Senior Consultant (Accreditations)

Poutrix; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a dedicated sustainability professional to join their dynamic team. In this multifaceted role, you will provide sustainability services to diverse clients, conducting assessments for accreditation schemes like BREEAM and LEED. Your expertise will support the growth of the ESG Accreditations Team, where your analytical skills and attention to detail will be crucial in delivering impactful results. Join a forward-thinking company that values equality, diversity, and inclusion, and make a meaningful contribution to sustainable development while carving out your career path. Together, we can create a lasting legacy for future generations.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering accreditation projects from start to finish.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Conduct sustainability assessments for various accreditation schemes.
• Prepare reports and advise on project scores and updates.

Skills

Sustainability Assessments

Technical Analytical Skills

Stakeholder Engagement

Excel

Power BI

Technical Report Writing

Communication Skills

Education

Training and License in relevant accreditation scheme

Professional Membership

Tools

Tracker-Plus

IES TaP

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 36,000 people, in over 70 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.

Requirements

This role will provide sustainability services for a broad range of 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 ESG Accreditations Team by and with a diverse workload including:

1. Undertaking sustainability assessments for different accreditation schemes (e.g. BREEAM, LEED, 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 providing regular updates to project team members.
   • Producing and keeping up to date monthly tracking schedules.
2. Undertaking Environmental / Sustainability Gap Analysis.
3. Providing support on technical studies such as sustainability and resilience EIA chapters and sustainable master planning.
4. Producing Sustainability Strategies / statements and policies.
5. Providing delivery support to the Accreditations Team and wider Arcadis Teams when required.
6. Assisting with the development of sustainability thought leadership within Arcadis, our external profile and also with clients.

Qualifications and Experience

Essential

• A good understanding in technical and commercial matters associated with the above.
• Working experience.
• Training and License / qualification in relevant accreditation scheme e.g. BREEAM.
• 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.

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.