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Climate Change Resilience Senior Consultant

AECOM Hybrid · Remote · London, England, GB 3 months ago

Job Description

We’re looking for a Senior Climate Change Resilience Consultant to join our growing Environment and Energy Advisory team, with opportunities to be based across our offices —Basingstoke, Bristol, Edinburgh, London and Nottingham— while also benefiting from our flexible hybrid working model.

Our Environment and Energy Advisory team are delivering a diverse and high-impact portfolio of projects. We are seeing a rapid increase in demand for the provision of climate change resilience services. Recent project wins on high profile, strategic projects with DSNEZ and Scottish Water along with a range of projects across the transport, energy, defence, water and other sectors in the built environment are providing us the opportunity to increase our team.

As a Senior Climate Change Risk Consultant, you will be part of our wider team helping to win and deliver key projects. Your primary role will be the management of projects and tasks as well as technical delivery of Climate Risk and Resilience projects. You will also be responsible for supporting the Climate Resilience Lead with business development and proposal preparation.

Key Responsibilities

Project Delivery & Technical Leadership

• Lead and deliver defined workstreams or small to mid-sized Climate Risk & Resilience (CCR) projects with minimal supervision, coordinating junior team members and ensuring high-quality technical outputs.
• Provide specialist expertise in areas such as infrastructure resilience, transport infrastructure adaptation, energy systems and the built environment, nature-based solutions, and place-based or systems-based adaptation approaches.
• Deliver projects across multiple sectors and geographies, adapting methodologies and recommendations to suit diverse client contexts and operational environments.
• Assess and communicate the interaction between transition climate risks and physical climate risks within broader resilience strategies.
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve methodologies, project efficiency, and climate resilience service offerings.

Client & Stakeholder Engagement

• Engage directly with clients and stakeholders, facilitating workshops, resilience discussions, and collaborative decision-making processes.
• Work effectively within complex stakeholder and regulatory environments, including public sector organisations, infrastructure owners, and regulators.

Climate Risk Analysis & Regulatory Support

• Apply knowledge of climate-related disclosure and regulatory frameworks, including TCFD and adaptation reporting requirements, to support client compliance and resilience strategies.
• Use data, geospatial, and digital tools such as GIS and Excel to undertake climate risk analysis and support evidence-based recommendations.

Business Development & Thought Leadership

• Support business development activities through proposal writing, client engagement, and contribution to strategic growth opportunities.
• Contribute to the development of internal tools, methodologies, guidance, and thought leadership relating to climate risk and resilience.

Team Development & Collaboration

• Mentor and support the development of junior team members through guidance, collaboration, and knowledge sharing.

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex …

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