Key Details
Salary: Dependent on experience
Location: London or Greater Manchester
Start Date: Immediately
No agencies please
About this role
We are seeking a highly motivated and talented individual to fill the role of Associate Director to help lead our growing professional sustainability consultancy team. This position offers a very exciting opportunity to manage a team of highly capable consultants, manage high profile clients, oversee delivery of a broad spectrum of sustainability services, and ultimately drive significant positive environmental and social impact. Passion and a determination to deliver excellence are essential qualities as is a commercially astute and innovative approach to delivering client solutions.
About EVORA
EVORA is an independent, pan-European sustainability consultancy specialising in the commercial real estate sector. We also have proprietary sustainability management software, SIERA. Our clients include real estate investment organisations, such as Schroder Real Estate, Aberdeen Standard and Deutsche Bank.
We have a team of intelligent, passionate and dedicated professionals who are all experts in their fields. Our approach is to provide an exceptional level of service, delivered by experienced professionals, while ensuring solutions are practical, simple to understand and tailored to each client’s specific requirements.
At EVORA we are committed to fostering a working environment based on dignity and respect, in which everyone has a voice. We prize the diversity of our people and seek to provide equality of opportunity for all.
Core Responsibilities and Skills Required
Core Responsibilities
The core responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
- Lead a team to deliver multiple client ESG programmes.
- Working with our relevant subject matter experts, integrate ESG strategy, net zero carbon, climate resilience, social impact, health and wellbeing, and smart building/big data into client ESG programmes.
- Be an expert in sustainability issues and their application to real estate investment.
- Support clients to evolve their investment process to fully integrate ESG considerations.
- Lead engagement with clients and external parties across pan-European investment portfolios (e.g. heads of sustainability, asset managers, property and facilities management teams)
- Lead regulatory and voluntary sustainability disclosure / reporting (e.g. GRESB, UNPRI, TCFD)
- Team, client account and programme management
- Industry engagement (e.g. attending and speaking at conferences etc).
- Business development
- Input to the development of new products and services, and continual evolution of EVORA IP through direct involvement or support to our service lines (technical teams covering ESG strategy, climate resilience, health/wellbeing, social value, data intelligence etc)
Essential Skills & Requirements
The right candidate must have the following essential skills:
- Established sustainability/ESG expert, with professional track record, preferably within real assets, finance or construction
- Familiarity with GRESB, environmental data and environmental legislation
- A passion for furthering the sustainability agenda
- Clear understanding of managing complex programmes, competing priorities and multiple projects to a budget and target margin
- Highly articulate and numerate
- Team player and strong people management skills
- Strong proven client relationship management
Desirable Skills & Requirements
The right candidate may have the additional preferable skills:
- Familiarity with TCFD, net zero carbon, EU SFDR
- Degree or Masters in related subject
- Membership of a recognised professional body (e.g. Chartered Environmentalist)
- Experience of managing pan-European stakeholders
- Languages
- Environmental and energy audit experience for commercial buildings
- BREEAM In Use, Fitwel or WELL certification experience
Employee Benefits
- Competitive salary based on experience and reviewed annually in line with performance
- Attractive bonus structure
- Health insurance with Vitality
- Pension scheme (with staff contribution matched)
- 25 days annual leave increasing to 30 days by year 7 (plus public holidays) (for part time employees, we will adjust the entitlement on a pro rata basis)
- Additional five days holiday every three years to support one month sabbatical
- Flexible working hours (core hours 10-4, with 37.5 hour working week)
- Remote/home working in agreement with line manager
- Two days per year to volunteer for charity
- Excellent ongoing professional development support
- Generous maternity package
- Multiple locations – London, Greater Manchester, Birmingham (dependent on role)
- Plus:Bike2Work scheme; and more
How to Apply
To apply for this role, please send your full up-to-date CV and a cover letter explaining why you believe you are well suited for the role to recruitment@evoraglobal.com using ‘‘Associate Director Application” as the subject line.
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