Junior Consultant

**Join us on our journey towards a sustainable future**

**Who we’re looking for**

**Role**:Junior Consultant

**Location**: Oxford, London, Bristol or hybrid; UK-based remote working will also be considered.

**Business unit**:Climate, Nature and Resources

**Contract**: Permanent (full or part-time)

**Remuneration**:Band 2 (£30-35,000)

**About you**

We are looking for a Junior Consultant who is passionate about starting a career in the sustainability sector, to join our Climate, Nature and Resources Business Unit. In this role, you will deliver a range of projects to drive action for sustainability in businesses and supply chains, seeking solutions for complex sustainability problems. As a result, you will need to enjoy getting to the bottom of what drives business decision-making. You will have the opportunity to deepen expertise by working closely with senior 3Keel staff, learning about product impact and design assessments, circular economy research assignments, GHG footprint calculations, decarbonisation roadmap development, and climate risk analyses. You will have a good grasp on working with data and have a sense of how it might help to drive sustainability action.. You will also contribute to business development efforts within the business unit, building on 3Keel’s existing portfolio of clients which include UK retailers, major FMCG brands, and smaller businesses, many from the B Corp community.

**The important stuff (essential requirements)**
- Self-starter and driven;
- Ability to acquire and digest complex qualitative and quantitative information from multiple sources to distil clear strategic insights;
- Data collection, cleaning and management skills. Experience of data analytics, visualisation and practical business intelligence software apps (e.g., intermediate to advanced MS Excel, MS PowerBI, Tableau, Qlik, ETL tools);
- Great team working skills with evidence of working collaboratively on projects;
- Passion for finding solutions to complex sustainability problems;
- Some technical and policy/regulatory understanding of the corporate sustainability landscape;
- Clear and engaging writing style, excellent verbal communication and the ability to present complex information in a client-friendly way;
- Proficiency in using Excel and PowerPoint.
- Organised and systematic approach to work

**Other stuff (desirable skills)**
- Knowledge of FMCG supply chains, food systems, agriculture, and other land-based production systems;
- Understanding of environmental metrics and standards (e.g. GHG Protocol, SBTi, TCFD);
- Understanding of consultancy work: how consultancy businesses operate and basic knowledge of consulting skills

**3Keel also offers**
- A friendly team of individuals from many walks of life, all constantly striving for excellence and committed to making a difference in sustainability - and having fun along the way
- Genuine work-life flexibility for people at different life stages, with a well-established hybrid working culture
- Competitive salary depending on experience (based on a 37.5 hours working week)
- Part time working will be considered
- 30 days paid annual leave per annum, increasing with number of years at business.
- Pension scheme with 5% company contribution and personal investment/savings platform
- Bonus scheme, discretionary from 3Keel owners based on company performance.
- Employee NHS Cash Top Up health insurance scheme
- Employee assistance and mental health support programmes
- Life cover
- Access to office space in various different locations in Oxford, Bristol and London
- Three days of paid volunteering time per year for each staff member
- Generous maternity, paternity and sick pay/leave
- Annual training budget per employee
- 5 days for study per year
- Portion of annual profits donated to charity annually
- Salary sacrifice schemes for bikes (cycle to work scheme) electric vehicles and other tech

**About us**

3Keel is a market-leading, specialist sustainability consultancy. We have grown organically since our founding in 2013, becoming a high impact team. The business is structured to address key sustainability issues, and we focus on innovations and coalition-building to develop approaches that challenge the status quo. We work with many of the global leading businesses on sustainability, and 3Keel is recognised by the FT as one of the UK’s leading Managing Consultancies for Sustainability. 3Keel has been a B-Corp since 2020.

Case studies with more about some of our past work can be found here:
**Climate, Nature and Resources Business Unit at 3Keel**

The Climate, Nature and Resources Business Unit’s mission is to catalyse the transition of the private sector to more resilient and sustainable business models.

In practice this means we deliver a wide range of engagements with clients - from board level sustainability strategies, to technical research and analysis that supports the delivery of ambitious corporate-level climate, nature a