Job Description
Location: Bristol, London or Manchester. Please specify any preference. Hybrid working arrangements are available.
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Working Arrangement: This is a Permanent role, Eunomia works a "nine-day fortnight". Full time employees have a 3-day weekend every other week.
About the Company / Role:
Eunomia is a leading international Environmental Consultancy. We're social-environmental problem-solvers and researchers with a difference. Combining real world consulting experience and deep knowledge with an active role in policy, empowers us to provide pragmatic, science-led solutions that reduce human impact on the planet.
Eunomia currently has over 150+ employees worldwide, working in five offices, across three continents.
We believe that together, we can harness the power of ‘unwasted’.
As the leading experts in our field for more than 20 years, our role is to challenge the status quo. Our incomparable expertise means we ask the right questions and dare to go where others won't. We get to the heart of the real issues impacting our clients’ businesses and impacting society.
We specialise in the fields of waste management, resource efficiency, circular economy, low carbon energy, marine planning, natural economy and climate change mitigation.
Our team is unfailingly passionate about the future of our planet and society. That’s why every day, we strive to do work that leaves our planet in a better place for the next generation. Our work on creating a regenerative circular economy is testament to this – boundary pushing and innovative beyond the norm, to deliver for planet and people.
Our desire to lead by example, and our enthusiastic and supportive team, makes Eunomia a stimulating and rewarding place to work.
More information can be found on our website www.eunomia.eco or on our LinkedIn pages.
Job description:
Eunomia is seeking candidates who are at or near the beginning of their career in environmental consultancy to support our team of experts. We are seeking to fill multiple posts, across which we wish to find a range of skills and capabilities, understanding that we may not find all of them in a single candidate.
All successful candidates will be involved in a range of tasks, which may include qualitative, quantitative and social research and analysis, technical report writing, modelling (whether in MS Excel or other tools such as R), participation and stakeholder engagement, contributing to bids, and preparing presentations for clients.
As a consultant with Eunomia, you will often be involved in multiple projects at once and the subject matter is likely to be varied, ranging across waste and resource management, decarbonisation and the natural economy. Work will be tailored to the candidate's skills, but with an expectation that you will learn and develop.
You will work alongside colleagues to deliver projects that meet clients’ needs. You will be flexible, with a strong work ethic and a high degree of motivation. You will be highly organised and share our commitment to a high quality of work, as well as being able to demonstrate a personal commitment to tackling environmental and sustainability issues.
Essential Criteria:
- Either educated to degree level, or with at least three years’ experience in a relevant role;
- Proven organisational skills, working in a calm, logical way to deliver tasks efficiently;
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment with multiple colleagues, peers, and external clients;
- Fluent in spoken and written English, with strong report-writing skills;
- Good interpersonal skills, including the ability to convey complex ideas clearly and engagingly;
- Excellent all-round IT skills, including the use of Microsoft Office;
- Willingness to ‘muck-in’ and carry out a range of tasks as required; and
- A demonstrable commitment to continuous learning and improvement so as to achieve high standards.
Desirable Criteria:
- Good technical knowledge, ideally based on practical experience, in at least one of the following areas:
o Waste collection systems;
o Waste treatment infrastructure, such as transfer stations and HWRCs;
o Resource efficiency and other sustainability issues for businesses;
o Biodiversity, land use or natural capital;
o Renewable energy and energy efficiency measures;
o UK and International environmental policy and legislation, e.g., plastics policy, waste policy & strategy, extended producer responsibility, climate change, biodiversity net gain;
o Carbon baselining and emission reduction strategy; or
o Creating and using mathematical models to describe real-world problems;
- Holding a degree, especially a post-graduate qualification, in a relevant discipline;
- Excellent data analysis skills, including manipulation of large datasets and statistical analysis;
- Social research techniques;
- Demonstrable experience of applying creative, practical, common sense thinking to solve real-world problems; and
- A genuine desire to develop a career in environmental consultancy, ideally with prior experience working within the consultancy business model.
You must be eligible to work in the UK. Eunomia is unable to sponsor visa applications for staff at junior and trainee levels. Eunomia places high expectations on staff to learn quickly and deliver work that meets our clients’ needs. You will join a team of highly capable, highly committed colleagues from a range of academic and practical backgrounds, who will support your development, while expecting you to respond positively and demonstrate a high degree of motivation. You will have the opportunity to develop with us, learn quickly and make progress with your career.
Remuneration:
Bristol & Manchester based: £23,000 to £30,000 depending on skills and experience.
London based: £26,000 to £33,000 depending on skills and experience.
Salary figures for London-based staff include an additional £3,000 London Weighting Allowance.
Benefits:
You will be part of a supportive and friendly values-led work environment, with continued professional development opportunities. A competitive salary with excellent benefits, including a nine-day fortnight, Private Healthcare [which includes dental and optical provision], Death in Service benefit, Group Pension, Income Protection Scheme (after completion of probationary period) and bicycle purchase scheme. 24 days holiday per year (plus Bank Holidays) rising by 1 day each year to a maximum of 30 days per year and the option to "buy" up to five more days annual leave. Eunomia also shuts down between Christmas and New Year. Staff who choose to take one day’s holiday during the period between these dates will receive two additional days of “free” holiday to enable them to take the whole week off work. All of us have a monthly wellbeing allowance and can take an additional two days leave a year for volunteering.
Applications:
Please send us your CV accompanied by a covering letter (via LinkedIn, or jobs@eunomia.co.uk), outlining your current situation, why you are applying for the role, and an outline of why you feel that we're the ideal fit for each other!
Eunomia embraces equal opportunity in the workplace and throughout the recruitment processes. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team of brilliant, exceptional individuals. We therefore welcome and enjoy receiving applications from all candidates, and do not discriminate based on age, disability, sex, gender confirmation, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, religion, or belief, ethnic or national origin and race.
Eunomia Research & Consulting is committed to protecting data and respecting the privacy of persons it deals with. In so doing, we comply with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) 2018. We confirm that in the event you apply for a role within Eunomia, your details will be securely held by the company in line with the company’s Privacy Policy which is available on Eunomia’s website. We encourage you to read this policy in order that you understand our legitimate reasons for processing your data, as well as your rights regarding submitting your personal information to us with regard to recruitment.
We are a Living Wage employer. Company no. 4150627