Zero Carbon Advisor

Role: Zero Carbon Advisor

**Salary**: £25,000

Location: Kings Hill and Hybrid

Full time - 9-5

**About Commercial Services Group**

Commercial Services Group (CSG) is one of the largest providers of public sector and education procurement services globally, with revenues of over £400m, 800 staff and five trading divisions: Global Education Supplies, Procurement, Energy & Carbon, CommunityServices and People Services.

Wholly owned by Kent County Council, CSG supports over 15,000 customers in 86 countries and collaborates with a supply chain of c1,000 suppliers.

**The role**

The Zero Carbon Advisor is accountable for delivering services to the Energy Division's customers to help reduce their carbon emissions.

The services will primarily be delivered via a consultancy type approach and will include carbon footprinting, long term forecasting and creation of high level impact assessments to enable customers to move towards a zero carbon position in future. The ZeroCarbon Advisor will need to be adaptable and focussed to deliver a variety of high quality consultancy work as required. This is a key role for delivering the Energy Division's vision of providing a broader range of services to a broader range of customers.

This position includes liaising with both internal and external stakeholders up to senior management level to ensure the successful delivery of carbon reduction solutions on behalf of customers.

Personal Development within the role is expected and supported, and the ability to adapt to a rapidly changing market will be fundamental in driving forward innovation and in helping to deliver new revenue streams for the business.

**Key duties**

Understand customer drivers for reducing carbon emissions and the associated market for carbon reduction services.
- Deliver services to customers particularly relating to reviewing, forecasting and planning reductions in customer carbon emissions.
- Utilise MS excel and other software based methodologies for calculating carbon footprints, forecasting future emissions and planning reductions.
- Produce written reports to customers regarding carbon footprints and strategies to reduce emissions.
- Be confident to present findings and key elements of advice to customers. Customer representatives may range from energy carbon experts to senior management.
- Be able to communicate the key benefits of our carbon services internall

Liaise with customers, suppliers and industry participants, carrying out independent research into specific issues or areas where required.
- Utilise and work alongside consultants and/or partners in order to develop and deliver services to customers.
- Develop and maintain an expert understanding of carbon footprinting techniques, national guidance, data sources and carbon reduction methods.

**What you need**
- Appropriate Degree-level qualification or relevant experience and accreditations with bodies such as CIBSE, Energy Institute or IEMA such as formal energy management qualification or low carbon consultant
- Experience / Knowledge Essential Desirable
- Some prior knowledge or experience of assessing or measuring greenhouse gas emissions.
- Analysing and interpreting large data sets and using calculations to conclude results and recommendations.
- Experience of producing written reports cohesively setting out results and findings
- Experience of influencing strategic stakeholders
- Experience of operating in a commercially numerate environment or providing consultancy type services

**What CSG has to offer you**
- 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays
- Birthday off work
- Life assurance cover
- Company pension
- Flexible first, hybrid working
- A culture of progression & development
- Shopping discounts & retailer offers
- Team & company events
- eLearning portal
- EAP programme
- Referral scheme
- Health & Wellbeing platform
- Health Cash Plan initiative
- Discounted gym membership