Senior Climate and Sustainability Consultant

Job title:

Senior Local weather and Sustainability Advisor

Firm

RSK Group

Job description

RSK ADAS is looking for a Senior Advisor understanding of the places of work close to Cambridge (with the flexibility to earn a living from home a lot of the time and entry to attend conferences within the workplace when wanted). Potential for home-based working for the best candidate and versatile working changes thought of.

We’re looking for a person with related years’ expertise working in consultancy with experience in local weather change mitigation, measurement of GHG emissions or water stewardship, and a great basis in UK agricultural manufacturing practices.

ADAS Local weather and Sustainability are a various enterprise working throughout all points of sustainability in relation to the land-based sectors, significantly specializing in agriculture. Our work is quick paced and ever-changing providing loads of selection and plenty of new challenges as we work with shoppers to assist them tackle the sustainability challenges dealing with the business. Our shoppers vary from enter suppliers, by way of farmers to foods and drinks producers and the retail sector, and we additionally work with Authorities and the general public sector our bodies offering a variety of options. We work throughout arable, horticultural and livestock sectors, in addition to venturing into different land use areas as properly. Key areas of focus in recent times have included decreasing local weather influence (supporting a transfer in the direction of Internet Zero), constructing resilience to local weather change (assessing local weather danger and creating adaptation methods), understanding sustainable water use, exploring different novel proteins, and assessing the environmental and social impacts of adjusting crop manufacturing practices on European agriculture. This position will particularly goal to assist the expansion of our local weather and/or water presents. There will probably be alternatives for taking accountability for parts of enterprise improvement.

Key tasks:

Our tasks are sometimes brief time period (<6 months) and developed to satisfy our shopper’s wants. We’re subsequently searching for adaptable people who’re excited by the chance to work on a spread of various challenges to assist the expansion of our workforce.

Key tasks:

Our tasks are sometimes brief time period (<6 months) and developed to satisfy our shopper’s wants. We’re subsequently searching for adaptable people who’re excited by the chance to work on a spread of various challenges to assist the expansion of our workforce.

• Gross sales: Main improvement of gross sales and enterprise in areas of experience (significantly water or local weather change mitigation)

• Senior consultants are anticipated to generate and observe up on gross sales leads
• Creation of bespoke approaches to satisfy shopper wants
• Supply: Undertaking handle and lead top quality supply of shopper tasks by way of clear information evaluation and written outputs, alongside the availability of technical enter into local weather influence and resilience tasks. Actions could embody:

• Evaluation of GHG emissions from agricultural uncooked supplies, data and understanding of the GHG Protocol requirements’ necessities for emissions evaluation
• Creation of bespoke emissions calculators (requiring wonderful Excel expertise and a few understanding of laptop modelling)
• Supporting on a spread of different tasks throughout the agriculture sector, together with conducting fast proof assessments, improvement of roadmaps and techniques
• Assist in creating and operating sustainable water use fashions. Significantly mannequin improvement and information evaluation
• Senior consultants are anticipated to guide supply of tasks and handle complicated tasks
• Advertising and marketing: drafting of reports articles for the web site, attending occasions and conferences, making ready content material for different promotional supplies

• Senior consultants are anticipated to be ready to talk at occasions and webinars

Individual specification

• BSc qualification in a related or associated self-discipline (agriculture, biology, geography), or demonstration of equal expertise
• Additional related {qualifications} comparable to a grasp’s diploma or PhD could be a profit
• Full UK driving licence
• Related years’ expertise publish college, working in a consultancy, business, or coverage atmosphere
• Sensible expertise working on-farm (crop or livestock) is taken into account a profit
• Possess a steadiness of information, expertise, and expertise throughout:

• Important – Agricultural manufacturing: a great understanding of UK agricultural manufacturing techniques (crops or livestock) and the important thing sustainability challenges affecting them – soil, water, biodiversity; AND
• Local weather mitigation: an understanding of the elements affecting GHG emissions and carbon removals from crop and livestock based mostly agricultural techniques; OR
• Sustainable water use: an understanding of crop water necessities, irrigation techniques, livestock water use, water footprinting

Abilities and attributes

• Strategy: take a rigorous strategy and a spotlight to element in each quantitative and qualitative analysis and evaluation
• Writing: display robust writing expertise and the flexibility to current messages in a transparent and concise approach to a spread of various audiences (typically non-technical). Candidates needs to be snug utilizing Phrase and PowerPoint to create partaking supplies for presentation [this will be assessed as part of the recruitment process]
• Information evaluation: display robust quantitative/mathematical and Excel expertise [this will be assessed as part of the recruitment process]
• Modelling: Experience in manipulating complicated information units (local weather, water, farm information) utilizing a number of programming languages (e.g. R, python) to assist within the improvement of complicated information evaluation and easy modelling instruments
• Communication: act professionally in entrance of a spread of audiences, speaking in a transparent method by way of emails, videoconferencing (TEAMS) and head to head assembly
• Undertaking administration: be organised and lead complicated tasks to tight deadlines. Handle their very own work to ship into a number of tasks
• Contract administration: guarantee contracts are managed on time and to finances.

Wage and advantages:

• Wage negotiable relying on expertise. (£32,000-£42,000 + efficiency associated bonus)
• Versatile strategy to working
• Common on the job coaching and mentoring
• Contributory pension scheme (wage sacrifice)
• A versatile advantages programme together with the choice to purchase further holidays, well being money plan and discounted health club membership

Interview to happen on Thursday twenty ninth February and Friday 1st March at our Boxworth workplace

RSK Group is an Equal Alternatives Employer

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RSK won’t settle for unsolicited CVs from businesses aside from RSK PSL or Secondary businesses.

Working alongside landowners, farmers, and growers since 1946, now we have been offering concepts, specialist data, and options to safe our meals and improve the atmosphere for over 75 years.

Our goal is to assist tackle the challenges and alternatives confronted by organisations working in meals manufacturing and the pure atmosphere, and we proceed to thrive by attracting progressive thinkers into our workforce.

We presently have over 400 workers delivering options in 60 specialist topics, making us the UK’s largest unbiased supplier of agricultural and environmental consultancy, rural improvement providers, analysis and improvement, and coverage recommendation. Whether or not you need to work on nationwide or worldwide tasks, we are able to present a assorted profession in a big selection of industries and public sector providers.

ADAS is a part of the RSK Group, a number one built-in environmental, engineering, and technical providers enterprise offering dynamic, multidisciplinary providers to a variety of sectors. RSK was based in 1989 and has grown significantly since then. In reality, Atmosphere Analyst lately highlighted RSK’s progress commenting, “Few corporations within the environmental providers sector can declare to be increasing on the similar tempo as RSK.” At the moment, RSK Group consists of over 120 companies and employs over 7,000 specialists. The group is headquartered in the UK and has a longtime presence in additional than 40 nations all over the world.

Anticipated wage

£32000 – 42000 per 12 months

Location

Cambridge

Job date

Thu, 25 Jan 2024 01:15:06 GMT

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