Sustainability Lead

**Your Impact**: Sustainability Lead**

(This role can be based out of any Jacobs UK Office)

**About the Opportuinity**

Do you want to work in a field that matters - translating sustainability vision into real delivery - with enthusiastic people who care about this goal? There is considerable flexibility within this team to tailor roles to individual interests, career aspirations and other life commitments.

The issue of solving climate change is extremely complicated and will require all manner of innovation and collaboration. Sustainability is one of our key values at Jacobs and with Plan Beyond 2.0.

As a result of our commitment to address this, we are looking for 2 new team members to build relationships with our clients and become trusted experts, jointly solving challenges. Working with a passionate and enthusiastic team, the core aim is to address climate change and deliver sustainability and social value improvements. This means we are part of something bigger, something that impacts people’s lives here on our doorstep and on a global and generational scale.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

**It’s doing the right thing**.

As a team, you will be working with our clients, we offer thought leadership to senior decision-makers in Jacobs and the MOD. Through this, we have a real ability to influence.

You can read more about our Plan Beyond 2.0 sustainability strategy here

Key responsibilities will include:

- Understanding client and Jacobs’ sustainability requirements, and engaging teams to respond to this together with reporting progress/ outcomes/ metrics.
- Enabling and delivering through others as part of a wider cultural evolution (behavioural change). This will include communications and delivering sustainability training appropriate to Jacobs and client audiences.
- Understanding key blockers and enablers (for example financing, accounting for value or business case processes) and overcoming these challenges to make sustainability ‘business as usual’.
- Working with sales team and those in key client-facing roles to ensure sustainability is embedded at the concept stage of all new projects.
- Influencing business and client sustainability strategy, horizon scanning and identifying risks/ opportunities.
- Gathering and sharing best practice and learning from experience.
- Understanding and promoting the use of Jacobs’ suite of sustainability tools where relevant.

**Here’s What You’ll Need**: Here's What You'll Need**:

- A passion for sustainability.
- Suitable sustainability qualification and/or experience with knowledge of key sustainability issues.
- Experience with multi-disciplinary engineering or defence teams, from technical to senior levels.
- Proven track record in motivating people to better outcomes and instigating lasting culture change.
- Ability to influence, negotiate, build trust and relationships with clients and colleagues.

At Jacobs, we'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40+ countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are Jacobs’ greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.
In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay, free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships.
We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

**Our Culture**

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. Find out more about life at Jacobs.

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected, and if we are diverse, we’re more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centred on inclusion and diversity - ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and Women’s -