ESG/Sustainability Senior or Principal Consultant

Strategic Environmental Services

RPS North America

Chicago, IL; Boston, MA; Remote

Full-Time

RPS North America provides sustainability, engineering, environmental, and scientific advice across the US and Canada. We offer a comprehensive range of consulting services and technology solutions to support our clients in all sectors of the economy. We serve as the North American platform of RPS Group, one of the world's preeminent consultancies.

Description:

RPS is currently seeking a Senior or Principal ESG/Sustainability Consultant in their North America ESG and Sustainability business unit. The ideal candidate will work with the Business Unit Leader to help evolve the group’s strategic direction, service offerings, KPIs, and goals in the areas of Corporate Sustainability, ESG Due Diligence and strategy support projects.

This role requires a strong background in strategy, management, and client engagement. The ability to be adaptive and flexible to changing client demands, stakeholder expectations, and competitors’ services will be required to excel in this role.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage ESG due diligence assessments for industrial and commercial transactions.
• Prepare concise reports that assess ESG performance and identify risks, liabilities and value creation opportunities.
• Develop ESG policies, strategies, monitoring tools, and sustainability reporting and disclosures to clients a various stages of their ESG journey.
• Serve as the technical leader on projects and independently liaise with clients to discuss deliverables, budgets, timing, and findings
• Support business development and sales initiative through direct sales/client management, including preparing proposals and participating in client and other stakeholder calls.
• Mentor and coach less experienced staff to enable them to take the lead on technical tasks.
• Support multiple projects and meet high quality standards on project deliverables.

Qualifications:

The ideal candidate is a hard-working, self-starting, solution-focused individual with a “roll up the sleeves and get it done” mentality and the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in sustainability, business, economics, finance, or related field.
• 5+ years of ESG, sustainability, impact investing, or other relevant experience (consulting or in-house)
• 2+ years of previous management experience
• The candidate should be comfortable handling complex projects, taking on new challenges, and solving problems for clients
• Comfortable giving presentations to senior leaders at clients’ companies

What RPS Offers in Return:

RPS is an industry leader, and we pride ourselves on our ability to attract and retain exceptional talent by treating our employees well. In addition to competitive compensation packages, we offer:

• Medical, dental, disability, and life insurance coverage for employees and families, with no waiting period and generous contributions to monthly premiums.
• 401(k) Plan, with a dollar-for-dollar Company match of employee contributions, up to 5% of eligible compensation
• Share Purchase Plan, which enables employees to purchase shares via payroll deductions at 85% of market value, with the Company matching employees’ shares 1:1
• Flexible Spending Accounts for health care and dependent care costs
• Performance-based bonus program
• Generous vacation and sick leave policies in addition to company-wide paid holidays

Working at RPS:

RPS is a dedicated team of talented scientific and technical individuals working together to provide our clients with cutting edge solutions to meet their evolving needs. Our global footprint enables us to work with a variety of government and private client through diverse projects.

RPS North America provides equal employment opportunity to all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or other protected characteristics. RPS complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws and requirements governing nondiscrimination in every location in which we operate.

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