Most companies say they care about sustainability. Fewer are willing to pay someone $78,000 a year to actually make it work. That's the gap this
Remote Environmental Sustainability Advisor role is meant to close — someone who can sit with leadership, translate broad climate ambitions into workable programs, and then follow through until those programs show up in real numbers.
The position is fully remote. You'll need a laptop, a stable connection, and enough discipline to manage your own calendar across multiple time zones.
Why This Role Exists
Sustainability efforts inside most organizations tend to stall at the strategy stage — a nice slide deck, a few good intentions, then nothing changes operationally. This role exists to prevent that. You'll be the bridge between what leadership wants to achieve in terms of environmental goals and what actually happens day-to-day in facilities, procurement, and operations. Some weeks that means running a formal impact assessment; other weeks it means quietly rewriting a waste-handling policy that's ten years out of date.
What You'll Actually Be Doing
- Work with leadership to set sustainability targets and determine which are realistic versus aspirational.
- Assess current operations for environmental impact and flag where the biggest gains are hiding.
- Write and maintain internal policies so the organization stays ahead of environmental regulations rather than scrambling to catch up.
- Pull together sustainability reports that leadership can actually use, not just file away.
- Run training sessions that get employees to change habits, not just sit through a slideshow.
- Manage energy, water, and material use with an eye toward reducing waste and costs.
- Keep an eye on new sustainability tools and technologies, and make the call on which ones are worth adopting.
- Own sustainability projects from the first proposal to the final report, coordinating whoever needs to be involved along the way.
- Represent the organization in conversations with regulators, industry groups, and local community partners.
What You Need to Bring
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Bachelor's degree is the baseline for this role — no exceptions on that front. Alongside that, we're looking for at least
3 years of hands-on experience in environmental sustainability, corporate responsibility, or a related field, ideally with some remote or cross-team work already under your belt.
- Solid grasp of environmental regulations and the reporting standards that come with them.
- Ability to look at a pile of environmental data and pull out what actually matters.
- Comfort explaining technical findings to people who aren't technical, including senior leadership.
- A track record of juggling several projects without letting deadlines slip.
- Independent working style — someone who can flag problems early rather than wait to be asked.
Nice to Have, Not Required
None of these are dealbreakers, but they'll move your application to the top of the pile.
- A Master's degree in environmental science, sustainability, or something in that neighborhood.
- Hands-on experience with ESG reporting software or carbon accounting tools.
- A recognized sustainability certification — GRI, LEED, ISO 14001, or similar.
- Experience building stakeholder engagement campaigns that reached beyond the office walls.
- Comfort working with teams scattered across several countries and time zones at once.
What's In It for You
- $78,000 annual salary, with room to grow based on performance.
- Full health insurance coverage.
- Generous paid time off, plus separate wellness days.
- Flexible hours built around real life, not a rigid 9-to-5.
- A dedicated budget for courses and certifications tied to your professional growth.
- A stipend to help set up your home office properly.
The Team You'd Be Joining
This isn't a group that treats sustainability as a marketing exercise. Meetings tend to be short and specific; feedback comes with little sugarcoating; and if a target isn't working, someone says so out loud instead of quietly moving the goalposts. Job seekers browsing listings on
Naukri Mitra often mention that they're tired of sustainability roles with no real authority behind them — this one has both a budget and a mandate, which is rarer than it should be.
Since the team works remotely and across time zones, most collaboration happens through video calls and shared documents rather than hallway conversations. That means you'll need to be comfortable managing your own priorities, but you won't be doing it without support — there are regular check-ins to keep everyone aligned.
Ready to Apply?
Send over your resume along with a short note about one sustainability project you've led — what the goal was, what got in the way, and how it turned out. We're less interested in polished mission statements and more interested in what actually happened. We review applications as they come in, and if yours stands out, expect a short video call.
