Junior Climate Analyst

Company overview

Green Element is a fast-growing certified B Corp Environmental Management Consultancy based in London and Edinburgh. Along with our sister company Compare Your Footprint, our work takes us into the heart of companies across the world where we help them become more sustainable. In addition to our growing and comprehensive sustainability consultancy service, we also support businesses in their goal to become more sustainable via training and coaching services within our ‘Green Element Academy’. We inspire and promote sustainability via our ‘Green Element Sustainable Business Podcast’ as well as our ‘Sustainability Solved’ community which offers carbon foot printing (via our Compare Your Footprint web app), environmental guidance via the provision of handbooks, blogs, webinars, on-hand experts in addition to peer-to-peer engagement.

Scope of the role

The Junior Climate Analyst role forms part of the carbon analysis and reporting team. Its primary responsibility is to support carbon foot-printing 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 and inputting 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 relationships

• Clients
• Senior Climate Analyst
• Analysis Team
• Strategy Lead

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.

Key competencies

• Approachability
• Learning on the fly
• Presentation skills
• Problem solving
• Time management
• Written communications
• Team/unit contribution
• Ethics and values
• Integrity and trust
• Self-knowledge

Skills, experience & qualifications

Skills:

• 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, target setting and Science Based Targets (SBT).
• Data gathering (including formulation of client-specific templates) and data parsing/analysis.
• Ability to troubleshoot unusual or unexpected data, perform year on year comparisons and to highlight interesting or impactful results.
• Problem solving and troubleshooting data issues and managing client queries.
• Conducting research in primary and secondary literature to help with analysis and client/company strategy.
• Ability to present results, communicate with clients and write relevant and impactful commentary in reports.
• Time management and organisational skills to keep track of the actions supporting client projects.

Experience:

• Effective team work to work collaboratively on large/complex projects effectively.
• Understanding of carbon foot-printing, including Green House Gas Protocol methodology and carbon factors, Life Cycle Analysis, SBT’s and Streamlined Energy & Carbon Reporting (SECR).
• Understanding of climate strategy and the ability to advise clients with basic recommendations.
• Ability to research sector-specific carbon factors and information for projects.
• Demonstrable experience of improving existing processes and the development of new tools and methodology.
• Experience of supporting client projects and liaising with external clients and internal customers.
• Effective communications with clients and colleagues on calls, in meetings and in giving presentations.

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.

 Company benefits 

• Hybrid working from home, Company office and Client sites
• One Friday and one Monday (paid) off per month for every employee
• Day off on your birthday
• 8 hours per month of paid leave to volunteer for a charity
• Inclusion in a profit share bonus scheme
• Permitted carry over of 5 days of annual leave per year
• Enhanced Company Sick pay scheme
• Enhanced family friendly policies
• Carers leave and pay
• Fertility Treatment leave and pay
• Enhanced parental bereavement leave
• Sabbatical
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Ethical pension
• Easy access to vouchers relating to eye tests and glasses for employees classified as Display Screen Equipment users
• Access to an employee assistance programme that is available to all employees and their families 24/7, 365 days of the year
• Choice of when to take the bank holiday to follow either Scotland or England’s bank holidays
• Reimbursement of your professional membership fees