Carbon Specialist - 30772

Summary: The Carbon Specialist role focuses on supporting the Environment Agency's Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management (FCRM) programme, specifically in 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 a national team and receive training in carbon assessment, with responsibilities including incident response. This role emphasizes influencing behaviors and managing change within multi-disciplinary project teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support delivery of the FCRM capital programme by managing carbon effectively.
• Conduct Carbon Assessment and Verification processes to meet corporate sustainability targets.
• Promote low-carbon thinking and provide insights into decarbonisation technologies.
• Verify that projects consider 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.
• Communicate and manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Key Skills:

• Experience in influencing behaviors and managing change.
• Excellent communication and relationship management skills.
• Ability to work within multi-disciplinary project teams.
• Time management and prioritization skills.
• Desirable: Degree in environmental science, sustainability, engineering, or related field.
• Desirable: Experience in carbon assessment and delivering carbon reductions.
• Desirable: Knowledge of flood and coastal risk management project appraisal process.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: Warrington

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other