Our consulting services combine the technical and pragmatic approaches of engineering and business with the holistic and innovative approaches of efficiency and sustainability. We excel at helping clients look at their sustainability and social initiatives through various lenses including public relations, financial, political, and environmental impact.
The work we do makes a difference, and we want a broad audience to engage with it.
- We recognize that great relationships form the foundation for great projects. We take the time to get to know our clients – their context, motivation, and goals. We invest in our relationships with our employees and contractors because we recognize that they are integral to our success.
- We do great work, and we turn it around quickly so that our clients can deliver on their commitments.
- We use a wide range of communication skills to deliver the results of our analysis so that non-technical audiences can use them to make decisions.
Our projects address sustainability, climate action, and resiliency planning; greenhouse gas
accounting; environmental justice and social equity issues; energy efficiency program development and management; and market/regulatory analyses.
Team Environment
Lotus believes that collaboration and cooperation result in better outcomes for our clients and our team members. We respect the unique talents and perspectives that each person brings to our team and encourage them to leverage those skills to bring value to our clients. Our success as a team is intertwined with the success of each individual.
We rely on our team members to deliver high-quality work on time and on budget in a fast-paced, demanding environment. We are able to be responsive to our clients because we are responsive within our team. We are a flat organization that relies on effective and proactive communication, typically during regular business hours, to achieve our goals.
We succeed because we consider issues from many points of view. We assess how someone else’s context affects their position on an issue; we do this for each stakeholder in a discussion, whether it is inside a client organization or in a broader group. We take the time to synthesize these perspectives and identify solutions that create lasting benefits. Each team member contributes their unique experiences and perspectives to consider issues from many points of view.
A Week in the Life of a Lotus Employee in this Position
We are looking for someone who is willing to get their hands dirty – to pitch in on all tasks that come up in the course of business. We need you to be flexible and nimble, willing to adapt to the needs of a business in a rapidly evolving market.
Our business model relies on your ability to work independently and as an effective team member, ask good questions at the right time, and self-manage tasks and deadlines with the support of the team. We need you to be resourceful, quickly leveraging the contacts and resources at your disposal in a strategic manner to work through day-to-day challenges.
During the course of a given week, we’ll ask you to employ a broad range of skills. We’ll ask you to use both sides of your brain. This role will mostly focus on our data work. Your work will directly help dozens of clients make defensible decisions on prioritizing sustainability work.
Here’s a snapshot of some of the work that we currently anticipate the position will perform:
More than anything else, we’ll rely on you to conduct quantitative analysis.
- Calculate greenhouse gas emissions.
- Create building code, incentive impact, and decision modeling tools.
- Clean and manipulate collected data and transform data into the necessary formats for
emissions calculations and modeling.
- QA/QC spreadsheets.
- Develop relevant metrics for tracking strategy implementation including environmental
metrics, economic metrics, and social impact metrics, including identification of defensible
data sources and calculations.
We’ll ask you to help us craft a story that explains our work.
- Use the results of our analysis to develop charts and graphs in Excel.
- Create StoryMaps and dashboards.
- Develop presentations using a lot of graphics to present our work to non-technical audiences or to conference crowds.
- Develop graphics and infographics using simple tools that are widely available.
We’ll ask you to conduct research.
- Identify, organize, and help respond to upcoming project opportunities.
- Conduct literature reviews.
- Collect data and perform basic research.
We’ll ask you to write (not limited to):
- Write a summary report that translates technical information into plain English to make it
accessible and tangible for non-technical audiences.
- Write case studies and memos.
- Proofread our documents.
We’ll ask you to support the management of projects (not limited to):
- Scope projects.
- Ensure that our clients’ needs and wants are met.
- Ensure projects stay on budget and meet designated timelines.
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