Senior or Principal Consultant

3 months ago


Oxford, United Kingdom 3Keel Full time

**Who we’re looking for**

**Role: Senior/Principal Consultant - Team Lead**

**Location**: Oxford, Bristol, London or hybrid, UK-based remote working will also be considered.

**Business Unit**:Agriculture and Landscapes

**Contract**: Permanent

**Remuneration**:competitive

**About you**

**The important stuff (essential requirements)**
- Experience of working in the environmental sector or in sustainability consulting
- Proficiency in managing projects from initiation to completion, using systems and tools available to ensure deliverables are on time and within budget
- Working knowledge of UK agriculture sector, or close equivalents - production, supply chains, policy, etc
- Self-starter and driven
- Demonstrable team leadership, line management experience
- Ability to manage budgets and control costs
- Adept at both supporting colleagues and team working at all levels
- Excellent client relationship management abilities
- Organised and systematic approach to work
- Adaptability to turn hand to exploit new opportunities and to tackle unforeseen challenges that emerge
- Ability to engage with and work across a range of client-based teams with different levels of technical understanding, perspectives and needs
- Experience and confidence in engaging with corporate clients with an ability to accommodate a range of different business cultures and perspectives
- Organised and systematic approach to work
- Clear and engaging writing style, excellent verbal communication and the ability to present complex information in a client-friendly way

**Other stuff (desirable skills)**
- Mentoring and/or coaching experience
- Ability to develop training programmes and pathways for junior staff
- Passion for finding solutions to complex sustainability problems
- Experience of leading and managing multiple stakeholder, multi-year programmes of work
- Business development and proposal-writing experience
- Experience in agricultural systems outside the UK
- Experience working in urban and/or peri-urban green infrastructure
- Working knowledge of climate frameworks, guidance, and accounting in a food supply chain context
- Experience of planning and running effective multi-stakeholder workshops and meetings.

**3Keel also offers**
- A friendly team of individuals from many walks of life, all constantly striving for excellence and committed to making a difference in sustainability - and having fun along the way
- Genuine work-life flexibility for people at different life stages, with a well-established hybrid working culture
- Competitive salary depending on experience (based on a 37.5 hours working week)
- Part time working will be considered
- 30 days paid annual leave per annum, increasing with number of years at business.
- Pension scheme with 5% company contribution and personal investment/savings platform
- Bonus scheme, discretionary from 3Keel owners based on company performance.
- Employee NHS Cash Top Up health insurance scheme
- Employee assistance and mental health support programmes
- Life cover
- Access to office space in various different locations in Oxford, Bristol and London
- Three days of paid volunteering time per year for each staff member
- Generous maternity, paternity and sick pay/leave
- Annual training budget per employee
- 5 days for study per year
- Portion of annual profits donated to charity annually
- Salary sacrifice schemes for bikes (cycle to work scheme) electric vehicles and other tech

**About us**

3Keel is a market-leading, specialist sustainability consultancy. We have grown organically since our founding in 2013, becoming a high impact team. The business is structured to address key sustainability issues, and we focus on innovations and coalition-building to develop approaches that challenge the status quo. We work with many of the global leading businesses on sustainability, and 3Keel is recognised by the FT as one of the UK’s leading Managing Consultancies for Sustainability. 3Keel has been a B-Corp since 2020.

Case studies with more about some of our past work can be found here:
**Agriculture and Landscapes Business Unit at 3Keel**

The thematic focus areas for this Business Unit are landscape innovation and resilient agriculture. It is also the Business Unit that currently services the rapidly expanding Landscape Enterprise Networks (LENs) programmes.

Our Agriculture and Landscapes Business Unit works with farmers, landowners, corporations, NGOs, and Government departments to help them understand and influence the management of natural resources for the benefit of businesses, people and the environment. Our work focuses on providing support in sustainable sourcing strategy and implementation, identifying opportunities for nature-based solutions at farm and landscape level, and navigating the uncertainties in policy, climate, nature, and regulatory spheres, to deliver measurable and verifiable results on the ground.

Our work varies from providing facilitation and integrat



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