Sustainability and Net Zero Consultant – Housing

Turner & Townsend; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A global professional services firm in the UK seeks a Consultant for its Housing Sustainability and Net Zero team, emphasizing project management and expertise in net zero strategies. Ideal candidates should have a degree in a relevant field and experience with multi-stakeholder projects. The role involves line management, client relations, and support for social landlords in ESG advancements.

Benefits

Flexible working environment

Opportunities for professional development

Qualifications

• Degree qualified or equivalent relevant work experience.
• Extensive experience of managing complex, multi-stakeholder projects.
• Strong subject matter expertise of net zero and ESG policy in the social housing sector.

Responsibilities

• Line manage junior consultants and support their professional development.
• Lead on managing projects, including client liaison and budget management.
• Support social landlords to measure environmental performance and implement ESG strategies.

Skills

Project management

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Relationship management

Data analysis

Knowledge of net zero and ESG policy

Education

Degree in sustainability or environment-related topic

Job description

Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions. We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., and Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world. Please visit our website at www.turnerandtownsend.com

Job Description

Our specialist Housing Sustainability and Net Zero team is growing in response to rising demand from social housing providers and public sector organisations. We are looking particularly for individuals with demonstrable industry experience of supporting housing sustainability programmes to support investment planning and delivery on the net zero carbon agenda.

Our Consultants join us from a range of organisations including energy and sustainability consultancies, multi-disciplinary engineering consultancies, local authorities, and housing associations. They have played key roles in the development and delivery of housing and/or real estate sustainability projects, with demonstrable technical experience in retrofit and possibly with line management responsibilities.

In this role you’ll be at the forefront of the net zero carbon transition in the UK’s housing and public sectors. The specific role will be shaped around the individual skills and experience that you bring, with a range of opportunities from developing net zero energy and ESG strategies to project delivery support on some of the UK’s most innovative, market shaping projects such as the Social Housing Retrofit Accelerator and Retrofit Accelerator for Homes.

If this sounds interesting – talk to us to find out more about what we do. A conversation can lead to amazing places!

Key tasks (not necessarily all in one person)

• Line manage junior consultants and support their professional development and delivery of high-quality work
• Support the development of business cases for new service areas to expand reach to new clients, sectors, and technologies
• Lead on managing projects, including client liaison, team resource management and budget management
• Support social landlords and public sector bodies through the delivery journey of net-zero strategies and investment programmes
• Lead analysis of housing asset data to benchmark energy performance and develop investment scenarios against energy performance and net zero targets
• Support social landlords to measure environmental performance and implement ESG strategies and reporting frameworks
• Support the delivery of current industry assistance programmes including the Social Housing Retrofit Accelerator

Qualifications

• Degree qualified or equivalent relevant work experience in a sustainability or environment-related topic, with focus on housing and/or the wider built environment
• Systematic approach to project management with extensive experience of managing complex, multi-stakeholder projects
• Experience interpreting and using data to drive decarbonisation and asset planning, turning data into realisable projects
• Strong subject matter expertise of net zero and ESG policy and strategy in the social housing sector
• Excellent communication skills for delivering complex subject matter to technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong problem-solving skills with adaptable approaches for clients and teams
• Strong relationship management skills developed through client-facing roles

Additional Information

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. We promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, where applicable.

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