Environment and Sustainability Advisor

A bit about us

At the RSPCA, we recognise that animal welfare is closely linked to the health of our environment. As we embed environmental sustainability across the organisation, we are seeking an Environment & Sustainability Advisor to support delivery of our Environmental Plan and help drive meaningful change.

Working closely with the Head of Environment & Sustainability, you will collaborate across departments to turn our environmental commitments into measurable action. You’ll build strong relationships with colleagues and stakeholders, helping to integrate sustainability into everyday decision-making and operations.

Location: This is a home-based role with travel 2–3 times per month to animal centres and offices across England and Wales. If you would like to work from an office, we have bases available at our SE Hub in Horsham or London.

What a day might look like for you

• Support the development and delivery of sustainability programmes (climate and nature)
• Coordinate organisation-wide initiatives, tracking progress against KPIs and targets
• Lead on environmental data collection, and calculation and interpretation of carbon footprinting in line with the GHG Protocol. Contribute to the development of our Scope 3 Climate Transition Action Plan
• Monitor energy, water and waste data against set targets
• Contribute to climate risk assessments using frameworks such as TCFD/IFRS S2, supporting resilience and mitigation planning
• Develop communications and engagement activities to embed sustainability across teams
• Support environmental annual reporting and ensure alignment with legal requirements and voluntary frameworks

For more information please visit the vacancy listing on our website to view the job description.

What will help you succeed in this role:

• Relevant work experience with a university degree or higher level qualification in a relevant field
• Experience with environmental sustainability strategy roll out, as well as successful programme/project management
• Knowledge of carbon accounting and net zero transition plans
• Data analysis, experience analysing and reporting on data – with the ability to tell the story around the data.
• Excellent engagement and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to make complex topics easy to understand
• Comfortable speaking to colleagues at all levels of the organisation and presenting to larger stakeholder groups
• Experience developing training programmes
• Experience developing climate risk assessments and developing resilience and mitigation plans.
• Understanding of current reporting frameworks, both mandatory and voluntary (e.g. GRI, GHG Protocol, TCFD/IFRS, TNFD, SBTi, SBTN, CDP)
• Full driving licence as you will need to regularly travel, either in your own vehicle or rental car, to anywhere in England and Wales.

Join us in creating a more sustainable future for animals and people.

Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK as we are unable to sponsor visas.

Final note from us & good luck with your application!

We want to ensure we do all we can to give you a positive candidate experience through our recruitment. Whilst we do try to give feedback where we can, sometimes due to receiving high levels of applications, this may not always be possible

We are building the future of a diverse organisation, and our priority is to support animal welfare by finding people from all backgrounds who are committed to our mission. For this reason we actively encourage a wide diversity of applications – in particular from members of minority ethnic groups, and people with disabilities – as these candidates are currently under-represented at the RSPCA.

We’re here to support you. We encourage you to let us know if you need any adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Please feel free to contact us at [email protected] or 0300 123 0685 so we can ensure the process works for you.