Senior Sustainability and Net Zero Consultant - Manchester, United Kingdom - Turner & Townsend

Turner & Townsend

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Manchester, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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At Turner & Townsend we're passionate about making the difference we are committed to delivering Sustainable Net Zero outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society._
Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious Net Zero programmes from over 112 offices worldwide._

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 Senior Consultants join us from a range of organisations including energy and sustainability consultancies, multi-disciplinary engineering consultancies, local authorities, and housing associations.

They will 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)_

To line manage junior consultants and play a key role in their professional development and facilitating them to deliver excellent work
To support the development of business cases for new service areas to expand our reach to cover new clients, sectors, and technologies
To take a lead role in managing projects, including client liaison, team resource management and budget management
To support social landlords and public sector bodies through the delivery journey of their netzero strategies and investment programmes, including: awareness, interest, business case, decision, procurement, build phase, monitoring, and completion
To lead on the analysis of housing asset data to benchmark energy performance and develop investment scenarios against energy performance and net zero targets
To support social landlords to measure their environmental performance and put in place ESG strategies and reporting frameworks (with a focus on environment but an awareness of social and governance issues for housing providers)
To support the delivery of current industry assistance programmes including the Social Housing Retrofit Accelerator, working directly with housing providers to build their capacity to deliver housing retrofit
To support on identification of new business opportunities and contribute towards new bids.

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Person profile_**- Positive, creative approach

Selfstarter, able to work independently
Excellent team member, dependable, collaborative, inspiring

Qualifications:

We are looking to add a range of skills and experience to the team, not necessarily all in the same individual, including:

_ Essential_

Degree qualified or equivalent relevant work experience in a sustainability or environment related topic, with a focus on housing and/or the wider built environment
Systematic approach to project management, with extensive experience of managing complex, multistakeholder projects, often simultaneously
Demonstrable experience in interpreting and using data to drive decarbonisation and asset planning, turning data into realisable projects and programmes
Great problemsolving skills, adopting the most suitable approach for clients and your team
Strong relationship management skills developed through client facing roles

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Desirable_**In addition:

Social landlord/public sector experience and expertise: asset management, finance, development (ideally with specific experience of managing/coordinating capital spend and retrofit projects)
Construction and manufacturing sector experience, including construction contract management
New build housing development experience
Experience in developing and delivering guidance and/or tools to assist housing providers with retrofit projects
Sustainable procurement practices and supply chain sustainability assessment/improvement
Retrofit Coordinator training or other similar energy related qualifications and awareness of PAS203
Stakeholder engagement, particularly with residents of social housing
Experience of growing and managing effective teams
Business development experience prospecting/lead development, developing busines