Environmental Consultant
What the work is
Analyses and advises on policies and practices guiding the design, implementation and modification of government or non-government environmental operations and programs.
Would you enjoy the work?
These are the main tasks in the official description. Mark how each one sounds to you.
- Prepares environmental impact assessments for a wide range of development projects
- Proposes solutions to mitigate the environmental impact of development projects
- Reviews, develops, improves and implements environmental management strategies
- Provides advice to improve the sustainability performance of organisations
- Advises government and non-government organisations on environmental best practice
Try it
A simulation and a case study from this kind of work, set in an environmental consultancy writing assessments for building, mining and farming projects. They are fictional.
The kind of days you could have
Good days
- A field survey turns up something unexpected and your report changes how a project is built
- You explain a river's health to a community meeting and the questions change from angry to curious
- A developer asks how to do better, not how to get around the rules
Hard days
- A client wants the report to say one thing, and your data says another
- Weeks of fieldwork in the heat, followed by days of dense writing
- A community meeting where people who live nearby are sure you are on the other side
Written by Career Calling as a general guide. Real roles vary by employer and place.
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Description and tasks: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Occupation Standard Classification for Australia, 2024, Version 1.0 (opens another site), occupation 244431, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The skill guide above is our plain English summary.