Principal Consultant – TCFD and ESG

Overview / ResponsibilitiesWood Resilient Environments (RE) is looking for a Principal Consultant – TCFD and ESG to join the team and support the integration and delivery of climate resilience and reporting into built environment projects to create value through project outputs and performance.

The Wood RE business is an established industry leader in the delivery of projects for our clients that create resilience and address climate risks, and this position will have an integral role in supporting the RE climate resilience and ESG Practice.

Wood RE is a leading E&I consultant that provides climate resilience, ESG and TCFD support to global clients and across RE’s seven market sectors: Government, Industrial/Commercial, Energy, Mining, Transportation, Oil & Gas and Water. Alignment with TCFD, ESG and other climate risk frameworks is critical part of our business, and this role will assume a leadership position within Wood E&I to advance these frameworks for our clients within our consultancy.

As a Principal Consultant for TCFD and ESG, you will be part of the team that is applying platforms and solutions to integrate climate resilience and ESG into projects that deliver value and create outcomes that improve society/stakeholders, reduce risk, and can better access capital.

This role will report the Vice President for Climate Resilience & ESG and include supporting RE Sector, Marketing, and Operational teams to deliver solutions in the climate resilience, ESG, and climate risk financing areas. It will require the ability to work across the RE Environment & Infrastructure (E&I) sectors along with communication/application of resiliency implementation features to these teams and their project areas.

This is a home-based position which include the ability to work across all time zones. Ideally this person will be based in North America with responsibilities globally.

Key Responsibilities

• Leading Wood project teams to support clients with ESG and TCFD frameworks from strategy development to project integration and delivery

• Provide management consultancy leadership in the delivery of advisory projects related to climate risk, ESG and TCFD

• Support clients with entity-wide, asset-level, and supply/value chain climate risk, and resilience assessments

• Lead and support clients in the development, implementation and reporting to climate change impacts, climate resilience, ESG performance, TCFD and other related climate reporting frameworks

• Developing and maintaining data management systems and business intelligence tools

• Communication around ESG/corporate sustainability efforts with senior leadership, Board of Directors, and other key stakeholders, including our clients colleagues

• Supporting clients with external ESG/corporate sustainability reports and initiatives

• Experience performing materiality assessments, stakeholder mapping, examination of UN SDGs, formulation of ESG strategy, and alignment of long-term corporate and ESG

• Experience developing and implementing decarbonization roadmaps for clients

• Demonstrated business acumen, including the ability to build relationships within the business function, interpret financial indicators, develop and/or adopt innovative ideas, and apply knowledge of the business to advance the organization’s goals

• Familiarity with established sustainability reporting standards or frameworks such as the GHG Protocol, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), TCFD, CDP, and the International Integrated Reporting Council Integrated Reporting Framework, PRI and WEF-IBC.

• Performing research, stakeholder engagement, and analysis as part of materiality assessments and ESG risk and opportunity analyses

• Working wi...