Green ICT consultant

Description

Green ICT consultants advise organisations on their green ICT strategy and its implementation in the most effective and efficient manner to allow the organisation to reach their short, mid, and long term ICT environmental objectives.

Other titles

The following job titles also refer to green ICT consultant:

green ICT consultants
IT environmental consultant
ICT environmental consultant
green IT consultant
ICT sustainability systems consultant

Minimum qualifications

Bachelor’s degree is generally required to work as green ICT consultant. However, this requirement may differ in some countries.

ISCO skill level

ISCO skill level is defined as a function of the complexity and range of tasks and duties to be performed in an occupation. It is measured on a scale from 1 to 4, with 1 the lowest level and 4 the highest, by considering:

  • the nature of the work performed in an occupation in relation to the characteristic tasks and duties
  • the level of formal education required for competent performance of the tasks and duties involved and
  • the amount of informal on-the-job training and/or previous experience in a related occupation required for competent performance of these tasks and duties.

Green ICT consultant is a Skill level 4 occupation.

Green ICT consultant career path

Similar occupations

These occupations, although different, require a lot of knowledge and skills similar to green ICT consultant.

ICT consultant
ICT system integration consultant
ICT presales engineer
ICT security consultant
ICT environmental manager

Long term prospects

These occupations require some skills and knowledge of green ICT consultant. They also require other skills and knowledge, but at a higher ISCO skill level, meaning these occupations are accessible from a position of green ICT consultant with a significant experience and/or extensive training.

Essential knowledge and skills

Essential knowledge

This knowledge should be acquired through learning to fulfill the role of green ICT consultant.

Ict environmental policies: The international and organisational policies which deal with the assessment of the environmental impact of innovations and developments in the field of ICT, as well as with methods for reducing negative impact and applying ICT innovations to aid the environment.

Essential skills and competences

These skills are necessary for the role of green ICT consultant.

Ensure compliance with environmental legislation: Monitor activities and perform tasks ensuring compliance with standards involving environmental protection and sustainability, and amend activities in the case of changes in environmental legislation. Ensure that the processes are compliant with environment regulations and best practices.
Create project specifications: Define the workplan, duration, deliverables, resources and procedures a project has to follow to achieve its goals. Describe project goals, outcomes, results and implementation scenarios.
Provide ict consulting advice: Advise on appropriate solutions in the field of ICT by selecting alternatives and optimising decisions while taking into account potential risks, benefits and overall impact to professional customers.
Optimise choice of ict solution: Select the appropriate solutions in the field of ICT while taking into account potential risks, benefits and overall impact.
Apply business acumen: Take appropriate actions in a business environment in order to maximise possible outcome from each situation.
Promote environmental awareness: Calculate the carbon footprint of business processes and other practices in order to promote sustainability and to raise awareness for the environmental impact.
Consult with business clients: Communicate with clients of a business or business project in order to introduce new ideas, obtain feedback, and find solutions to problems.
Manage environmental impact of operations: Manage the interaction with and impact on the environment by companies. Identify and assess environmental impacts of the production process and related services, and regulate a reduction of the effects on the environment and on people. Organise action plans and monitor any indicators of improvement.
Define technical requirements: Specify technical properties of goods, materials, methods, processes, services, systems, software and functionalities by identifying and responding to the particular needs that are to be satisfied according to customer requirements.
Report on environmental issues: Compile environmental reports and communicate on issues. Inform the public or any interested parties in a given context on relevant recent developments in the environment, forecasts on the future of the environment, and any problems and possible solutions.

Optional knowledge and skills

Optional knowledge

This knowledge is sometimes, but not always, required for the role of green ICT consultant. However, mastering this knowledge allows you to have more opportunities for career development.

Emergent technologies: The recent trends, developments and innovations in modern technologies such as biotechnology, artificial intelligence and robotics.
Ict sales methodologies: The practices used in the ICT sector to promote and sell products, services or applications such as SPIN Selling, Conceptual Selling and SNAP Selling.
Legal requirements of ict products: The international regulations related to the development and use of ICT products.
Copyright legislation: Legislation describing the protection of the rights of original authors over their work, and how others can use it.
Ict market: The processes, stakeholders and the dynamics of the chain of goods and services in the ICT market sector.
Software components suppliers: The suppliers who can deliver the required software components.
Hardware components suppliers: The suppliers who can deliver the required hardware components.
Ict power consumption: The energy consumption and types of models of software as well as hardware elements.

Optional skills and competences

These skills and competences are sometimes, but not always, required for the role of green ICT consultant. However, mastering these skills and competences allows you to have more opportunities for career development.

Track key performance indicators: Identify the quantifiable measures that a company or industry uses to gauge or compare performance in terms of meeting their operational and strategic goals, using preset performance indicators.
Advise on environmental remediation: Advise on the development and implementation of actions which aim to remove sources of pollution and contamination from the environment.

ISCO group and title

2511 – Systems analysts

 

 


 

 

References
  1. Green ICT consultant – ESCO
Last updated on August 8, 2022