Environmental and Social Impact Economist - Analyst

We have a fantastic entry-level opportunity for an Analyst to join our Impact Advisory team.

Our Impact Advisory team was established at the start of 2021 and is based in London. The team specialises in Impact Measurement & Management. This involves using environmental economics and advanced analytics to assess the environmental, social and economic impact of our client’s products and services and to develop robust, evidence-based strategies that respond to them.

The clients that we work with are forward thinking and ambitious in terms of advancing the contribution that they’re making to society. Some of the projects that we’ve recently worked on include:

• Transport for London: The creation of a ‘Strategic Impact Framework’ that measures, manages and communicates the total impact that ‘Places’, TfL’s development arm, has upon society.
• Savills IM: The development of an Impact Investing Framework that tracks the environmental, social and economic contribution of SIM’s Finite Land Fund and reports that alongside its Financial metrics.
• Crown Estate Scotland: The creation of a Value Reporting Framework that CES uses to track and manage the benefit that it contributes to Scotland and its Economy.
• Greencore Homes: The development of a Total Net Gain methodology for communicating the wider environmental and social benefit of the houses that Greencore – a leading green housebuilder – offers.
• Plato’s Academy Centre: Supporting the wider societal business case for rebuilding an Academy Centre near to the historic site of Plato’s Academy in Greece

Role Overview

In light of its rapid growth, the team now needs to recruit at least one new Analyst to support the delivery of its work. As an Analyst within the team, you will gain experience across a wide variety of different service lines and skills.

Key skills that we anticipate that the successful candidate will develop include:

Carbon foot printing & Net Zero: The use of best practice standards to assess client’s carbon footprints and the creation of decarbonisation strategies aligned to the Science-Based Targets Initiative.

• Natural capital accounting: The use of our ‘Total Net Gain’ approach to assess and value the environmental, social and economic impacts associated with estate management and new development.
• Business Intelligence Software: The use of BIS to create Strategic Impact Frameworks capable of analysing - in detail - the total impact that clients are delivering through their operations and value chain.
• Financial reporting standards: Many of our clients operate within the Impact Investing space. We will help you to develop familiarity with the relevant ESG and Impact related financial legislation and apply it within the context of these projects.
• Planning and development: We also have many clients within Planning and Development. We will teach you to use environmental and social economics to help their projects to deliver the best outcomes and maximise their chance of success.

Key Responsibilities

Key responsibilities that the successful candidate will be expected to manage include:

• Project delivery: To deliver a high quality of work and effectively balance competing priorities. You will be supported in doing so by senior members of the team.
• Project management: To help project manage the projects that you are involved in, ensuring that they are delivered on time, on budget and on impact.
• Business development: To support on business development opportunities on an ad-hoc basis.
• Client engagement: To join and input into client meetings as and when required. You will also be encouraged to develop your own network by attending relevant external events

Key Skills

Core attributes (Mandatory)

As this is an entry-level role our core expectation is that the successful candidate will demonstrate the following skills and attributes:

• An analytical disposition, meaning that you are comfortable with working with relatively complex datasets and helping to draw conclusions from them.
• A conscientious and professional demeanour, including being proactive and having a strong attention to detail.
• Being a team player and having a collaborative mind set.
• A genuine interest and commitment to sustainability and the wider topics that surround it.

Required (Mandatory)

• A high-quality Bachelor degree in a field that is related to the core work areas; or
• Life experience that demonstrates an equivalent level of capability.

Desirable (Very highly regarded)

• A high-quality Bachelor or Masters degree in Environmental Economics, Ecological Economics or a closely related field.
• Technical proficiency in one or more of the following applications:

• Excel (Advanced modelling capabilities)
• Business intelligence tools such as Tableau or Microsoft Power BI
• GIS software such as ArcGIS or QGIS
• Programming languages such as Python or RStudio
• Data science tools such as Stata, Alteryx or Talen

Team Overview

Our dedicated sustainability division, Savills Earth, brings together over 100 professionals from across our business and includes experts from Engineering & Design Consultancy, Property Management, Energy Consultancy, Energy Procurement, Environmental Economics and Research.

Savills only pay agency fees where we have a signed agreement in place and that agency has been previously contacted and directed by a member of our recruitment team. We do not pay agency fees when speculative and unsolicited CVs are submitted to Savills or any of our employees other than via our careers website and through our recruitment process. If this is not adhered to, agency fees will not be paid.
Submission of any unsolicited CVs or proposals to Savills will be deemed evidence of full and unlimited acceptance of this approach.