Climate Change Planner - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - Owl Recruitment

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Edinburgh, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Owl Recruitment is currently looking to speak with an Enthusiastic climate change Planner/Consultant/Specialist. This is a great opportunity to join an award-winning, practice-what-they-preach environmental consultancy, committed to tackling carbon emissions.

Climate Change Planner
£25,000 - £31,000
Edinburgh (Other locations considered for experience applicants)


You will be working on a range of sectors and projects, including local authority renewable energy and low carbon studies, policy research, preparing planning guidance on delivering carbon related policy requirements, using carbon data to shape spatial planning options, identifying carbon sequestration opportunities at both plan and project level and writing EIA climate change chapters and related guidance.


Responsibilities:


  • Technical report writing and analysis on a wide range of projects, ensuring a high quality of outputs and timely delivery.
  • Analysing the latest academic and grey literature to produce concise and accurate reports and identifying and manipulating technical datasets to support and inform findings.
  • Incorporate opportunities to engage and develop new and pioneering areas of work and collaborate across disciplines, teams and locations.
  • Our carbon management team, work with colleagues from planning, ecology, landscape design and management, historic environment and agrienvironment.
  • A key part of this role will be helping develop and establish our carbon accounting processes and models.


We would love to speak with climate change specialists who are looking to expand their knowledge and skills, whilst working with employee owned organisation who puts its peoples first while being an award winning consultancy.


Experience and qualifications:


Essential:

  • Educated to degree level in a relevant discipline or have a blend of knowledge and qualifications reflecting a similar level of expertise (scientific, engineering or environmental fields).
  • Excellent working knowledge of MS Excel and Word.
  • Understanding and interest in carbon accounting and carbon management in a wide range of sectors.
  • Interest in climate change policy and scientific development.
  • Strong communication skills and willingness to engage with a wide range of stakeholders.
  • Ability to write concise and accurate reports and convey technical information in an accessible way.
  • Desire to remain at the forefront of innovative and awardwinning thinking in this important area of work.
  • An enthusiastic and flexible attitude and an eagerness to take on new challenges.

Bonus:

  • Coding software knowledge (Python, R etc.).
  • Comfortable performing statistical analysis and building/maintaining models.
  • Understanding of sustainability and carbon management in the built environment.

Job Types:
Full-time, Permanent


Salary:
£25,000.00-£31,000.00 per year


Benefits:


  • Additional leave
  • Casual dress
  • Company pension
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Flexitime
  • Life insurance
  • Profit sharing
  • Work from home

Schedule:

  • Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

  • Bonus scheme
  • Performance bonus
  • Yearly bonus

Education:


  • Bachelor's (required)

Work authorisation:

  • United Kingdom (required)

Reference ID:
OwlCCP
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