Sustainability Associate

4 weeks ago


Dubai, United Arab Emirates Turner & Townsend Full time

**Company Description**:
At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.

Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 130 countries worldwide.

Our team is dynamic, innovative and client-focused, supported by an inclusive and fun company culture. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity and the quality we deliver. As a result our people get to enjoy working on some of the most exciting projects in the world.

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Environmental Sustainability professional to fulfil the role of **Sustainability Associate**, to support the growth of our Sustainability and Net Zero team. The individual in this position may be located in any of our offices in major cities across the UAE.

This position offers an exciting opportunity to work with high-profile clients from various sectors, whilst developing and delivering a broad range of sustainability services.

**Accountabilities**
- Work with clients to develop, deliver and assure Sustainability and Net Zero strategies across projects and programmes and throughout the asset lifecycle
- Developing and securing business opportunities with existing and new clients
- Develop internal stakeholder relationships with infrastructure, real estate and natural resources sectors, liaising with Key Account Managers and Sector Leads
- Embedding Sustainability into Turner & Townsend’s processes and procedures for the delivery of projects and programmes

**Responsibilities**
- Ensure that client requirements are identified, scoped effectively and delivered in line with agreed proposal deliverables
- Work with bid teams to write technical solutions to meet client requirements
- Coach/mentor junior members of the team as appropriate
- Support in day-to-day management of the growing team to deliver services effectively, achieve performance targets and develop technical capabilities
- Targeting clients for engagement and developing bids for service provision in line with our Sustainability and Net Zero capabilities
- Supporting the implementation and monitoring of Turner & Townsend’s Corporate Responsibility and Net Zero strategies.

**Qualifications**:

- Professionally qualified member of a recognised institution
- Sustainability certification accreditation desirable

**Knowledge / Experience**
- Experience of delivering Sustainability consultancy support for clients is essential, including the areas of energy and carbon (Net Zero Emissions), water, waste, circular economy, and biodiversity
- Experience of working in real estate and infrastructure (masterplan) is required, for both, ideally for new build and retrofit
- Business development experience, in the context of developing winning opportunities with existing as well as new clients
- Comprehensive knowledge of environmental legislation and sustainability issues in region
- Experience in development and implementation of net zero roadmaps and strategies, including carbon assessment, monitoring and reporting
- Experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams and matrix management organisations on major projects and programmes
- Experience of providing sustainability advisory services throughout the lifecycle of major projects and programmes
- A thorough understanding of sustainability accreditation methods such as LEED, Estidama and WELL would be an advantage
- Ability to communicate with clients and other key stakeholders on global, national and regional issues, including the Climate and Biodiversity Emergency and Net Zero Emissions
- Ability to build strong, professional client relationships and proactively identifies and resolves client’s issues
- Confident working alone or as part of a team, with ability to adapt as required
- Attention to detail in service delivery, communications and ways of working with others
- Excellent communication including writing and presentation skills

**Additional Information**:
Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

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