Consultant - Communities & Industry team - Housing Sustainability
Turner & Townsend
- United Kingdom
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Delivery of city-wide and region-wide decarbonisation programmes
- Delivery of place-based net zero projects through delivery support.
- Development and delivery of decarbonisation strategies and delivery plans
- Positive and creative
- Self-starters, able to work independently
- Excellent team members, dependable, collaborative and inspiring
- Help deliver sector assistance programmes, e.g., the Social Housing Retrofit Accelerator, working directly with housing providers to build capacity and capability, enabling retrofit programmes to take place, saving carbon and changing lives
- 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
- Lead or support the analysis of housing asset data to benchmark energy performance and develop investment scenarios against energy performance and net zero targets
- Support social landlords to measure environmental performance and put in place ESG strategies and reporting frameworks (with a focus on environment but an awareness of social and governance issues)
- Take a lead role or support in managing projects, including client liaison, team resource and budget management
- Line manage small teams (where appropriate) and play a key role in their professional development, helping others to deliver excellent work
- Support the development of business cases for new services, expanding our reach to new clients, sectors and technologies
- Assist in the business generation activity and contribute to bids to win new work.
- Systematic approach to project management. Your experience might be from smaller projects within a social housing provider right up to extensive experience of managing complex, multi-stakeholder projects, often simultaneously and with competing priorities
- Demonstrable experience in interpreting and using data to drive decarbonisation and asset planning exercises, turning data into realisable projects and programmes
- Strong subject matter expertise of net zero, retrofit and ESG policy and strategy in the local authority and 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
- Lateral thinker with critical skills to think creatively, problem-solve, anticipate client requirements and adopt the most suitable approach for clients and team
- Strong relationship management skills
- Consultancy experience
- Social landlord/public sector experience and expertise: asset management, finance, development (ideally with specific experience of managing/coordinating capital spend and retrofit projects)
- Construction 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
- Public sector procurement, supply chain management and supply chain sustainability assessment/improvement
- Climate adaptation or biodiversity management experience
- Retrofit Coordinator training or other similar energy related qualifications (for example, SAP and domestic energy modelling) 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 and Whole Life Carbon assessment
- Knowledge of sustainability reporting guidelines/frameworks, for example, SBTi, GHG protocol, CDP, TCFD, CSRD
- Ability to identify potential technical solutions for different housing archetypes, including fabric measures, low carbon heating and renewable energy