Associate Director - Environmental Due Diligence

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in environmental science, geology, hydrogeology, environmental engineering, sustainability or a related discipline.
• Relevant professional accreditation or chartership is desirable.
• Relevant Phase 1 ESA / EDD training and familiarity with recognised international good practice and jurisdiction-specific requirements.
• Health and safety competence appropriate to site-based and international work.
• Experience
• Substantial relevant experience in environmental consultancy and transaction advisory, with a strong record leading Phase 1 ESA / EDD for property, infrastructure, industrial or corporate transactions.
• Demonstrable experience managing multi-site, portfolio and multi-jurisdictional assignments, including international team coordination and review of locally prepared outputs.
• Strong contaminated land and environmental liability expertise, with sound judgement on materiality, uncertainty, further investigation and mitigation.
• Experience advising investors, lenders, insurers, corporates and/or legal advisers in transaction settings.
• Strong due diligence experience, including governance structures, policies, controls, accountability, risk oversight and management systems.
• Experience designing or delivering post-transaction action plans, integration, remediation, risk reduction or value-creation programmes.
• Commercial experience in opportunity shaping, proposals, pricing, negotiation, project financial management and account development.
• Ability to sign off complex technical work, communicate to senior non-technical audiences and defend recommendations under scrutiny.
• Experience leading, coaching and developing multidisciplinary teams in high-pressure environments.
• Competence in Microsoft 365, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams and SharePoint.
• Useful additional experience
• The following experience would be beneficial but is not required for the role:
• Exposure to ESG due diligence in an investment, transaction or lender context, including an understanding of how material ESG risks and opportunities may influence investment decisions and post-transaction priorities.
• Familiarity with environmental and social due diligence requirements and recognised international frameworks, such as the IFC Performance Standards, Equator Principles and Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) processes.
• Experience working with sustainability and other technical specialists to identify where additional ESG, climate, social, human rights, nature or other specialist input may be required as part of a wider transaction.
• An interest in developing broader ESG due diligence capability and supporting integrated EDD and ESG transaction advisory services.
• Why Arcadis?
• We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
• You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.
• Together, we can create a lasting legacy.
• Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.
• Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
• We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.