Esia & Esdd Senior Consultant

3 days ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom AECOM Full time

Company Description
**At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.**

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team - 47,000 strong - driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

**Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.**

**Job Description**:
Based in the UK we are looking to recruit a Senior Consultant to join our team of experts who work closely with International clients on Environmental Social Impact Social Impact Assessment and Environmental Social Due Diligence projects.

We work closely with specialists in AECOM’s network of offices in over 150 countries. Our geographical areas are varied, for example some of the projects we have delivered recently include:

- Environmental and Social Impact Assessment and stakeholder engagement for solar plants in Kazakhstan, Trinidad and Tobago and Malawi;
- Engaging local authorities and communities for a sustainable city project funded by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in Eastern Europe and Central Asia;
- Environmental and Social Due Diligence for rail development project in Ghana;
- Environmental and Social Impact Assessment in the Comoros Islands and Madagascar for various offshore oil & gas developers; and
- Environmental and Social monitoring of the implementation of environmental and social action plans for various infrastructure projects in Turkey.
- Fuency in a foreign language (ideally French and/or Spanish)

Our International Social specialists perform a wide range of consulting services for international projects, including contribution to and coordinating delivering ESIAs and ESDDs, as well as having experience in social specialisms such as Resettlement Action Plans (RAP), Livelihood Restoration Plans (LRP), community and stakeholder engagement, labour and working conditions, community investment, and social performance and sustainability reporting.

You will play a key role in social aspects of international ESIA, ESDD and social performance services on major international projects for our private sector clients and on behalf of international funders. Working as either a member of a multidisciplinary team, or directly for clients, you will undertake work such as:

- Social baseline studies,
- Community and stakeholder engagement,
- Assessments of social impacts, identification of mitigation measures, social management plans,
- Labour & working conditions audits,
- Preparation and implementation of resettlement and livelihood restoration plans,
- Social performance monitoring and reporting, training and capacity building on social performance for clients etc.
- You will also be involved in work winning through contributing to proposal preparation, mentoring junior consultants and maintaining client relationships.

The ESIA & ESDD Practice Area sits within AECOM’s Environment & Sustainability (E&S) business, which in the UK comprises over 200 people across approximately 20 offices. The position is available in the following offices : London
- Aldgate, Bristol and Edinburgh.

**Qualifications**:

- A post-graduate qualification - economics, social sciences, international relations or similar discipline.
- Proven detailed experience in delivering social performance related projects such as Social Impact Assessment, Stakeholder Engagement, Social Due Diligence and/or Resettlement Action Plans following international standards (e.g. IFC Performance Standards).
- Excellent knowledge of written and oral English, with good report writing and presentation skills.
- Excellent research and analytical skills, including ability to manipulate and analyse quantitative and qualitative data.
- Strong ability of working as a member of a team who is also able to work independently, a creative thinker with vision and desire to deliver meaningful results. Previous qualitative research experience a plus.
- Strong experience of working in a professional international environment (e.g. international organisations, private sector, development non-governmental organisations).
- Good interpersonal skills with ability for building internal and external relationships and networks.
- Strong interest in Businesses’ “Social License to Operate”, social performance, international relations and development issues, and/or Business and Human Rights.
- Fluency in foreign language (for example French and/or Spanish) is ideal.

Additional Information

We will give you the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be w

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