Project Overview
Project Description
This project with Prime Coalition will focus on designing and executing a repeatable workflow to transition impact models from one tool to another. The aim is to improve user access to forward-looking impact data for founders, investors, and partners.
Key goals include:
- Build a well-documented workflow to move data from original models into the new database with high accuracy and auditability.
- Implement export (scripted or structured manual process) from the original to the new tool.
- Coordinate with staff and collaborators to validate model transfer, resolve issues, and document uncertainties/interoperability/modeling issues as needed.
This project will provide hands-on exposure to methodology used to assess emissions impact, impact modeling, early-stage climate technologies, and their potential for GHG impact. It will involve learning how to use two impact measurement tools and building a data migration/QA workflow.
Impact
This project will improve environmental outcomes by expanding access to forward-looking GHG impact models and strengthening the evidence base for climate investment decisions. By consolidating and standardizing public models in a searchable repository, users can compare assumptions and scenarios more easily, reducing friction in due diligence and portfolio construction.
For investors, this will enable faster pipeline triage and pre-investment screening using comparable GHG impact metrics, improving capital allocation toward the highest-impact opportunities. For entrepreneurs, more models and robust analyses will help clarify their impact thesis and shorten diligence cycles with climate investors.
Eligibility Criteria
Skills / Experience:
- Required:
- Data analysis & statistics – ability to manage complex datasets
- Programming
- Technical writing and documentation – good written and verbal communication
- Comfortable using software tools
- Able to work independently in a remote work environment
- Desired:
- Prior experience with software development
- Familiarity with carbon accounting, climate metrics or impact modeling
Software Proficiency:
- Basic coding skills (e.g., Python)
- Familiarity with G-Suite and JSON files
Preferred Timezone (when the Fellow should be available for meetings): Compatibility with UTC-05:00, Eastern Standard Time
