Sustainability Consultant
Sustainability Consultant
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08-05-2025
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About the job
Who we are and what do we do
WRI India an independent charity legally registered as the India Resources Trust provides objective information and practical proposals to foster environmentally sound and socially equitable development. WRI Indias mission is to move human society to live in ways that protect Earths environment and its capacity to provide for the needs and aspirations of current and future generations. Through research analysis and recommendations WRI India puts ideas into action to build transformative solutions to protect the earth promote livelihoods and enhance human wellbeing.
Summary:
As a parttime sustainability specialist (consultant role) for the Sustainability Initiative your role will be matrixed. Your solidline anchor manager will remain the same if you are staff if you are new to WRI your solidline anchor manager must be someone within your local office(s). Your dottedline outcomes manager will be the Global Sustainability Initiatives Lead based in the US office. You will be part of the Global Sustainability Core Team which meets weekly to coordinate sustainability across WRIs network and tracks progress towards institutional sustainability goals.
Overall the parttime role focuses on local engagement and communications with a strong alignment to global strategy and data research activities. You will collect local data such as energy bills vendor information staff survey data and collaborate with the Sustainability Analyst to analyze and calculate GHG emissions following WRIs Greenhouse Gas Protocol methods and following the boundaries and methodologies established for the entire network. The majority of the role utilizes this data to prioritize strategize and lead engagement activities for country offices. This may include but is not limited to waste audits swap events bike and walk events and local vendor engagement on sustainability. The role will also promote global engagement activities such as the Carbon Price Fund business travel campaigns and sustainable procurement efforts. Finally the role may choose to depending on size and engagement levels organize and lead a local Sustainability Champions working group. The group will include local staff and members will automatically be added to the global Champions list for networkwide meetings.
Responsibilities:
Project Management (25%)
- Manage sustainability strategy adoption and implementation in country office(s)
- Develop action plans for each office to align projects metrics and engagement to global WRI sustainability strategy
- Evaluate project performance including data collection and analysis of GHG emissions and cost savings estimates and staff surveys
- Manage budget timeline and payments for projects
Engagement Collaboration External Networking Tasks (15%)
- Lead staff engagement activities and events to shift behaviors on sustainability within each country office (e.g. bike campaigns zero waste audits and swap events)
- Collaborate with global operations to integrate sustainability into existing or new policy and procedures
- Support engagement and knowledgesharing with peer organizations partners vendors and funders
Communications Reporting Tasks (10%)
- Lead reporting of WRIs GHG inventory and other metrics including collecting data from vendors and local financial systems to report to global sustainability team at monthly quarterly and annual frequencies
- Communicate global and local data and action progress to local staff and across global network
Job Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree with preference for degrees in business public policy economics political science environmental studies mathematics accounting and finance sustainability management or related operations or nonprofit fields
- Familiarity in GHG emissions inventory accounting concepts additional training to WRIs methods and standards will be provided by the Sustainability Core Team.
- Attention to detail and highlevel competence with data especially using Excel.
- Ability to communicate ideas to large and diverse teams of stakeholders primarily in written English but speaking and graphic skills are encouraged.
- Enthusiasm for working with staff and guests at all levels
- Demonstrated passion for WRIs mission
- Quick to learn and adapt to new tools and software
Role Details:
- Duration: 6 months
- Location: Bangalore (with a requirement to be in the office 3 days a week)
- Start Date: As soon as possible
Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted for interview purpose.
Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) @WRI India
WRI India values and promotes diversity equity and inclusion across all areas of our work and workforce. Integrating these values into our actions fosters a progressive and collaborative culture and can also enhance our impact. It is our responsibility to create a welcoming working environment for people of diverse cultures backgrounds and experience to learn together. We are responsible for fostering a safe and inclusive workplace where questions concerns and information about diversity equity and inclusion are part of our ongoing dialogue and development.
Learn more about WRI Indias commitment to Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI).Click Here
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