Consultant / Senior Sustainability Consultant

Job description

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 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 a Consultant / Senior Sustainability Consultant to join our LII Places Sustainability Team. As a growing team, we are focused on embedding sustainability within our projects by providing a range of services to enhance our client’s sustainability governance and performance. 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 industry. The team offers an array of services to our clients from strategic support and management systems through to sustainability statements, chapters, and working on accreditations such as BREEAM, LEED, and WELL. Your experience will be critical because we take our passion of improving quality of life seriously and are looking for thought leaders and innovators that want to make an impact and address complex sustainability challenges. As part of this journey, there will be the opportunity to help develop new service offerings and grow your own specialism within this market. Across Arcadis, we embrace flexible working. Because in a changing world, we recognise the need to work smarter, to deliver in an agile way. That means each person taking ownership, balancing their workload and meeting client promises in a way that works for them. And it means finding time to focus on what is important to you. We trust you to find the right mix, it is something we’ll never compromise. **Role accountabilities:** This role will provide sustainability services for a broad range for public and private sector clients. This is a diverse role with many potential opportunities to technically support clients on their sustainability journey. The role will support growth and delivery of the LII Places Sustainability Team by and with a diverse workload including: - Undertaking sustainability assessments for different accreditation schemes (e.g. BREEAM LEED, WELL, etc.), including: - Lead on day-to-day delivery of project Assessments. - Chairing meetings with clients and design teams. - Ensuring the necessary information/evidence needed for the assessments is collected and reviewed. - Preparing reports to be submitted to authorising body e.g. (BRE, USGBC). - Advising on anticipated scores and provide regular updates to project team members. - Producing and keep up to date monthly tracking schedules. - Undertaking Environmental / Sustainability / Accreditation Gap Analysis. - Providing support on technical studies such as sustainability and resilience EIA chapters and sustainable masterplanning. - Producing Sustainability Strategies / statements and policies. - Providing delivery support to the Team and wider Arcadis Teams when required. - Assisting with the development of sustainability thought leadership within Arcadis, our external profile and with clients. **Qualifications & Experience:** **Essential** - A good understanding in technical and commercial matters associated with the above. - At least 3 years’ experience. - The training and License / qualification in relevant accreditation scheme e.g. BREEAM. - The experience in delivering an accreditation project from start to finish successfully achieving certification. - Strong technical analytical skills. - Confident Excel and Power BI user. - Experience in thought leadership. - Well-rounded knowledge on wider sustainability and carbon / climate change issues. - Proven ability to assist or lead on client presentations and preparation of bids / proposals. - Good attention to detail, technical report writing ability and be able to assimilate information quickly. - Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills. - Proficient in using AI but still ensuring critical thinking. **Desired** - Professional Membership - BREEAM AP - Experience in using Tracker-Plus and IES TaP - Experience in managing complex projects and programmes will be advantageous **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.