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Your Impact:

At Jacobs, we'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40 countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are Jacobs’ greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent. In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

The role:

There is an exciting opportunity to join our growing Natural Capital Team and be part of our globally leading natural capital capability. The role can be based in any of our UK offices including - London, Reading, Bristol, Cardiff, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Edinburgh, and Glasgow. The natural capital discipline is rapidly evolving, and our nature-based services are in high demand from a range of clients and sectors. At Jacobs we help support our clients to understand what natural assets they influence, the benefits and value they can create alongside the impact of their decisions throughout the asset management lifecycle.

To meet these business needs and future aspirations, we are looking for an enthusiastic and committed candidate to support the leadership and continued growth of our team who specialises in natural capital approaches. The role sits within our Environmental Services resource group of the Water and Environment business.

As a Senior Associate Director you will help clients understand and optimise their relationship with the natural environment as an integral component to ensuring environmental protection, enhancement, and contribution to wider strategic objectives across the climate, biodiversity and social inequity crises.

Experience in leading the development and delivery of natural capital assessments is essential as there will be the expectation of engaging clients to develop, secure, and lead work to a high standard. The role would provide technical oversight and direction for project team members and would work closely with global experts across the sustainability and environmental disciplines on a wide variety of projects.

At times, there may be the need utilise your wider passion and skillset for sustainability, and we are interested to hear from candidates who have experience in environmental net gain, biodiversity net gain, social value and carbon management.

Stakeholder engagement is an important element of our natural capital work, and we are looking for a candidate who is confident in delivering workshops (virtual and face-to-face) with clients and wider stakeholders. The candidate will proactively remain up to date and lead new developments across the discipline and we will support a candidate in growing their profile internally and externally, providing mentoring opportunities to fully support development.

Here’s what you’ll need :

· Experience of successful delivery of a similar role

· Experience of business development for nature based solutions

· Experience of working with relevant guidance i.e. Defra’s Enabling a Natural Capital Approach

· Understanding of environmental net gain, environmental valuation methods, biodiversity net gain, social value, and carbon management

· Strong data analysis skills and attention to detail and an understanding of Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

· Excellent skills and experience in report writing, presentations and workshop delivery

· A good degree qualification in a relevant environmental/natural science or environmental economics

· Excellent communication and teamwork skills

· A focus and desire to work safely

· Self-starter and strong initiative

Ideally you’ll also have:

· Chartered status/working towards chartered status to an appropriate institution (IEMA, CIWEM, CIEEM etc.)

· A Masters level qualification (or equivalent) in a relevant environmental/natural science or environmental economics

· Wider sustainability skillset

Our Culture

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. Find out more about life at Jacobs. (https://careers.jacobs.com/life-at-jacobs/)

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected, and if we are diverse, we’re more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centred on inclusion and diversity – ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and Women’s – find out more about our employee networks here. (https://www.jacobs.com/about/inclusion-and-diversity?_ga=2.1062705.1096535124.1626879887-1704311048.1575562676)

Jacobs partners with VERCIDA to help us attract and retain diverse talent.  For greater online accessibility please visit www.vercida.com to view and access our roles. As a Disability Confident employer, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role

If you require further support or reasonable adjustments with regards to the recruitment process (for example, you require the application form in a different format), please contact the team (https://www.jacobs.com/contact/careers2) .

Your application experience is important to us and we’re keen to adapt to make every interaction even better. We welcome feedback on our recruitment process and if you need more from us before deciding to join Jacobs then please let us know. (https://www.jacobs.com/contact/careers2)

Jacobs is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), age, medical condition, marital or domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression and transgender status, mental disability or physical disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, citizenship, low-income status or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable law. Learn more about your rights under Federal EEO laws and supplemental language.