Net Zero Carbon Analyst
Job Description
Job summary
This exciting new role will play a pivotal role in delivering Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust's (SCFT) multi award winning sustainability programme, Care Without Carbon (CWC). The CWC team undertakes the delivery of this programme of work not only at SCFT, but also at and in conjunction with other NHS peers and so this role will also make up an essential part of the consultancy work that we undertake toward delivering change across the Sussex region and further afield.
The post holder will be the subject matter expert, and activity co-ordinator, within the team on all matters pertaining to data, reporting and analysis in all areas of the CWC Programme. This role will support the immediate team, the Trust, and its partners by using expertise in sustainability data to develop reporting tools and metrics to aid informed and timely decision making to meet Net Zero Carbon commitments.
Our carbon footprint is what our net zero carbon ambitions will ultimately be measured against. The post holder will be responsible for maintaining carbon footprints at SCFT and for our partner organisations, working with the various subject matter experts for each emissions source to ensure we are reporting in line with national and international best practice guidelines on carbon accounting. As part of this, the post holder will work to develop and maintain up to date carbon emissions trajectory pathways that demonstrate how we will achieve net zero carbon in line with agreed targets.
Main duties of the job
- Be the Team lead and subject specialist for all aspects of data management and reporting systems.
- Maintain log of all Team data and reporting outputs to ensure deadlines are kept. Assist in reviewing these outputs' methods, processes, accuracy, presentation and relevance to operational needs or Sustainability Program delivery.
- Develop and lead an ongoing programme of improvement and innovation for the Team's reporting, linked explicitly to Sustainability Program activity, ensuring we remain at the cutting edge of sustainability reporting. Develop new methodologies, tools, metrics etc. to meet identified reporting needs, in collaboration with the Team and wider stakeholders and partners, integrating all these as appropriate.
- Prepare Sustainability Programme performance reports and other data outputs.
- Be the Team subject specialist for carbon inventory standards and undertake training to maintain this. Manage the upkeep of carbon inventories and develop and monitor net zero carbon trajectory pathways to allow net zero carbon to be achieved on time.
- Take a lead/participate in specific Green Plan projects and programmes as required.
- Contribute to the development of departmental budgets associated with our consulting work and monitor track delivery of this work against spend
This is an abridged version of the job description and so applicants are advised to refer to the attached full job description and personal specification.
About us
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex. Our 6,000 staff serve a population of 1.3 million providing essential medical, nursing, and therapeutic care to adults and children.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community, helping people plan, manage, adapt to changes in their health, supporting avoidable hospital admissions and reducing hospital stay times.
We have opportunities for everyone across our wide variety of services including medical, clinical, support and corporate services.
Why work for us?
- Positive 2023 NHS Staff Survey results, scoring highly in compassionate culture & leadership, and staff wellbeing support
- Variety of working environments across the community, in patients' homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county
- Supportive flexible working patterns such as: part time, flexi time, annualised hours, and flexi retirement options
- Excellent training and development opportunities
- Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
- EMBRACE, Disability and Wellbeing,LGBTQIA+ and Religion Spirituality and Belief staff networks
- Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
- Veteran Aware Trust, achieving accreditation from Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA)
- Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast
- Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff
Job responsibilities
Communication and working Relationships
The post holder will support the Energy and Carbon Manager and other members of the Sustainability & Environment Team (the Team) to deliver the Trusts sustainable healthcare programme, Care Without Carbon. The nature of this role is such that it will involve working equally closely with all members of the Team, and its wider clients and partners, as part of being both the subject matter expert in all areas of data analysis but also in the role of having overall oversight of all data management and reporting activities and outputs of the Team.
From time to time, or more generally as appropriate, the post holder may be expected to develop and provide direct line management to more junior members of staff.
To fulfil this role the post holder will need to develop effective working relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders, including (but not limited to) the following.
- SCFT Sustainability and Environment Team
- Specialists at SCFT and partner organisations, e.g. travel, waste, anaesthetic gases, pharmacy etc.
- Directors of Estates & Facilities at SCFT and partner organisations
- Executive Board at SCFT and partner organisations
- Senior service managers at SCFT and partner organisations
- Finance, governance and performance staff at SCFT and other partner organisations
- NHS England at national and regional level, as well as Greener NHS
- NHS Sussex Integrated Care Board
- Sustainability specialists at other NHS trusts within the southeast and nationally
- Government departments and agencies
- NHS Property Services
- Staff at all levels (e.g. when delivering training and engagement activities) at SCFT and partner organisations
The post holder will need to demonstrate excellent interpersonal and communication skills and confidence in presenting, in a range of formats, complex and often contentious data and information to a range of different audiences from directors and senior manages to frontline staff, as well as large groups of both technical and non-technical staff who have varying data analysis and reporting subject-matter understanding. They will therefore need to be able to constructively take feedback from all appropriate audiences and work with the Team and wider colleagues to incorporate this feedback and ensure all reporting and data outputs are accurate, relevant and fit for purpose.
They will work closely with staff in a wide variety of areas, seniorities and specialisms to understand and develop a very wide range of data management and reporting outputs. This will require not only the post holder's subject matter specialism in data analysis and reporting, but will require them being able to learn from, and understand, these colleagues area of specialism and be able to translate this information into appropriate outputs to support programme delivery at SCFT and partner organisations.
They will also be expected to present case studies on the CWC programme at regional, national and international conferences, representing SCFT and other partners.
Key Responsibilities
Subject Matter Expert - To act as the primary data, reporting and analytical specialist within the Team; providing expert advice on data definitions, business intelligence, statistics, information analysis and interpretation relating to carbon footprinting, net zero carbon and wider sustainability and environmental metrics.
Managing Data - Manage the maintenance, development and improvement of all data systems and structures that sit within the Team to ensure that they are organised and used in the most efficient way to maximise their value. Develop and maintain processes to assist with this. This will include data at Team, Trust, ICS level and beyond.
Analysing Data Acting as the lead data analysis expert in the Team, which includes supporting Team subject matter experts in developing and improving their own analysis and reporting outputs. Additionally, be responsible for this in three key areas in particular, as set out below.
- Undertaking analysis of Sustainability Programme performance at a high and strategic level, particularly with regards to understanding trends in carbon emissions over time and identifying areas of risk with regards meeting net zero carbon targets, and those along the way.
- Identifying trends in specific areas of Sustainability Programme activity, notify and work with the relevant subject matter experts in the Team to help them further ...
