Decarbonisation Discipline Lead
This is a Permanent, Full Time or Part Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.
The Role
The Climate and Sustainability team are looking for a new member of the team to be based either in the Saltaire office or at another JBA office with occasional travel to Saltaire. As a team we work across several disciplines both as individuals and as a team: decarbonisation, climate change adaptation and resilience, natural capital and ecosystem services, catchment resilience, and social value.
You’ll be joining an established environmental and engineering consultancy who put sustainability and resilience to climate change at the heart of our company strategy. With offices in nine countries around the world and across the UK and Ireland, we like to think we make a difference. We are independent and employee-owned allowing us the freedom to focus on innovation and our commitment to exceptional client service. Our workforce is central to our success, and we invest heavily in supporting staff development. We are great people to work for. Visit https://www.jbaconsulting.com/ to find out more about what we do.
Your role
You will be involved in helping shape JBA’s decarbonisation services strategy and will work within several teams including decarbonisation analysts, engineers, and decarbonisation policy specialists.
You will play a leading role in developing business using your background knowledge and contacts, while being supported by senior members of our team to gain a fast appreciation of JBA’s portfolio of decarbonisation and net zero services and experience.
You will be a commercially aware and purpose-driven individual that can provide specialist advice in the field of decarbonisation and net zero strategies. You will have the ability to co-ordinate and manage delivery of a range of diverse projects.
Key tasks include:
• Act as a key internal and external specialist to provide technical guidance in the field of decarbonisation and net zero strategies and implementation plans.
• Use your technical knowledge to lead projects to understand the baseline and future risks/opportunities to decarbonisation, climate change adaptation, natural assets and communities.
• Providing leadership and work closely with our existing team to develop current opportunities, identify and gain new opportunities and to manage and coordinate the delivery of projects across the UK.
• Keep up to date with best practice techniques and applicability of tools to assess decarbonisation and net zero strategies.
• Use your understanding of decarbonisation and net zero policy, strategy, action and engagement to provide specialist guidance and advice to support private clients and government organisations.
• Help shape and manage client relationships and business development on decarbonisation and net zero across a range of markets.
• Input into the development of new JBA tools and techniques to assist with decarbonisation and net zero work.
• Communicating internally and externally on decarbonisation and net zero services and projects to a range of diverse audiences, including conferences.
The team member we’re looking for
The successful candidate will be able to work autonomously across related discipline areas, building a network across the wider business to help them lead a range of teams developing novel yet robust responses to opportunities. You will be naturally collaborative in how you work.
Qualifications
Bachelors and/or Masters degrees (or equivalent) in relevant subjects e.g. sustainability consultancy, environmental science, carbon management and accounting.
Chartered status is important to JBA and valued by our clients. Applicants should be Chartered.
Essential attributes for the role
• Experience of undertaking carbon analyses to guide decision-making.
• Experience of designing and delivering stakeholder engagement and workshops.
• Expertise and demonstrable experience in delivering effective decarbonisation actions.
• Ability to communicate the relevance of climate change mitigation, adaptation, and resilience.
• Ability to develop and apply frameworks for evaluating outcomes and benefits
Desirable attributes for the role
• Ability to apply the UN Sustainable Development Goals across different sectors.
• Ability to put circular economy principles into practice.
• Membership of IEMA, or similar.
Location and contact
JBA supports hybrid working which provides for greater flexibility with the way that we work.
The role is available at various different offices, if you would like to know more please contact us. We're always on the lookout for talented, committed and inspiring people to join us in our ambition to lead in the pursuit for resilience to climate change. In return, we offer rewarding careers with continued opportunities and dedicated support for personal development. Build your career with us and help us to build a more resilient future.
For further information or an informal discussion about this position, please contact Steve Maslen on steve.maslen@jbaconsulting.com
The JBA Family
The JBA Group is a family of environmental, engineering and risk management companies committed to exceptional service and helping clients and communities build resilience to flood and environmental risk in a changing climate. We're leading the way to integrate science and technology to provide our clients with a forward-thinking view of climate resilience.
We can only do this through our fantastic team, and we believe in providing a competitive salary, flexible working conditions and the best benefits package we can. We’re an employee-owned organisation and have no external shareholders to pay, meaning all our staff benefit directly from our profits through our annual Employee-Owned Benefit scheme.
Alongside this, we’re focused on helping our staff develop their skills and offer a generous training budget to every member of staff, as well as a professional development programme and support in the attainment of professional qualifications including chartered membership.
We invest in our staff’s mental health and wellbeing, encouraging our staff to maintain a healthy work-life balance and organising social activities from bake sales and book clubs to badminton. We also invest in the wider community by funding our own charitable foundation, the JBA Trust, supporting sustainability initiatives such as tree planting, and facilitating outreach visits by our team of STEM ambassadors.
JBA is committed to creating and sustaining a working environment in which everyone has an equal opportunity to fulfil their potential and we welcome applications from suitably qualified people from all sections of the community. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, support armed forces personnel, both past and present, through the Armed Forces Covenant, and promote a menopause-friendly workplace, having signed the Menopause Workplace Pledge.
All roles will be considered for part-time or flexible working, and we encourage applications from candidates who may be returning to work after a career break for any reason, or who are looking to change industry.
No unsolicited CVs from Agencies. All Agencies should note that if JBA receives an application via other means - even if it comes after your first contact with us - there will be no contractual entitlement to an introduction fee or other fees. In sending us any applications you are deemed to have agreed to these terms.
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