Environmental Specialist

About Compensate

Our mission is enabling everyone to care and act for the climate, in everything we do. 

Compensate is a nonprofit combating climate change by offering everyone easy access to carbon capture. Compensate Foundation owns 100% of Compensate Operations Ltd, which is responsible for the daily operations of the foundation. Compensate is headquartered in Helsinki.

Read more about Compensate: www.compensate.com

About the role

We are looking for an Environmental specialist to join our growing team. Sustainability is your passion and you navigate your way smoothly in the world of carbon calculations and the different scopes of the GHG protocol. In addition to calculating carbon footprints for our customers, you will be one of the key players in developing and building new scalable carbon calculation models for compensatable products and services. You will work closely together with our sustainability lead.

If this sounds like you, please reach out to us!

What you would be doing at Compensate

• Supporting our customers in calculating and verifying their CO2e emissions
• Identifying new emission calculation needs
• Developing new scalable carbon calculation models for products and services
• Supporting the technical development for calculators for our B2B customers
• Follow and map the trends and evolvement of the carbon footprinting field
• Assessing the used emission factors and keeping them up to date
• Supporting the development of individuals’ lifestyle calculator
• Collaborate with our teams on a day-to-day basis to build iterative, high-quality products that serve our customers

Qualities we are looking for

• At least 2+ years of relevant work experience in environmental sustainability and carbon calculations for different industries
• Applicable educational background
• Knowledge of GHG Protocol and other relevant standards
• Open-minded team player contributing to shared team goals
• Logical thinker, accurate and attention to details
• Proactive collaborator in a multi-talented team with ambition to go beyond the obvious
• Experience in analyzing and using data
• Ability to organize own work, prioritize and manage conflicting priorities
• Fluent in Finnish and English language

Our values

Empowerment
We’re here to empower everyone - colleagues, clients, individuals, businesses, societies - to take climate action. We engage, inspire, and educate. Internally, we’re all empowered to make decisions, solve problems and build solutions. Each day is a testament to this and we have fun while doing it.

Integrity
We value honesty before profits. We believe our customers, partners, and society at large deserve better than the status quo: transparency, truth and to know how their money is used. We’re the ones you can trust. Internally, we believe issues cause conflicts, not people. We’re all here to join forces for a same cause. Integrity also means pride in what we do: products, development, customer service. We also deliver the best we can.

Growth
Everything we do leads to a larger positive impact. We are curious to learn, willing to try and eager to explore. As a team, we’re working, learning, and delivering together to solve the challenge of our times. We think big and act fast.

What you’ll get by joining us 

• Opportunity to work for great purpose in an international environment
• Superb workmates and empowering working culture
• Lots of learning and growth opportunities
• Competitive salary, extensive healthcare and insurances
  
  

Our recruitment process on a high level

• Reviewing the applications
• Phone interview with selected applicants
• Light assignment to demonstrate your approach and way of thinking
• Panel interview & cultural assessment