Sustainability Analyst

Gensler; City Of London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading design firm is seeking a Sustainability Analyst in London. The role entails conducting performance analyses, coordinating consultants, and mentoring team members. Candidates should have a relevant degree and over 5 years of experience in sustainability. Strong communication and leadership skills are essential. This is an on-site position with comprehensive benefits including professional development reimbursements.

Benefits

Medical and dental insurance

Pension

Profit sharing

Twice annual bonus opportunities

Tuition reimbursement for eligible programs

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a similar role required.
• Strong knowledge of lifecycle assessment and building performance analytics.
• Ability to provide technical oversight in high-performance sustainability and leadership qualities.

Responsibilities

• Conduct performance analysis for projects.
• Facilitate client meetings to discuss sustainability strategies.
• Coordinate work of multiple consultants and project team members.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Problem solving

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor or Master's degree in sustainable building or related field

Tools

Lifesycle assessment tools

Energy modelling software

Job description

Your Role

As a Sustainability Analyst, it's your role to work in parallel with our design teams to run various types of sustainability related analyses and to help create bespoke sustainable strategies that improve the environmental performance of our projects. Whether we are refreshing a retailer's brand, planning a new urban district, or designing a super tall building, we strive to make the everyday places people occupy more inspiring, more resilient, and more impactful. Our strategies aim to address long and short-term environmental impacts, and address resource consumption across comfort, productivity, health and well-being. In this role, you will implement detailed analysis to ensure the integration of the highest performing environmental strategies and refining our processes.

What You Will Do

• Undertake performance analysis including but not limited to embodied carbon/whole-building lifecycle analysis, daylight, energy, and climate
• Facilitate client meetings and workshops to discuss analysis findings, opportunities, and sustainability strategy implementation
• Provide oversight and coordinate integration of BIM, lifecycle assessment, energy modelling, daylighting and other technical analysis in projects
• Coordinate the work of multiple consultants and supervise the work of project team members, including providing training and guidance
• Establish and manage project fees, staffing, and client invoicing
• Ensure quality control and consistency across all projects
• Identify and maintain awareness of current and emerging technologies, tools, and methods as they impact the delivery of green building design
• Track local regulations and incentives and provide guidance to clients
• Ensure sustainable design projects status are integrated into Gensler Digital Library
• Ensure that lessons learned are shared across projects

Your Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor or Master\'s degree in sustainable building, architecture, engineering, interiors or related field, or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years of post-graduate experience in a similar role
• Strong knowledge of lifecycle assessment and integration of embodied carbon into sustainability goals
• Strong knowledge of building performance analytics, climatic and passive design principles, and integrative design practice
• Strong knowledge of building systems, project management, and consultant coordination
• Ability to provide technical oversight in other areas of high-performance sustainability a plus (e.g. certification management, specification writing, materials selection, cost and life cycle studies, etc.)
• Experience with organisational carbon foot printing, climate action planning, climate change resiliency assessment, and/or environmental and social governance (ESG) a plus
• Experience with data science and/or data visualisation a plus
• Strong leadership, communication, and relationship management skills
• Innovator, ability to create and successfully implement new programs
• Strong writing, speaking, organisational skills, and technical presentation ability
• Able to mentor, teach and train effectively
• Self-directed and able to synthesize new information quickly
• Detail-oriented and an aptitude for innovation and problem

This role is not remote; we look forward to working with our new Sustainability Analyst in our incredible London office.

Life at Gensler

We encourage every person at Gensler to lead a healthy and balanced life. Our comprehensive benefits include medical and dental insurance, season ticket loans, pension, profit sharing and twice annual bonus opportunities.

As part of the firm\'s commitment to professional development, Gensler offers reimbursement for certain professional qualifications and associated renewals and exam fees. In addition, we reimburse tuition for certain eligible programmes or classes. We view our professional development programmes as strategic investments in our future.