Senior Consultant - ESG Advisory

Job Description

Your new role, what's involved Pro-actively engaging with clients to deliver a range of exciting cutting edge ESG advisory services Delivery of tasks on time and within budget, managing projects to meet or exceed targets and deadlines; Liaising with, engaging and presenting to senior business leaders and clients; Supporting the professional development of junior colleagues, including mentoring opportunities, and; Organising events and identifying speaking opportunities to promote our services. THE TEAM You'll be part of a dynamic and growing team that: Prepares the groundwork for organisations to be able to pursue meaningful and purpose-led Sustainability and ESG strategies, including, setting targets (e.g. science-based, and net zero road maps and strategies) Liaises with multiple technical teams, including design teams, engineers and ecologists and external stakeholders Has great opportunities for learning, development, and progression A Typical Week could Include: Supporting senior stakeholder engagement workshops internally and externally for clients such as IKEA and National Highways; Challenging a global development bank to implement their environmental and sustainability programme using our WSP future ready principles; Undertaking GRESB Reporting for projects with reporting across the Management, Performance and Development modules; Helping a new start up company to baseline carbon emissions and implement net zero targets within their organisation in line with the GHG Protocol and science-based target methodologies; Implementing an ESG management system for a major transport and logistics client; Managing proposals and business development for a wide variety of clients in both the private and public sector We'd love to hear from you if you have: Relevant degree and/or masters e.g. in sustainability, environment, architecture etc; Relevant experience, ideally with a consultancy background of 8-12 years; Strong experience in developing ambitious yet achievable sustainability, net zero carbon and/or ESG strategies; Experience of working with corporate clients across a range of sectors; Experience of developing and contributing to bids and managing projects; Excellent research, analytical, writing and presentational skills; and, Personable character with an ability to foster good working relationships and excellent experience of managing projects with other individuals or small teams.