Consultant - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - NIRAS

NIRAS

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Edinburgh, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Forretningsområde:

Development Consulting

Land:

United Kingdom

Office:

Edinburgh

Position length:

Permanent (Fulltime)

Søknadsfrist:

- tirsdag 19.

mars 2024
Job title:
Consultant - Climate Team

Location:
Remote/hybrid working available (ideally Edinburgh based, but not essential)

Contract:
Permanent (Full-time)

Salary:
£33k - £42k per annum

NIRAS International Consulting (NIC) provides project management and consulting services across a spectrum of technical areas. These include climate change, energy, forests and landscapes, biodiversity conservation, economic development, agriculture, governance, gender equality and inclusion, and monitoring, evaluation and learning. We care about making a difference. Our mission is big, and we need the right people to help deliver our work.

We offer interesting work in a dynamic, multinational, and interdisciplinary team and strong collaboration with colleagues across our EU, Africa and Asia based offices.

We are committed to delivering best practice within all areas of our work. Our work is challenging yet extremely rewarding.

As a
Consultant in the
Climate Market Team you will be responsible for contributing substantially to business development and project management, as well as providing technical consultancy inputs and services.

Our team works across the developing world to win, deliver, and evaluate projects focused on climate mitigation and adaptation, renewable energy, natural resource management, land and coastal conservation, and climate policy and finance.

Based in the UK, this role will have a focus on the UK client base but will support projects and bids for other clients across the NIRAS network.

You will work as a part of our team of Project and Bid Managers to develop innovative and well-structured solutions to client needs.

You will be expected to be accountable for the delivery of international assignments involving teams of in-house and external consultants, and will work with compliance staff across the NIRAS group to ensure projects are managed in line with integrity standards, quality expectations, value for money, and with effective risk management.

As a Consultant, you will have specific responsibility for:

Business Development

Contributing to go/nogo assessments for bid opportunities and on mobilising organisational resources for pursuit of high priority opportunities
Overseeing all aspects of bid development processes ensuring adequate resources are available to develop the bid
Coordinating the selection of best fit partners and team members, the development of technical content, and creation of technical and financial proposals
Undertaking scoping, background, and market research in relation to specific opportunities to help inform, prepare, and develop specific bids and tender opportunities
Developing clear, well structured, and compelling documents to convey NIRAS' approach, team, and capabilities to donors and clients

Project Delivery

Coordinating all aspects of project delivery including timely and quality delivery of outputs, contracting and personnel, financial and contractual compliance, budgeting, risk management, partnership and client management, and adherence to workplans and budgets
Collaborating with NIRAS' staff and field project teams to achieve project objectives and daily execution of implementation tasks
Developing strong client and partner relationships and providing high level technical advice and analysis to project teams as required
Ensuring that projects are compliant with NIRAS project management systems and processes
Managing human resources and recruitment for key positions

Consultancy

Delivering research, data collection and analysis, and consulting and advising clients and stakeholders
Delivering high quality, high value, consultancy as a team member or coordinator of a small team
Adopting a clientoriented approach that enables the identification of new business opportunities from existing work or client interactions
Building knowledge and expertise within identified areas of interest

To excel in this position, you will have:

A passion for international development and the climate sector
A relevant Master's degree, with at least 3 years' experience of working in the international development or climate change sectors
Experience of climate mitigation or adaptation topics, climate finance, climate policy, natural resource management, coastal or landbased conservation, renewable and/or clean energy, and/or other related low carbon, climate resilient fields
Experience in contributing to, or bid managing tender opportunities in the international development sector
The ability to quickly and effectively analyse and synthesise large volumes of information, and disseminate it in an efficient manner
Experience in developing and working with financial information and developing/man