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Tara Climate Foundation is a philanthropic climate foundation dedicated to fostering a future where Asia’s unwavering commitment to climate action paves the way for just, thriving and resilient societies. Tara operates in East, Southeast and South Asia, excluding India and China.
Our mission is to support a diverse group of partners in accelerating Asia’s energy transformation and championing climate action. Tara plays three main roles in the region:
Since establishing its headquarters in Singapore in 2021, the foundation has provided grants to more than 300 organisations across 13 countries and jurisdictions. Our team of over 40 experts is spread across the Asia-Pacific region, working to combat climate change in this decisive decade.
Over the last 2 years, Tara has experienced significant growth, expanding our funding base to include more than a dozen philanthropic foundations. Currently, we provide grants to over 300 organisations operating across 13 countries and jurisdictions in the Asia region.
Despite heightened global focus on climate issues, philanthropic giving toward climate change initiatives remains disproportionately low, constituting just 2% of worldwide philanthropic giving, with an even smaller percentage allocated to Asia
About the role
The world is shifting from fossil fuels to renewables. Understanding and shaping the progress of the energy transition means being able to gather, interpret and use data to generate the insights which help us focus the strategy of Tara Climate Foundation. This is the role of our Program Data Analyst.
We are looking for an enthusiastic data analyst deeply committed to working to stop climate change, who can master the fine details as well as see the big picture – pulling together data from greenhouse gas emissions to electricity generation, from energy efficiency gains to steel industry infrastructure, and beyond.
You will excel at data gathering and analysis as well as having a flair for communicating insights and telling the stories from that data to our senior leadership, our program team, and to our grantees and our funders. You will be a strongly self-motivated team player, who is keen to engage with and remotely support our program teams in countries across the Asia Pacific, as well as linking up directly with our data-focused partners/grantees to deliver a collective strategy to meet all of our growing data needs.
You will also be ready to turn your analytic thinking to our internal organisational data as well, so that together we can monitor, evaluate and learn from Tara’s progress towards our long term strategic goals and annual objectives across all our geographies and sectors of work, and be able to create compelling reports for our leadership and funders.
The key responsibilities of the Program Data Analyst are:
Clean energy transition data analysis and insights (40%)
Data focused grant-making and partner collaboration (20%)
Work to strengthen Tara’s network of data partners across the Asia-Pacific, by proposing and managing Tara’s grant-making to strengthen this network and the range of open source insights available to our ecosystem of climate and energy partners.
Results-based management (RBM) and Monitoring Evaluation & Learning (MEL) (40%)
Excited by the prospect of working for a dynamic and fast-growing international organisation with a mission to solve the climate crisis, the ideal candidate will have:
Essential
Desirable
Personal
Education
A degree or an equivalent number of years of relevant work experience in fields such as computer science, statistics, mathematics, data science, economics, business analytics, information systems, or social sciences.
Location requirements
Candidates must have long-term residency status with a legal permit to reside and work in: Bangladesh, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan or Thailand.
What Tara offers
To Apply
Please submit a brief covering letter outlining your skills and achievements against the responsibilities, why you would like to join us and your salary expectations, along with your up-to-date CV at Recruitment@taraclimate.org. Applications without a cover letter will not be assessed.
Please use the job title: Program Data Analyst as the subject in your email.
Tara is committed to building leadership capacity within Asia. This position is based in any of the countries mentioned under location requirements. Applicants must have the right to work in the country.
We appreciate everyone's application, but only have the resources to respond to shortlisted applicants.
If you have not heard from us within 3 weeks of the closing date, please assume you are unsuccessful for this role. If this is you, we appreciate your support and consideration and hope you will continue to consider roles with Tara in the future!