Associate Consultant, 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:

Arcadis is seeking an Associate Consultant, Sustainability Advisory to join our U.S.-based Sustainability Advisory business.  

As Associate Consultant, Sustainability Advisory, you will be a key contributor to our Sustainability Advisory team in the U.S., serving on project delivery for one (or several) of Arcadis’ sustainability capabilities (Sustainability Strategy and Program Design, Sustainability Measurement, Sustainability Goal Setting and Achievement Plans, Sustainability Reporting, Net Zero Strategy, Circularity, Nature and Biodiversity etc.) across a range of industries.

This hybrid / remote role can be located in any US Arcadis office with preference for Denver, Nashville, New York City, New Jersey, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston or Washington DC.

Arcadis is focused on solving our clients most complex sustainability challenges. As such, you will help build the strategy around, innovate approaches for, and grow the Sustainability Advisory services in North America, reporting to Senior Manager, Sustainability Advisory. This role will work horizontally across our Global Business Areas, Mobility, Places, Resilience and Intelligence, draw upon their capabilities as needed to support the advisory team and drive demand for the “pull-through” of Arcadis’ other technical services. The ideal candidate for this role will be a highly organized self-starter with a background in sustainability, strong technical and consulting skills, and proven experience and ability to collaborate across internal functions, cultures, and geographies.  

Role accountabilities:

As Associate Consultant, Sustainability Advisory, you will be supporting the delivery of sustainability related projects ensuring. The ideal candidate needs to demonstrate consulting, technical task and communication skills around sustainability projects.  

The role requires experience delivering corporate sustainability consulting projects with measurable results. The candidate should demonstrate experience delivering analysis and client communications and the contribution to high-quality deliverables and best practices. The candidate should demonstrate experience supporting clients in at least one of these areas of: decarbonization strategy and implementation plans; energy and GHG emission calculations; sustainability reporting and stakeholder engagement, ESG data management and reporting in line with frameworks such as GHG protocol, Science Based Targets Initiative, CDP, CSRD, EU Taxonomy, ISSB, GRI.  

• Act as a resource on projects to support the successful delivery of specific outputs individually or as part of a team
• Carry out research within client organizations and externally to identify and collect relevant data and information
• Analyze data to uncover insights that will inform the development of the design of consulting solutions and sales proposals
• Prepare reports and presentations that can be incorporated into sales proposals and client presentations
• Present the outcomes of analyses at team meetings to ensure the insights gained are clearly communicated and propose ways in which these may be leveraged to add value
• Further develop understanding of the services delivered by Arcadis and of client businesses to enable personal performance improvement and career development
• Collaborates with Sustainability Advisory US team members and peers across geographies 

Qualifications & Experience:

Required

• Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field of study such as environmental science, sustainability, engineering or business with sustainability background or related field  
• Minimum of 2 years of professional experience in sustainability or management consulting or working as a sustainability manager in industry
• Advanced research, data gathering and analysis skills, and advanced proficiency with desktop applications (e.g. MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)

Preferred

• Additional training and or certifications in sustainability
• Experience in Tableau, Power BI, Python, R or other digital solutions

Why Arcadis?

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