Climate Change Consultant - Brighton, United Kingdom - Itad Ltd

Itad Ltd

Verified Company

Brighton, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Climate Change consultant
We are looking for a dynamic and ambitious Consultant to join Itad's Inclusive Growth and Climate Change practice.

The role is focused on delivering and supporting the growth of our climate and nature portfolio, including the technical delivery of our monitoring, evaluation and learning projects and supporting business development activities.

Location:

Brighton, hybrid You don't need to be in the office every day, travel to the office would be expected for key company and team events which are typically once a month.

Contract:
Permanent

Hours:
Full time 37.5 per week

Salary:
Circa £40,000 depending on experience

Closing date: 18th January 2024

About Itad

Itad is a leading international development consultancy providing advice to governments, foundations, multilateral agencies development finance institutes, private sector and non-profits on how to maximise the impact of their investments.

We have a 40 year track record of providing our clients with the information and insight they need to make development work smarter, produce better results and improve people's lives.

Our knowledge and expertise are grouped around Practice areas including; Inclusive Growth and Climate Change, Fragile and Conflict-affected Settings, Human Development and Governance and Institutional Strengthening.

Our knowledge and expertise are grouped around four Practice areas including Inclusive Growth and Climate Change, Fragile and Conflict-affected Settings (FCAS), Human Development, and Governance and Institutional Strengthening.

Our projects range from designing complex MEL systems for major global initiatives, to providing strategic advice to programmes and organisations, and to conducting long-term impact evaluations.

In all of our work, our focus is on providing the insight and ideas to ensure that the resources invested in international development have the greatest possible beneficial impact on people and the planet.

We are a values-based organisation.

Our values include making a difference, delivering technical excellence and innovation, contributing through collaboration and learning, providing opportunities for personal development to our staff, promoting inclusion and diversity, taking action to improve our impact the environment, and shared rewards for the people we work with.

We endeavour to integrate these into all aspects of our work.

This role sits with our Inclusive Growth and Climate Change practice, which recognises that the threats posed by climate change are global and have the potential to reverse hard-fought development gains.

We believe the transformative change needed to address these threats must be based on a robust understanding of what works and why.

The evaluation and learning work we do to understand climate change, natural resources and resilience helps our partners to use evidence-based findings to make decisions which lead to informed investments and actionable change towards a low carbon, climate-resilient future.

The role

You will be joining a team who are passionate about having a positive impact on people and the planet through the support we provide clients to use evidence.

Your role will involve the technical delivery of our monitoring, evaluation and learning projects and supporting business development activities to continue to grow our portfolio.

You will have the opportunity to work across the climate and nature portfolio relevant to your experience and interests.

You will contribute to the successful delivery and management of projects, build and own relationships with key client stakeholders, contribute to business development activities, share learning through knowledge products and, where possible, external conferences and events, and be a part of maintaining our excellent reputation with our external teams and clients.

The core technical strengths of all our consultants are focused around four key areas:

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Evidence Advocate:using robust evidence to support clients and shape global debates.
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Change Agent: guiding clients in reflecting, learning and managing change.
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Project Manager: building high performing project teams that deliver quality and commercial targets.
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Trusted Advisor: building and shaping long term relationships with clients and partners that add value and deliver commercial success.

As a
change agent you will have demonstrated facilitation and communication skills and experience, conveying ideas to clients and teams in a clear and focused style, flexing your technique to suit the environment, and in a way that generates buyin and supports learning.
As a
project manager you will have a track record in managing the delivery of complex projects, setting clear direction, managing risk and ensuring delivery of high quality outputs that meet commercial targets and provide value for money.
As a
trusted advisor you will have a strong understanding of how our