Assessment and Appraisal Consultant - Senior / Principal

Overview / Responsibilities

Wood is a leading provider of sustainability appraisal (SA) and strategic environmental assessment (SEA) services in the UK and beyond.

Following recent client successes, we have an opportunity for a senior position to join the team to help deliver projects and grow our services.  This will include enabling clients in a variety of sectors respond to the challenges of new plan and programme development e.g., Water Resource Regional Plans, Drainage and Wastewater Management Plans, Circular Economy Plans, Carbon Plans and Local Plans by ensuring that social, economic, and environmental considerations are adequately integrated, and opportunities for environmental enhancement taken.

The projects are varied in nature, but all require skills in project management, communication, and negotiation.  The assessments are often being applied to novel plans and require a wide appreciation of policy and proposals and their effects.

We are constantly reviewing our approach to delivery to make optimal use of new integrated assessment tools that build on our experience and the complementary technical skills and services that we can access.

This position represents an excellent opportunity to develop professionally as an individual via the continued growth of our business over the next few years.

 Job Responsibilities

• You will take responsibility for scoping individual commissions, preparing proposals and winning work
• You will provide project/task management and leadership to our multi-disciplinary teams working on projects across the UK and overseas. Work will involve client facing activity and managing projects and subcontractors
• You will take responsibility for the delivery of high-quality outputs
• You will take responsibility for defining medium and long-term market opportunities, and contribute towards developing appropriate business plans
• You will collaborate to design and implement new assessment tools, considering emerging and new practice

Skills / Qualifications

Skills / Experience

• Track record in contributing to successful delivery of SEA and or SA to clients in the public and private sector
• Familiarity of SEA regulatory requirements, emerging case law and implications
• Familiarity with Integrated Impact Assessment, Health Impact Assessment and Equalities Impact Assessment
• Familiarity with project and scheme development impacts in variety of sectors e.g., housing, water, waste and resources, energy

Qualifications

Essential 

• Degree, Post Graduate Diploma or Masters in relevant subject
• Full driving licence

Desirable

• Chartered Environmentalist
• Chartered status with another relevant professional body e.g., CIWEM, RTPI

Company Overview

Wood is a global leader in engineering and consultancy across energy and the built environment, helping to unlock solutions to some of the world’s most critical challenges. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in more than 60 countries, employing around 40,000 people. www.woodplc.com

Diversity Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.