Sustainability Consultant

**Sustainability Consultant**
Sydney, NSW
Sustainability, Energy and Climate Change

RWDI is a global engineering consultancy firm who are seeking a **Sustainability, Energy and Climate Change Consultant **to support the growth of our Sustainability services and expansion of our global sustainability presence.

Since our founding, RWDI has been passionate about understanding how the natural and built environments interact to create places and processes that are safe, sustainable, and productive.

Through this work we have developed an array of world leading expertise in practice areas such as wind engineering, air quality, building physics, meteorology, sustainability and building science. We are committed to leveraging our expertise to help solve the world's biggest challenge - climate change.

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Core responsibilities: *
- Expand our service area and clientele in the sustainability, energy modelling and climate change resilience space across Australia and New Zealand. Coordinate the delivery of sustainability, energy, climate change, and circular economy services.
- Work collaboratively with client teams and RWDI’s Sustainability Team to deliver high quality technical projects
- Coordinate the delivery of sustainability, energy, climate change, and circular economy serviceswith focus on sustainability, energy, climate change and circular economy.
- Provide collateral material support for marketing initiatives of sustainability services across Australia and New Zealand.
- Positively promote the company in all dealings with clients and staff
- Engage in thought leadership through public speaking and technical publications

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Qualifications: *
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Architecture, Public Policy, Environmental Studies, Energy or Sustainability. Higher Level Degrees considered an asset.
- Five plus (5+) years of experience with consulting and project management in the Sustainability/ Energy/Climate Change industry with an established client base (within the private, public, and non-profit sectors) across Australia and New Zealand.
- Relevant certifications, e.g.: Green Star, NatHERS, NABERS.
- Awareness of key climate change regulatory drivers, standards, and policies and both local (Australian) and regional (Asia Pacific) sustainability codes, incentives, and certifications
- Experience, desire, and confidence to work in and contribute to project teams and to the growth of business in a dynamic market environment
- Strong analytical skills, ability to think strategically, analyse and synthesize diverse qualitative and quantitative data and information
- Ability to collaborate remotely across geographies and platforms
- Ability to communicate complex issues to a wide range of audience understanding
- Ability to develop and maintain excellent working relationships with clients and co-workers
- Well-developed interpersonal skills, maturity, credibility, confidence, and integrity
- Experience in developing detailed proposals and negotiating scope and fees with clients
- Proven ability to complete projects according to outlined scope, budget, and timeline
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Exceptional organizational capabilities

The following qualifications and skills will be considered a plus:
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Experience seeing projects through the full life cycle
- Detailed knowledge of, or experience with materials management, circular economy standards and certifications, and zero waste best practices
- Involvement with regional committees and organizations related to Sustainability/ Energy/Climate Change
- Familiarity with corporate and commercial real estate facilities management practices.
- Other certifications including LEED and WELL.

We can offer a unique opportunity to work with a dynamic global sustainability team
- if this challenge interests you please submit your cover letter and resume to;

**Salary**: Commensurate with experience
Location: Sydney Office, but not essential. Hybrid working is available for this role.

RWDI endorses and practices the principles of equal opportunity employment.
We are committed to diversity and inclusion.
Accommodations are available during all stages of the recruitment process in accordance with AODA and the Human Rights Code.