Ten years, three organisations
Consulting, research, and community agriculture — in reverse order. Open a role to see what the work actually involved.
Sustainability Project Coordinator
Green Horizons Consulting
2021 — present
Green Horizons Consulting
Running footprint and efficiency projects for small and mid-sized businesses that want to change how they operate, not just how they report.
- Coordinated sustainability projects for local businesses reducing their environmental footprint.
- Ran carbon footprint assessments and produced the environmental reporting behind them.
- Built stakeholder engagement plans and facilitated workshops on sustainable business practice.
- Monitored outcomes and wrote the reports clients and management actually used.
- Supported waste reduction and resource efficiency programmes through to implementation.
Key achievements
- Cut operational waste for multiple clients through process change rather than procurement.
- Led awareness programmes that brought employees and neighbouring communities into the same room.
- Rebuilt project reporting around data-driven evaluation, so results could be compared year on year.
Environmental Research Assistant
EcoFuture Research Institute
2018 — 2021
EcoFuture Research Institute
Fieldwork and analysis on biodiversity preservation and sustainable land management, with the ethics and documentation held to the same standard as the data.
- Supported studies on biodiversity preservation and sustainable land management.
- Collected, analysed and interpreted field and survey data.
- Prepared research publications, grant proposals and technical reports.
- Held the work to ethical research standards and kept documentation audit-ready.
- Coordinated communication between researchers, community stakeholders and funders.
Key achievements
- Contributed to several projects examining ecological restoration practice.
- Overhauled research data management so datasets stayed usable after staff moved on.
- Supported successful grant applications for conservation work.
Community Agriculture & Education Officer
Sustainable Food Network Foundation
2016 — 2018
Sustainable Food Network Foundation
Teaching food growing at street level: community gardens, school groups, municipalities and the growers already doing the work.
- Delivered education programmes on sustainable food production and urban agriculture.
- Managed community gardens and the volunteers who kept them going.
- Organised workshops on composting, food waste reduction and local food systems.
- Collaborated with schools, municipalities and local growers.
- Developed outreach materials and community engagement campaigns.
Key achievements
- Grew participation in community food-growing programmes.
- Established partnerships with local organisations working in environmental education.
- Introduced sustainable growing practice across multiple community sites.
Where it started
Nature restoration weekends and a shared allotment, as a teenager. Neither was a career plan at the time, but both taught the thing the job keeps asking for: that environmental work is mostly patience, done with other people, in a specific place.