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Data Analyst
West Africa Blue
Data Science, IT
Pakistan
Posted on Sep 10, 2025
About West Africa Blue
West Africa contains 14% of the world’s remaining mangroves. Along with immense carbon sequestration potential, these coastal ecosystems support a diverse amount of terrestrial and marine fauna, including IUCN Red List Threatened Species such as Hawksbill Turtles, Green Turtles, Slender-Snouted Crocodiles, the West African Manatee and the Timneh parrot. Yet these important coastal ecosystems are under increasing threat due to both climate change and human activities.
As a result, West Africa Blue (“Blue”) is on a mission to work hand-in-hand with communities and governments to preserve, restore and sustainably manage coastal ecosystems in West Africa through the development of high integrity coastal blue carbon projects. Our team is diverse, innovative, entrepreneurial, and committed.
We share a love of nature and a deep, longstanding connection to West Africa. We embody a balance of efficiency and speed of implementation with strong values and a mission-driven approach. Our goal is to set the highest standards for community engagement, transparency, and sustainability in our projects.
Blue was co-founded by Solon Capital Partners, a leading, West Africa-focused investor established in 2010 to provide capital and support to high-impact organizations throughout the region.
The Role
We are looking for an outstanding early-career individual to work closely with Blue’s technical team. The Data Analyst will play an essential role managing, analyzing, and organizing Blue's project and scientific data, including through statistical analysis, data modelling, and forecasting. A skilled communicator, the Data Analyst will be able to clearly and succinctly explain processes, methodologies, and findings to various stakeholder audiences, including those without technical backgrounds. The Data Analyst will recognize the crucial role they play in fostering the integrity of Blue's data and be creative in their approach, meticulous in their analysis, and above all else, detail oriented. You would be joining a team that is passionate, without ego, collaborative and fun – we share a sense of adventure and are united by the challenge of helping overcome one of the world’s biggest challenges.
Responsibilities
Supporting Blue’s technical team in managing, analyzing, and communicating high-integrity data relating to Blue's carbon projects. Specific example responsibilities may include:
- Working with technical and field teams to identify, manage, and apply process to the identification of data sources, collection processes, analysis, and reporting.
- Meticulously following established industry methodologies, frameworks, and procedures to ensure data, analysis, and reporting meets required standards.
- Communicating findings and processes in an accessible and clear way for both technical and non-technical audiences. This may be through written reports and memos, presentations, or other creative media (e.g. google earth engine apps, video or infographics).
- Preparing material related to data analysis, blue carbon, policy and Blue’s work including standard operating procedures (SOPs), concept notes, memos, meeting summaries, terms of reference, marketing and investment materials.
- Assessing current data collection, management, analysis, and reporting practices and making useful suggestions regarding process improvements.
- Training business and field team members.
- Developing clear recommendations for how Blue manages its data.
- Conducting research and analysis to support decision making.
- Developing a strong understanding of the carbon markets and Blue’s projects, with the ability to communicate status and help analyse opportunities and risks.
Qualifications and Experience
- 1 - 2 years of work experience on data analysis with a high performing team. Work experience in a field related to data analysis or management, including software engineering, computer science, statistics, business consulting or the natural sciences.
- Strong knowledge of Python, R, SQL, Power BI, and JavaScript other relevant data technical skills.
- Be comfortable working with unstructured data and inconsistent data sets. You think critically about objectives and on-the-ground limitations and find creative solutions to make the best use of what is available.
- Strong organizational skills; comfortable juggling many tasks at once.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- English required, French a plus.
- Working with geographic and scientific data is a plus.
Personal Attributes
- High-energy with a positive outlook.
- Self-starter with a thirst for learning.
- Comfort taking on multiple responsibilities.
- Excited by the opportunity to work in a start-up, with a rapidly changing environment.
- Interest in nature-based solutions, conservation, the environment or international development.
- Proactive engagement with colleagues, even when working remotely.
- Empathetic in interactions with people of different backgrounds.
- Down to earth, humble and authentic.
The Data Analyst may work remotely, in an office with other team members in Lahore or in a location to be agreed.
We offer competitive compensation packages akin to those at start-ups and fast-growing businesses.