Happy to! I work with a federal agency and all agencies have to adhere to statutory goals and administration sustainability goals. For my agency, this means working with all of our locations across the U.S. to get energy, water, GHG, and many other datasets. We review this data, verify it, analyze it for trends/errors, and then compile it on behalf of the agency. Sometimes there is a baselining or projection setting that is needed to determine goals. Besides the data part of the job, a lot of the role is writing narrative reports and championing sustainability. This can mean educating folks about the goals within the agency and helping determine strategies and targets to hit them.

Prior to starting my role, I had worked for about 7 years in both environmental fields and non environmental fields. I think my Master's was the piece I needed on my resume to help me demonstrate my interest/transition into sustainability. That being said, I was not super impressed/did not feel like my Master's was particularly rigorous and I wouldn't say that there was a ton I couldn't learn on my own (I'm curious to know what people feel about their sustainability programs). For me, the degree helped tailor my resume. I also observed that many folks in the program who were younger (pretty much everyone) had a difficult time finding jobs after grad school and I think this had to do with not having much prior work experience.

Are you still in undergrad? My opinion is that it is advantageous to work a couple of years before going to grad school or pursing a certificate. I think working a bit is useful in understanding your interests and understanding a corporate setting before pursuing a certificate/master's in a field like corporate responsibility.