Project Analyst

Great Yellow makes landscape regeneration investable and scalable.

We envision a future where regenerative land-use is the norm, delivering measurable environmental recovery, resilient food systems, and long-term economic value. Great Yellow exists create a clear, practical pathway to making this future a reality.

Today, the way we use and manage land is pushing natural and economic systems to a breaking point. Fragile food supply chains, degraded ecosystems, rising climate risk and failing infrastructure are driving real and growing costs for communities and the economy.

By rethinking how we use land and value nature, we can create landscapes that provide clean water, abundant nature, stable production, and long term security.

Great Yellow works to drive this transformation, moving beyond extractive models to unlock economic and ecological regeneration.

We work with:

• Land Managers of ambitious nature recovery projects to plan and deliver ambitious, landscape-scale transformation

• Project Investors seeking opportunities to generate robust, risk-adjusted returns alongside verified environmental impact

• Buyers of ecosystem services seeking high-integrity, high-impact natural capital solutions to strengthen resilience and reduce nature-related risks

About the job

As Project Analyst you will strengthen Great Yellow’s ability to advise credibly and decisively in natural capital and nature markets. You will run a practical, qualitative research function that answers live client and team questions and proactively tracks market direction — and you will apply those insights directly into client project teams to improve deliverables, decision framing, and recommendations.

Supported by the Advisory Team, you will operate as a leverage function across multiple projects. You are not expected to lead client workstreams, but you are expected to materially raise the quality, clarity, and pace of our outputs and internal thinking.

Key Responsibilities

1. Natural Capital Research

• Own and triage incoming research requests from client leads and project teams relating to BNG, carbon, water outcomes, MRV, nature market standards, revenue stacking, and nature finance structures.

• Deliver succinct, decision-useful outputs (typically 1–3 pages or 3–6 slides) that set out:

  • what the evidence suggests (and what’s market practice vs theory)

  • what is uncertain / contested

  • interim assumptions the team can use (and what would change them)

  • implications for delivery, commercial structure, investor/buyer appetite, or client choices

• Maintain clear sourcing, confidence levels, and an audit trail so work is client-defensible.

Example questions you’ll handle

• What does “good” look like for MRV for a given habitat/outcome, and what does it typically require?

• What are typical buyer requirements (evidence, governance, additionality, permanence) for BNG/carbon/water-related outcomes?

• How do multiple revenue streams interact (stacking/bundling), and what are the double-funding risks?

• What are the main risks to bankability for a given revenue stream, and how are deals structuring around them?

2. Proactive Market Intelligence (Structured research + insights cadence)

• Maintain a rolling backlog of priority natural capital topics and convert these into reusable “knowledge products”, such as:

  • topic briefs / explainers

  • market maps (buyers, standards, intermediaries, MRV approaches)

  • decision tools (option tables, trade-off notes, decision trees)

  • internal FAQs and templates for repeat client questions

• Produce regular market trends and insights focused on nature markets, covering:

  • key signals and shifts (policy, standards, buyer behaviour, market activity, pricing signals where defensible)

  • implications for live projects (“so what”)

  • clear confidence levels and sources/links

• Keep the knowledge base tagged, searchable, source-linked and versioned, ensuring research compounds over time.

3. Embedded Client Advisory Support (Delivery teams)

• Join client project teams as specialist support, contributing natural capital and nature market expertise into delivery, including:

  • client deliverables (papers, pre-reads, slide decks, workshop packs, business case sections)

  • market and standards comparisons (e.g., “why this approach, why now, what it enables”)

  • buyer logic and commercial narrative (what buyers care about; what makes an offer investable)

  • rapid technical input as questions arise during delivery

• Brief client leads and delivery teams on findings and how to use them in outputs and conversations.

• Run short internal teach-ins as needed to bring teams up to speed on priority developments across BNG / carbon / water / MRV / standards / stacking.

4. Quality Assurance and Decision Discipline

• Sense-check outputs for defensibility and evidence, especially where nature market assertions can become speculative.

• Identify weak assumptions, missing evidence, or overconfident claims and propose pragmatic alternatives (including sensitivity cases).

• Support decision logging: unresolved items are tracked as sensitivities / open questions / dependencies, not allowed to drift into “core” assumptions.

5. Scaling Great Yellow’s Research Capability

• Establish lightweight systems for:

  • research intake and prioritisation (so ad hoc requests don’t crowd out proactive work)

  • reusable knowledge product formats (brief templates, market maps, FAQs)

  • consistent tagging, versioning, and refresh cycles

• Improve how Great Yellow captures, updates, and deploys market knowledge across the portfolio.

About you

Skills and Experience Required

• Demonstrable understanding of natural capital / environment / nature markets / nature finance .

• Strong qualitative research capability: rapid scanning, triangulating sources, extracting implications for decisions.

• Excellent synthesis and structured thinking: can turn messy inputs into clear guidance.

• Strong writing and slide craft: concise, client-ready work with clean logic.

• High integrity with sources and assumptions: maintains an audit trail; clear confidence levels.

• Comfortable with ambiguity, short timelines, and multiple parallel requests.

• Collaborative working style: can support multiple client leads without becoming a bottleneck.

Advantageous (not required)

• Data literacy: comfortable interpreting datasets, basic statistics, and data limitations (without needing to be a financial modeller).

• Spatial/GIS awareness: familiarity with GIS concepts/tools and confidence interpreting spatial outputs (layers, constraints/opportunity mapping) and collaborating with GIS/data specialists.

• Ability to translate quantitative/spatial evidence into qualitative narrative and practical recommendations.

Why Join Great Yellow?

• Our culture is built on three principles: All for the Hive (shared leadership and collaboration), Shameless Ambition (raise the bar, speak directly), and Design the Future (think big, learn by doing, own it)

• Be part of an innovative scale-up that’s breaking new ground in finance and nature restoration - making landscape regeneration investable and scalable

• Engage in meaningful work with the potential to make a lasting impact on the planet

• Work alongside a passionate and diverse team in an environment that values flexibility, collaboration, autonomy, and growth

• We’re big believers in flexibility — work where you do your best thinking — but we also value getting together in our office to share ideas (and tea/coffee)