Senior Climate & ESG Advisory Consultant — Hybrid

Jacobs; Dubai; Hybrid; AED 300,000 - 500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working policy

Job summary

Jacobs in Dubai is recruiting a Senior Consultant for Climate Response & ESG Advisory to support climate, sustainability and ESG engagements across the region. You will work within multidisciplinary teams to advise on decarbonization, resilience, and ESG integration, shaping strategies and deal structures.

The role emphasizes data-driven design decisions, stakeholder coordination, and delivering client-ready advisory outputs in a fast-paced consulting environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in a relevant discipline such as engineering, environmental science, sustainability, climate change, economics, planning, or a related field
• 5+ years of experience supporting ESG, climate, sustainability, or environmental advisory projects, ideally within a consulting or professional services environment.
• Ability to work across a range of climate response and ESG topics, including decarbonization, resilience, adaptation, and sustainable finance.
• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder coordination skills.
• Experience in preparing high-quality reports, presentations, and client-ready advisory outputs.
• Experience supporting client and stakeholder engagement; contributing to workshops, consultations, and briefings; and translating technical climate and ESG analysis into clear, decision-ready insights.

Responsibilities

• Support performance-based design decisions using data and modeling to optimize energy, carbon, comfort, and performance outcomes.
• Contribute to energy system validations to verify efficiency, reliability, and operational readiness against expected performance.
• Support the development of sustainability strategies and roadmaps that align business objectives with environmental performance and regulatory expectations.
• Contribute to ESG integration in planning and design to manage risk, improve resilience, and strengthen stakeholder confidence.
• Support GHG inventories and emissions reduction strategies across scopes, including development of practical, implementable carbon-reduction pathways.
• Support asset vulnerability and climate risk assessments to inform business continuity, emergency preparedness, and resilience planning.
• Contribute to community insights, social value creation strategies, and social return on investment (SROI) assessments to inform decision‑making.
• Support sustainability due diligence, post‑acquisition planning, climate‑aligned deal structuring, and ESG reporting activities.

Skills

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a rel

5+ years ESG/climate advisory exp

Decarbonization resilience adaptation

Analytical communication stakeholder

Reports presentations advisory outputs

Workshops consultations insights

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in engineering/environmental science/sustainability/climate change/economics/planning

Job description

Jacobs in Dubai is recruiting a Senior Consultant for Climate Response & ESG Advisory to support climate, sustainability and ESG engagements across the region. You will work within multidisciplinary teams to advise on decarbonization, resilience, and ESG integration, shaping strategies and deal structures.

The role emphasizes data-driven design decisions, stakeholder coordination, and delivering client-ready advisory outputs in a fast-paced consulting environment.