Senior Consultant – Carbon and Climate

ERM is seeking a motivated  Consultant / Managing Consultant to join our Corporate Sustainability and Climate Change team in Sydney/Melbourne. The candidate will provide specialist consulting advisory to deliver impact to clients.

 The role will include the following responsibilities.

Managing Clients and Projects

• Project manage delivery of client work. To include planning and execution of work, team and client management. And to ensure project delivery meets clients and safety expectations.
• Apply subject matter expertise to client solutions in order to help our clients shape a sustainable future
• Demonstrates strong analytical skills, excellent writing and presentation skills in delivering client work.      
• Works with clients, builds and maintains relationships through project delivery, and demonstrates impactful communication in order to influence decision-makers and outcomes.•        
• Leverage technical expertise to support development of opportunities, proposals,  and other marketing/business activities across the team, the company and broadly ERM global business.

Teamwork and Organization

• Lead project teams to deliver impactful work, and manage project stakeholders.
• Provide coaching, mentoring and skills development to team members.
• Contributes to partnerships and relationships with clients, external stakeholders and key opinion leaders.
• Contributes to knowledge management

Strong technical climate change skills

• Will work to apply technical experience in the areas of carbon accounting, lifecycle analysis, climate risk, and decarbonization strategy. Works with clients across sectors.
• Support clients to prepare for reporting against climate related standards and legislation, with a focus on the Australian market.
• Support clients to identify and assess solutions and opportunities for decarbonisation.
• Apply data analytics and quantitative modelling in Excel to solve client problems. To include development of carbon inventories, develop emissions projections, and calculate emissions abatement from specific decarbonisation opportunities.
• Deliver physical and transitional climate risk and opportunity assessment methods (including scenario analysis)

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in environmental science and management, economics, engineering, or similar discipline.
• 4+ years of professional experience
• 2+ years Consulting experience
• Demonstrated experience working to support decarbonisation planning and intevention, and a strong understanding of climate related requirements, trends and legislation.
• Ability to work independently, strong organization and time-management skills.
• Attention to detail and commitment to deliver high-quality work products.
• Personal resilience and flexibility to navigate through ambiguity and conflicting priorities while delivering results under pressure in a challenging environment.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office.

Highly regarded:

• Climate Active Registration
• Prior LCA experience
• Prior project management experience in consulting
• Experience in climate risk assessment and scenario analysis

Who We Are:

As the world’s leading sustainability consulting firm, ERM is uniquely positioned to contribute to the environment and society through the expertise and energy of our employees worldwide. Sustainability is what we do, and is at the heart of both our service offerings and how we operate our business. For our people, our vision means attracting, inspiring, developing and rewarding our people to work with the best clients and on the biggest challenges, thus creating valuable careers. We achieve our vision in a sustainable manner by maintaining and living our ERM values that include Accountability, Caring for our People, Client Focus, Collaboration, Empowerment, and Transparency. 

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ERM is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status or disability status.

Thank you for your interest in ERM.