Senior Corporate Sustainability Consultant (Technical) 9-day fortnight, sabbatical cover

Hello! 👋 We're looking for an experienced Senior Technical Consultant to join our Sustainable Business team, lead on high-profile technical projects and make a measurable impact. 💼🌱🌍 

The headlines: 

Salary: £45,000 - £58,000 depending on experience  

Duration: 8-month fixed contract - sabbatical cover  

(December 2025 -July 2026)  

Location: Hybrid working. Offices in Sustainable Ventures, Waterloo, Central London  

Experience: 5 or more years of relevant experience  

Hours: 37.5 per week (but we are currently trialling a 9-day fortnight, with no loss of pay) 🎉🚵🏊‍♀️ 

Deadline: 9am Monday 6 October 2025  

We encourage you to apply for this role as soon as possible, as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and interviews will be held on a rolling basis. We reserve the right to close the advert early should we find the right candidate. Please click on 'Apply' to read the full candidate pack. 

Bioregional: people-shaped support for planet-sized goals 🤝🌱🌍 

We’re agile sustainability experts who break daunting challenges into achievable, collaborative steps. We’ve amassed diverse and deep experience over three decades, working with organisations spanning more industries than we can count. 

And as a social enterprise, we’re committed to maximising our impact. We also devote time and resources to influencing policy and industry practices. In other words: we really mean it. 

We are one of the UK’s original sustainability consultancies. Founded in 1994, we have been winning awards and working with partners to create cutting-edge solutions to sustainability for over 30 years. 

How we do things: 

→ Beyond compliance. 

We work with ambitious, inspiring businesses that want to do more than just tick sustainability boxes. We’re a ‘critical friend’ - challenging and stretching our clients, in a positive way of course. We’re also experts at making it good business to do good.  

→ Never cookie-cutter.  

We bring decades of diverse, multi-sector experience to the table. This gives us rare breadth, depth and agility to adapt to our clients’ company culture, projects and needs.  

→ Enablers not theorists.  

Translating complex goals into simple, concrete steps is our superpower. We work closely with clients to understand their current situation and guide them through the steps necessary for change. 

Your role and impact 

Our award-winning Sustainable Business team supports clients to develop innovative and practical solutions that enable them to embark on a transformational sustainability journey. We work at the forefront of corporate sustainability, partnering with clients to understand their challenges and deliver strategies and solutions that address them. 

We are looking for an experienced Senior Technical Consultant to join us on an 8-month contract, covering for sabbatical leave. This is an opportunity to lead on high-profile client projects, support a talented team, and make a measurable impact. 

In this role, you’ll: 

• Manage a portfolio of around five strategic client relationships, ensuring technical work is accurate, insightful and impactful 
• Deliver carbon footprints, net-zero roadmaps and carbon reduction action plans for businesses 
• Oversee development of science-based carbon reduction targets and guide businesses through their submission to the SBTi 
• Advise and support businesses with sustainability reporting disclosures, including SECR, CDP, CSRD and GRI 
• Oversee delivery across technical outputs, ensuring quality assurance processes are in place and directly supervising the delivery of colleagues’ work 
• Support and mentor colleagues, helping them develop their technical skills 
• Drive new work by contributing to proposals and bids, shaping the technical content and approach 
• Work closely with, and be line managed by, the Director of Sustainable Business, with the opportunity to deputise for them on technical matters 
• Develop skills and experience at the cutting edge of corporate sustainability and reporting 

Your skills and experience 

We’re looking for an experienced consultant who can hit the ground running as a senior point of contact on technical projects, supporting our highly skilled technical team.  

You will be professional, friendly, and able to think on your feet. You will have the ability to undertake and oversee complex projects, being highly numerate, analytical, and organised. 

Click on ‘Apply’ to view the candidate pack to see the full list of skills and experience required. We know no one ticks every box, so if you’re excited by this role, we’d love to hear from you even if you don’t meet every single requirement. 

What's in it for you? 

1. Work-life balance: hybrid working from Europe's largest climate tech cluster in central London 

2. Diversity and inclusion: while others are rolling back, we're dialling up our ambitions 

3. Health and wellbeing: it's a core part of who we are. Oh - have we mentioned our 9-day fortnight trial? 🎉🚵🏊‍♀️ 

4. Professional development budget: we want you to learn and progress as much as you do. 

5. An ethical employer: we live our values in everything we do, from ethical pensions to sustainable lunches. 

We positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity/gender expression, religion/belief, marital status, pregnancy stage, maternity/paternity status, or any other equality characteristic. 

We foster a supportive, inclusive workplace where people can be themselves and achieve great things. We are committed to improving diversity and inclusion within our organisation – and we actively encourage applications from people of a Black, Asian or minority ethnic background. We want to grow our team with a wealth of diverse ideas, opinions and perspectives and want to hear from you if you believe you can contribute to this. 

We can't wait to hear from you. 

Please click on 'Apply' to read the full candidate pack.