Carbon Specialist - 30772

Summary: The Carbon Specialist role focuses on supporting the Environment Agency's Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management (FCRM) programme across the North-East and North-West of England, with an emphasis on managing carbon effectively to meet corporate sustainability targets. The position involves conducting carbon assessments, promoting low-carbon innovations, and ensuring compliance with environmental legislation. Candidates will work within multi-disciplinary teams and receive training in carbon assessment processes. The role also includes responsibilities related to incident response and business continuity support.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support delivery of the FCRM capital programme by managing carbon effectively.
• Conduct Carbon Assessment and Verification processes to meet corporate targets.
• Promote low-carbon thinking and provide insights into decarbonisation technologies.
• Verify projects' consideration of carbon reduction opportunities and assess performance against carbon budgets.
• Respond to incidents and provide business continuity support as required.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary project teams to effect sustainable change.

Key Skills:

• Experience in influencing behaviours and managing change.
• Excellent communication and relationship management skills.
• Ability to work within multi-disciplinary project teams.
• Time management and task prioritisation skills.
• Desirable: Degree in environmental science, sustainability, engineering, or related subject.
• Desirable: Experience in carbon assessment and delivering carbon reductions.
• Desirable: Membership of a professional environmental or engineering institute.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: Warrington

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other