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Winter/Spring Research Assistant - Climate Impact

Y Analytics
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 Y ANALYTICS (TPG) – Winter/Spring Research Assistant, Climate Impact

Location: Remote 

  • Interns located in the Washington DC metro area will likely have the option to come into the office

Duration: Early January - Late May

Compensation: $18.75/hour

Time Commitment: 20 hours per week

Application Instructions: 

In lieu of a cover letter, please prepare a 1-page response to the prompts detailed at the bottom of this job description that contains clear, concise responses. Please send your resume and response to Jobs@YAnalytics.org and include a subject line with the format: “Last Name, First Name – Climate Impact RA Application” – or, simply submit your materials via Handshake. 

TPG Background

TPG is a leading global alternative asset firm with a long history of investing in growth, change, and innovation. Founded in San Francisco in 1992, the firm now has investment and operations teams all over the world. TPG invests across a range of asset classes including private equity, growth equity, real estate, impact investing, secondaries, and public equity. Across all strategies, we maintain a rigorous investment process and a deep, research-based approach to theme and sector development. 

Y Analytics

Y Analytics is TPG's innovative internal capability, purpose-built to understand and improve the environmental and social impacts of deployed capital. Our mission is to increase the amount and effectiveness of capital allocation for the greater good, as described in the UN SDGs, by increasing trust in the social and environmental impact achieved by that capital.Y Analytics was launched in parallel to The Rise Fund and founded in partnership with TPG/Rise to provide best-in-class insights and tools that improve capital allocation decisions. Our rigorous approach to impact assessment and management draws on evidentiary academic and economic research, enabling greater use of evidence in capital allocation decision-making and impact valuation.

Today, Y Analytics directly supports impact assessments and decision-making for The Rise Fund, the TPG Rise Climate Fund, and other TPG companies/vehicles with impact objectives. Y Analytics’ mandate also covers Environmental, Social, & Governance (ESG) performance and sustainability across TPG’s firm and portfolio. 

We support TPG and its portfolio companies by assessing ESG performance and advising on value creation opportunities. As we continue to grow, we are leveraging our capabilities in new and innovative ways and sharing our learnings with the broader investment and research communities.

Position

Y Analytics is seeking a Climate Impact Research Assistant (RA) to support research and analysis of social/climate impact from existing and potential investments and the furthering of our impact assessment methodology. This research assistant will spend most of their time contributing to impact assessments for climate-related investments, while likely analyzing investments in the health/social spaces on the side. The Research Assistant will contribute to fast-paced teams conducting impact analysis on live deals and conducting in-depth reviews of academic research. The position is open to current Master’s students or advanced undergraduates and is a great opportunity for someone who is passionate about impact investment, climate change, renewable energy, economic development, and/or other social-impact areas, and who has a strong desire to expand and deepen knowledge of impact investing in a client-focused work environment.

Requirements

  • Master’s student or advanced undergraduate currently pursuing a degree in Environmental Sciences, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Sustainability, Business, Economics, Public Administration, or another relevant program
  • Experience and demonstrated interest in one or more of the Rise platform’s climate and energy transition-related thematic areas (clean energy, enabling solutions, decarbonized transport, greening industrials, agricultural & natural solutions) is required.
    • Experience and/or demonstrated interest in the Rise platform’s health and social-related thematic areas (education, healthcare, financial inclusion) is a plus.
  • Experience conduction, interpreting, or synthesizing climate research studies of a highly quantitative nature, such as lifecycle assessments (LCAs), various sector decarbonization scenarios, and/or climate-related microeconomic research is required.
    • Experience contributing to academic research and/or performing literature reviews is a plus, as is experience with non-climate related economic research.
  • Interest and aptitude in researching industries and technologies
  • Excellent Excel skills
  • Excellent PowerPoint skills
  • Excellent written and spoken communication skills, and fluency in English
  • Must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Application Prompt (please limit your response to a 1 page or less):

Part I: To answer the question below please refer to the following regression table and accompanying document at the final two pages of this link. The regression table and accompanying document are taken from the following study:

Will Dobbie & Roland G. Fryer, 2020. "Charter Schools and Labor Market Outcomes," Journal of Labor Economics, vol 38(4), pages 915-957.

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w22502/w22502.pdf

In two sentences, interpret the value and statistical significance of the .062 value in column six row two

Part II: TPG is considering investing in an alternative protein company (Target A) that manufactures and distributes a substitute for beef.

Outline the top three impact pathways (i.e., pathways by which investment in Target A could drive positive or negative social and environmental impact, relative to what would have occurred without the investment) you would explore for Target A

Part III: In no more than four sentences, please describe your interest and experience in impact investing.