Principal Consultant – TCFD and ESG
On-siteNew York City, New York, United States or Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Job Summary
Lead project teams to support clients with ESG and TCFD frameworks from strategy development through project integration and delivery. Provide management consultancy leadership for advisory projects covering climate risk, ESG, and TCFD, while supporting entity-wide, asset-level, and supply chain resilience assessments. Develop and maintain data management systems and business intelligence tools to drive insights. Communicate sustainability efforts with senior leadership, the Board, and key stakeholders, including clients, and support external ESG reporting initiatives. Lead workshops, training sessions, and the development of decarbonization roadmaps and action plans. Collaborate across technical and account teams to align with frameworks like GHG Protocol, SASB, and TNFD, while performing research on materiality assessments and stakeholder engagement.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree with focus on Business Administration, Economics, Sustainability, Data Analytics, Environmental Services
- 15+ years related experience
- Demonstrated expertise working with climate resilience frameworks
- Ability to support program administration and management
- Proven expertise conducting workshops and meetings
- Support of global organizations that are advancing climate resilience, ESG and water/flood mitigation
- Experience collaborating with stakeholders in a variety of settings to understand and identify adaptation options
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to work in a team environment
- Excellent oral and written communication skills (English)
- Ability to work efficiently and demonstrate effective organizational skills
- This is a home-based position which include the ability to work across all time zones
- Ideally this person will be based in North America with responsibilities globally
Desired Qualifications
- Experience performing materiality assessments, stakeholder mapping, examination of UN SDGs, formulation of ESG strategy, and alignment of long-term corporate and ESG
- Experience developing and implementing decarbonization roadmaps for clients
- Demonstrated business acumen, including the ability to build relationships within the business function, interpret financial indicators, develop and/or adopt innovative ideas, and apply knowledge of the business to advance the organization's goals
- Familiarity with established sustainability reporting standards or frameworks such as the GHG Protocol, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), TCFD, CDP, and the International Integrated Reporting Council Integrated Reporting Framework, PRI and WEF-IBC
- Performing research, stakeholder engagement, and analysis as part of materiality assessments and ESG risk and opportunity analyses
- Working with companies to determine on what basis to set their carbon reduction targets, including Net Zero and Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTI)
- Understanding product Life Cycle Analyses (LCA's) and their relevance to setting ESG strategies for clients
- Understanding/application of TNFD requirements is a plus
- Ability to lead workshops and training
- Ability to develop and implement action plans and tracking
- Ability to collaborate across technical and account teams
- Business development expertise – preferably in sustainable infrastructure and support of Fortune 500 clients
- Support climate resilience and ESG technical and growth initiatives
- Expertise in environmental resilience, flood mitigation and green infrastructure
- Support research and identifying existing climate resilience and sustainability opportunities for on-going projects across RE sectors
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