Analyst (Steel Demand-Side)

Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility

Employment Type Full time Permanent, full time, 0.8 considered, flexibility available (please specify your preference when ap

Location On site ·Australia any Australian location, working from home or in Sydney, Canberra or Melbourne offices

Seniority Junior

Job Description

Employer: Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility

Work Type/s: Permanent, full time, 0.8 considered, flexibility available (please specify your preference when applying)]

Salary: $105-120K + super depending on experience [pro rata if part time]

Sector/s: Not For Profit (NFP)

Location: any Australian location, working from home (supported by ACCR); or Sydney (Gadigal Country), Melbourne (Wurundjeri Country) or Canberra (Ngunnawal Country) office.

Job posted on: 28 October 2025

Applications close: 9am AEDT on 18 November 2025

Likely interview period: 24 Nov - 12 December

ACCR seeks to meaningfully accelerate the phaseout of fossil fuels by catalysing effective action from institutional investors to mitigate physical and systemic climate risk.

This position sits within the Analytical Insights team which forms part of ACCR's Analysis and Communications system and will join ACCR’s cross-disciplinary Steel Value Chain team. The team undertakes rigorous, data-informed research and analysis to drive investor engagement and corporate change across the global mining and steel sectors. Combining quantitative and qualitative approaches, the team analyses the financial, technological, and policy dynamics shaping industrial decarbonisation, often through innovative, cross-disciplinary collaboration.

The Analyst will initially focus on steel demand-side research, expanding ACCR’s understanding of how downstream industries and market trends in key industrial regions influence the strategies of major steel and mining companies. The role involves both qualitative and quantitative analysis, linking insights to company and sectoral strategies, investor decision-making, and policy frameworks. While steel demand will be the primary area of work initially, the role may also contribute to other analytical projects across ACCR as priorities evolve.

The role works closely with colleagues across the Steel Value Chain, Analytical Insights, Science, Strategy, and Communications teams, as well as with staff in Australia, the UK, and Europe. Some flexibility is needed to connect across time zones. You will typically finish by 6pm AEDT / 5pm AEST, with occasional evening meetings (up to three per week, especially during the Australian summer months). Flexible hours are supported around these commitments.

The role includes periodic travel within Australia (up to four trips per year, each up to five days), with possible travel to Europe and Japan.

You’ll love this job if:

You love to dive deep into an area with your quantitative modelling skills while also bringing a qualitative analysis considering relevant context. The decarbonisation of the steel industry is of great interest to you.

Applying your skills in a multi-disciplinary climate-focused team aligns with your values. You like it when your work contributes to an overall strategy for real world change. You enjoy working with others to achieve an outcome and are flexible in changing tack if needed.

You can prepare your work to make sense to others without your technical approach and work collaboratively with others on how the work will be shared publicly.

Responsibilities

The role will include the following types of tasks:

- Qualitative research & analysis: Assess how demand sectors (automotive, construction, renewables, infrastructure) influence steelmakers’ and miners’ strategies. Analyse company disclosures, business models and strategy, and climate transition plans with a demand‑side lens.

- Demand forecasting & base case scenarios: Support development of baseline analyses and scenarios for steel demand under different climate and policy pathways. Link forecasts to financial exposure and strategy of downstream companies.

- Policy & standards mapping: Track and analyse procurement frameworks, product standards, and regulatory signals shaping demand for green steel (e.g. CBAM, government procurement policies, etc).

- Market signal tracking: Monitor and interpret offtake agreements, corporate procurement commitments, and emerging certification schemes (e.g. ResponsibleSteel, SBTi) as indicators of green steel demand.

- Cross‑value chain synthesis: Connect demand‑side insights with ACCR’s supply‑side work on miners and steelmakers. Ensure findings directly inform investor engagement, company dialogues, and policy advocacy.

- Exploratory outputs: Contribute to flexible, exploratory research projects, producing backgrounding notes, investor briefings, and policy submissions where demand‑side drivers are material.

Criteria

We’re looking for someone with these skills and experience:

- Strong research and analytical skills, with the ability to combine qualitative synthesis and quantitative modelling

- Professional experience in one or more of the following areas: economics/finance, public policy, industrial decarbonisation

- Ability to work in uncertainty, scoping and shaping research questions where outputs are not predefined

- Good interpersonal and communication skills for work in a largely virtual, highly collaborative, cross‑disciplinary, strategy‑driven team

- A commitment to ACCR’s mission and values including demonstrating respect and genuinely valuing diversity

- Flexibility to work overlapping hours with colleagues in Europe and travel occasionally

- Comfortable working in a remote, distributed team environment, collaborating virtually with colleagues across Australia, the UK and Europe. Depending on location, you may also have access to an ACCR office. You should be confident working independently from home, while maintaining regular communication and alignment with the wider team

- Further, it would be an advantage (but not required) if you have any of the following:

- Understanding of climate policy, procurement frameworks, or sustainability standards that shape industrial/steel demand

- Experience in preparing outputs for investors, policymakers or advocacy campaigns

- Industry experience in key sectors (steel, construction, infrastructure, or automotive)

- Experience working in or with Japan, or familiarity with Japanese language, business culture, or markets

- Knowledge of other major steel demand regions (e.g., India or China)

- Tertiary study that included Economics

If you don’t meet every point above, please still apply if you can see your skills well used in this role.

Key Relationships: Steel Sector Strategy Lead, Analytical Insights team, Research Manager, Publications Editor, Chief Scientists

Background

ACCR is a non‑profit shareholder advocacy and research organisation founded in 2012. We seek to meaningfully accelerate fossil fuels phaseout, by catalysing step‑change across industries and financial markets, in the interests of investors, planetary systems and people. More information about our latest work can be found in our FY25 Annual Review.

ACCR has a dynamic team of almost 40 driven and experienced staff, mostly based in Australia, working globally. Our growing team has a wide range of expertise - climate science, communications, engineering, law, equities analysis, finance, investor relations, IT and more.

What we offer:

We enjoy flexible work hours and supportive home‑based working.

Annual team retreat so we can connect, learn and grow together.

Personal leave is double the statutory requirement (20 days in total, pro rata), plus additional paid leave from Christmas to New Year. Option to purchase additional leave.

Paid parental leave (regardless of who the birth parent is)

We value peer learning and each of us has a professional development budget to use towards individual career goals.

Access to our Employee Assistance Program and wellbeing platform, which includes a discount for friends and family.

ACCR offices are accessible, and further details can be provided.

Application Guidelines

We use Applied as our recruitment platform, helping us reduce the risk of unconscious bias in our hiring process.

We will ask you to answer 3 questions designed to test your ability to do the job. Please give it your best effort, your scores on these questions will be the primary consideration in whether you are invited for an interview. To avoid bias, we do not look at CVs until later in the process.

Once started, you can save and return to your application before submitting. For example:

Imagine you’ve been asked to investigate what factors could influence green steel demand from the automotive sector, with a short turnaround [250 words].

In your response, please describe:

what clarifying questions you would ask about the task, and

thinking about you’ve learned about effective research, how you would structure and prioritise your research approach, including how you would find and assess credible information or data to support your analysis

Please note, for this role, ACCR is only able to employ those who have the pre-existing legal right to work in Australia, and who will be working from Australia.

We value diversity, equity and inclusion in our workplace. ACCR encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people of all cultures, abilities, sex and genders.

ACCR is committed to improving accessibility to enable the full participation of a diverse workforce. If there are any alterations to this recruitment process that would assist you in applying, please let us know.

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