Job Abstract

ERM is a leading global provider of environmental, health, safety, risk, social consulting services and sustainability related services. We work with the world's leading organizations, delivering innovative solutions and helping them to understand and manage their sustainability challenges. The key sectors we serve include oil & gas, mining & metals, power, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, chemical, and technology, media & telecommunications. All face critical sustainability challenges and our clients in these and many other areas rely on our ability to assist them operate more sustainably which has a positive impact on our planet.

You can learn more about ERM, as well as our vision and values here.

ERM’s Climate Risk and Opportunity Advisory (CROA) team, within our broader Corporate Sustainability & Climate Change (CS&CC) function, is growing quickly. We are looking for consultants to support us in helping our clients shape and deliver on their climate strategies and disclosures. There is a significant opportunity for individuals to progress within the organization, to take increasing responsibility for managing our work within the climate change space and developing market-leading offerings to meet our clients’ needs. This role will focus on quantifying the financial implications of climate risk, but there are opportunities for the candidate to contribute to all of our team’s work across the climate change space (including relating to the low-carbon energy transition and net zero). More details of the role, as well as the skills required to fulfil it, are detailed below.

An opportunity has emerged for a candidate to join this part of the team as a Consulting Associate. Whilst the role is focused on transition climate risk, it will require the successful candidate to support our clients across climate risk and opportunity, as a project coordinator and technical leader. Additionally, the role is highly likely to include significant elements of innovation and development, and to emerge into other areas (including project management, client leadership) in the future as well as possible people leadership.

More details of the role, as well as the skills required to fulfill it, are detailed below.

As a member of the Climate Risk and Opportunity Advisory Team, you will:

• Support the delivery of client deliverables by working with team members across the business – including contributing to client presentations and workshops – in particular on climate-related risk and opportunity, and with a focus on transition climate risks. A key aspect of this will be to communicate the findings of our work to clients in a digestible, compelling way.
• Engage directly with corporate clients, including senior leadership, to provide education on climate-related topics, and present your own analytical work and defend quantitative results.
• Incorporate a wide range of data sources into your analyses including corporate financial data, geospatial climate data, academic research and industry-specific reports.
• Work within project teams to analyse transition climate models from multiple sources (including the IEA, NGFS, etc.), as well as assess and quantify risk and impact across geographies.
• Support business development and sales-related activities, including helping senior colleagues to draft client proposals and develop new offers.
• Contribute to ERM’s innovation and knowledge-sharing through ad-hoc involvement in thought leadership, internal newsletters, learning sessions, amongst other initiatives.

Well-placed candidates will match some or a significant part of the specification below and are warmly invited to send applications if so.

Required:

• Background Academic and/or professional experience in climate change / sustainability.  Understands the fundamentals of why climate change is happening, how it will start to affect business models/strategy/company revenue, Capex, Opex and familiar with the concepts of decarbonization & net zero pathways.
• Motivational Fit – Produce high-quality client-ready deliverables, can work independently, team player, demonstrates critical thinking and is comfortable with ambiguity.
• Experience with Climate Risk and Corporate Reporting - An understanding of financial issues related to climate change, specifically those relating to climate reporting and disclosure initiatives such as the TCFD, IFRS, SEC, SB261/253, CSRD and EU Taxonomy.
• Communication - Excellent communication skills, particularly relating to packaging complex outputs into a digestible format and communicating technical concepts to a non-technical audience through workshops and presentations.

Desired:

• Experience with modelling the financial impacts of climate-related issues, specifically transition climate risks.
• Experience (whether through study or a professional role) of working with climate related risks and opportunities.
• Familiar with how transition risks can impact supply chains.
• Graduate or postgraduate-level, with 0-2 years of relevant professional experience
• Washington, DC or Irvine, CA preferred

At ERM, we put our people first. We ensure that we create and maintain a supportive and positive workplace culture. We also offer our employees a diverse and inclusive culture in which differences are embraced and celebrated – through, for example dedicated Employee Resource Groups. Please feel free to contact us if you wish to find out more about our diversity and inclusion culture, or if you would need special arrangements for your interview should your application progress to that stage. We’d love to hear from you. Please get in touch!

For the Consulting Associate, Climate Risk position, we anticipate the annual base pay of $64,000 – $74,251 USD.  An employee’s pay position within this range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, and business or organizational needs.  We also may have instances where compensation may be outside of the range, based on the factors noted above.  This job is also eligible for an annual discretionary based performance bonus.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, paid parental leave, medical, dental, vision, life, disability and AD&D insurance, 401(k) or RRSP/DPSP, and any other benefits to eligible employees as applicable.

You can apply for this role through https://www.erm.com/careers/apply/ or through the internal careers portal if you are a current employee.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, or any other form of compensation that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

Who We Are:

As the largest global pure play sustainability consultancy, we partner with the world’s leading organizations, creating innovative solutions to sustainability challenges and unlocking commercial opportunities that meet the needs of today while preserving opportunity for future generations.

At ERM we know that creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive work environment is an essential part of making our company a great place to build a career. We also see our diversity as a strength that helps us create better solutions for our clients. Our diverse team of world-class experts supports clients across the breadth of their organizations to operationalize sustainability, underpinned by our deep technical expertise in addressing their environmental, health, safety, risk and social issues. We call this capability our “boots to boardroom” approach for its comprehensive service model that allows ERM to develop strategic and technical solutions that advance objectives on the ground or at the executive level.

Please submit your resume and brief cover letter. Based on review of these responses, shortlisted candidates will be invited for interviews.

ERM does not accept recruiting agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, ERM employees or any other company location. ERM is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

ERM is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. 

Thank you for your interest in ERM!