Senior Sustainability and Net Zero Consultant Housing

Our specialist Housing Sustainability and Net Zero team is growing in response to rising demand from social housing providers and public sector organisations. We are looking particularly for individuals with demonstrable industry experience of supporting housing 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 multidisciplinary engineering consultancies local authorities and housing associations. 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 youll be at the forefront of the net zero carbon transition in the UKs housing and public sectors. 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 UKs most innovative market shaping projects such as the Social Housing Retrofit Accelerator and Retrofit Accelerator for Homes.

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Key tasks (not necessarily all in one person)

• To line manage junior consultants and play a key role in their professional development and facilitating them to deliver excellent work
• To support the development of business cases for new service areas to expand our reach to cover new clients sectors and technologies
• To take a lead role in managing projects including client liaison team resource management and budget management
• To support social landlords and public sector bodies through the delivery journey of their netzero strategies and investment programmes including: awareness interest business case decision procurement build phase monitoring and completion
• To lead on the analysis of housing asset data to benchmark energy performance and develop investment scenarios against energy performance and net zero targets
• To support social landlords to measure their environmental performance and put in place ESG strategies and reporting frameworks (with a focus on environment but an awareness of social and governance issues for housing providers)
• To support the delivery of current industry assistance programmes including the Social Housing Retrofit Accelerator working directly with housing providers to build their capacity to deliver housing retrofit
• To support on identification of new business opportunities and contribute towards new bids.

Person profile

• Positive creative approach
• Selfstarter able to work independently
• Excellent team member dependable collaborative inspiring

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 housing 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
• Strong subject matter expertise of net zero and ESG policy and strategy in the social housing sector
• Excellent communication skills ability to develop succinct and accurate communications covering complex subject matter for delivery to both technical and nontechnical audiences
• 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:

• Social landlord/public sector experience and expertise: asset management finance development (ideally with specific experience of managing/coordinating capital spend and retrofit projects)
• Construction and manufacturing sector experience including construction contract management
• New build housing development experience
• Experience in developing and delivering guidance and/or tools to assist housing providers with retrofit projects
• Sustainable procurement practices and supply chain sustainability assessment/improvement
• Retrofit Coordinator training or other similar energy related qualifications and awareness of PAS2035
• Stakeholder engagement particularly with residents of social housing
• Experience of growing and managing effective teams
• Business development experience prospecting/lead development developing business cases bid writing and bid management
• Ability to review analyse and benchmark energy and carbon performance including carbon footprinting Whole Life Carbon assessment
• Knowledge of sustainability reporting guidelines/frameworks e.g. GHG protocol CDP TCFD
• Ability to identify potential technical solutions for different housing archetypes including fabric measures low carbon heating and renewable energy

Additional Information :

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SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role which are to be adhered to where applicable

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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