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Consultant - Circular Economy

From $75,000 depending on experience

NYC based, hybrid role.

About Eunomia

Eunomia Research & Consulting is an independent environmental consultancy dedicated to helping organizations create practical, science-based solutions that reduce environmental impact. For more than 20 years, we've partnered with businesses, governments, and nonprofits to tackle some of the world's most pressing sustainability challenges.

With more than 150 employees across five offices on three continents, we are recognized leaders in areas including circular economy, waste and resource management, climate change, low-carbon energy, marine planning, and natural capital. Our clients include global organizations such as IKEA, DHL, Coca-Cola, and PepsiCo, alongside national and local governments and NGOs.

At Eunomia, you'll have the opportunity to work on innovative projects with influential clients, collaborate with passionate experts, and help shape solutions that create lasting environmental and social impact.

Summary of the Role:

The Consultant role helps lead Eunomia’s efforts to advance a circular economy, reduce material use, carbon emissions and impacts on nature to bring about positive change in the world. This is a very exciting opportunity to be engaged in multiple projects at the forefront of circular economy thinking and have direct impact on policy and programs in North America. You will be involved in or lead multiple projects at once, from supporting state and provincial governments, developing circular economy and plastics-based policy based on in-depth financial, technical and social cost benefit modelling, to supporting major corporations in redesigning their packaging or production processes. This role will also be foundational in further shaping a growing North American Eunomia office in terms of technical outputs in addition internal processes and culture.

Key Role Responsibilities:

The Consultant will have the following primary responsibilities:

Project Management

• Facilitate multiple projects simultaneously with varying clients and timelines ensuring project outputs are delivered on time and within budget.
• Develop project plans taking into consideration client needs, staffing, and resourcing availability.
• Manage project teams between 3-10 staff members that may include junior staff, senior technical experts, and subcontractors as well as team members based in other countries and timezones.
• Update and track project hours and resourcing within company management database.
• Assist project invoicing ensuring positive cash flow of projects.
• Liaise with clients who may include senior leaders at consumer goods companies, state governments, and non profits.

Stakeholder Management and Engagement

• Designing workshops
• Convening multi-stakeholders’ groups to gather data, insights and inputs into projects

Technical Delivery

• Apply technical expertise such as circular economy systems, waste management, recycling, plastics, and circular supply chains to project methodologies and technical outputs.
• Design and lead stakeholder management processes which may include workshops, focus groups, and interviews.
• Develop research guides for junior staff and oversee primary and secondary research processes.
• Lead project report writing which may include Microsoft Word documents or PowerPoint presentations.
• Develop project methodologies and research guides which can help answer complex circular economy questions and challenges clients have.
• Review project outputs to ensure quality.
• Design effective ways to communicate complex technical outputs to clients and the public who may not be technical experts.

Business Development

• Manage project proposals which may include responding to a specific Request for Proposals from a state government or designing a project based on a client conversation.
• Facilitate project opportunities based on your network industry contacts.
• Contribute to thought leadership pieces to show Eunomia leadership in the circular economy field.

Key Requirements & Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Key Requirements

You will be flexible with a strong work ethic and feel comfortable simultaneously leading and delivering a number of technical projects and bids under pressure. You will be a self-starter, highly organized, and share our commitment to a high quality of work. You will be proficient at writing technical reports as well as distilling key data into management reports and infographics. A personal interest in, and commitment to, environmental and sustainability issues is expected. 

Required

• 5 + years of experience of project management and delivery in a range of waste, resource management, circular supply chain, and circular economy areas ensuring on time, and budget delivery and client satisfaction.
• Understanding of the collection, processing and reprocessing of different material streams along with systems, programs and policy to create a circular economy from global perspective. 
• 2+ years of experience in plastics supply chains, with knowledge of virgin production and recycled material in both the US and globally.
• Experience with stakeholder management including leading workshops and focus groups with business leaders and technical experts,
• Experience working with or for consumer goods companies especially their sustainability departments,
• Demonstrable experience of applying creative, practical, common sense thinking to solve real-world problems.
• Able to carry out effective research on technical areas that may be new to you
• Knowledge of Eunomia as a business, its clients and it service offerings,
• Well-versed at public speaking including on webinars and can deliver technical content to a diverse audience.

Preferable

·       A network within the circular economy sector

·       Experienced with excel and able to model

·       Experience of working within a consultancy business model

Knowledge, Education, and Desired Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in environment science, economics, engineering, or other relevant circular economy field.
• Flexible and strong work ethic.
• Feel comfortable simultaneously working on a number of technical projects and bids under pressure.
• Effective time management and organizational skills. Ability to respond positively to pressure and take a flexible approach to a dynamic, fast moving and changing work environment.
• Able to work on virtual teams across different time zones.
• Self-starter, highly organized and share a commitment to a high quality of work.
• A personal interest in, and commitment to, environmental and sustainability issues is expected.
• Proficient at writing technical reports as well as distilling key data into management reports and infographics.

Eunomia Package Benefits

• Working structure is a 9-Day Fortnight, with office closure every other Friday. 
• 401K retirement plan with Employer contributions up to 5% of salary, on a match funding basis after 3 months of service.
• On the 1st of the month after two full calendar months of employment, you will be eligible for 100% basic and voluntary life insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D) insurance benefit.
• Annual allotment of 15 days of PTO, in addition to 56 hours of sick leave, 8 paid company paid holidays, and more.
• Eligible for 100% employer paid medical plans on the first day of hire, and 50% employer paid for dependents.
• Eunomia provides Employee Assistance Program and Travel Insurance.
• Commuter Benefits.
• Adoption Assistance programs.
• Health Advocacy programs.
• Wellbeing resources and quarterly employee Wellness stipend.

We encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply, as we believe that diversity and inclusivity are essential for driving innovation, creativity, and positive change. If you share our passion for environmental sustainability and are eager to make a difference, we welcome you to join our team at Eunomia Research & Consulting.