NSB Recruitment have an exceptional remote opportunity for a Nature Finance Consultant or an ambitious Consultant (part time or full time considered) to join a purpose driven sustainability consultancy.
Your role will be working on a range of impactful projects alongside a small friendly that are passionate about the world they live in and focus on delivering work that will help grasp the tremendous opportunities and navigate the risks associated with the green transition. With some great clients and collaborators, our client has established an excellent position in the green finance market where they enable clients to understand, explore and run with emerging blended and private green finance opportunities.
Their track record speaks for itself, including working with numerous nature finance investment readiness projects such as via the West Midlands Local Investment in Natural Capital programme, seven Landscape Recovery projects and various Natural Environment Investment Readiness Fund and The Facility for Investment Ready Nature in Scotland projects. They are also working with Combined Authorities and other strategic bodies on building retrofit, climate adaptation and transport green finance.
They are now looking for a Senior Consultant or ambitious Consultant to help build on this platform to help to take their client’s green finance work to the next level.
They will want you to support a challenging portfolio of projects, provide qualitative and quantitative research and analysis and work with senior team members to develop opportunities and bids whilst growing and honing your own skills. They will expect the successful candidate to lead on task completion, handling client and stakeholder queries and deliver on projects.
Qualifications and Requirements
This role requires strong communication skills, initiative, and the ability to work independently. The successful candidate will be a self-starter, hands-on and customer focused individual, with a passion for environmental compliance and a commitment to excellence.
They want people that seek to deliver long-lasting value for clients, embrace innovation, care about the world we live in and can build long lasting relationships.
- Around 3-5 years of experience in the development of natural capital projects, ideally exploring one or more of the following aspects:
- Developing projects that are looking to deliver nature restoration, including an understanding of a range of natural habitats and challenges within nature conservation.
- Green finance project/programme development i.e. typically these projects involve some mix of qualitative and quantitative research and analysis/modelling as well as landowner/supplier, buyer and investor engagement.
- Measuring and valuing environmental assets e.g. natural capital accounting or environmental economics.
- An understanding of the developing green finance market, including market analysis and market development (e.g., through biodiversity net gain and other mechanisms). o Green or sustainable finance policy in the UK and/or internationally.
- A talent and ability to handle data, analyse and present it in powerful ways.
- Experience in strategy, advisory, digital, infrastructure and/or sustainability projects generally.
- Strong communication skills, and growing experience of collaborating with diverse stakeholders/audiences.
- Experience in managing clients and partners to create lasting relationships, ideally with a track record to demonstrate.
- Be an effective and proactive team member, capable of supporting those around you.
Rewards & Benefits
My client offers a highly competitive salary along with a range of exciting benefits. This is an exceptional opportunity to join an ambitious business with significant growth plans. My client offers training & support as well as great scope for progression and reward. You will have significant input into the growth and development of the business.
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