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**Job Description**
**Weu2019re looking for a Senior Climate Change Resilience Consultant to join our growing Environment and Energy Advisory team, with opportunities to be based across our offices u2014Basingstoke, Bristol, Edinburgh, London and Nottinghamu2014 while also benefiting from our flexible hybrid working model.**
Our Environment and Energy Advisory team are delivering a diverse and high-impact portfolio of projects. We are seeing a rapid increase in demand for the provision of climate change resilience services. Recent project wins on high profile, strategic projects with DSNEZ and Scottish Water along with a range of projects across the transport, energy, defence, water and other sectors in the built environment are providing us the opportunity to increase our team.
As a Senior Climate Change Risk Consultant, you will be part of our wider team helping to win and deliver key projects. Your primary role will be the management of projects and tasks as well as technical delivery of Climate Risk and Resilience projects. You will also be responsible for supporting the Climate Resilience Lead with business development and proposal preparation.
**Key Responsibilities**
**Project Delivery & Technical Leadership** Lead and deliver defined workstreams or small to mid-sized Climate Risk & Resilience (CCR) projects with minimal supervision, coordinating junior team members and ensuring high-quality technical outputs. Provide specialist expertise in areas such as infrastructure resilience, transport infrastructure adaptation, energy systems and the built environment, nature-based solutions, and place-based or systems-based adaptation approaches. Deliver projects across multiple sectors and geographies, adapting methodologies and recommendations to suit diverse client contexts and operational environments. Assess and communicate the interaction between transition climate risks and physical climate risks within broader resilience strategies. Proactively identify opportunities to improve methodologies, project efficiency, and climate resilience service offerings.
**Client & Stakeholder Engagement** Engage directly with clients and stakeholders, facilitating workshops, resilience discussions, and collaborative decision-making processes. Work effectively within complex stakeholder and regulatory environments, including public sector organisations, infrastructure owners, and regulators.
**Climate Risk Analysis & Regulatory Support** Apply knowledge of climate-related disclosure and regulatory frameworks, including TCFD and adaptation reporting requirements, to support client compliance and resilience strategies. Use data, geospatial, and digital tools such as GIS and Excel to undertake climate risk analysis and support evidence-based recommendations.
**Business Development & Thought Leadership** Support business development activities through proposal writing, client engagement, and contribution to strategic growth opportunities. Contribute to the development of internal tools, methodologies, guidance, and thought leadership relating to climate risk and resilience.
**Team Development & Collaboration** Mentor and support the development of junior team members through guidance, collaboration, and knowledge sharing.
**Qualifications**
**Ready to push the limits of whatu2019s possible?**
**_Hereu2019s what weu2019re looking for:_**
**Relevant Academic Background** Degree in Engineering, Science, or a related climate discipline, with strong knowledge of climate modelling, flood risk, infrastructure resilience, or similar fields.
**Climate Risk & Resilience Assessment Experience** Proven experience delivering climate risk, vulnerability, and resilience assessments for infrastructure, energy, utilities, or major developments, aligned with UK policy, guidance, and frameworks such as ISO 14090/14091 and TCFD.
**Technical Climate Risk Expertise** Strong technical capability in assessing current and emerging physical climate risks, applying climate projections (e.g. UKCP18), and using qualitative and quantitative risk assessment methodologies to support decision-making.
**Data Interpretation & Reporting Skills** Excellent analytical and communication skills, with the ability to interpret complex climate data and uncertainty, produce high-quality client-ready reports, and present clear actionable insights to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
**Collaboration, Leadership & Professional Development** Ability to work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams, take ownership of workstreams, support junior staff, and demonstrate commitment to professional development and chartership.
**Additional Information**
We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us at ReasonableAccommodations@aecom.com. At AECOM, we value everyone’s unique contributions and perspectives.
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For further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn ** Anne Marie Flynn | LinkedIn**
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**About AECOM**
AECOM is the worldu2019s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle u2013 from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.
**Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity**
You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether youu2019re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.
You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.
AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. Weu2019re the worldu2019s trusted global infrastructure firm, and weu2019re in this together u2013 your growth and success are ours too.
Join us, and youu2019ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm u2013 access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each personu2019s potential, and weu2019ll help you reach yours.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address ReasonableAccommodationsUKI@aecom.com if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
**ReqID:** J10150988
**Business Line:** Energy
**Business Group:** DCS
**Strategic Business Unit:** Europe & India
**Career Area:** Consulting Services
**Work Location Model:** Hybrid…