Sustainability Specialists

Address organizational sustainability issues, such as waste stream management, green building practices, and green procurement plans.

On the job, you would:

• Develop sustainability project goals, objectives, initiatives, or strategies in collaboration with other sustainability professionals.
• Monitor or track sustainability indicators, such as energy usage, natural resource usage, waste generation, and recycling.
• Assess or propose sustainability initiatives, considering factors such as cost effectiveness, technical feasibility, and acceptance.

Education

• bachelor's degree
• master's degree

Business

• management
• customer service

Safety and Government

• law and government

Arts and Humanities

• English language

Education and Training

• teaching and course design

Basic Skills

• reading work related information
• talking to others

Problem Solving

• noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

People and Technology Systems

• thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
• measuring how well a system is working and how to improve it

Investigative

People interested in this work like activities that include ideas, thinking, and figuring things out.

• Initiative
• Cooperation
• Persistence
• Analytical Thinking
• Integrity
• Leadership

Verbal

• communicate by writing
• read and understand what is written

Ideas and Logic

• make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
• use rules to solve problems