Senior Carbon Management Consultant

We're looking for a Senior Carbon Management Consultant to join our fast-growing, committed, and enthusiastic team. Ideally, we're seeking a talented professional who is based in the United States, and align to one of our Jacobs offices, with the option to work remotely. You must be a U.S. citizen to be considered for this role. You will collaborate within many facets of our business and interact with the full spectrum of staff from the entry level engineers/scientists to the senior business unit leadership.

In this key role, you'll support climate change, greenhouse gas, and carbon management projects around the globe, providing technical knowledge while helping to grow our business. Working with some of the brightest minds in environmental consulting, you'll act as a senior technical consultant and strategist providing expertise and leadership in the form of project management, project technical consultant, regulatory subject matter expert, or senior QA/QC reviewer on climate change related projects.

Through all your work, you'll champion quality, health, and safety. Clients will see you as their go-to contact as you build meaningful relationships by solving their toughest obstacles for managing and reducing their carbon footprint or responding to physical and transitional risks from climate change, and you'll define and lead client overall technical strategy. We'll rely on you to present complex technical information and interpretations to clients and regulatory stakeholders in a readily understandable manner.

You'll apply your business development skills as you help to grow our business, working directly with our sales and client account management teams to help innovate and differentiate our service offerings. You'll be the lead to understand technical client needs and provide sustainable solutions that are practical and consider the cost benefit of carbon management and GHG strategies and options.

In addition, a portion of your role will include defining technical scopes and estimating levels of effort in proposals.

Bring your expertise in carbon management and desire to work on tough problems, and we'll empower you to deliver the boldest solutions for our clients.

- 15 years' plus experience in carbon management.

- Bachelor's degree in engineering, environmental science, basic/applied science (such as physics, chemistry, material science, earth sciences, etc.), or a similar discipline.

- Experience speaking with client senior executives in corporate, industrial, or local government sectors, at conferences, and to internal company learning networks about greenhouse gas inventories and mitigation strategies, and the physical risks to infrastructure, facilities, and supply chains caused by climate change.

- Knowledge of corporate, municipal, and project based GHG inventories and the guidance documents to support their development.

- Experience in carbon markets including developing carbon offset projects, writing new carbon offset methodologies, assisting clients in taking carbon emissions to market, and assisting other clients in acquisition of offsets for their own needs.

- Ability to lead and manage a diverse team of remote practitioners.

- Experience scoping, pricing, and writing winning proposals for climate change and other sustainability projects and then managing projects after the award to achieve successful delivery.

- You must be a U.S. citizen.

Ideally, you'll also have:

- Master's degree in engineering, environmental science, basic/applied science (such as physics, chemistry, material science, earth sciences, etc.), or a similar discipline.

- Demonstrated strong business acumen.

- Expert knowledge and past track record for delivery of climate risk and opportunity analysis per TCFD frameworks, and supporting our clients' climate change disclosures via CDP and similar programs.

- Strong knowledge of science-based target setting (via the SBTi program) for GHG reductions, including Scope 3 GHG emissions estimation and supply chain engagement strategies.

- Background with environmental life cycle analyses, in particular carbon footprint of industrial products and infrastructure projects, and…