Senior Associate - Climate Resilience

Senior Associate, Climate Resilience

Make a difference, providing climate risk and adaptation consulting services to elevate climate change related considerations, supporting clients’ understanding and reporting across enterprise and project risks.

Work across a variety of climate resilience consulting projects and client sectors, elevating climate risk considerations across infrastructure, local government, central government, and the private sector.

Significant career development opportunities, learning from Beca’s technical experts to grow your sustainability, consulting, project delivery and client management abilities.

Opportunity

Be at the forefront of climate action in New Zealand and the Pacific by joining Beca’s national Strategic Advisory team, contributing to the provision of climate adaptation and risk consulting services throughout Beca. You will work with a passionate team providing climate‑change advice from high‑level corporate strategies through to practical tangible implementation across a vast array of projects. You will have the scope to utilise the vast and collective expertise developed over 100+ years within Beca across a multitude of disciplines, turning actions into reality and offering our clients end‑to‑end solutions like few others can.

As a Senior Associate – Climate Resilience, you will work in a complex and fast‑paced environment tackling climate change adaptation and climate risk. You will partner with clients, develop an understanding of their business, goals and objectives, and then provide robust and pragmatic solutions to shape a resilient future together. Our clients are spread across New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific and include local and central government, transport, water, energy and defence sectors.

In this role you will have a key leadership role within the Climate Resilience team, technically leading projects and coaching juniors, as well as leading data analysis, workshop facilitation and preparing reports. You will largely work with New Zealand and Pacific clients and will be expected to leverage your extensive existing network to pursue climate resilience work, grow our offering into new markets and geographies. You will be able to think analytically and holistically about broad outcomes, relate those areas to corporate, local and central government clients, translate complex issues into simple language, produce high‑quality outputs and deliver multi‑disciplinary projects. You will be part of our senior climate resilience specialist cohort, contributing to business strategy and testing new ideas and methodologies. You will be empowered to lead and execute delivery of risk assessments (using desktop risk management frameworks or spatial tools), adaptation plans (using a range of techniques including scenario planning and dynamic adaptive‑planning pathways) and development of innovative techniques, offerings, methodologies and services.

About You

Experience providing consulting or management services in climate change risk and / or adaptation will be important, or a background in a corporate or government role providing sustainability or climate change related services. You should be motivated and ready to grow your career, building on your knowledge, consulting and professional skills, and be looking to establish and build new and enduring relationships with clients. You should be excited by a challenge, able to work with ambiguity, and thrive in a growth‑focused business area that offers plenty of flexibility and variety.

Skills

• Demonstrable technical experience in leading climate adaptation or climate risk initiatives in New Zealand or the Pacific (or another relevant market)
• Credible, comfortable and effective in communicating your knowledge and expertise on climate change
• Ability to engage with clients leading to successful pursuit, bidding and winning of project commissions, and experience in growing or developing a service offering
• Recognised expertise and network within the New Zealand or Pacific market in climate change advisory
• Willingness to travel within New Zealand and internationally periodically
• Ability to lead and coach junior staff and work collaboratively in multidisciplinary teams, often remotely
• Adaptability and versatility to the wide range of work, opportunities and projects
• Ability to handle multiple workstreams or projects at the same time
• Highly motivated, self‑directed, critically minded and a problem solver
• Hold a relevant tertiary qualification across environmental science, engineering, planning, finance, economics, business, statistics, or other climate resilience related disciplines

About Beca

Beca is one of Asia Pacific’s largest independent advisory, design and engineering consultancies. After a century of operation, we have grown from a family‑owned business to one of the most progressive, client‑centric professional services consultancies in our region. We have more than 4,000 employees in 25 offices around the world and have delivered projects in more than 70 countries. ‘Creative people together transforming our world’ is our vision. It reflects our culture, our aspirations and our purpose – to make everyday better. We create value through understanding and delivering successful solutions, exceptional service and our enduring relationships helping our clients shape communities, optimise their assets and streamline their operations. Find out more about us at

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