Sustainability Data & Carbon Accounting Consultant

3R Sustainability • Pittsburgh, PA

19h • Remote

About The Position

The Sustainability Data & Carbon Accounting Consultant helps clients interpret emissions data across Scopes 1, 2, and 3 and translate findings into practical emissions-reduction strategies. The role supports greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories and related analyses, product carbon footprints (PCFs), and life cycle assessments (LCAs). It also helps clients organize and evaluate data in preparation for evolving product and packaging regulations, including the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) and Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) requirements.

The consultant works with colleagues in Climate, Product and Packaging, and other service areas. Day-to-day work includes collecting and organizing client data, using inventory tools, checking results, and making technical findings clear and useful to project teams and clients. The position is remote and full-time, salaried.

Requirements

• At least three years of professional experience in GHG accounting, sustainability consulting, environmental data analysis, or other data-intensive work.
• Relevant education or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong quantitative reasoning and ability to collect, clean, reconcile, analyze, and explain data from many sources.
• Hands-on experience preparing or supporting organizational GHG inventories and documenting emissions analyses.
• Ability to build reviewable spreadsheets or other analytical workflows with clear assumptions and built-in quality checks.
• Willingness to work across service types and seek subject-matter input when working in less familiar areas.
• Proficiency with GHG inventory platforms and data-analysis tools, or ability to learn them quickly; experience with a specific platform is not required.
• Good judgment in choosing and checking analytical tools, and care in handling confidential client data.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, strong organizational skills, and meticulous attention to detail.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel.

Nice To Haves

• Previous consulting experience.
• Exposure to product carbon footprints (PCFs), life cycle assessments (LCAs), and GHG inventory software.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain GHG inventory work products, including activity-data collection, calculation inputs, assumptions, quality checks, and supporting documentation.
• Help implement and use 3R’s inventory platform, reconciling outputs against source data and project requirements.
• Review datasets for gaps, inconsistent records, outliers, and changes between reporting periods, and communicate data needs and findings to the project team.
• Help interpret and present emissions results and related climate analysis alongside the project’s technical lead.
• Identify, evaluate, and prioritize emissions-reduction opportunities and support practical strategies across Scopes 1, 2, and 3.
• Provide data analysis and technical support for LCA and product-related workstreams.
• Support product carbon footprint projects by collecting and organizing data, tracking assumptions, and preparing analyses for technical review.
• Work across Climate, Product and Packaging, and other consulting teams, adapting quantitative work to different clients and services.
• Identify ways to structure and reuse data and methods across related engagements.
• Build traceable workbooks, clear documentation, and repeatable quality checks to make deliverables reliable.
• Improve data-management approaches, templates, and analytical workflows to reduce rework and facilitate internal review.
• Document analytical limits, open questions, and uncertainties clearly, and raise issues before client deliverables are finalized.
• Explore ways to improve analysis and data workflows, including with AI tools, while checking accuracy and protecting client information.
• Deliver quantitative analyses and client-ready work products within agreed scope, on schedule, and to quality standards.
• Explain data sources, methods, assumptions, findings, and limitations to colleagues and clients.
• Contribute to technical scoping, knowledge sharing, and cross-practice work where data skills can advance client outcomes.
• Manage several projects at once and take on other related duties as needed.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, vision, and wellness benefits; health insurance is 100% employer-paid for employees.
• 401(k) with immediate full vesting and a company match: 100% of the first 3% contributed and 50% of the next 2%.
• Four weeks of PTO, one week of sick time, three floating holidays, and a paid winter break.
• Extensive professional development opportunities.
• Paid volunteer time.
• Training and shared learning resources for using AI and other emerging tools with care for accuracy, client confidentiality, and sustainability.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed