skills with the ability to manage and motivate teams and stakeholders towards clear delivery outcomes.
- Knowledge of strategic processes, tools, and techniques and experience of providing required inputs to facilitate strategic choices amongst senior stakeholders.
- Excellent people, collaboration, and influencing skills, enabling strong relationships externally and internally to be built and maintained.
- Creative and logical thinker with a problem-solving mindset.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including logically structured and engaging PowerPoint slides, public presentations, facilitation, and training experience.
- Experience of working with a project framework, systems, and governance requirements.
What We Offer
- Substantial pension scheme of up to 10% basic salary.
- Free entry to National Trust places for you, a guest, and your children (under 18).
- Rental deposit loan scheme.
- Season ticket loan.
- EV car lease scheme.
- Perks at work discounts, such as gym memberships, shopping discount codes, cinema discounts.
- Holiday allowance up to 32 days relating to length of service, plus holiday purchase scheme, subject to meeting minimum criteria.
- Flexible working whenever possible.
- Employee assistance program.
- Free parking at most Trust places.
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