Environmental Sustainability Consultant

1 month ago

Beijing, Beijing, China Arup Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Environmental and Social Advisory Consultant to join our team at Arup. As a key member of our Lenders Environmental and Social Advisory team, you will play a critical role in supporting the promotion and delivery of environmental and social advisory commissions, including environmental and social due diligence and Lender's monitoring assignments for internationally high-profile infrastructure projects.

As a seasoned professional with a passion for influencing the sustainable design and delivery of infrastructure across the project cycle in developing economies, you will have a minimum of five years of transferable or actual experience in addressing environmental and social/ESG risks and opportunities in internationally financed projects.

Key Responsibilities
  • Coordinate and manage E&S advisory services to Lenders, financial investors, and their clients, including gap analyses, due diligence, independent monitoring, ESIAs/ESMPs, sustainability appraisals, E&S/ESG management and reporting systems, and Environmental and Social Action Plans (ESAP).
  • Undertake regular short-term travel to project sites overseas and/or supervise in-country specialists to do the same.
  • Line-manage more junior team members and support in their professional development and training.
  • Contribute to business development activities, including proposals, presentations, and marketing activities.
  • Actively participate in and represent Arup at external meetings with clients and partners.
  • Contribute to and pursue opportunities to influence the sustainability of infrastructure, the built environment, and our own processes and services, through thought leadership and innovation.
  • Establish and maintain relationships with external clients and colleagues within Arup.
  • Work independently with limited supervision.
Requirements
  • A degree or postgraduate degree in an environment, social, health and safety, or sustainability-related science.
  • Practical application of IFI environmental and social (E&S) risk management frameworks (e.g., IFC/World Bank, EBRD, ADB, IADB, AfDB, Equator Principles, etc.) to lender-financed projects in a project finance context (PPP or sovereign structured finance) in a developing country context, through gap analyses, ESDD, performance monitoring, and assurance, etc.
  • Experience in working on major transport, renewable energy, and/or power infrastructure projects.
  • Proven success of working in a multi-disciplinary team environment.
  • Proven ability to plan and manage self and others deliver multiple work streams within small to medium-scale teams, including checking the work produced by others.
  • Excellent English written and verbal communication skills to diverse stakeholder audiences from individual discipline technical specialists to senior projects leadership, community members, and lenders/investors.
  • Ability to work calmly under pressure to meet deadlines.
  • Recognised professional profile (e.g., chartership) with a relevant Professional Body or organization, or at least to have well-advanced application for this.
  • Passion for delivering a sustainable future and for continual improvement of both self and the team.
Desirable Skills
  • Site-based or 'in-house' experience, working with contractors and consultants to deliver practical solutions to comply with Lenders E&S frameworks under Public Private Partnership contracting models.
  • First-hand experience of developing and implementing the necessary environmental and social management, monitoring, and reporting systems for complex projects to meet Lender's standards or equivalent.
  • Professional experience working in a construction EHS site supervision role on projects in countries and/or with workers from countries where EHS standards (or their enforcement) are less well-regulated or enforced than the UK (or equivalent).
  • Experience of supervising the tasks of more junior staff.
  • Applying systems thinking to sustainability challenges in the infrastructure context.
  • Ability to work in one or more foreign languages.
About Arup

Arup is an employee-owned organisation that allows our members a unique opportunity to have a real say in our company's future, shape the exciting opportunities it can deliver, and pursue work that aligns with their values and those of the firm.

We are recognised as world-class consultants in supporting finance-sector clients identify and address environmental, social, and governance (ESG) impacts, risks, and opportunities on some of the most important infrastructure investments in Africa, Eastern Europe, Central and Western Asia today.

We are looking for a talented and motivated individual to join our team and contribute to the growth of our business, including sharing their ideas and contributing to innovation and research in new products and services that aim to shape a sustainable future.

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