Staff Consultant

Highwood Emissions Management; Calgary; Remote; CAD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & dental benefits

Educational allowance of $5,000/year

RRSP matching

Job summary

Highwood Emissions Management is seeking a Staff Consultant in Calgary, Houston, or Remote to lead high-impact client projects and mentor peers. The role drives business development and contributes to the strategic direction of the consulting team, requiring deep industry expertise and a fast-paced mindset.

The ideal candidate thrives on solving climate-related challenges, delivering quality client outcomes, and shaping consulting offerings while collaborating with leadership.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of relevant experience in oil & gas, consulting, or emissions management.
• Experience in managing client-facing projects from scoping to delivery.
• Strong business development skills and the ability to close contracts.
• Demonstrated mentorship and leadership capabilities.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Strong analytical, project management, and organizational skills.
• A creative and entrepreneurial mindset with a desire to innovate.

Responsibilities

• Lead high-value, billable client projects and ensure top-quality solutions.
• Manage project scope, budget, timelines, and team execution.
• Lead client communications and maintain strong relationships.
• Provide peer review and strategic input across the consulting group.
• Oversee project tracking, reporting, and leadership communications.
• Ensure SOPs are followed from onboarding to final delivery.
• Guide junior and senior consultants on client engagement and issue resolution.
• Lead proposals and identify new market opportunities.

Skills

Client delivery

Project management

Business development

Mentorship

Communication

Leadership

Entrepreneurial mindset

Job description

Overview

Position title: Staff Consultant

Location:Calgary, Houston, or Remote

Salary range: Competitive salary plus benefits, incentives, and options

Position type:Full-time & permanent

Schedule:Flexible, with expected availability during regular office hours unless calendar blocked off

Reporting:Reports to CEO

About Highwood

Highwood Emissions Management is the industry's independent partner on methane — combining the world's most widely deployed methane reporting platform with a consulting team that sits at the frontier of measurement science, regulatory development, and emissions strategy.

Our clients include producers accounting for over 10% of global oil and gas production. We have delivered more than 300 methane engagements across 90+ operators on six continents, and we have achieved delivering on all our client's goals for OGMP 2.0 Gold Standard submissions. When regulations change, we know first — because our team is writing the standards, advising regulators, and shaping industry practice from the inside.

We launched in 2020 with a mission to collaborate, innovate, and educate our way to a world with effective and affordable emissions management. That mission is more urgent than ever: methane is shifting from voluntary disclosure to commercial liability, and the operators who get this right early will have a durable competitive advantage. Our job is to make sure they do.

Working at Highwood is not easy — but it is meaningful, fast-moving, and genuinely consequential. If you want to work on one of the hardest and most important problems in energy transition, alongside people who are shaping how the world measures and manages methane, this is the place.

Highwood is an equal opportunity employer.

We welcome all applicants regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status.

We value diversity of experience, worldview, and perspective.

Your Mission

Highwood is hiring a Staff Consultant to lead high-impact client projects, provide mentorship to peers, and contribute to business development and the strategic direction of the consulting team. This role is ideal for a proven professional who brings deep industry expertise, thrives in a fast-paced environment, and is passionate about scaling solutions that address climate change.

Industry Expertise & Client Delivery

• Lead and contribute high-value billable hours on client projects.
• Ensure best-fit, quality-assured solutions tailored to client needs.
• Manage project scope, budget, timelines, and team execution.
• Lead client communications and maintain strong relationships.
• Provide peer review and strategic input across the consulting group.
• Oversee project tracking, reporting, and communication with leadership.
• Ensure Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are followed from onboarding to final delivery.
• Guide junior and senior consultants on client engagement and issue resolution.

Business Development

• Lead proposal development and business development engagements.
• Identify new market opportunities and nurture client pipelines.
• Collaborate on strategic planning for productizing consulting offerings.

Mentorship & Leadership

• Mentor colleagues and contribute to professional development programs.
• Support the growth of Highwood’s consulting practice through thought leadership.
• Help define and refine processes, tools, and approaches used within the team

The Benefits

At Highwood, we are committed to the physical and mental health of our employees and of their families:

• Our Canadian health and dental benefits package includes - coverage for dental visits, prescription drugs, vision, massage, physiotherapy, and psychotherapy - we pay the premiums, and the package includes your partner and dependents.
• We offer $5,000/year to help cover non-essential educational pursuits of your choice.
• For our Canadian employees, we provide RRSP matching after one year.
• We have an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
• We offer similar benefits to our US employees.

About You

Here are some of the things we’re looking for. Note that we don’t expect you to have all of these qualifications, experiences, and/or skills. We often choose to train someone with the right attitude over hiring the wrong person with the right skills.

• 15+ years of relevant experience in oil & gas, consulting, or emissions management.
• Experience in managing client-facing projects from scoping to delivery.
• Strong business development skills and the ability to close contracts.
• Demonstrated mentorship and leadership capabilities.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Strong analytical, project management, and organizational skills.
• A creative and entrepreneurial mindset with a desire to innovate.

Team Promise

Highwood’s promise to staff and contractors is to:

• Treat you with respect, fairness, and honesty.
• Give you a voice. We will encourage you to question the way we do things, and empower you to speak your mind.
• Understand your goals, insomuch as you are willing to share, and work to help you achieve them.
• Support your growth, promote you, and provide opportunities to expand your network and foster your professional identity.
• Appreciate, recognize, and reward your contributions and wins.
• Make time to have fun and celebrate success.
• Foster an environment that encourages you to share your concerns, no matter how small they might seem.

Your promise to Highwood is to:

• Treat others with respect, value their contributions, and lift them up, even when they fail. You never know how others might be struggling.
• Be patient with yourself. We work on unsolved challenges. We expect mistakes and see them as learning opportunities.
• Strive to continually learn and grow professionally and personally, regardless of where you started and where you might end up.
• Embrace innovation and change – there is no destination.
• Do your best – only you know what that means. Set boundaries and respect them. Take a break when you need it.

• Only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. Thank you for your interest.