ABOUT YOU
You are someone who loves to analyse, research, and offer creative solutions. You ask lots of questions, take a proactive approach to support the team, and you have a knack for clearly presenting information. You are curious and look at all sides of a problem/challenge in order to make informed recommendations. You pride yourself in your attention to detail. Your organisational skills help you create and execute work plans that are efficient while delivering a high level of support to serve our clients. Prior experience working on consulting projects is a plus, specifically addressing renewable energy and climate change issues.
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ABOUT THE ROLE**
The 3Degrees Energy & Climate Practice, the consulting team at 3Degrees, helps organisations reduce their greenhouse gas emissions worldwide through carbon reduction, decarbonised transportation solutions, and renewable energy. Our clients include some of the largest and most respected companies and utilities on the planet, as well as educational institutions and other non-profits.
3Degrees is large enough to make a huge difference in the world, and small enough that YOU can make a huge difference here. The Consultant role is a vital contributor to our Energy & Climate Practice at 3Degrees. The position conducts research and analysis to support the delivery of client work under the direction of senior-level team members.The position plays a critical role in supporting client engagements in Europe and other markets through the delivery of projects and the direct execution of client work.
3Degrees’ consulting projects focus on envisioning and implementing renewable energy and decarbonisation solutions for large organisations. Our work focuses on reducing carbon emissions and enabling growing organisations to adopt these solutions within robust sustainability programs.
_This position is preferably located in the UK, however, for the right candidate, this position could be performed remotely anywhere in Europe.
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WHAT YOU’LL DO**
Our Consultants bring renewable energy domain expertise, and perform the following work:
- Support the delivery of client work through financial modeling, developing presentations, writing and preparing memos, and helping with additional client requests.
- Conduct independent research using your ingenuity and curiosity to make reasonable assumptions and come up with appropriate solutions, at times with incomplete information. This may include country-level energy market research, delving into standards documents to find specific references or proof points, as well as research on complex topics such as regulatory proceedings.
- Translate results of research and analyses into clear visual representations.
- Support project leads in the creation or editing of spreadsheets so as to be "client-ready,” including developing analytical tools for client deliverables.
- Implement error-checking processes and serve as QA on others' analyses.
- Proactively track actual performance of own work performed against the established plan, with active communication with the Director or Manager.
- Capture project learnings and repeatable deliverables and work samples for future use according to knowledge management processes.
WHAT WE’LL NEED FROM YOU
- Experience supporting clients as part of a management consulting team (minimum of 2 years)
- Familiarity with subject matter such as carbon mitigation and offsets, renewable energy, battery storage, green hydrogen, wholesale energy markets (domestic and international), retail electricity supply, utility green tariffs, and greenhouse gas inventories.
- Mastery of Microsoft Excel (i.e. advanced functions such as nested formulas, pivot tables, conditional formatting, and advanced filtering/sorting) and prior background with managing extremely large datasets. VBA is a plus.
- Ability to use Tableau for professional data visualisation and analysis
- Stellar researcher who can synthesise information and logically structure findings
- Strategic, conceptual, analytical thinking and decision making skills. Highly organised, reliable and well-structured in your research and analyses.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including experience making/delivering presentations to external clients and internal stakeholders.
- Versatility and ability to be agile in an environment that requires many different types of tasks for a variety of project types.
- Bachelor's Degree in an analytical or quantitative major, along with professional experience in an analytical role. Master’s Degree in a plus.
HOW WE DEFINE SUCCESS
- Within 30 days you have an understanding of the quality of work and the level of research and analysis that is required. You have an understanding of the breadth and depth of our consulting services and have a solid client service mindset.
- Within 90 days, you can work independently and know when and where to seek information and resources.
- Within 90 days you are building knowledge in our core services and are adaptable to different project types.
- Within 1 year you are able to deliver tasks tailored to client needs and can slot into a variety of projects.
WHAT WE OFFER
When you work for us, there's plenty in it for you:
- When you work for us, there's plenty in it for you! First, is the fact that you are joining a mission-driven B Corp that is committed to a triple bottom line ethic and fostering work-life balance and professional development for its staff.
- The benefits offered to our team across the globe include Flexible vacation policy, a company matched pension scheme, support for office needs, transportation and also a health & wellness reimbursement program. As an international employer, some benefit offerings may vary from country to country.
ABOUT US
3Degrees exists for one simple reason – to make it possible for businesses and their customers to take urgent action on climate change. As a certified B Corporation, we provide renewable energy and emission reduction solutions to global Fortune 500 companies, utilities and other organisations around the globe that want to join the fight against climate change, and we can’t do it without you. Join us! Headquartered in San Francisco, 3Degrees serves clients around the world like PacificPower, NW Natural, Netflix, Unilever, Ahold Delhaize, Mastercard, and Etsy.
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OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY, INCLUSION AND EQUITY**
3Degrees is an equal opportunity employer. We promote, value, and thrive with a diverse and inclusive team. Different perspectives contribute to better solutions and this makes us stronger every day. We are proud to welcome people of all race, colour, religion, national origin, gender identity, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, sexual orientation or any other category protected by law.