Climate Resilience Associate Director - Planning and Infrastructure

Climate Resilience Associate Director - Planning and Infrastructure

Waterman Infrastructure & Environment

Location: Office locations across the UK (hybrid working available)

Salary: Competitive, according to skills and experience

Are you an established Climate Resilience professional looking to take the next step in your career? Would you like to play a leading role in shaping a team to deliver some of the world’s most exciting sustainability projects and help create a more resilient, net zero-ready built environment? If so, we want you to join our infrastructure and environment team!

Based in strategic locations across the UK, our welcoming and diverse team are working on some of the most prestigious and innovative infrastructure and environment projects in Britain and around the world and are also the driving force behind our own push to net zero. If you’re a passionate, experienced environmental professional who’s bursting with ideas around how to integrate climate resilience and carbon management into other multidisciplinary services, you’ve come to the right place!

This is an exciting time to join the growing Climate Resilience team, and you’ll become a key figure in shaping our offering in this area. You’ll have the opportunity to build the team around you, whilst plotting a course to making Waterman a national leader in this field. By working with our client base and through targeting new clients, you’ll develop opportunities related to climate resilience, provide support for climate-related bids via local authority frameworks and contribute climate expertise to framework bids for other group services.

With our innovative and collaborative culture, you’ll work across boundaries as part of a fully integrated multidisciplinary team and have a great platform to present your ideas. You’ll work with team leaders across the business to progress climate resilience and carbon management support for both existing projects and as a new workstream, alongside multidisciplinary experts in planning and infrastructure design.

Acting as technical lead on master-planning projects, you’ll help drive multidisciplinary services whilst ensuring climate and sustainability considerations are embedded across our disciplines by contributing your climate resilience analysis, knowledge, and insights. This is a highly creative role, and you’ll have the opportunity to develop thought leadership partnerships and initiatives, prepare reports, presentations, models, tools or other outputs for projects and business development. You’ll also join our expert net zero task force and help deliver our science-based targets as we progress towards becoming a net zero organisation.

Through our mentoring programme, you’ll have the opportunity to continue the development of your skills and experience and further hone your leadership capabilities by partnering with some of our most experienced business leaders.

We’d love to hear from you if you have a wealth of climate resilience experience and are excited about helping to shape the future of an upcoming team!

Although we’re happy to consider applicants with more or less experience, you’ll ideally have qualifications, experience or skills in the following areas:

• You’ll have significant experience of working on climate change risk and resilience technical projects related to infrastructure and the built environment

• You’ve got a holistic understanding of sustainability and net zero and have developed a strong network in the climate change and climate adaptation sector

• You have previous team development and leadership experience, including staff development and recruitment

• You’ve developed strong commercial awareness and business development expertise as well as having project and financial management experience

• You’re experienced in carbon accounting and reporting (across a range of protocols and regulatory regimes - GHG Protocol, PAS2050, ISO 14064, etc)

• You’ll have a deep understanding of the relevant climate resilience standards and guidance, such as PAS 2080, ISO14090, UKGBC Net Zero Roadmap etc

• You have practical experience of working with local government

• You’re experienced in creating communications related to climate change and climate resilience, including preparation of high-quality presentations, reports and blogs

Joining our team will give you:

• A fantastic opportunity to lead and mould a team to deliver high quality consultancy services in the climate resilience workstream whilst helping clients thrive in the new net zero economy

• Competitive salary and benefits package with annual salary reviews

• 26 days holiday per year, rising to 31 days with loyalty days, plus bank holidays

• Hybrid working arrangements

• Fantastic training and development culture

• Access to mentoring support from industry experts

• Opportunity to play a key role in exciting and varied projects

• Opportunity to be client facing and the chance to get involved with business development and marketing activities

• Fast-tracked career progression for the right candidates

To apply, please send your CV and a covering letter explaining why you’d be a great fit for our team to careers@watermangroup.com, or complete and submit the form below. All applications will be treated in confidence. Waterman is an equal opportunities employer and values diversity.

About Waterman Infrastructure & Environment (WIE):

Part of the wider multidiscipline Waterman Group, WIE provides sustainable solutions in the infrastructure and environment markets.

WIE’s Climate Resilience team supports private and public infrastructure clients with mitigation and achieving net zero, whilst helping them prepare for both the transition and physical risks of climate change. Harnessing award-winning technical expertise across a range of disciplines, including air quality, ecology, environmental assessments, transport and waste, our team operates across all sectors and offers a multidisciplinary climate resilience and carbon management service.

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