Corporate Sustainability Director – Governance, Policy & Regulation

At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.

Your impact:
At Jacobs, we tackle the world’s most critical challenges driven by our purpose to create a more connected, sustainable world. Through our global sustainability strategy, Plan Beyond, we integrate sustainability and resilience into how we operate, how we govern risk, how we allocate capital, and how we create value for clients.

Sustainability expectations increasingly influence regulatory compliance, economic performance, enterprise risk and market competitiveness. Jacobs operates across diverse geographies, sectors and regulatory regimes. This requires strong enterprise‑level coordination to ensure regulatory readiness, clear policy frameworks, effective risk management and commercially sound decision‑making across operations, supply chains and corporate functions.

This role plays a central part in ensuring Jacobs is prepared for, and responsive to, evolving sustainability‑related requirements, while supporting the Vice President, Global Head of Sustainability in delivering the broader sustainability agenda across the enterprise.

The Corporate Sustainability Director Policy, Regulation and Governance is accountable for strengthening Jacobs’ enterprise‑wide regulatory readiness, sustainability policy framework, economic rationale and risk integration across a complex global operating environment. The core role is focused on ensuring that sustainability‑related regulatory and policy requirements — spanning environmental, social, governance, economic and technology considerations — are anticipated, understood and translated into clear, practical and proportionate enterprise processes covering operations and supply chains.

The Director leads the development and maintenance of a coherent sustainability policy architecture, supports transformation business cases (including AI‑enabled and Responsible AI initiatives), and works closely with the Enterprise Risk function to ensure material sustainability impacts, risks and opportunities are identified, mitigated/enabled and managed through appropriate policies, processes and initiatives.

In addition, the role acts as a senior strategic support and advisor to the Vice President, Global Head of Sustainability, providing insight, analysis and governance support deliver of Jacobs Plan Beyond Sustainability Approach.

• Ensure enterprise regulatory readiness for sustainability‑related requirements across global operations and supply chains.
• Maintain and evolve a robust sustainability policy framework, ensuring policies remain current, effective and aligned with regulatory, risk and business needs.
• Strengthen the economic and transformation case for sustainability, including business cases at enterprise level and deployed within a decentralised operating environment, including embedment of sustainability into operations, with technology and AI a key enabler.
• Support effective identification, assessment and management of material sustainability risks in partnership with the Enterprise Risk team.
• Act as a strategic support to the Vice President across all sustainability priorities, ensuring coherence and alignment at enterprise level and deployed within a decentralised operating environment.

• Monitor, interpret and assess sustainability‑related trends, regulatory, policy and standards developments across key jurisdictions.
• Translate regulatory and policy developments into clear enterprise guidance, readiness actions and prioritised response pathways, covering corporate functions, and partnering with operational and functional teams to deliver the required changes.
• Support proactive planning to address regulatory change efficiently, avoiding unnecessary complexity or duplication in delivery.

• Act as policy owner for core…