Join the mission

Type: Full-time, 2-year term

In 2150 we are now looking for an Analyst to join our team to covering the Sustainability and Platform team. In this role, you will help embed sustainability and operational excellence across our investment process, portfolio, and reporting – ensuring that our work delivers measurable impact in line with our mission.

We are a venture capital fund committed to building sustainable cities for the future. We believe the way cities are built and run must change, and we are investing in the technologies and teams leading that transformation. Our mission is to back transformative technologies and business models that can reverse urban environmental impacts and drive prosperity. Sustainability and impact are core to everything we do-from investment decisions to portfolio management and stakeholder engagement.

The role will include supporting the team on:

Investment Due Diligence

Support investment due diligence by supporting memo preparation, conducting impact analysis modelling, and managing sustainability frameworks and documentation.

Portfolio Management

Develop compelling materials for the portfolio to showcase their impacts, manage sustainability priorities across portfolio companies and support platform initiatives.

Reporting

Support annual impact reporting, manage and coordinate data collection and quality, and support preparation of materials for regulatory and LP reporting.

Platform

Prepare materials for external outreach to investors, strategic partners and in targeted platform campaigns, and support coordination of external events.

Research

Contribute to 2150’s knowledge building and sectoral research by developing specific subject matter expertise.

What We Expect

The ideal candidate combines relevant experience of 1-2 years at working in the intersection of finance and sustainability, with experience working with early-stage climate technologies and companies. Further, the candidate should have an advanced degree in sustainability, environmental science or other sciences, engineering, business or finance.

Candidates should be able to demonstrate proficiency in or understanding of:

• Research and synthesis. Rapid absorption and clear distillation of complex and often quantitative challenges to inform investment discussions and other analyses.
• Project management. Ability to independently see through tasks and organise inputs across internal teams and a range of external stakeholders.
• Sustainable urban technologies and strategies. Technical knowledge of the systems and components that drive cities’ impacts and contribute to their decarbonisation and sustainable development.
• Presentation skills. Proficiency in slide preparation and communicating key messages to a range of stakeholders.
• Stakeholder engagement.  Ability to assess opportunities to positively contribute to members of the 2150 network.
• Greenhouse gas modelling and associated tools. Ability to assess scope 1 through 3 emissions, including using tools such as life cycle assessments to evaluate unit level impacts.
• Policy analysis. Ability to assess the impacts of policy and regulatory developments on sectors’ functioning, technology uptake or investment opportunities.

Additionally, the ideal candidate aligns with the following:

• Analytically proven: At least 1-2 years’ experience in an investment organization or consulting firm.
• Intellectually curious: Always seeking to learn, understand and share new knowledge with other team members, ecosystem partners and portfolio companies.
• Entrepreneurial mindset: Comfortable with the evolving nature of a growing organization and willing to take initiative to constantly improve the team, benefit our investments and help us all become better in service of our ecosystem and portfolio.
• Independent but collaborative: Able to work independently but aware of the need to be inclusive and collaborative with the broader team.
• Mission alignment: The 2150 team works hard, but we do so because we believe in the potential and critical impact of the technologies that we back and we are, as a team, fully aligned around the mission at hand.
• Flexibility. You have the versatility to work with the team on a number of core problems and don’t mind taking on any task at a high pace. You can manage priorities, take initiative and work on multiple projects at once
• Right to work in the UK: We are unable to offer placement visas for this role

Commitment to Diversity

A sustainable community is one that has a place for everyone, and 2150 is excited to have applications from all aspects of society. We believe that a team with diverse backgrounds and beliefs will make our fund even stronger.

2150 is an equal opportunity employer.

Join us

If this sounds like the right match for you, we would love to hear from you. Please submit your application, with a brief motivation letter and CV by 30th of June 2025. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and we expect the position to start in September.