Data scientist (m/f/d) for climate protection projects (Königstein)

HEAT has been active as a consulting firm in the field of sustainable protection of the climate and the ozone layer for over 25 years. We have an interdisciplinary team with many years of experience in policy consulting, project implementation as well as technical consulting and qualification of partners in Germany, the EU, and in developing countries. We support international organizations, governments and private sector actors in developing and implementing strategies for climate protection. HEAT GmbH is part of GFA Consulting Group GmbH.

For our office in Königstein im Taunus, close to Frankfurt, we are currently looking for a data scientist and modeller

You already have experience with relational databases and their integration into cloud solutions and are creative in tapping new data sources? Are you interested in and committed to climate protection and international cooperation? 

Then you might be just the person we are looking for!

Your tasks are:

• Development of sectoral greenhouse gas inventories, especially for emissions from buildings and transport.
• Development and refinement of projection models and their application to new sectors.
• Creating dashboards, visualisations and other tools to help policymakers and clients make better strategic decisions
• Setting up and optimising cloud-based applications
• Analysing data and tapping into new data sources
• Development of user-friendly tools for reporting on mitigation projects under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and project-based monitoring
• Project conception and acquisition
•  Implementation of trainings for the use of the developed applications

• Your qualifications:
• A degree in the STEM field or comparable knowledge acquired by other means
• Several years of practical experience in the field of data science
• Very good knowledge of a programming language from the data science environment, e.g. Python, as well as very good SQL knowledge
• Experience in working with MS Access databases
• Good knowledge of regression modelling and machine learning algorithms, ideally also with application in the environment of current cloud hyperscaler (GoogleCloud, AWS, Microsoft Azure or IBM)
• Strong customer orientation
• Interest in international cooperation and climate protection
• Experience in the consulting industry, scientific institutions, think tanks and other civil society actors is an advantage;
• Willingness to travel within and outside Germany
• Strong conceptual and analytical skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Business fluent in German and English; another foreign language (especially Spanish or French) is an advantage

You are motivated above-average, have a professional and responsible work attitude with a high degree of flexibility, and an accurate and independent working style. You have excellent oral and written communication skills and like to work in a team? We are looking forward to your application!

Your application

Please send us your application (motivation/cover letter, CV and relevant certificates) including your earliest availability, salary expectation and language level according to the European framework www.europaeischer-referenzrahmen.de by email.

Interviews with candidates will take place as soon as possible.

Your contact person is Claudia Becker

E-Mail: jobs@heat-international.de

Phone: +49 61 74 94 03 70 4
or +49 61 74 96 97 40. 

More information regarding our company is available at www.heat-international.de