Climate Change Specialist

Job Description

Location: London

Salary: Base salary: £41,750 pa to c. £49,100 pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer a flexible benefits fund of 15% which is paid on top of the base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

As a Climate Change Specialist at HS2, you will provide specialist technical support on climate change adaptation & resilience management for all phases of the project. You will work in collaboration with the supply chain as well as HS2 colleagues to ensure project commitments relating to climate change are delivered and timescales are met with value for money at the forefront of all decisions. The role will include working with a wide range of stakeholders including contractors and government decision and policy makers.

About the role:

1. Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.
2. Support the Climate Change Manager in development and implementation of climate change adaptation & resilience management requirements.
3. Develop and implement procedures, tools and systems as appropriate to ensure climate change requirements are clearly defined and well understood and to enable effective and efficient delivery of climate change adaptation & resilience objectives.
4. Provide technical assessment and reviews for the hybrid bills and associated tasks, including Environment Statements, Petitioner responses and Parliamentary Queries.
5. Work with delivery teams in providing support and specialist climate change management and reduction expertise.
6. Participate in the Environment team’s wider objectives and work closely with them to achieve climate change objectives. Provide technical assessment and review to assure that deliverables meet the project’s climate change requirements.
7. Represent HS2 at climate change technical meetings with stakeholders as required.
8. Engage pro-actively with internal and external stakeholders.
9. Work with delivery teams to ensure consistency of approach, promote best practice, innovation and value for money.
10. Continue to develop professionally, maintaining technical competencies and identifying opportunities for learning new skills in order to meet work objectives more effectively.

About You:

Skills:

1. Ability to communicate effectively with technical specialists, non-technical project managers and technical stakeholders.
2. Ability to technically assess and review climate change management deliverables submitted by contractors.
3. Be able to review parliamentary submissions as part of the hybrid Bill & petitioning process.
4. The ability to provide technical responses to Parliamentary Questions and Freedom of Information requests.

Knowledge:

1. Suitable qualifications to degree standard, or experience and education to demonstrate a good understanding of climate change adaptation & resilience principles.
2. Knowledge and understanding of the relevant legislation, technical guidance, industry standards and best practice in relation to climate change adaptation & resilience.
3. Memberships of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment and understanding of the relevant legislation, technical guidance, industry standards and best practice in relation to climate change adaptation & resilience.

Type of experience:

1. Experience of implementing climate change adaptation & resilience principles within complex and medium to high risk projects.
2. Experience of working in multidisciplinary teams.
3. Experience of delivering successful outcomes with complex stakeholders.
4. Experience of working with subject matter experts relevant to the role, including contractors and consultants.

The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect.

It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept.

Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.

We ask for a variety of detail in your online application; however, we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert.

About Us

High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK’s new high-speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain’s major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.

HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff – living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.

HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others’ health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our ‘Safe at Heart’ programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.

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