Climate Change Consultant

Climate Change consultant

We are looking for a dynamic and ambitious Consultant to join Itad’s Inclusive Growth and Climate Change practice. The role is focused on delivering and supporting the growth of our climate and nature portfolio, including the technical delivery of our monitoring, evaluation and learning projects and supporting business development activities.

Location: Brighton, hybrid You don’t need to be in the office every day, travel to the office would be expected for key company and team events which are typically once a month.

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time 37.5 per week

Salary: Circa £40,000 depending on experience

Closing date: 18th February 2024

About Itad

Itad is a leading international development consultancy providing advice to governments, foundations, multilateral agencies development finance institutes, private sector and non-profits on how to maximise the impact of their investments. We have a 40 year track record of providing our clients with the information and insight they need to make development work smarter, produce better results and improve people’s lives. Our knowledge and expertise are grouped around Practice areas including; Inclusive Growth and Climate Change, Fragile and Conflict-affected Settings, Human Development and Governance and Institutional Strengthening.

Our knowledge and expertise are grouped around four Practice areas including Inclusive Growth and Climate Change, Fragile and Conflict-affected Settings (FCAS), Human Development, and Governance and Institutional Strengthening.

Our projects range from designing complex MEL systems for major global initiatives, to providing strategic advice to programmes and organisations, and to conducting long-term impact evaluations. In all of our work, our focus is on providing the insight and ideas to ensure that the resources invested in international development have the greatest possible beneficial impact on people and the planet.

We are a values-based organisation. Our values include making a difference, delivering technical excellence and innovation, contributing through collaboration and learning, providing opportunities for personal development to our staff, promoting inclusion and diversity, taking action to improve our impact the environment, and shared rewards for the people we work with. We endeavour to integrate these into all aspects of our work.

This role sits with our Inclusive Growth and Climate Change practice, which recognises that the threats posed by climate change are global and have the potential to reverse hard-fought development gains. We believe the transformative change needed to address these threats must be based on a robust understanding of what works and why. The evaluation and learning work we do to understand climate change, natural resources and resilience helps our partners to use evidence-based findings to make decisions which lead to informed investments and actionable change towards a low carbon, climate-resilient future.

The role

You will be joining a team who are passionate about having a positive impact on people and the planet through the support we provide clients to use evidence. Your role will involve the technical delivery of our monitoring, evaluation and learning projects and supporting business development activities to continue to grow our portfolio.

You will have the opportunity to work across the climate and nature portfolio relevant to your experience and interests. You will contribute to the successful delivery and management of projects, build and own relationships with key client stakeholders, contribute to business development activities, share learning through knowledge products and, where possible, external conferences and events, and be a part of maintaining our excellent reputation with our external teams and clients. The core technical strengths of all our consultants are focused around four key areas:

• **Evidence Advocate:**using robust evidence to support clients and shape global debates.

• Change Agent: guiding clients in reflecting, learning and managing change.

• Project Manager: building high performing project teams that deliver quality and commercial targets.

• Trusted Advisor: building and shaping long term relationships with clients and partners that add value and deliver commercial success.

• As an evidence advocate you will be applying your knowledge and experience of MEL to lead and advise others in the design and implementation of complex MEL projects and workstreams. You will have demonstrated technical expertise in designing MEL systems, tools and processes for a range of clients, and designing and delivering evaluations using a range of approaches and methodologies. You have used these methods to present evidence and analysis to clients – both written and verbally – in a clear, distilled and accessible way, facilitating engagement and use.

• As a change agent you will have demonstrated facilitation and communication skills and experience, conveying ideas to clients and teams in a clear and focused style, flexing your technique to suit the environment, and in a way that generates buy-in and supports learning.

• As a project manager you will have a track record in managing the delivery of complex projects, setting clear direction, managing risk and ensuring delivery of high quality outputs that meet commercial targets and provide value for money.

• As a trusted advisor you will have a strong understanding of how our clients work, and demonstrated ability to build strong relationships with clients that generate repeat work. You will also have experience in complex bid processes, including building and managing large teams and consortia.

The role is based in our offices in Brighton (East Sussex), but we are open to you working anywhere in the UK. Travel to the office would be expected for key company and team events. You will already have the right to live and work in the UK and be able to undertake national and international travel when conditions allow.

The candidate

You will have experience within monitoring, evaluation and learning within at least one relevant thematic area covered by the practice. This could be accompanied with specific expertise in one or more of the following areas: climate change resilience, adaptation mitigation/ renewable energy, nature-based solutions, oceans/ marine, climate finance or other relevant expertise.

Experience of working in a consultancy environment or equivalent would be desirable, with experience across the full lifecycle from bidding to delivery. You will play an active role in bidding work and ideally have a personal network and understanding of the climate change funding architecture to support this.

We also know that there are great candidates who will not fit everything we have described above, or who have important skills we have not mentioned. If that is you, please do not hesitate to apply and tell us about yourself.

Our Benefits

We offer:

• A matched company pension up to 5%.
• 26 days holiday per year, plus a further 3 flexible days and public holidays which you can take whenever you want to.
• Continuous learning: you will have access to our online training, as well as induction programmes and the opportunity to attend company training.
• Hybrid and flexible working
• Cycle to work scheme
• Pluxee benefit platform: this platform provides up to 20% discount at over 100 UK retailers. It offers savings on holidays, restaurants, cinemas, and gym memberships and an average of 5% discount on supermarkets - giving you the option to take advantage of the benefits which are most impactful for you.

Our office is easily accessible, close to public transport and dog friendly.

The deadline for applications is Sunday 18th February, but please note we will be interviewing candidates on a rolling basis.

We also know that there are great candidates who will not fit everything we have described above, or who have important skills we have not mentioned. If that is you, please do not hesitate to apply and tell us about yourself.

At Itad, we are committed to actively promoting diversity, equality and inclusion to empower people both within our organisation and through our work. We know that employees with diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences make us a more effective and innovative company and we therefore welcome and encourage applications from interested candidates regardless of age, sex, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, or belief.