Senior Vice President, Climate Change (On-Call)

This Opportunity

WSP USA is looking for talented individuals to join our team as a Senior Vice President on a temporary, on-call basis, to support the company’s growing Sustainability, Energy and Climate Change Group. See wsp.com/advancingsustainability for a description of our team and capabilities.

This position will  work out of WSP's offices in San Francisco, CA. This position will be part-time, temporary on-call position.

The individual will support a client–facing team in the design, implementation, and management of sustainability  programs for a variety of clients, including Global 100 corporations. The ideal candidate will have the flexibility and capacity to work on a wide variety of projects and the demonstrated ability to work well with cross-functional teams. Candidates should be passionate about sustainability and climate, self-motivated and self-directed, collaborative, and able to produce high-quality work products.

Your Impact

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Candidates are expected to be experienced subject matter experts able to communicate with clients, design project scopes of work and deliver projects on time and on budget. Additional responsibilities include:  

• Manage multiple projects/project teams concurrently to build client relationships and deliver positive client outcomes.
• Direct complex client delivery teams of internal and external stakeholders and provide technical direction and expertise
• Collaborate with clients to design and deliver solutions to achieve strategic priorities for high-profile sustainability initiatives 
• Lead business development activities with existing and prospective clients  
• Supervise individuals and support management of the SECC practice

Project tasks and deliverables will span a wide variety of disciplines and topics but are likely to include the following:

• Lead complex client delivery teams of internal and external stakeholders and provide technical direction and expertise
• Serve as the lead thought-partner to clients, designing and delivering solutions to achieve strategic priorities for high-profile sustainability initiatives 
• Architect and author professional technical memos, reports, and proposals summarizing complex concepts and project outcomes
• Coach teams in the successful development of complex, entity-wide sustainability data inventories for energy, GHG, water, waste, and other resources and build the foundational elements of corporate sustainability programs
• Organize and derive insights from large ,unwieldy data sets; effectively communicate findings to executive audiences
• Partner actively with clients to develop ambitious sustainability performance targets with accompanying strategies and achievement plans  
• Develop and evaluate metrics and tactics for tracking and achieving energy, GHG, and other resource reductions
• Lead teams to design corporate decarbonization strategies, evaluating and including a variety of energy efficiency measures and renewable energy procurement options 
• Lead climate-related risk and opportunity assessments 
• Guide clients and teams to identify appropriate industry benchmarks and sustainability programs 
• Develop content and support public disclosures through sustainability reports, voluntary reporting programs and compliance with regulatory requirements

Who You Are
Required Qualifications and Skills

• Minimum of 15 years of professional consulting and/or corporate experience with a focus on sustainability, energy, climate, and/or environmental management
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, energy, sustainability, or environmental discipline required 
• Demonstrated expertise with sustainability frameworks such as the GHG Protocol, supply chain management, LCA, SBTi, CDP, GRI, and/or TCFD)
• Demonstrated project and client relationship management experience 
• Demonstrated leadership experience in operating a practice and supervising individuals  
• Well-developed interpersonal skills, maturity, credibility, confidence, and integrity: ready to learn and work on a team.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, and use of Microsoft Office programs including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Ability to develop and present analyses using programs such as Microsoft Excel, Access, and Power BI
• Ability to work independently, multitask, and manage time efficiently
• Ability to collaborate remotely across geographies and platforms

Preferred Qualifications and Skills

• Master’s degree in engineering, energy, sustainability, or environmental discipline

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About WSP

WSP USA is the U.S. operating company