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Sustainability & Carbon Data Analyst

Organize traceable activity data and help teams prepare reviewed emissions inventories.

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Sustainability

Skills to build

  • Spreadsheets, SQL and data-quality checks
  • GHG inventory boundaries, scopes and activity data
  • Emission-factor sources, units and documented assumptions
  • Evidence trails, reporting and stakeholder communication

Roles and responsibilities

  • Collect and reconcile energy, transport and supplier data.
  • Calculate estimates using approved methods and factors.
  • Document gaps, assumptions and evidence for review.

How AI can help

Extract draft data from documents and flag anomalies, with checks against the original evidence.

Where people take responsibility

Analysts verify source data, methods and uncertainty; accountable reviewers approve disclosures.

Suggested preparation

An analytical/business/environmental foundation and a small emissions-data project following relevant GHG Protocol guidance.

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