Key Details
Salary: Dependent on experience
Location: London or Greater Manchester (other locations considered)
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 our proprietary sustainability management software, SIERA. Our clients include Schroder Real Estate, Standard Life 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, whilst 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 growing team to deliver ESG strategy, net zero carbon, climate resilience, social impact, smart buildings, big data and building-level sustainability improvement programmes for clients
- Expert in sustainability issues and their application to real estate investment
- Lead engagement with clients and external parties across pan-European investment portfolios (e.g. heads of sustainability, asset managers, property and facilities management teams in real estate, financial and corporate sector client space
- Support clients to evolve their investment process to fully integrate ESG considerations
- 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 activities towards expansion of existing client work as well as new client
engagement. - Strategic and tactical 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
The right candidate must have the following essential skills:
- Proven proficient team leadership and staff management skills
- Familiarity with GRESB, environmental data and environmental legislation
- Commercial acumen (monitoring budgets, achieving target profitability/margin)
- Thirst for knowledge – ability to find time to read/keep up to date with industry developments
- 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
- Strong proven client relationship management and stakeholder management (internal and
external) - Team player
- Comfortable under pressure
Desirable Skills
The right candidate may have the following desired skills:
- Knowledge of the built environment, preferably commercial real estate investment
- Knowledge of investment management and finance
- Degree or Masters in related subject
- Membership of a recognised professional body (e.g. Chartered Environmentalist)
- Experience of managing pan-European stakeholders
- Business development experience
- Languages
- Environmental and energy audit experience for commercial buildings
- BREEAM In Use, Fitwel or WELL certification experience
- Sustainability strategy and leadership experience, preferably within real assets, finance or construction
- Familiarity with TCFD, net zero carbon, EU SFDR
Employee Benefits
- A competitive salary, reviewed annually in line with industry averages
- Attractive discretionary 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)
- Additional 5 days holiday every three years to support one month sabbatical
- Flexible working hours (core hours 10-4, with 37.5 hour working week)
- Flexible lunch break
- 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, Bolton, 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 covering 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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