Job Description

ERM is seeking an energetic and knowledgeable Principal Consultant, Climate Change located in Toronto, Canada. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced professional looking to play a key role working with an expert consulting team on interesting climate advisory projects for Fortune 500 and privately held clients. See Case Studies for representative client engagements.

In this role, you will be a key contributor to a team developing and growing ERM\xe2\x80\x99s corporate sustainability and climate change business. ERM delivers a wide range of climate change services including Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) analysis and reporting, strategy development, policy and regulatory analysis, target setting, and benchmarking. We help clients, including global companies, electric and natural gas utilities, and financial institutions, develop and implement climate change programs across a broad range of industry sectors and contribute to climate, clean energy, and clean transportation policy development.

ERM has enduring values, which are fundamental to our business conduct. We are passionate about our people, their safety, well-being and development. ERM employees take accountability, are client focused, and collaborate with colleagues across geographies. If you share our values and are motivated by opportunities to shape climate strategy and disclosure to make a real impact to our client\xe2\x80\x99s businesses, ERM is the right place for you.

Responsibilities

Managing Clients and Projects

• Demonstrates expertise in the evaluation of climate change risks and opportunities, climate and energy policy, and conducting policy and technical analyses; expertise in electric and natural gas utilities or regulation a plus.
• Advises and manages climate-related projects including the design and development of GHG inventories (Scopes 1 and 2, with particular emphasis on Scope 3), analysis of emission reduction levers (e.g. energy efficiency measures, renewable energy, decarbonized fuels), and strategic policy assessment and design.
• Supports development of climate change strategy, action planning, and/or modeling of and setting science-based targets.
• Disclose effectively by using proven methodologies for assessing materiality and driving robust reporting (e.g. GRI, SASB) and a strategic framework to respond to investor surveys (e.g. CDP, DJSI, MSCI, Sustainalytics, ISS). We offer specialist scenario analysis support to help meet growing investor demand for disclosure around climate change, using frameworks such as TCFD.
• Actively develop commercial strategies to pursue and win new business opportunities associated with the Low Carbon Economy Transition that result in significant revenue growth with target clients aligned with ERM\xe2\x80\x99s global strategy.
• Thinks strategically in order to influence decision-makers and outcomes.
• Distills complexity from detail to effectively coach colleagues to deliver high-quality outputs.
• Demonstrates strong project management skills and oversight through the project lifecycle, including scoping, budget and delivery.
• Demonstrates strong analytical skills, excellent writing and presentation skills, and a mastery of impactful client communication.
• Builds strong and trusted relationships with clients and/or business partners

Teamwork and Organization

• Demonstrates strong people management skills; particularly the ability to support, coach and celebrate others in order to advance employee engagement and achieve results.
• Mentors junior staff in the proper planning and execution of projects, and in directing or conducting independent technical reviews of deliverable work products.
• Manages a team of consultants.
• Identifies, evaluates, cultivates and manages partnerships and relationships with senior clients, external stakeholders and key opinion leaders.
• Effectively collaborates internally to bring our services to existing clients.
• Enhances ERM\xe2\x80\x99s capability to sell and deliver Climate Change services.

Business Development Activities

• Supports Account Management teams in meeting sales goals.
• Supports new business development campaigns and proposals.

Requirements

• Bachelors\xe2\x80\x99 degree in Engineering or other relevant disciplines. Master of Science or Professional Engineer preferred.
• 6+ years\xe2\x80\x99 experience in climate change consulting or a related industry position with technical competence in greenhouse gas emissions accounting, management, and reporting.
• Knowledge of low-carbon scenario pathways (e.g., IEA, NGFS) and approaches to GHG target setting in the financial sector (e.g., NZBA, PCAF) (preferred)
• Awareness of key Canadian and International climate change regulatory drivers, standards, and policies.
• A thorough understanding of technical, economic, policy and market challenges and opportunities associated with the low carbon energy transition.
• Experience and confidence to lead and grow business in a dynamic market environment.
• Strong analytical skills, ability to think strategically, analyze and synthesize diverse qualitative and quantitative data and information.
• Attention to detail and commitment to deliver high-quality work products.
• Ability to work well with a range of stakeholders, including diverse project teams and client contacts.
• Demonstrated project management and leadership skills.
• Ability to communicate ideas clearly and confidently, articulate issues and recommend solutions.
• Excellent communication (written/verbal), strategic thinking, negotiation, presentation, and \xe2\x80\x9cpeople\xe2\x80\x9d skills.
• Demonstrated leadership ability to build, coach, and mentor collaborative teams.
• Enthusiasm, initiative, flexibility and a desire to work in a growing team.
• Bilingual French/English capabilities an asset.

Who We Are:

As the largest global pure play sustainability consultancy, we partner with the world\xe2\x80\x99s leading organizations, creating innovative solutions to sustainability challenges and unlocking commercial opportunities that meet the needs of today while preserving opportunity for future generations.

At ERM we know that creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive work environment is an essential part of making our company a great place to build a career. We also see our diversity as a strength that helps us create better solutions for our clients. Our diverse team of world-class experts supports clients across the breadth of their organizations to operationalize sustainability, underpinned by our deep technical expertise in addressing their environmental, health, safety, risk and social issues. We call this capability our \xe2\x80\x9cboots to boardroom\xe2\x80\x9d approach for its comprehensive service model that allows ERM to develop strategic and technical solutions that advance objectives on the ground or at the executive level.

Please submit your resume and brief cover letter.

ERM does not accept recruiting agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, ERM employees or any other company location. ERM is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

ERM is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

Thank you for your interest in ERM!

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