Graduate Net Zero & Sustainability Planning

Location: Remote (all UK locations considered) with flexible working arrangements. Our flexible office collaboration spaces, for those wishing to use them, are in London, Bristol and Exeter.

Term/Hours: Permanent (6-month probation). Full-time (40 hours per week)

Salary: ca. £30,000+ depending on experience and qualifications

Right to Work: Must have own right to work in the UK for more than 2 years

Please note: We have four live graduate roles available on our career site titled Graduate Software Developer, Graduate Energy and Retrofit Planning, Graduate Transport Planning or Modelling Consultant, and a Graduate Carbon Account. Please make sure to apply for only one of these opportunities. If you pass our first-stage screening, you will be invited for further assessment

PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT OUR STAFF DIRECTLY ABOUT THIS ROLE

 
ABOUT US

City Science is an SME founded in 2015 with a core mission of delivering decarbonisation. We help organisations who are committed to decarbonisation achieve meaningful and quantifiable carbon reductions quickly and efficiently.

We work collaboratively across our consultancy team made up of transport, energy, sustainability, carbon accounting and applied data science specialists to provide integrated solutions to our clients. Our range of clients is extensive and includes forward-thinking local authorities like Oxfordshire County Council, sub-national transport bodies like England’s Economic Heartland and national organisations like Department of Energy Security & Net Zero (see our full list of projects here).

Our consultancy staff work closely with our software and product developers to produce innovative and uniquely insightful digital tools, like Cadence 360 and our decarbonisation tool, to successfully deliver our projects.

We have a series of emerging services lines (which are all underpinned by market areas), including the following focused within:

• Net Zero Strategies & Roadmaps (e.g. Area-based future decarbonisation pathways, green growth strategies)
  
• Net Zero Development (e.g. Transport evidence bases for Local Plans and infrastructure strategies)
  
• Sustainable Transport (e.g. Local cycle & walking infrastructure plans (LCWIPs), bus service planning and movement strategies)
• Net Zero Transport (e.g. Electric Vehicle charging strategies and net zero transport pathways)
• Transport Modelling (e.g. Strategic, freight, micro-simulation and active travel modelling)
• Heat & Retrofit (e.g. Heat pumps sizing, internet of things)
• Energy Planning (e.g. Local Areas Energy Plans)
• Energy Modelling (e.g. DNO capacity, building monitoring/benchmarking)  
• Data Engineering (e.g. Future technology roadmaps)
• Carbon Accounting (e.g. Business decarbonisation, circular economy)

City Science has a close-knit structure of people of diverse backgrounds, all with a shared purpose of ensuring we leave behind a better world. We provide an environment where people feel valued and supported in their career progression including providing significant opportunities to work across a wide variety of exciting projects in our consultancy and software development businesses.

About the Role

City Science is looking to grow its team of transport planners working across our Net Zero and broader consulting offer to support our decarbonisation mission. This role requires highly talented individuals who can take a proactive role in problem solving. Successful candidates must be able to show high aptitude in communication, mathematics and analytical problem solving. A Masters in Environmental Studies, Geography, Sustainability or equivalent, is preferrable.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and contribute to a range of deliverables, applying our cutting-edge tools that support clients to plan, monitor, evidence and visualise their decarbonisation pathway
• Support staff internally to provide insights, meeting or exceeding industry standard practices
• Contribute to client deliverables and work flexibly to meet emerging need
• Collaborate across teams and grow relationships between consultancy professionals and software developers
• Drive new technologies and integrated ways of working
• Communicate the case for decarbonisation through evidence led advisory

• BSc 2:1 or better in a STEM subject (1^st class degree, PhD or higher-level qualification desirable)
• Able to demonstrate very strong communication, mathematical and numerical skills
• Drive to learn and develop policy, communication and technology skills across our business offer (experience and/or self-taught skills desirable)
• Excellent problem solver
• Can demonstrate ability to work as part of a team, collaborating effectively with both internal and external stakeholders
• Proven science communicator to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Passion to make the case for, and execute, decarbonisation
  

Rewards & Benefits

• Opportunity to work on a diverse range of projects across the consultancy business
• Opportunity for career progression
• 25 days annual leave entitlement
• Competitive salary (based on skills and experience)
• Ongoing mentoring, training and support from senior professionals within the business (including towards professional chartership)
• Paid membership of a maximum of two institutions
• Flexible working arrangements
• Membership of our group pension scheme

FURTHER INFORMATION

We are building a team who are motivated by collaboration with the desire to solve problems for our customers. We want people to own their field of responsibility, take decisions, be pro-active and have pride in everything they do. Our team of experts includes prize-winning consultants, experienced technologists and distinguished academics.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we passionately believe in supporting each person reach their full potential.

RECRUITMENT PROCESS

1. Complete the application questions and try to keep your responses personal without using AI or automated tools. We value authenticity and genuine responses.

2. If successful after the first screening process you will be invited to take part in numerical or aptitude test 

3. Teams technical interview (non-coding based problems)

4. Soft skills interview around ethos 

Please note: We are looking for candidates who have 1^st class degree, PhD or higher-level qualification within a STEM subject

We are only accepting direct applications - no recruiters please.