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

Turner & Townsend

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Company Description

At Turner & Townsend we're passionate about making the difference.

That means delivering better 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 and highly technical projects, in over 130 countries worldwide.
Our team is dynamic, innovative and client-focused, supported by an inclusive and fun company culture. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity and the quality we deliver. As a result our people get to enjoy working on some of the most exciting projects in the world.

Job Description:

Our specialist Real Estate Sustainability and Net Zero team is growing in response to rising demand for our services.

For this role, we are looking particularly for individuals with demonstrable industry experience of supporting healthcare 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 NHS organisations.

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 real estate and public sectors with a focus on the Healthcare and NHS sector.

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 key public sector bodies, particularly the NHS, as well as large international real estate clients.

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 support public sector bodies through their decarbonisation and sustainability journey, including netzero strategies and investment programmes, awareness, interest, business case, decision, procurement, build phase, monitoring, and completion
To lead on the analysis of NHS asset data to benchmark energy performance and carbon emissions and develop investment scenarios against energy performance and net zero targets
To support NHS bodies to measure their environmental performance and put in place Green Plans, sustainability strategies and reporting frameworks
To take a lead role in managing commissions, including client liaison, team resource management and budget management
To support on identification of new business opportunities and contribute to business development activities, including writing proposals and inputting into bids.
To support the development of business cases for new service areas to expand our reach to cover new clients, sectors, and technologies
In time, to line manage junior consultants and play a key role in their professional development and facilitating them to deliver excellent work
Person profile_
Positive, creative approach
Selfstarter, able to work independently
Excellent team member, dependable, collaborative, inspiring
Excellent client interaction and management skills

Qualifications:

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 NHS 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
Desirable_

In addition:

Experience of having worked in, or for, NHS organisations (e.g. Trusts, ICS', Greener NHS)
NHS/pubic sector experience and expertise: net zero strategies, primary care and secondary care specific decarbonization experience, asset management, finance, development
Carbon baselining/GHG accounting experience, with familiarity of NHS specific scope splits (e.g. NHS Carbon Footprint, NHS Carbon Footprint Plus)
Experience in developing and delivering guidance and/or tools to assist NHS with strategy development, project implementation, retrofit projects
Sustainable procurement practices and supply chain sustainability assessment/improvement
Stakeholder engagement, particularly with N