Junior Carbon - Cowfold, United Kingdom - Sustainable Footprints Limited

Description

Junior Carbon / Sustainability Consultant
Delivering to our clients and developing strategies that push the boundaries requires the best people.

We are looking for a smart, talented individual with relevant grounding and experience who wishes to challenge the status quo, ask searching questions, and find innovative solutions to the issues we face as a society.

We are seeking those with the ability and passion to understand our clients needs, think outside the box and shape a healthier and more prosperous future.

Sustainable Footprints Ltd is a boutique compliance, risk and sustainability consultancy who are working on a number of high profile and aspirational projects.

We work across multiple industries with no client being the same, supporting organisations to define and deliver their strategic objectives across their organisation, enabling them to be more sustainable.

We service the following core areas:

• Net Zero and Energy,
• ISO compliance
• Carbon Footprinting / GHG Inventories & LCA
• Social Sustainability,
• Organisational Change

Your main responsibilities will include:

• Providing technical assistance and deskbased support to senior members of the team, including research tasks, data synthesis and analysis, calculations, report writing.
• Work with the team and Project Managers/Project Directors to ensure the smooth running of projects;
• Participate in team meetings, client briefs and other meetings as and when required;
• Help prioritise project actions and meet commitments on an ongoing basis while taking ownership and responsibility for the quality and completion of work;
• Understand and implement project management principles and appreciate the need to work within project budgets;
• Stay abreast of climate change/sustainability legislation/policy/guidance;
• Ensure health and safety issues are addressed throughout a project; and,
• Contribute to business development proposals to enhance our service offering.

Your tasks could include:

• Undertake carbon foot printing and related compliance management projects such as Streamlined Energy Carbon Reporting (SECR); Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS); Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP); UK Government Procurement Notice (PPN06/21); Science Based Targets Initiatives (SBTi); PAS2060 Carbon Neutrality; ISO14064 carbon footprinting
• Conducting climate change risk assessments and developing adaptation plans and strategies;
• Supporting our work on ESG reporting for business; and,
• Providing support on wider sustainability and resource efficiency projects conducted by the team to include deskbased research, qualitative and quantitative assessment, data analysis and report writing.

This is a fantastic opportunity to establish and further your career, gaining valuable work experience, within a growing dynamic consultancy who are passionate about growing you as an individual.

Here is what we need from you:

Required knowledge, skill and experience areas:

• Ability to work as part of a team, collaborating with colleagues, client and stakeholders as appropriate.
• Strong research skills and attention to detail with an emphasis on delivering technically excellent outputs;
• Great communication skills in English, fluency in other languages an advantage;
• Solid numeracy skills, confidence in working with large data sets and competent user of Excel;
• Ability to work flexibly under pressure, responding to changing project and programme demands. Problem solving abilities. Selfstarter, who can design and deliver work under their own initiative;
• Understanding of a selection of these technical areas:
• Carbon accounting (covering Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions) and some familiarity/experience working with GHG reporting standards, guidance and regulatory regimes for example PAS 2080; PAS 2050; EU ETS; ESOS etc.
• Climate risk drivers including physical and transition risks and opportunities and familiarity with UK climate projections (experience of using UKCP18 projections within research is desirable);
• Range of aspects of sustainability, including circular economy, sustainable consumption and production, sustainable design, designing out waste;
• Sustainable waste management practices;
• Social impacts and social outcomes of infrastructure projects and other development interventions;

Desirable knowledge, skill and experience areas:

• Previous experience working in a consultancy environment, including work placements or relevant voluntary experience;
• Commercial awareness for business development activities (i.e. previous experience preparing proposals and marketing materials); and,
• Awareness of project management principles and project finances.

Here is what you will get from us:

• 
  On the job support and learning

When you start with us, we pair you with a senior member of the team who will guide and mentor you through your initial period working on live projects and business development tasks, to support wit