• Reports to: Senior Analyst / Analyst (UK)
  Location: Cape Town, South Africa
  Contract type: 24 months fixed term contract
  Date updated: November 2026

About the role

CPI’s data science team operates at the intersection of climate finance and advanced data analytics. We partner with climate finance analysts to develop rigorous methodologies to track climate finance trends and inform policy analysis, build repeatable data pipelines, and deploy cutting edge AI/ML techniques to ingest and analyze data. Much of the team’s work focuses on large, data-intensive projects to track climate finance flows at a global level and assess financial institutions’ transition to net zero, such as our widely recognized Global Landscape of Climate Finance and Net Zero Finance Tracker. However, data science team members contribute to quantitative analyses and scaling of analytical workflows across the organization.

CPI works at the cutting edge of climate finance and policy analysis, and this means that our data analysts must effectively combine technical rigor with a strong interest in the financial and policy questions that motivate our analytical work, and have the creativity and judgement needed to deal with ambiguity and incomplete/inconsistent data.

We are seeking a junior data analyst who is enthusiastic about developing their skills while contributing to CPI’s mission. The successful candidate will work on well-defined components of projects, with close mentorship from senior researchers and data analysts, and increasing responsibility over time.

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