The Nature & Biodiversity Team in the UK are looking for an Associate – Corporate Strategy Specialist to join our expanding team of specialist consultants.
This role can be based in any of our UK offices (Bath, London, Leeds, Manchester, Edinburgh) with hybrid working arrangements to suit, and can be offered on a permanent or contract basis.
In this role, you will be able to be part of a small team that has a key influence on the outcomes of a wide variety of diverse and interesting projects both in the UK and internationally. As well as being responsible for ensuring best ecological practice is embedded across all of the projects that we work on, this is an opportunity to collaborate across disciplines to work on projects that aim to secure climate-resilient cities, protect critical habitats and ecological corridors, embed ecosystem restoration into strategic plans, and support clients with their biodiversity targets and climate strategies. Specifically, this role includes developing our corporate biodiversity service offer, with a particular focus on maximising opportunities resulting from the multiple nature-related disclosure frameworks that are becoming increasingly important to our clients (e.g. TNFD, CSRD and SBTN).
This role will encompass:
- Working with the Nature and Biodiversity leadership team to develop a strategy for growing our corporate biodiversity and strategic nature-positive work.
- Engaging with clients to understand their needs, and help them navigate the complexities of setting a nature-positive direction for their organisations; through corporate strategies, strategic guidance on landscape-scale projects, and nature-related disclosure framework reporting.
- Providing technical input (and in some cases technical lead) on the above, including:
- project scoping and reporting for corporate strategies
- Materiality assessments
- TNFD assessments, ESRS4 under CSRD, SBTN and GRI 101
- project-based nature-positive / net gain strategies, targets, and performance indicators
- Collaborating with other disciplines to develop the service offer and ensure we are looking at nature and nature-based solutions holistically.
- Feeding into a business development plan to support the delivery of the strategy.
- Contribution to work winning, including the development of proposals.
- Inputting into marketing material and developing thought leadership articles for social media
- Preparing technical reports, presentations and leading stakeholder workshops.
- Project management, including resource planning, managing budgets and reporting deadlines.
- Management of and mentoring more junior team members.
We are looking for:
- A strategic and technical lead for corporate biodiversity strategy-related work and advice.
- Experience in delivering nature positive /net gain strategies (whether they be corporate or project-based)
- An individual who is passionate about biodiversity and wants to help shape the future of business globally.
- Commitment to applying an evidence-based and technically rigorous approach to our advisory work.
- The ability to communicate issues and ideas to different audiences including providing advice directly to clients, through meetings, online presentations, and in-person.
- Good project management skills, including planning, budgeting, coordinating others and time management.
- Membership of CIEEM or similar professional body, or the willingness to become a member with the company’s
support.
- In general, having a positive, solutions-focussed, and collaborative approach to working.
What’s in it for me?
This is an opportunity to work with a dedicated and passionate team, in a bespoke organisation that values innovation,
and real outcomes that make a difference. The Nature and Biodiversity team forms an integral part of the business and
helps to shape entire projects by being involved at the outset and putting strategies in place to protect the environment,
determine biodiversity priorities and weave best practice and net gain into their fabric. Our focus on strategic level overseas projects and partnerships with conservation scientists and international experts, results in a highly varied and
interesting workload.
The existing team’s ethos is supportive and collaborative and encourages independent thinking, allowing staff to work
autonomously, and supporting them to grow their career in the direction that they choose. The team prides itself on the
consistent use of best practice and the quality of its work. If you're looking to make a positive impact and create real
change you will be rewarded with an excellent salary and access to extensive learning and development opportunities,
generous pension contributions, private medical, life, dental and travel insurance, flexible leave, and more.
Be you at Buro Happold
Buro Happold is proud to be a practice of a diverse range of professionals. We actively promote inclusivity to enable
every individual to reach their full potential, the more inclusive we are the better our work will be. We believe diverse
people with different experiences develop the most innovative and elegant solutions through collaboration. #LI-TG1 #LI-Hybrid
A place for everyone
Buro Happold values an individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of how you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.
Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds, and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.
We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment. We are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing differences allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.
Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact recruitment@burohappold.com so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.