Senior ESG Consultant

Company Description Cool Planet is an impact agency dedicated to driving positive environmental, economic, social, and cultural sustainability. We partner with clients to deliver innovative, practical business solutions that promote sustainability and benefit the planet. Our mission is to integrate sustainability into everyday business practices, ensuring long-term growth and a better future for all. We are committed to creating tangible, impactful change that aligns with our clients’ goals.

But we're more than that. We are also a community of like-minded professionals: people who want to make a real difference and who know that this takes hard work, but who also want to do this in a healthy and sustainable way.

We’re big on culture, we have fun and enjoy an informal atmosphere. But make no mistakes, we’re looking for an ESG gun, with some real credentials. We are growing fast and we have very big plans. We’re looking for someone who shares our ambitions and can help us to make them happen.

Role Description Based in the beautiful Byron Bay, we offer the perfect balance of career-making opportunities and the lifestyle of dreams. You can have it both ways.

Cool Planet is seeking a full-time Senior Sustainability (ESG) Consultant for an on-site role located in Byron Bay. The Consultant will work closely with clients to assess, strategise, and implement ESG goals and initiatives. Responsibilities include conducting research and analysis, developing sustainability strategies, preparing reports and recommendations, and engaging key stakeholders.

The role requires collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure successful execution of solutions that align with client objectives and sustainability goals.

Key responsibilities 1. Technical ESG delivery (core focus) Delivery of complex sustainability and ESG projects, including:

Materiality assessments

Scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas accounting

Net zero strategies and decarbonisation roadmaps

ESG strategy development and governance frameworks

Impact measurement, analysis and reporting, through value chains and lifecycles

Structured and formal ESG reporting

2. Quality assurance and technical governance

Act as reviewer of ESG deliverables across the business

Sense check assumptions, methodologies, and outputs

Maintain internal technical standards, templates, and guidance

Reduce delivery, reputational, and regulatory risk

Support continuous improvement of ESG methodologies

3. Stakeholder management

Excellent client and stakeholder management skills is a must–have

Operate as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders

Lead client workshops and executive briefings

Translate technical ESG findings into client-relevant insights

Support account retention and expansion through high quality delivery

Manage complex or sensitive client and related party discussions

Timely delivery of projects to standards to excellence

4. Sales and pre-sales support As a technical expert, this role supports growth in the identification, development and securing of new sales opportunities. It is expected that the role delivers meaningful new business opportunities and sales pipeline development.

Support proposal development, scoping, and pricing

Participate in senior client pitches where technical credibility is required

Advise on what is material, feasible, and commercially appropriate

Help shape ESG propositions aligned to market demand and regulation

5. Internal capability building

Provide technical guidance across project teams

Improve delivery efficiency and consistency

Contribute to internal knowledge sharing and methodology development

Key deliverables and success measures Delivery quality

Industry-leading ESG outputs

Minimal rework, audit queries, or client escalations

Client outcomes

Strong client satisfaction and repeat engagements

Positive feedback from executive stakeholders

Commercial contribution

Improved scope clarity and project margins

Support conversion of complex ESG opportunities

Support the development of sales pipeline through lead and prospect generation

Capability uplift

Improved technical confidence across consulting team

Increased capacity for new business and project delivery

Ways of working

Organised, diligent and committed

Alignment with relevant standards and frameworks

Proportionate, defensible methodologies

Clear audit trails and documentation

Integration of ESG, risk, finance, and operations

Skills and experience Essential

5 to 10 years’ experience in sustainability, ESG, climate, or related advisory

Strong technical experience across climate and carbon reporting, materiality, and ESG strategy

Practical experience delivering regulated or compliance-heavy ESG work

Ability to translate technical ESG into business and financial language

Strong stakeholder facilitation and communication skills

Experience supporting new business development and complex proposal generation

Desirable

A strong understanding and willingness to learn mandatory climate reporting readiness assessments and compliance support

Experience working with boards and senior executives, from SME to corporate

Familiarity with assurance, audit, compliance, or risk disciplines

A strong understanding of life cycle assessment methodologies

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