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The Sustainability Consultant - LCA & Circularity at NSF has the opportunity to join a successful and growing sustainability consulting group. You will develop and deliver on client engagements that generate life cycle assessments (LCAs) or apply life cycle science to help solve our clients’ climate and circularity challenges. This role blends hands-on life cycle assessment modeling with thought leadership, expanding the team’s capacity to answer unique LCA challenges within the Agriculture, Food & Beverage and Building Materials industries. This role will support our clients, acting as their partner and project manager on the journey to quantify and improve their climate and environmental impacts. LCA software may also be leveraged to model carbon or water footprints, or inform the development of groundbreaking policies and industry standards. The ideal candidate will have experience generating Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), and be able to contribute to a variety of other sustainability work in our core services, including but not limited to greenhouse gas emissions accounting and climate reporting.

Principle Accountabilities include, but are not limited to:

• Technical Leadership: Work with clients and internal team to develop cutting edge modeling techniques to address unique challenges and/or industry-level needs.
• Client Development: Identify, develop, and convert opportunities for new client engagements with NSF sustainability consulting services.
• Project Design: Work with our internal team to ensure that proposals and projects are of high quality and efficiency.
• Project Management: Ensure that client projects are maintained on-time and on-budget. Ability to work on multiple projects at once while keeping details and communications organized and updated is essential.
• Data Collection: Through questionnaires or other means, ensure that all relevant data is collected to successfully generate accurate LCAs.
• LCA Modeling: Create LCA models to calculate clients’ climate and other impacts. Quality checks on LCA models or work performed by the greater NSF team as relevant.
• EPD Generation: Developing Environmental Product Declarations resulting from LCA results.
• Carbon Verification: Assist in quantification or verification related to carbon emissions and/or carbon credits.
• Thought Leadership: Acting as a SME within NSF as well as representing NSF externally including but not limited to conferences, articles and white papers.
• Information Presentation: Generate or create written reports and presentations to reflect key outcomes and insights from project work.
• Client Relationships: Nurture client relationships through engaging and responsive communications, high-quality on-time deliverables, and professional demeanor.
• Tools and Efficiencies: Contribute to improving unit profitability by building or improving tools and IP that deliver on consistent workstreams.
• Internal Relationships and Systems: Participate in building a sense of team, accountability, and accomplishment by engaging in team meetings, updates, and/or cross-sector initiatives at NSF.
• Other duties may be required from time to time depending on our team’s growth.

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• Candidate must Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field (i.e. Sustainability, Environmental Studies, etc.); Master of Sustainability or similar advanced degree preferred
• Minimum 2 years of experience delivering LCA consulting services
• Knowledgeable about LCA considerations related to agriculture, food systems, chemicals, fossil fuels and/or electronics sectors
• Demonstrated experience with GaBi or SimaPro LCA software use and results reporting
• Familiarity with LCA and carbon related standards such as ISO 14040, 14044, 14064, and 14067
• Experienced with aspects of climate-related reporting, including CDP or TCFD
• Ability to distill large amounts of information into concise technical findings, using exceptional analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills
• Proven experience simultaneously managing project workflows, multiple priorities, deadlines, and client relationships
• Able to recognize limitations in skills and ability to deliver
• Speaks English at native or advanced level
• Actively models NSF core values including respect, ethics, integrity, creativity and excellence
• Proven ability to work collaboratively and effectively in a remote team environment across multiple seniority levels with minimal supervision

Preferred Qualifications

• Climate knowledge includes familiarity and skill with greenhouse gas inventory calculations
• Comfortable analyzing software systems and/or conversion factors driving greenhouse gas and/or life cycle assessment calculations or verifications
• Proven experience to identify and convert new client projects
• Enjoys building new systems and tools to accelerate results, standardize approaches and ensure quality outputs

Salary Range: $60,000 - $130,000 USD

The total pay range takes into account a wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, skills; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed pay range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At NSF, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the pay range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.

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NSF is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, status as a protected veteran, or disability.