US Climate Risk Lead, Climate & Sustainability Advisory

Arcadis U.S.Inc.; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 113,000 - 182,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcadis U.S. Inc. is seeking a US Technical Lead, Climate Risk to join our Climate and Sustainability Advisory team.

This hybrid role can sit in Washington DC, New York City, or Chicago, leading climate risk engagements across sectors and translating climate science into business strategy. Responsibilities include managing multidisciplinary teams, delivering risk assessments, scenario analyses, and financial impact evaluations, and advancing Arcadis's climate risk methodologies and digital

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in relevant field.
• Minimum of 10 years of professional experience in consulting with a focus on climate risk assessment and reporting.
• Demonstrated expertise in climate physical and transition risk assessments, vulnerability and criticality assessments, scenario analysis and climate-related financial impact modeling.
• Strong consulting, client management, project leadership, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear business insights.
• Experience managing multidisciplinary project teams and delivering complex projects across multiple stakeholders and geographies.

Responsibilities

• Lead climate risk assessment and reporting engagements from planning through delivery, including scenario analysis, quantitative risk assessments, and financial impact modeling.
• Manage client relationships and facilitate workshops, interviews, and executive-level discussions, while supporting client development and pursuit activities related to climate risk.
• Oversee technical analyses and deliverables to ensure accuracy, quality, and alignment with project objectives.
• Manage project schedules, budgets, staffing, and delivery across multiple engagements, communicating findings through reports and executive presentations.
• Advance climate risk methodologies, tools, and best practices while staying current on climate science and disclosure requirements.
• Collaborate across sustainability, resilience, engineering, and digital solutions teams, contributing to thought leadership through conferences and multimedia.

Skills

Client management

Project leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Communication skills

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Education

Bachelor's Degree in relevant field of study

Advanced degree (preferred)

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 34,000 people, in over 30 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.

Role description:

Arcadis is seeking a US Technical Lead, Climate Risk to join our U.S.-based Climate and Sustainability Advisory team.

In this role, you will lead climate risk engagements for clients across multiple sectors, helping organizations understand, quantify, and manage climate-related physical and transition risks. You will work with multidisciplinary teams to translate climate science, engineering, financial analysis, and regulatory requirements into actionable business strategies, supporting clients with climate risk assessments, disclosure readiness, transition planning, and enterprise risk management.

This role combines technical leadership, client relationship management, and practice development. You will manage complex projects, mentor junior team members, contribute to the advancement of Arcadis's climate risk methodologies and digital solutions, and support the continued growth of our climate risk services across North America.

This hybrid role can sit in either Washington DC, New York City, or Chicago.

Role accountabilities:

As the US Technical Lead within our Climate and Sustainability Advisory team, you will lead climate risk assessment, reporting, and transition planning engagements across a range of sectors, including real estate, manufacturing, infrastructure, transportation, technology, and consumer products. You will serve as a trusted advisor and primary client contact, helping organizations navigate complex climate risk, resilience, and disclosure challenges.

In this role, you will lead physical and transition risk assessments, vulnerability and criticality assessments, scenario analyses, and climate-related financial impact evaluations to support asset portfolio and enterprise-level decision-making. You will translate technical findings into practical recommendations and executive-ready communications for public officials, senior leaders, boards, and investors, while supporting clients in aligning with leading climate risk and disclosure frameworks, including ISSB, CSRD, TCFD, and California climate disclosure requirements.

You will also lead business development efforts through proposal development, strategic client engagement, and identification of growth opportunities. In addition, you will direct multidisciplinary project teams to deliver high-quality work on schedule and within budget, contribute to the continued development of Arcadis's Climate Risk Nexus platform, methodologies, and service offerings, and mentor junior consultants to support technical excellence and professional growth across project teams.

Day-to-day responsibilities include:

• Lead climate risk assessment and reporting engagements from planning through delivery, including scenario analysis, quantitative risk assessments, and financial impact modeling.
• Manage client relationships and facilitate workshops, interviews, and executive-level discussions, while supporting client development, business development, and pursuit activities related to climate risk.
• Oversee technical analyses and deliverables to ensure accuracy, consistency, quality, and alignment with project objectives.
• Manage project schedules, budgets, staffing, and delivery across multiple engagements, and communicate findings through reports, dashboards, workshops, and executive presentations.
• Advance climate risk methodologies, tools, and best practices while staying current on climate science, risk modeling approaches, regulatory developments, and disclosure requirements.
• Collaborate across sustainability, resilience, adaptation, engineering, and digital solutions teams, and contribute to thought leadership through conferences, professional organizations, blogs, videos, and other multimedia.

Qualifications & Experience:

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in relevant field of study
• Minimum of 10 years of professional experience in consulting with a focus on climate risk assessment and reporting.
• Demonstrated expertise in climate physical and transition risk assessments , vulnerability and criticality assessments, scenario analysis and climate-related financial impact modeling
• Strong consulting, client management, project leadership, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear business insights.
• Experience managing multidisciplinary project teams and delivering complex projects across multiple stakeholders and geographies.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced degree and/or additional certifications in relevant sustainability disciplines
• Strong familiarity with climate scenarios and frameworks including IEA, NGFS, and IPCC.
• Experience supporting clients with ISSB, CSRD/ESRS, TCFD, SEC, California climate disclosure requirements, or climate transition planning.
• Experience with climate-related financial analysis, resilience planning, enterprise risk management, or climate disclosure programs.
• Experience with climate risk and vulnerability assessment for the transportation and energy sectors

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. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity employer. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part-time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer nine paid holidays and 15 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $112,640 - $182,477. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.