Junior Consultant

Are you looking for a new role, a new start, a new challenge?

We are looking for individuals to join our growing consultancy team. You don’t have to have worked as a consultant previously, but you are an expert in your field, a great listener and communicator, able to build trusted relationships, and support people to deliver sustainable change.

This is a full time, permanent role with a starting salary up to £30000, and significant growth potential through our consultant development pathway.

Depending on your skills and experience, you will join our consultant development pathway, delivering a range of client facing projects, and supporting the development and delivery of new business streams to meet client needs.

**About this role**

Pennington Choices is a UK wide consultancy and surveying company working across the built environment. We have a unique opportunity to join our established Consultancy team, as we embark on our next five year growth strategy.

Our Consultancy team provide specialist advice, assurance and support to our clients across the built environment including building safety, property compliance, regulatory compliance and governance, asset management, net zero and sustainability, organisational change, and health and safety. Depending on your skills and experience, you will join our consultant development pathway, delivering a range of client facing projects, and supporting the development and delivery of new business streams to meet client needs.

This is a unique opportunity to develop your career surrounded by the very best people. We value practical hands-on experience, and our team is made up of consultants who have held executive and operational positions in housing associations, local authorities, ALMOs and contractor businesses. They have faced (and solved) the same problems as our clients. Our consultants develop meaningful relationships with each and every client, working side-by-side with organisations to help achieve their objectives. We are also supported by our in-house technical experts, meaning we can provide end-to-end solutions for our clients.

We are committed to growth and improvement. We invest in and nurture our teams and individuals to ensure we learn and develop together and can provide real value and impact for our clients and the wider sectors we work with. Our consultants gain significant experience and exposure through working with a wider range of organisations and sectors, driving real change and making measurable impacts.

**Role objectives**

Consultancy projects - lead and deliver consultancy projects across a range of clients and sectors, including audit and assurance reviews, strategy development, performance improvement, understanding client challenges, building and delivering change roadmaps.

Data analysis - interrogating, appraising and evaluating data as part of consultancy projects or wider business activities.

Client engagement - building client relationships and developing strong networks with stakeholders across our core sectors. Writing high quality reports that meet client needs, and presenting to a range of stakeholders.

Research and knowledge management - leading research projects including scoping, planning and analysis.

Business development - supporting the delivery of sales and marketing to secure a strong pipeline of projects, for example, development of bid proposals, participation in podcasts and webinars, and blog writing.

Quality assurance - deliver in line with our quality assurance framework and support quality assurance audits of work carried out, to support continuous improvement and learning.

Performance management - ensure the achievement of all agreed operational and commercial business objectives and key performance indicators (for example, team utilisation and financials).

Personal development - take ownership of your own development pathway (with appropriate support).

**Key skills and experience**
- Relevant technical experience/ qualifications/ accreditations, and understand the key challenges of the sectors we work with.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Strong IT skills.
- Strong planning and organisational skills, with high attention to detail.
- Strong communication skills - writer and oral. About you We are looking for someone that:

- Is bright, driven, high-energy, dynamic, robust and action oriented - someone who makes things happen at pace.
- Values integrity and honesty and demonstrates self-awareness and emotional intelligence.
- Is a good listener and can gain trust quickly, with a good sense of timing and are direct but diplomatic
- Cool under pressure and resilient.
- Is an analytical thinker with a strong attention to detail and high level of planning and organisational skills.
- Is a problem solver, with a can-do attitude, driven by setting challenging personal goals and wanting to succeed, combined with enthusiasm, self-motivation and determination.
- Is a team player, be