Sustainability Consultant

JR United Kingdom; Wells; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading sustainability consultancy specializing in the music, media, and entertainment sectors. As a Sustainability Consultant, you will engage in impactful projects, analyzing data and advising clients on carbon reduction strategies. This hybrid role offers a dynamic environment with opportunities for professional development and meaningful work in sustainability.

Benefits

32 days annual leave including bank holidays

Employee Assistance Programme

Flexible hybrid working

Company laptop provided

Access to free concert and festival tickets

Qualifications

• 1+ years in a sustainability-focused role with carbon accounting.
• Experience with GHG calculation and reporting.
• Knowledge of sustainability frameworks like SBTi and ISO standards.

Responsibilities

• Support on delivery of consultancy projects with Senior Consultants.
• Conduct data collection, analysis, and reporting on sustainability.
• Present assessment results to internal and external stakeholders.

Skills

Data analysis

Communication

Teamwork

Education

Relevant qualifications in environmental sustainability

Tools

Microsoft/Google Suite

Excel/Google Sheets

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Hours: 40 hour working week. (Some weekends may be required for client events).

Location: Wells, Somerset / hybrid with two days per week in the office.

Reports to: Directors.

About us

Hope Solutions is globally recognised environmental sustainability leaders, ensuring the music, media and entertainment sectors create a more sustainable world.

We’re the go-to experts for impact-focused sustainability solutions within the live events and entertainment industry, thanks to our science-backed approach, regulatory knowledge, and industry know-how. From end-to-end overhauls of your procurement process, to informed output measurements, reporting, and standard implementations - we exist to convert the desire for change, into action.

About the role

• Supporting on delivery of consultancy projects and working with the company's Senior Consultants and Consultants across multiple advisory and reporting projects
• Writing and supporting the development of both technical assessments and reports as well as high level summaries
• Liaison with clients, project partners and key stakeholders
• Collect, clean, and analyse sustainability-related data from a variety of sources, large or complex data sets e.g. key impact areas may include, energy, waste, materials, transportation, supply chain and expenditure.
• Collaborate with colleagues and clients to ensure data collected is accurate, relevant and complete and prepared for use for sustainability reporting. Create dashboards, charts, and visualizations to communicate findings effectively and provide insights to clients on their sustainability performance.
• Working to tight deadlines and delivering high quality work for a range of high profile international clients
• High level of quality assurance scrutiny and due diligence
• Presenting assessment results to internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to extract usable data from complex and sometimes nebulous datasets

Who You Are

If you have a good grasp and feel confident in your carbon accounting abilities, have any experience setting sustainability strategies and have a passion for the music, media and entertainment industries, then you may just be a good fit!

A sustainability professional or carbon analyst with at least one years experience in a similar role who is ready to join our team and support on a number of projects that have deliverables including; GHG scope 1-3 assessments, carbon reduction plans, research for sustainability strategies.

The right candidate for this role will have knowledge and experience of sustainability, environment and carbon assessment, ideally with some experience or familiarity with both the media and entertainment industries.

What You’ll Need

Experience & Knowledge

GHG Calculation and Reporting

• Understanding and applied experience of environmental and carbon emissions auditing, Greenhouse Gas Protocol and carbon emission conversion factors (DESNZ/BEIS, EPA and other CF datasets)
• Relevant qualifications or experience in the environmental sustainability sector and/or an analytical background is preferred; this could be a STEM background, data analyst etc
• Detailed understanding of data collation, formatting and analysis
• Familiarity with and understanding of recognised standards and reporting structures such as ISO 14064, SECR and GHG Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard among others
• Knowledge of sustainability, carbon neutral and net zero frameworks such as SBTi, UN SDGs

Technical Abilities

• Good analytical and mathematical skills - confident interpreting, extracting and presenting datasets into clear outputs
• Familiarity with Microsoft/Google suite and experienced with Excel/Google Sheets, creating complex spreadsheets to apply a range of functions for analysing large datasets. Experience in data visualisation tools would be a bonus!
• Experienced with technical report writing

Professional Certifications

• Membership of IEMA or similar professional body, or a desire for working towards membership and continuing professional development.

Interpersonal Skills

• A team player!
• Confident communicator; able to engage with clients, subcontractors and external stakeholders at all levels
• Proactive; able to prioritise a variable workload and work independently at times
• Good initiative, comfortable working for regular periods of minimal supervision
• Enthusiasm for working in a growing a team and business in a fast moving and dynamic environment
• Ability to support colleagues at all levels.

Don’t feel like you meet all of the requirements? We still encourage you to apply anyway.

What We Offer

• 32 days annual leave (incl. bank holidays) plus additional office closure days and birthday leave.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Income Protection.
• Life Insurance.
• Statutory pension contributions (with option to increase your contributions).
• Flexible hybrid working available.
• Company laptop and hybrid working set up provided.
• Training, qualifications and development opportunities.
• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Opportunities to be involved with internal, project and industry activities and events.
• Company away days and activities.
• Access to free concert and festival tickets (varies annually).

Inclusion & Accessibility

Hope Solutions is a real living wage and equal opportunities employer, providing a workplace environment free from any form of discrimination, including, but not limited to all protected characteristics of The Equality Act 2010.

We recruit, employ, train and compensate people based on their relevant experience and skills. No person will be disadvantaged by any conditions of the recruitment process or employment.

The candidate will need to confirm their eligibility to work in the UK; Hope Solutions are currently unable to provide visas or sponsorship.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to participate in the recruitment process, please get in touch.

How To Apply

If this sounds like the role for you, please send us a short introduction email to [emailprotected] , telling us a bit about yourself and why you would be suitable for the role.

Please include:

• An up to date CV.
• Any questions you have.

Key Dates

• Application closing date: Wednesday 19th June 2025
• Shortlisting: Wednesday 26th June 2025
• First interviews: Wednesday 23rd July 2025
• Second interviews: Wednesday 30th July 2025

We’ll be in touch by 26th June 2025 if you’re shortlisted. If you haven't heard from us by this date, your application has not progressed this time.