Senior/Principal Climate Adaptation Consultant

3 months ago

London, United Kingdom Arcadis Human Resources Limited Full time
Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

We are looking for an experienced Climate Adaptation Consultant to join our Sustainability Advisory team within our Environmental group. We are a growing team focused on delivering sustainable solutions to support our clients on their journey to a more resilient net zero future. Working with cross-disciplinary teams we aim to take every opportunity to support our clients to go further and faster.

You will be actively encouraged to challenge yourself, learn new things, and use your skills wherever they can make an impact across the extent of our Sustainability Advisory and wider business.

We work to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, we're feeling the effects climate change, rapid urbanization, loss of biodiversity. The rate at which we're seeing large-scale, unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires, is becoming more frequent. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. You will be actively encouraged to challenge yourself, learn new things, and use your skills wherever they can make an impact across the extent of our Sustainability Advisory and wider business.

Role accountabilities:

Because we're such a diverse business, we can offer you variety as standard. You'll get to work on a range of different projects across various industries including the buildings and infrastructure and water sectors. The team offers an array of services to our clients from climate risk assessment through to adaptation strategy development, climate risk disclosure, and adaptation action planning.

The duties of this role will include but are not limited to:
  • Undertake climate resilience assessments within the impact assessment process.
  • Lead / facilitate workshops and meetings to support the design of climate resilient projects
  • Work alongside clients to develop adaptation strategies and actions plans.
  • Climate risk disclosure in line with standards such as IFRS, CSRD, and EU Taxonomy.
  • Provide clear presentations and reports meeting varying client requirements
  • Assist or Lead on business development activities including client presentations and preparation of bids
  • Strong numerical and quantitative skills.

Qualifications & Experience:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline with experience specialising in climate adaptation, preferably within a consultancy environment
  • Experience in working on a range of climate risk and adaptation projects
  • Previous experience analysing climate projections would be advantageous
  • Experience of interacting with clients and involvement with business development including the development of business cases, define scopes, plan, and delivery of adaptation projects
  • Strong understanding and application of climate risk assessment methodologies
  • Desired: Chartership or Working towards Chartership

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It's why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You'll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you'll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

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