Overview
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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 for individuals with demonstrable industry experience of supporting housing sustainability programmes to support investment planning and delivery on the net zero carbon agenda.
Our Consultants come from a range of organisations including energy and sustainability consultancies, multi-disciplinary 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 you’ll contribute to the net zero carbon transition in the UK’s housing and public sectors. The role will be shaped around your skills and experience, with opportunities from developing net zero energy and ESG strategies to project delivery support on innovative projects such as the Social Housing Retrofit Accelerator and Retrofit Accelerator for Homes.
Responsibilities
* To line manage junior consultants and support their professional development and delivery of 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 net-zero 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 implement ESG strategies and reporting frameworks (with a focus on environment and 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
Qualifications
* 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, multi-stakeholder 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 non-technical audiences
* Great problem-solving skills, adopting the most suitable approach for clients and your team
* Strong relationship management skills developed through client-facing roles
Additional Information
Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.
We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.
Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com/
SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Consulting
Industries
* Construction, Civil Engineering, and Business Consulting and Services
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