Senior or Principal Natural Capital Consultant

JBAs Climate and Sustainability team are looking for a Senior or Principal Natural Capital
Consultant to support our expanded service offering and growing order book. As a team we work
across several disciplines both as individuals and as a team: natural capital and ecosystem
services, catchment resilience, nature-based solutions, decarbonisation, climate change
adaptation and resilience, and social value.

You’ll be joining an established environmental and engineering consultancy who put
sustainability and resilience to climate change at the heart of our company strategy. With
offices in nine countries around the world and across the UK and Ireland, we like to think we
make a difference. We are independent and employee-owned allowing us the freedom to focus on
innovation and our commitment to exceptional client service. Our workforce is central to our
success, and we invest heavily in supporting staff development. We are great people to work
for. Visit www.jbaconsulting.com to find out more about what we do.

Your role:

You will be commercially aware, coordinating and managing the delivery of a diverse range of
natural capital and ecosystem services projects for a range of clients. You will work with
colleagues including analysts, engineers and policy specialists and support early career
colleagues in their professional and technical development. You will have the opportunity to
develop new business and help shape JBA’s natural capital and ecosystems services strategy
using your background knowledge and contacts.

Key tasks include:

• Act as an internal and external specialist to provide technical guidance in the field of
  natural capital
• Use your technical knowledge to both lead and input to projects to understand the baseline
  and future risks/opportunities to natural assets and ecosystem services
• Preparation of tenders and opportunities for business development including developing
  current opportunities, new clients or sectors across the UK
• Contribute to the management of client relationships
• Keep up to date with and use tools and best practice techniques to assess natural capital
  and ecosystem services and contribute to the promotion of our abilities to use and undertake
  these services
• Input into the development of new tools to assist with the quantification and visualisation
  of environmental impacts
• Staff mentoring and professional development, sharing of knowledge, best practice and
  innovation.

The team member we are looking for:

The successful candidate will have a positive and professional attitude and be naturally
collaborative in how they work. The role will be client-facing, and the successful candidate
will need to be confident in working with clients to ensure successful project delivery. You
must be used to working in a team, have excellent interpersonal skills and be an effective
verbal and written communicator.

It is expected that the role will involve a significant degree of cross office working. JBA
supports agile working which provides for greater flexibility with the way that we work,
however it is important to us that you attend the office on a regular basis. The role will
preferably be based at our Saltaire, Haywards Heath or Edinburgh offices, but other offices may
be considered for exceptional candidates.

We’re always on the lookout for talented, committed and inspiring people to join us in our
ambition to lead in the pursuit for resilience to climate change. In return, we offer rewarding
careers with continued opportunities and dedicated support for personal development. Build your
career with us and help us to build a more resilient future.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors and/or Masters degrees (or equivalent) in a relevant subject e.g. sustainability,
  environmental science, geography, carbon management, economics or green finance.
• Chartered status (e.g. CIWEM, CIEEM) is important to JBA and valued by our clients.
  Applicants should be Chartered or be able to demonstrate their commitment towards becoming
  Chartered with an appropriate professional body.

Essential attributes for the role:

• Experience in and track record in project management and technical leadership of projects
• Strong commercial and client focus with a record of forging strong client links
• Excellent communication skills with an ability to deliver clear reports and confidence in
  presenting proposal/project findings to influence relevant parties
• Ability to develop and manage effective relationships and partnerships internally and
  externally with a track record of working collaboratively.

Desirable attributes for the role:

• Holds an industry recognised professional chartered qualification.
• Focus and experience of achieving and delivering technical excellence for clients.

Location:

Ideally the role will be based out of our Haywards Heath RH16 3BW, Saltaire BD18 3LF or Edinburgh EH14 4AP offices, however other JBA locations will be considered for exceptional candidates. 

Further information:

For further information or an informal discussion about this position, please contact Lydia
Burgess-Gamble on [email protected] t: 01444 473652.

Applications:

All applications must be made via our online recruitment portal.