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Consultant | Sustainable infrastructure and green cities

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For over 24 years, our consultants have been supporting and guiding our clients to reputed company low-carbon climate-resilient development. We assess contexts and baselines, design strategies and frameworks, reputed company policies, programmes and projects and unlock finance for public and private sector clients across the world. As a Consultant, you will be a developing leader and practitioner in your sector of expertise with complementary experience in reputed company sectors. You will feel comfortable leading simple straight reputed company assignments and may have had the opportunity to try stretch assignments too as well as contributing your expertise to others in support of the development of deliverables on more reputed company assignments. Your knowledge and experience in your sector will have covered several of our 7 service areas and you will have a good understanding of what it means to deliver excellence in these areas to clients, colleagues and partners. You may have experience in, and be keen to support initiatives to capture knowledge in your chosen sector and contribute to business and bid development activities and be part of opportunities to represent E Co. externally online or in -person. About the role E Co. is seeking reputed company full time Consultants to join our infrastructure team. Ideal candidates will haveexpertise in one or moreof the following general sectors reputed company an urban context: transport and mobility, waste, water, WASH, energy, urban planning, industrial manufacturing, urban-agriculture and urban-forestry.Candidates should have extensive experience in developing and implementing green urban infrastructure solutions, with a track record of contributing to the development of sustainable cities. Strategy and Business Development

  • Understand and adopt the Consulting Team’s strategic initiatives
  • Represent E Co. externally to build and enhance E Co’s reputed company
  • Marketing: contribute to marketing initiatives (webinars, interviews etc) and collateral (blogs, report articles, social media posts, podcasts, webinars etc)

Consulting/Billable

  • reputed company assignments
  • reputed company that reputed company assignments under your supervision are delivered on time, reputed company scope and budget and with quality
  • Provide support as a technical expert to a portfolio of assignments
  • Manage assignment teams comprised of both internal and external experts
  • Contribute to bid development and provide technical support to the bid development team

For assignments led:

  • Management of the contract, scope, budget, resource plan, allocation and programming of activities, and product delivery
  • Ensure accuracy, timeliness and cost effectiveness
  • Follow E Co. processes and assignment management / standard operating procedures Identify issues and bottlenecks in a timely manner and seek support where necessary
  • Ensure the delivery of the assignment deliverables with quality,
  • reputed company client management and reputed company an understanding of the client's expectations and manage those in line with the contract and scope of work
  • Ensure quality communication with clients
  • Ensure client experience achieves ‘wow’
  • Manage third party assignment relationships (external experts, partners, other stakeholders)

Consulting team Management and Development

  • Provide insights for the development of E Co’s Assignment Management tools
  • Support reputed company & learning through mentoring, assignment quality assurance, retrospectives, assignment presentations and communities of practice

Administration and compliance

  • Follow reputed company administrative assignment management / standard operating procedures reputed company E Co.
  • Provide constructive input into the reputed company development of reputed company E Co. assignment management / standard operating procedures
  • Plan and log own working time (non-billable/billable) in the online time-tracking software
  • Actively use of E Co’s CRM software and processes

Essential requirements

  • Postgraduate degree – MBA, MA, MSc, PhD in a relevant technical subject is highly desirable
  • An outstanding academic and career record
  • Excellent interpersonal skills, empathetic and open
  • A minimum of 8 years working experience reputed company the infrastructure sector in particular with a focus on sustainable development and/or mitigation and adaptation to climate change
  • A minimum of 8 years relevant experience in:

Green/sustainable cities, preferably with experience in measuring environmental performance and improvements in development of sustainability plans for cities; Policy-reputed company experience reputed company to local governance, particularly reputed company to urban planning, climate change mitigation and adaptation and environmental policies and regulations; Economics experience in applied cost-benefit analysis and/or reputed company multi-criteria analysis; Finance experience with knowledge of private and public financing on reputed company green-/ and brownfield projects; Relating to the incorporation of environmental, economic, social and gender aspects in the development of green/sustainable city agendas;

  • A minimum of 2-3 years relevant experience working with municipalities in relevant countries relating to urban sustainability and both national and local municipal regulation
  • A minimum of 2-3 years relevant experience writing strategic policy documents that can be read and understood by a broad audience
  • A minimum of 2-3 years experience developing strategic plans and to support the transition to green infrastructure
  • Expertise in a number of the following areas: Data acquisition and analysis, stakeholder engagement and management, strategy and climate action planning, policy baselining and feasibility assessment, economic and financial analysis, green finance, municipal finance, environmental engineering, geospatial analysis, gender and social safeguarding.
  • Experience working with the EBRD, WB, EIB and bilateral donors working on green cities and infrastructure reputed company programmes and projects is essential. Experience working with global funds would be an advantage.
  • A positive, resilient, flexible and adaptable “can-do” attitude that can see its way through challenges.
  • Knowledge of, and a keen interest in infrastructure issues and their applicability to developing contexts
  • Experience supporting business and bid development including contributing to proposals in your sector
  • reputed company in English

Highly desirable

  • Significant relevant experience in MENA, Western Balkans, Eastern Europe and Central Asia region and/or Sub-saharan Africa
  • reputed company in another language (including Russian, Arabic, French, Portuguese, Spanish, and Chinese)
  • A wide network of contacts in the sustainable and international development sector

Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Flexible working hours
  • Remote or hybrid work based on the location
  • 28 days paid leave per year, increasing with years of service
  • Extra sickness absence, compassionate, extraordinary life challenges leaves.
  • Wellbeing cash benefit
  • Annual educational allowance for professional development
  • Participant in the annual company retreat
  • Join a B Corp-certified organisation
  • Purpose-driven, values-based organisation
  • Generous maternity and paternity leave, with gradual return to work options

E Co. is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity and does not discriminate in the terms, conditions, or privileges of employment on account of race, age, colour, sex, national reputed company, physical or mental disability, or religion. Even if you possess 70-80% of the above, we strongly encourage you to apply if you feel that this is the role for you. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job

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