Principal Climate Change Consultant

Location/s: Any UK Mott MacDonald Office
Relocation supported: Not supported
Recruiter contact: Madeleine Knight

Mott MacDonald

We’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy.
Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.

A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs.

Our values: Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, Excellence.

About the business unit
The vision for our Strategic Advisory portfolio is to “Empower lasting industry transformation”.  We enable clients to navigate complex challenges by combining industry leading technical domain knowledge, digital innovation and consulting excellence with our network of collaborative partners. Our trusted advice ensures clients not only thrive, but remain agile, resilient, and in step in a volatile world. We remain pragmatic and outcomes-focused in shaping and implementing transformational change that delivers demonstrable social, economic and environmental value.

Overview of role
We are currently looking for a Principal Climate Change Consultant, specialising in Decarbonisation to strengthen our strategic advisory team in the UK. The role will be challenging, demanding, varied and offer opportunities for skill set and career development.

With significant opportunities emerging, Mott MacDonald is looking for a progressive and focussed individual to work with our clients, both directly and alongside other account leaders, to help drive their transition to net zero carbon across their operations. We are seeking someone who is adaptable and flexible to drive advisory work that ranges from; strategic visioning, scheme appraisal, business case development, through procurement and into project delivery. Furthermore, we would expect an individual accomplished in supporting the work of staff, and providing technical and professional guidance.

There is an expectation that this role will shape and develop just as the team of capability also matures making this an exciting opportunity for someone who wants to make a difference whilst being part of something remains progressive and impactful. More specifically, the role includes the following: 

• Provide strategic technical leadership in decarbonisation for projects and programmes;
• Support business development related activities, identifying opportunities/prospects to allow us to prepare/position the team to produce winning proposals for other work;
• Collaborate with other teams within Mott MacDonald to deliver a one team ethos and approach to delivering and embedding operational and embodied carbon management and climate resilience within future services;
• Prepare contracts, framework and individual bid submissions;
• Ensuring projects are delivered on time and on budget in line with Mott MacDonald’s commercial and financial requirements, while ensuring client expectations are met;
• Support the wider strategic advisory and technical design teams in developing and delivering projects from inception to handover and completion; this will include strategy setting, scheme definition, feasibility studies, business case development and portfolio as well as project-level advice for clients.

Candidate Specification
Essential

• Strategic mindset with an ability and skill to delve into detail when necessary;
• An attitude and desire to help clients on a journey towards alignment to net zero legislation, embedding a response to the climate emergency within the principles of decision making;
• Chartered with a relevant professional body;
• Asset decarbonisation pathway analysis, and reporting;
• Familiarity with major climate reporting frameworks, decarbonisation policy and legislative drivers in the UK and international setting;
• Experience in a Client-facing role, and ability to influence senior level stakeholders;  
• Experience with providing corporate-level strategic decarbonisation advice to clients;
• A range of report writing, and visual and verbal presentation techniques; 
• Ability to work in diverse multidisciplinary teams;
• Willingness and ability to work on range of projects and scopes;  
• Experience with commercial management of projects of different sizes;
• Experience with contracts review and risk analysis in relation to contracts;

Desirable

• Ability and experience of leading more junior members of staff.
• Knowledge and awareness of wider sustainability and climate change topics, such as nature-based solutions, circular economy, social value, responsible sourcing and others as they relate to the decarbonisation of buildings.
• Awareness of the Technical Advisory market and services 

We are actively recruiting a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve. We recognise that differences in ability, skills and experience are a strength and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion 

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

Agile working 

Happy to talk Flexible Working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

• Pension matched up to 7%   
• Life insurance 
• An annual professional institution subscription   
• Continuous development opportunities – because we want you to thrive  
• Agile/flexible working – because life isn’t 9-5  
• Enhanced parental leave; shared parental leave policies – for parents and care givers  
• Annual bonus scheme  
• Flexible benefits that suit you, including ability to buy/sell annual leave entitlement, cycle to work & interest free season ticket loans 
• Wellbeing support including access to an independent Employer Assistance Scheme, wellbeing champions and access to learning and support resources 
• Access to our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability and parents/carers communities 
• The opportunity to make a difference; learn more about our social outcomes

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