The Junior Climate Analyst role forms part of the carbon analysis and reporting team. Its primary responsibility is to support carbon footprinting and life cycle analysis projects and form recommendations to clients regarding their carbon emissions reductions. The Junior Climate Analyst has an active role in data gathering, sorting, analysis and inputting into our carbon emissions calculator tools, in addition to conducting industry research and writing reports for client projects with guidance from Analysts and Senior Analysts. This role has direct contact with clients with regards to data gathering, ad hoc requests and presenting results to the client.
Key Responsibilities
Delivering all aspects (data collection and analysis, report writing, communication) of client projects within Green Element’s analysis services:
• Collect and sort project data including liaising with clients and their suppliers, providing data collection guidance, monitoring data collection progress and quality checking data.
• Input project data via Excel and Compare Your Footprint including troubleshooting entry of complex data sets.
• Conduct detailed analysis into carbon emissions results, providing different data views for the client. Troubleshoot unusual or unexpected data and year on year comparisons for example, to highlight interesting or impactful results in reports.
• Creating bespoke carbon footprint reports, including identifying carbon hotspots.
• Make general and bespoke recommendations to clients on how they can reduce GHG emissions in line with a science-based targets trajectory. Use analysis techniques to model the emissions reductions associated with recommended actions.
• Calculate and communicate science-based targets, ensuring to use relevant sector specific guidance. Consider how these fit into a client’s business model and reflect accordingly.
• Submit and help validate science-based targets (SBTs) on behalf of SME and corporate clients to the SBTi with the support of Analysts and Senior Analysts, including sector-specific targets, and support clients through target validation.
• Clearly explain and discuss project results to clients via reports written in PowerPoint, Excel or Word documents, with the support of Analysts and Senior Analysts.
• Assist clients with the external third-party verification of their company or product carbon footprints via audits (providing data and methodology information to auditors and re-formatting carbon footprint results to meet auditors’ requirements).
• Help identify clients with mandatory compliance reporting (e.g. Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR), Carbon Reduction Plans (CDP), and keep on top of upcoming compliance.
• Support clients with voluntary reporting such as Climate Disclosure Project (CDP), EcoVadis and B Impact Assessments.
Project managing the day-to-day requirements of assigned client projects (with the assistance of Analysts and Senior Analysts for more complex projects):
• Respond to client emails, and organise and lead meetings with clients.
• Proactively manage the time spent on the client’s project to ensure that hours worked remain within the boundary of the proposal and projects are delivered to agreed deadlines.
• Identify opportunities to add services onto existing contracts as required by the client and communicate this to the Sales team.
• Accurately log hours into a time management software.
• Assist with client renewals and proposals.
Research and development:
• Help build Green Element Group’s carbon conversion factor database and build on existing or develop new internal carbon footprint methodologies.
• Research industry specific benchmarking data to help clients to compare their results with similar companies within their industry sector.
• Research industry specific carbon emissions reduction opportunities/schemes/projects/opportunities to potentially feed into client strategy.
Skills, experience & qualifications
Skills:
• Highly competent MS Excel for data analysis and carbon reporting, including the ability to make pivot tables and useful graphs and charts.
• MS PowerPoint for creating client reports and displaying data.
• An understanding and ability to work on projects covering emissions calculations, reporting and target setting.
• Data gathering (including formulation of client-specific data collection templates) and data parsing/analysis.
• Work directly with clients and manage client queries, ability to manage client expectations via clear communication and planning.
• Troubleshooting anomalous data or data quality issues directly with clients, and ability to guide clients on how to collect better quality data.
• Conducting research in primary and secondary literature to help with analysis and client/company strategy.
• Ability to write concise and impactful commentary in reports, and present and communicate results to clients.
• Excellent time management and organisational skills for project management.
• Excellent teamwork and communication skills for working collaboratively with colleagues and clients.
• Demonstrated ability to proactively learn and adapt to new methodologies as they are introduced, ensuring continuous on-the-job development without reliance on direct instruction.
Experience:
• Experience of team work and collaborating on large/complex projects effectively.
• Understanding of carbon footprinting, including Green House Gas Protocol methodology and carbon factors, life cycle analysis, science-based targets, net-zero, Streamlined Energy & Carbon Reporting (SECR), Carbon Reduction Plan (CRP) and sustainability surveys such as CDP.
• Understanding of the actions that can be taken by organisations to reduce GHG emissions, and the ability to advise clients with basic recommendations.
• Ability to conduct research using scientific literature and databases.
• Experience of supporting and liaising directly with clients is desirable.
• Effective communications across various platforms, including email, and virtual and in person meetings.
• Experience of project management including creating a project plan and working to deadlines.
Qualifications:
Essential
• Undergraduate degree (or equivalent Level 6 qualification) in a relevant subject, for example environmental sciences, climate change, biodiversity, biology, ecology, geography.
Desirable
• Postgraduate degree (or equivalent Level 7 qualification) in a relevant subject, for example environmental sciences, climate change, sustainability, policy, biodiversity, and conservation.
• 1+ years’ experience in a corporate or customer facing role.
Applications will not be considered if they do not meet the following criteria.
- Automatically eliminating candidates that:
- Are missing CV or cover letter from application form
- Have not filled in the specific job code (TBC on what the code is for this role)
- Have any Visa requirements
- Are not in (or near) London or Edinburgh
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