Senior Consultant – Reporting and Investors, Sustainability Advisory

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

Join Arcadis to drive real impact. Arcadis is seeking a Senior Consultant to join our U.S.-based Sustainability Advisory business. In this role, you will help shape the future of sustainability by leading sustainability initiatives for complex client engagements. As a trusted advisor, you’ll collaborate with diverse teams and industry leaders to solve some of the world’s most urgent challenges, including climate change and the transition to net zero. We offer a supportive culture that values integrity, professional growth, and innovation. If you are passionate about making a measurable difference and thrive in a fast-paced, client-focused environment, we want to hear from you.

At Arcadis, you will have the opportunity to drive transformational change for clients and communities by addressing some of the world’s most critical climate and resilience challenges. As a leading global consultancy, we combine deep technical expertise with innovative digital solutions to help organizations understand, quantify, and manage sustainability challenges.

This hybrid role is preferably located in Washington DC, New York City, or Chicago. The ideal candidate for this role will be a highly organized self-starter with strong project management and communication skills, proven experience delivering sustainability reporting programs to global portfolios, and ability to collaborate across internal functions, cultures, and geographies.

Role accountabilities:

As a Senior Consultant in our Sustainability Advisory team, you will lead the delivery of sustainability reporting projects with investors and financial institutions but additionally across multiple other sectors such as real estate, retail, manufacturing, infrastructure, technology, and transportation. You will serve as the primary point of contact for clients, ensuring that all deliverables are accurate, timely, and client-ready. Your role will include developing and implementing reporting strategies, managing project teams, and providing quality assurance for technical analyses. You will also play a key role in mentoring junior staff, identifying opportunities to expand client relationships, leading workstreams within larger programs and supporting the development of Arcadis’s broader sustainability offering. This position requires strong consulting experience, the ability to communicate complex topics clearly, and a thorough understanding of the latest sustainability frameworks and standards, including GRESB, CDP, DJSI, Ecovadis, and ISSB S2.

Responsibilities include:

• Lead complex reporting portfolios and projects. Lead projects from concept to delivery.
• Deliver projects or workstreams on broader sustainability topics. Topics may include GHG accounting, ESG strategy, climate risk, decarbonization, biodiversity, and others to meet diverse client needs.
• Owning client relationships. Act as a trusted advisor, anticipate needs, and consistently deliver high-quality, client-ready work directly and through others.
• Driving results independently. Take a challenge, brainstorm solutions, and deliver proposals, analyses, client communications, and deliverables with minimal supervision. Track schedules, deliverables, budgets, and staffing on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Coaching and elevating junior team members. Guide project teams, give actionable feedback, and help colleagues grow.
• Ensuring quality and accountability. Review analyses, ensure deliverables meet the highest standards, and keep projects on time and on budget.
• Developing and upholding technical standards. Establish, document, and enforce rigorous technical standards and best practices to ensure consistency, reliability, and excellence in all deliverables.
• Championing innovation. Identify new ways to create value for clients and help improve reporting processes.
• Communicating with clarity. Present complex topics in simple, compelling terms to executives and stakeholders, including developing executive-level presentations for c-suite level audiences.
• Demonstrating responsiveness in high-pressure situations. Proactively manage demanding client requests and deliver high-quality work under tight deadlines, adapting quickly to shifting priorities.
• Staying current with the latest frameworks and standards. Maintain deep expertise in relevant guidelines such as GRESB, CDP, Ecovadis, DJSI and the GHG Protocol.