Independent Consultant – Sustainable Bio-Materials, Regulatory Compliance

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Royal Society of Biology

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2006

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📚 Education

Consulting • Healthcare • Education

Royal Society of Biology (RSB) is a collaborative network of global organizations dedicated to transitioning towards a net-positive world. As the world addresses the climate crisis, RSB facilitates companies' shift from fossil-based economies to sustainable, biocircular ones. It provides a robust sustainability framework, enabling its diverse membership community—including industry leaders, civil society organizations, academic institutions, and government bodies—to develop projects and solutions that positively impact the environment and society. RSB offers exclusive access to various platforms, initiatives, and events, advancing the biocircular economy and enhancing sustainability certification across supply chains.

📋 Description

• Provide regulatory compliance and sustainability assessment expertise for bio-based materials, sustainable fuels, feedstocks and related value chains • Contribute to defining assessment scope, system boundaries and methodologies under EU RED, CORSIA, RSB and other relevant frameworks • Review third-party GHG inventory data, perform consistency and plausibility checks, validate assumptions and identify data gaps • Propose defensible proxies or literature-based values where appropriate • Support or perform GHG calculations and carbon-intensity assessments using relevant methodologies and tools, including the RSB GHG Calculator • Prepare GHG, LCA or sustainability assessment reports with methodologies, assumptions, data-quality notes, results and interpretation • Support technical understanding of sustainable bio-material pathways and low-ILUC risk considerations • Support regulatory and voluntary-scheme gap analyses and compliance-risk identification • Review third-party organisational documentation against applicable criteria • Review certification-readiness documentation, including feedstock origin, traceability, chain of custody, sustainability criteria and GHG claims • Interpret policy and regulatory requirements for feedstocks, technologies, products or markets using data and literature reviews • Translate findings into practical compliance options • Develop or refine methodologies, blueprints and decision tools for innovative sustainability assessments • Produce scoping notes, GHG data review notes, calculations, assessment reports, eligibility assessments, benchmarking analyses, certification-readiness reviews and regulatory interpretation notes • Complete onboarding and participate in project-based assignments when relevant needs are identified

🎯 Requirements

• Strong written and spoken English proficiency • Minimum 4 hours per day overlapping with CET working hours • Proven output/delivery track record in the area of expertise • Compliance with applicable local laws and regulations, including tax and social security obligations • Legal authorisation to perform consultancy services in the country of residence or operation • Strong collaboration and communication skills • Ability to operate autonomously and proactively communicate progress, risks, and opportunities • Self-sufficiency in a remote, fully digital working environment with reliable internet connectivity • Proven hands-on experience applying EU RED, CORSIA, RSB or equivalent GHG and sustainability methodologies • Working knowledge of at least one major voluntary sustainability certification scheme, preferably RSB, ISCC or another relevant scheme • Ability to assess feedstock eligibility, GHG data quality, certification readiness or regulatory compliance • Ability to work independently with limited onboarding and document assumptions transparently • Ability to flag uncertainty, data gaps and compliance risks • Strong written English and effective reporting skills for technical and non-technical audiences • Comfort working with client-provided data under confidentiality constraints • CET ±5 hours time-zone compatibility unless otherwise agreed • For firms/agencies: ability to assign qualified personnel and ensure continuity of delivery • For firms/agencies: named individuals must meet the essential criteria • Desirable: working knowledge of the RSB standard or ISCC • Desirable: hands-on experience using the RSB GHG Calculator • Desirable: experience developing methodologies, blueprints or decision tools for emerging pathways, bio-based materials, fuels or chemicals

🏖️ Benefits

• Meaningful, mission-driven work contributing to sustainability standards and real-world impact across global value chains • Flexible, high-impact, intellectually engaging, project-based assignments • Opportunity for ongoing collaboration and potential multiple assignments with RSB • Agreed day rate • Remote work • Framework Agreement duration until September 2028 (2 years), unless removed or changed • Diversity and inclusion-focused organisation • Opportunity to contribute to a globally recognised sustainability organisation