Working Student Carbon Projects

Summary of Role & Key Responsibilities

Why Join Us

• Contribute to meaningful work that helps combat climate change and promote biodiversity.
• Be part of a collaborative and dynamic team working across continents.
• Gain hands-on experience in the rapidly growing voluntary carbon market (VCM) and Nature-based Solutions (NbS).
• Develop your expertise in remote sensing and data analytics while making a real-world impact.

• Systematically review peer-reviewed articles and grey literature on soil organic carbon dynamics in tropical and subtropical systems especially Brazilian ICL/AMP and pasture systems.
• Curate calibration/validation datasets (e.g. SOC stocks bulk density climate soils management histories) suitable for RothC and VMD0053 requirements with clear provenance and metadata.
• Extract and organize data into model-ready formats (e.g. CSV) with robust documentation and QA/QC checks.
• Support model runs (RothC) and uncertainty analyses under VMD0053 (e.g. split-sample validation goodness-of-fit metrics) working alongside Anthesis modelers.
• Summarize findings in concise technical notes figures and tables for inclusion in the Project Description (PD) Model Validation Report and supporting appendices.
• Collaborate with Brazil-based partners on field context (e.g. soil sampling schemes management practices).

Key Requirements Skills Knowledge & Expertise

• We are looking for someone currently enrolled in a Masters program (e.g. Soil Science Agronomy Environmental Science Ecology Data Science or related).
• Comfortable with data wrangling (Excel/Google Sheets) and reproducible workflows.
• Strong skills in literature review and evidence synthesis; ability to judge study quality and applicability
• Familiarity with soil carbon models (ideally RothC) or strong motivation to learn quickly.
• A proactive and problem-solving mindset with a willingness to learn and grow in a supportive environment.
• Familiarity with emerging remote sensing technologies (e.g. AI or machine learning) is a plus but not required.
• Excellent English writing skills

Benefits

• Work within a highly motivated team in an innovative and rapidly growing global company
• Opportunity to have a direct impact and be a key part of the growth and development of the business and the team
• Work solely on projects that have an impact on the sustainability and climate change goals/challenges for clients
• Opportunity to work with collaborate with and learn from sustainability SMEs who are passionate about the work they do and the impact Anthesis can have
• Exposure to a wide range of clients and projects on a global basis
• Competitive salary in line with education experience and skills
• An opportunity to participate in the Anthesis Employee Participation Plan (EPP) an industry-pioneering employee incentive plan that allows all employees to be rewarded for the growth in the equity value of Anthesis.
• Cooperative supportive and open working atmosphere.