Senior Consultant-Sustainable Development & Healthy Living

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WSP is seeking a senior sustainability consultant with 6 years plus experience to join the Middle East Advisory Services team in the UAE and KSA. The role delivers high quality sustainability consulting across master planning and built-environment projects, manages certification processes (LEED, WELL, Estidama, Mostadam, BREEAM) and site audits, and guides energy and resource reduction while communicating results to clients. You will oversee multiple projects, budgets, and client workshops with occasional travel to project sites in the Middle East. Ideal candidates hold engineering, architecture, or urban planning degrees, strong English communication, and certifications such as LEED AP or WELL AP. Tailor your resume to show international project experience, independent work, client impact, and reporting success.

WSP is seeking a senior sustainability consultant with more than 6 years of experience to join our large and growing environmental and sustainability team to work with our Middle East Advisory Services team. The successful applicant will operate within a team of environmental and sustainability professionals in UAE and KSA, delivering the highest standards of technical work and aiding the continued success of the E&S team by being an integral part of our client-focused delivery of projects. The work will comprise carrying out sustainability consulting within the Middle East. There will also be opportunities for the applicant to travel or stay for a short duration at project site locations (Middle East), develop their consulting skills, provide input to technical reports, and the costing & writing of proposals. 
You will be joining a well-respected, large, and dynamic team with a wide range of clients across different markets and sectors, including national and local government, industrial, commercial, and scientific sectors. 

• Manage certification projects, including LEED, WELL, Estidama, Mostadam, BREEAM, etc., during the design and construction process.
• Manage master planning projects for sustainability implementation.
• Assessing and managing climate-related risks and opportunities in the built environment.
• Identifying and evaluating opportunities to achieve energy, GHG, and resource reductions.
• Manage and track engagement budgets and invoicing.
• Manage multiple projects concurrently.
• Lead and manage client meetings, presentations, certification processes, and sustainability workshops for design and contractor teams, liaising with certification authorities (such as USGBC).
• Create, manage, and review client deliverables and reports with the support of fellow team members.
• Willing to travel to Middle East project site locations for construction site audits (occasional travel or stay for a short duration)
   

• Bachelor or Master of Engineering, Architecture, or Urban Planning in a relevant discipline
  6–10 years of experience in sustainability-related consulting with experience in international projects
• Experience in sustainability building and masterplan certifications (knowledge of rating systems such as LEED, Mostadam, Estidama, CEEUQAL, SITES, and WELL is preferred)
• Experience with construction site audits related to sustainability and environmental management
• Experience with developing and implementing sustainability concepts for master planning projects.
• Experience in circular economy principles and life cycle assessments is advantageous.
• Understand energy modeling and can interpret modeling results.
• Diverse sector knowledge includes property and building, government, and retail.
• Strong oral and written communication skills in English with the ability to communicate results via Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, and related software and craft compelling presentations and reports
• Flexible and open to working with the wider environment and sustainability disciplines.
• Comfortable working independently
• Solutions focused.
• Professional certification such as LEED AP, WELL AP, GREEN RATER, ENEGY RATER preferred

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