Bioregional
Sustainability Consultant (12-month contract) 9-day fortnight
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Hello! 👋 We are looking for an experienced Sustainability Consultant to join our award-winning team on a 12-month maternity cover contract. 💼🌱🌍
The headlines:
- Salary: £38,500 - 44,000 p.a. depending on experience
- Contract: Fixed-term contract (maternity leave cover, to Sep 27)
- Location: Hybrid working. Offices in Sustainable Ventures, Waterloo, Central London
- Hours: 37.5 per week, but we are currently working a 9-day fortnight, with no loss of pay.
Deadline: 9am Monday 7 September 2026
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.
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’re hugely ambitious and deeply committed to pursuing true sustainability at scale. Built environment pioneers since 1994 and co-creators of the iconic BedZED eco-village. We’re experts at making it good business to do good.
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As creators of the One Planet Living® framework, we’re proven specialists at turning paralysis into progress. We work closely with clients to work out exactly where they are and what they need to do next.
Your role and impact
Bioregional’s award-winning Sustainable Business team supports clients to develop innovative and practical solutions that enable them to embark on a transformational sustainability journey.
We are looking for an experienced Sustainability Consultant to join on a fixed-term contract. This role will support the delivery and day-to-day management of client projects, working closely with Project Directors and senior colleagues to deliver high-quality, commercially aware sustainability outputs.
You will help deliver around five to seven projects across:
- Corporate sustainability strategy, reporting and disclosure
- Decarbonisation and climate-risk-related work
- Circularity and value mapping
You will be line-managed by the Associate Director and expected to manage day-to-day project delivery, client communication and internal coordination, with senior support and QA where required.
Your skills and experience
Click on ‘Apply’ to view the candidate pack and 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.
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What's in it for you?
- Work-life balance: hybrid working from Europe's largest climate tech cluster in central London
- Health and wellbeing: it's a core part of who we are. Oh - have we mentioned our 9-day fortnight, with no loss of pay? 🎉🚵🏊♀️
- Professional development budget: we want you to learn and progress as much as you do.
- An ethical employer: we live our values in everything we do, from ethical pensions to sustainable lunches.
- Diversity and inclusion: while others are rolling back, we're dialling up our ambitions
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 get the full candidate pack and details on how to apply.
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