Data Quality Analyst (Junior)

About InPlanet

IDEALLY ON SITE, OR REMOTE WITHIN BRAZIL
Language skills: Fluency in Portuguese and English, both written and oral.

We are an impact-driven, remote-first, ClimateTech (CDR) startup headquartered in Germany and Brazil to reverse climate change and make tropical agriculture more regenerative, low-carbon, and sustainable. We are working with Enhanced Rock Weathering in tropical agriculture, focusing on Brazil. We do this to create a liveable planet for future generations and, specifically, to regenerate soils and ecosystems, grow nutritious food, and increase food security and sovereignty in the tropics.

People-first, Performance Culture: We believe that focus on people and performance can co-exist with the right cultural vision. Our philosophy is to blend these two essential components. The Rocket symbolizes our commitment to peak performance, excellence, and reaching new heights. The Heart represents our dedication to our people, fostering empathy, compassion, and genuine care for every team member's well-being. We are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion and are proud to have an internationally growing team, designing our people practices to serve psychological safety, belonging, and authenticity.

Key Responsibilities

• Data Organization & Management
  • Organize and standardize soil, liquid, gas, vegetation data from external and internal labs.
  • Transform raw data into structured formats suitable for database integration.
  • Ensure data accuracy and consistency during the integration process.
  • Work with IT support to maintain and update the database structure as needed.
  • Provide regular updates on data processing progress as data dashboards and reports.
• Quality Assurance & Quality Control
  • Work with the science and lab teams to understand data requirements and ensure data accuracy.
  • Perform rigorous QA/QC checks on data to identify and correct errors.
  • Communicate effectively with the science and lab teams to resolve data discrepancies and anomalies.

Living Our Values

At InPlanet, we have a big vision of solving climate change, and we are looking for individuals who are genuinely passionate about making a positive difference in the world of Carbon Removal Solutions. Trust guides our actions, drive fuels our efforts, and impact is our goal.

• Trust: You believe in being kind and transparent in the workplace, fostering an environment where trust thrives and collaboration flourishes.
• Drive: You possess an innate drive to take action with a hands-on, can-do attitude, propelled by urgency.
• Impact: You dream big and are committed to making a meaningful difference in the world, aligning with our overarching mission to address climate change.

You can be a Rock-Star if you have

Core Skills & Experience

• Understand data management principles and practices.
• Excellent attention to detail and a commitment to data accuracy.
• Apply basic geochemical principles to interpret and validate data.
• Understand the context of geochemical data and its relevance to scientific research.
• Proficiency in Google Sheets, including functions and formulas.
• Fluency in English and Portuguese, both written and oral.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

• BSc, Master or PhD degree (or relevant, equivalent experience) in soil science, environmental science, geology, geochemistry, chemistry, or a related field.

• Experience in QA/QC procedures.
• Coding skills in Python or R for data manipulation and analysis.
• Experience with database management systems (e.g., MySQL, BigQuery).

Benefits

• Salary expectations and our comp philosophy are openly discussed in the first interview with the goal of managing expectations fairly.
• Share options to make you feel like an owner.
• Home Office Budget.
• Fully Remote: Join us from anywhere within the CET (- 4/5-hour time zones).
• Personal development budget.
• Language Programme Monthly Allowance.
• 34+ days annual leave.
• The opportunity to be autonomous, make a huge difference and belong to a vision.
• Occasional off-sites in Brazil yay!
• Laptop to fuel your productivity.

About the Role

Fantastic role for someone to kick off their career in data especially for those with a soil science/geochemistry/agronomy background. Less experienced scientists and graduates are encouraged to apply.

We are seeking a detail-oriented Junior Data Quality Analyst to join our team and play a crucial role in managing and organizing our geochemical data. This role will focus on processing and integrating soil, liquid, gas, and vegetation data from internal and external labs into our database, ensuring accuracy and consistency. The ideal candidate will have a strong education/foundation in data management, a keen eye for detail, and a passion for combating climate change.

The Impact you can make
As a Junior Data Quality Analyst, your accurate and efficient data management is the bedrock of our research and operations. By ensuring data integrity, you will support our research and development efforts, enabling reliable carbon dioxide removal (CDR) quantification and thus the scale-up of our enhanced rock weathering (ERW) practices in Brazil.

Core working relationships
You will work closely with our team of scientists and lab technicians to ensure accurate data for CDR quantification and research especially with Junyao, Veronica under our Modelling and Data function and our Lab Team with Leticia and Bruno. You will also collaborate with the software/IT team for database maintenance and improvement.

InPlanet Compensation Philosophy

At InPlanet, our philosophy revolves around ensuring fair and unbiased compensation and equitable equity pay, coupled with competitive benefits, across all regions where we operate.
The reason behind our salary range being wide or undefined at the first stages of the interview is because of our international presence and globally distributed workforce, we utilize geo ranges to account for varying pay differentials, forming a crucial part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive across diverse markets as we expand our reach.
These ranges are determined by role, level, and location, recognizing the nuanced demands of each market. The actual base pay for the selected candidate is influenced by factors such as location, skills, experience, training, business requirements, and market dynamics, with the range subject to potential adjustments in alignment with our commitment to fairness and transparency.

Application Process

Roughly 6 hours across 3-6 weeks from CV-screening.

• Interview with Talent & People Partner or Head of People (values & motivation).
• Interview with the Hiring Manager (required core skills and competencies).
• (optional third interview)
• Challenge with 3+ team members (specific task, preparation needed).
• Verbal reference check & psychometric profiling.
• Offer.

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How to Apply

• We kindly ask you to submit your CV in English, as this is the main language we use here at InPlanet (unless it is justified to be in Portuguese).

Being an equal opportunities employer is very important to us, and we are committed to ensuring that no applicant receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions which cannot be shown to be justifiable. We design our processes to be fair and equitable, and we believe in continuous learning.