Carbon Analyst

Teqniq is seeking a full-time Carbon Analyst in Oxford, UK, to lead carbon emissions assessment and reporting for the council. Responsibilities include developing greenhouse gas reporting systems, engaging stakeholders, interpreting emissions data, and advising on carbon assessment in planning. Candidates should have relevant qualifications, expertise in emission reporting standards, and strong data management skills. The role involves collaboration with various teams to enhance carbon data use in decision-making.
Full-time (37 hours per week) Carbon Analyst contract to start ASAP.

Monday to Friday

09:00-17:00

What is the Job?
• Work as the strategic lead and advisor to OCC on carbon emissions assessment and reporting.
• Lead and continually develop the council’s greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting in line with industry best practice.
• Develop and document robust systems and protocols to ensure accuracy.
• Hold, and agree with services, a development and stakeholder engagement plan to continually improve the scope of data reported in our GHG reporting.
• Provide clear, high quality, engaging interpretation of the causes of emissions changes and future anticipated changes to inform management decisions at a team, service and organisational level and report progress to the public.
• Further develop an emissions data dashboard.
• Lead on developing and expanding scope 3 emissions reporting particularly working with the new Sustainable Supply Chain Policy and Projects lead to bring in a system for supply chain emissions reporting in line with the council’s policy.
• Working with the Zero Carbon Oxfordshire Partnership and Programmes team to produce annual interpretation of BEIS data at an Oxfordshire and District level to track progress to Oxfordshire’s net zero targets and against carbon budgets. Develop plans to produce interpretation of this data to meet the needs of a variety of stakeholder groups.
• Be the lead specialist advising on criteria to improve carbon assessment in planning applications, and major infrastructure projects.
• Develop processes and methodologies to map and integrate carbon assessment into the council’s decision making processes building on our existing qualitative Carbon Impact Assessment process, ensuring carbon drives our decision making. Explore opportunities for best practice methods such as shadow carbon pricing to support decision making.

What are the requirements?
• Degree or equivalent qualification with up-to-date professional expertise in areas relevant to the post.
• Demonstrable commitment to continuing professional development in the area of carbon assessment (e.g. membership of a professional body).
• Expert applied knowledge of a range emission reporting standards and techniques (including the GHG Protocol & inventories (ISO 14064-1) and desirably, carbon accounting, PAS 2080 and scope 3 carbon footprinting approaches) evidenced through experience or qualification.
• Expert skills in data management, analysis, dissemination and engaging interpretation of complicated data.
• Experience of Collaborating with stakeholders to define data requirements and translate them into actionable analyses.
• Experiencing of monitoring and evaluating the impact of climate policies and initiatives using appropriate metrics and indicators.
• Strong track record of proactively defining and developing the use of carbon data to drive climate programmes and decision making in large organisations.
• Experience of being able to work independently and to proactively develop a new work area.
• Proven track record of working with teams and services to help them understand role of carbon data for their business needs.
• Understanding and experience using data, insight and performance measures to assess the impact of services and inform decisions and to improve outcomes.
• Experience of excellent communication, presentation, data visualisation and negotiation skills, with the ability to prepare clear and concise reports to effectively communicate findings to internal and external audiences.
• Proficient in MS Office skills (Word, Outlook, Excel etc.)

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