Key facts:
Job title: GHG Consultant
Location: From home but must be able to attend occasional meetings at UK locations.
Job type: Part-time, 5 hours a day, 5 days a week.
Salary: £35-40k pro rata
About us
We’re an environment, social and governance (‘ESG’) and sustainability consultancy that helps medium and large companies do better things for people and the environment. Our primary services are developing ESG strategies, and developing carbon/Net Zero strategies.
Clients choose us over other consultancies for two reasons – the quality of our service (in-depth technical expertise coupled with slick delivery), and because we’re pragmatic – we focus on what companies can and will do, and enabling that, rather than blue-ski thinking. Ultimately we want to see our recommendations put into practice.
Our clients stay with us, and keep coming back to us, because we don’t act like consultants – we become part of our clients’ teams, we always over-deliver, and we effectively and transparently manage our projects to meet all deadlines.
We’ve been in business for eight years and are a tiny but mighty team of four. Historically we have used contractors to support with operational delivery but with a hefty pipeline of work on the books we want to grow our internal team.
You can read more about the sectors we work in and the projects we’ve delivered on our website here: www.rawstoneconsulting.co.uk
The role
This GHG Consultant role is for a brilliant numbers geek who loves Excel and knows the ins- and outs- of the GHG Protocol and corporate carbon (scope 1 ,2 and 3) calculations.
You’ll be responsible for producing greenhouse gas (GHG) emission inventories, including: requesting client data, reviewing the data received, completing the calculations, checking the figures and producing client-facing reports. Diligent analytical and project management skills are a must.
Each client project is unique and has layers of complexity that you must navigate and relish. This might be the application of supplier-specific emissions; calculation of restatements and/or alignment of emissions measurement to the latest best practice (e.g. SBTi/GHG Protocol).
The importance of accurate data manipulation cannot be understated. You must intuitively know how to check your work in multiple ways and be adept at producing new calculations to best represent the data in question. Whilst we have templates to use, these are guides. We need a free-thinker who can translate the real world situation into a completely bespoke client approach, and you must be able to use graphs and other tools to simply convey what is ultimately a very complex thing.
Beyond the obvious data analysis aptitude, a key component of this role is teamwork. You will need to work closely with the Senior Consultant on this project and embrace our project management tools (including Monday.com and Teams) to ensure smooth collaboration.
Your responsibilities:
- Project delivery. For each project we collectively agree a project plan with the client. You’ll be responsible for ensuring that your elements are tracked and delivered on time.
- GHG footprint measurement. We need you to get involved with scope 1, 2 & 3 data measurement (data collection, entry and manipulation in Excel).
- Target and data tracking. You must be adept at critically reviewing data for accuracy and analysing the source of data changes, for example, why GHG emissions have changed year-on-year and how these changes will impact the client’s ability to meet their GHG targets.
- Documenting methodologies. Writing formal methodology statements for the process undertaken and making recommendations for process improvement opportunities.
Whilst these are the core responsibilities of the role we are a small business and there are huge opportunities for projects and personal development outside of these. When client work is quiet we will ask you to support with business improvement projects. This allows you to develop new skills in business areas that you are keen to learn about.
Who you are:
You must live and breathe (no pun intended!) GHG emissions in this role. If you aren’t interested in the GHG Protocol and Science-Based Targets and you don’t love Excel then this isn’t the role for you. The other important pre-requisites for this role are:
- You must have a degree in a science-based subject.
- You must have measured scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions including supplier-specific scope 3 emissions for at least three companies.
- You must have been involved in collating corporate GHG data that has been subject to a third party audit, and the SBTi verification process.
- You must be excellent with Excel. This means being speedy, accurate, adept at spotting errors and skilled at building in checks that prevent errors occurring.
- You must like to make your work look pretty. We believe in high quality presentation that matches the high quality content.
- You must be a self-starter. You will be given freedom to operate but need to be self-motivated and confident to ask questions.
- You must be organised. Our projects are complex and you must be efficient at tracking and driving progress.
Benefits
- Pension.
- Annual medical check.
- Choice in company charitable donations for the year (we give a minimum of 1% per annum to community/charity causes).
- Genuine flexible work.
- Development opportunities. As a small business we don’t offer formal training programs but we have hands-on business experience that we can offer in abundance.
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