Lead Environmental Consultant

Manager of multiple Front-Line Managers in the field of Environmental Health.

• Health Safety and Environment: Monitor and review performance against health safety and environment (HSE) key performance indicators (KPIs) and patterns of behavior within the area of responsibility. Take action to improve performance and to resolve noncompliance with the organizations HSE policies procedures and mandatory instructions.
• Project Management: Manage a portfolio of projects while reporting to senior colleagues.
• Client & Customer Management (External): Manage important client relationships with guidance from senior colleagues or oversee relationship management with a group of more transactional clients and customers.
• Organizational Capability Building: Use the organizations formal development framework to identify the teams individual development needs. Plan and implement actions including continuing professional development specified by professional or regulatory institutions to build their professional capabilities. Provide informal training or coaching to others throughout the organization in own area of expertise to enable others to improve performance and fulfill personal potential.
• Personal Capability Building: Act as subject matter expert in an area of technology policy regulation or operational management for the team. Maintain external accreditations and in-depth understanding of current and emerging external regulation and industry best practices through continuing professional development attending conferences and reading specialist media.
• Community of Practice Management: Participate in and contribute to a community of practice in a defined area of expertise or consulting to build own capability and develop innovative practice among colleagues.
• Analysis of As Is and To Be: Document complex as is and to be processes and describe the changes required to migrate to the to be capability to record accurately the change required.
• Client Issue Diagnosis: Collate and conduct analysis of the tactical and operational information gathered through interviews and research to support the diagnosis of underlying client issues and problems and the design of single solutions.
• Environmental Risk Management: Oversee the environmental risk management processes ensuring the organizations operations have minimal detrimental impact on the environment.
• Solutions Analysis: Identify and evaluate complex expertise-led solutions against a range of criteria to find the ones that best meet business needs.
• Environmental Impact Assessment: Coordinate specific elements of environmental impact assessments with guidance from senior colleagues.
• Climate Adaptation Strategy: Guide an operational area in the creation and implementation of highly complex climate adaptation strategies for vital or large-scale projects preempting potential climate risks.
• Request for Bid Solicitation/Proposal/Tender Response: Gather information and resources draft and complete proposals and fulfill all process requirements (in terms of deadlines documentation etc.) in response to complex bid solicitations request for proposal and request for tender to create the best chance of being awarded the contract.

• Plans and Aligns Plans and prioritizes work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals. For example makes nimble plans accounting for a range of risks and contingencies. Achieves greater cohesion integration and alignment between own group and other areas. Both persistent in adversity and nimble in change.
• Ensures Accountability Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments. For example measures and tracks teams and own performance and helps the team learn from success failure and feedback. Adheres to and enforces goals policies and procedures.
• Collaborates Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives. For example encourages coworkers and external partners to work together as a team and makes sure they get credit for doing so. Encourages people to share their honest views responds in a non-defensive way when they do.
• Manages Complexity Makes sense of complex high quantity and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems. For example consistently looks at complex issues from many angles; obtains a rich and deep understanding; swiftly cuts to the core issue; skillfully separates root causes from symptoms.
• Nimble Learning Learns through experimentation when tackling new problems using both successes and failures as learning fodder. For example gives people opportunities to try new things; urges people to try new ways to find best solutions. Helps the team leverage the lessons from their successes and failures when facing new situations.
• Decision Quality Makes good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward. For example consistently demonstrates strong judgment; may be sought out by others for expertise and guidance. Takes smart independent action in urgent and non-routine situations knows when to escalate for others involvement.
• Business Insight Applies knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organizations goals. For example leverages insights to shape and drive critical initiatives. Shares industry developments with the team; helps them grasp business and industry fundamentals and understand how they contribute.
• Communicates Effectively Develops and delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences. For example tailors communication content and style to the needs of others. Pays attention to others input and perspectives asks questions and summarizes to confirm understanding.

• Safety & Environmental Monitoring Plan Works at an advanced level to manage the process of proactively identifying potential safety issues enhancing sanitary conditions and ensuring regulatory compliance. Typically works independently and provides guidance.
• Sustainable Environmental Management Works at an advanced level to specialize in sustainable environmental management involves developing and implementing strategies to promote environmental sustainability while ensuring health and safety standards are met. Typically works independently and provides guidance.
• Environmental Hazard Mitigation Works at an advanced level to specialize in environmental hazard mitigation involves identifying potential hazards assessing risks and implementing strategies to minimize adverse impacts on human health and the environment. Typically works independently and provides guidance.
• Climate Analysis Works at an advanced level to interpret climate models perform statistical analysis of weather patterns and assess the impacts of climatic changes on the environment and human systems. Typically works independently and provides guidance.
• Data Collection and Analysis - Health and Environment Works at an advanced level to gather manage and analyze data related to health and environmental factors to support public health and sustainability initiatives. Typically works independently and provides guidance.
• Assessment Works at an advanced level to assimilate and understand data and information from various sources in order to draw appropriate conclusions and make relevant recommendations. Typically works independently and provides guidance.
• Review and Reporting Works at an advanced level to create reports and review reports created by others for various audiences as relevant in a lucid and effective manner keeping in mind the purpose of reports. Typically works independently and provides guidance.
• Effectively Presents Solutions Works at an advanced level to communicate and articulate potential resolutions or strategies in a clear compelling and tailored manner to address specific challenges or meet organizational needs. Typically works independently and provides guidance.
• Project Schedule Management Works at an advanced level to identify sequence and resource project schedules for timely completion. Typically works independently and provides guidance.
• Project Risk and Issue Management Works at an advanced level to plan identify monitor analyze and prioritize risks (threats and opportunities) create response plans and manage the risk if it occurs. Typically works independently and provides guidance.
• Customer-Focused Approach Works at an advanced level to orient the organization around delivering to the key needs of customers. Typically works independently and provides guidance.
• Diagnoses Needs with Questions Works at an advanced level to systematically assess and identify requirements issues or gaps by employing strategic questioning techniques to gather relevant information and determine appropriate solutions. Typically works independently and provides guidance.
• Understands Issues/Motivations Works at an advanced level to comprehensively grasp and analyze the underlying problems or motivations in a given context enabling informed decision-making and effective solutions. Typically works independently and provides guidance.
• Creative Problem Solving Works at an advanced level to find practical solutions for unexpected client problems. Typically works independently and provides guidance.
• Commercial Acumen Works at an advanced level to use understanding of the business environment and objectives in developing solutions. Typically works independently and provides guidance.
• Adaptive Mindset Works at an advanced level to shift into and out of a mental mindset associated with assessing the facts and circumstances of the current situation and/or environment and making the appropriate/innovative adjustments to thinking and work habits to thrive in any scenario. Typically works independently and provides guidance.

• Bachelors Degree or Equivalent Level

• General Experience: Wide and deep experience providing expert competence (Over 10 years to 15 years)
• Managerial Experience: Experience of supervising and directing people and other resources to achieve specific end results within limited timeframes (13 months to 3 years)

• Need for Achievement A tendency to work intensely to achieve and exceed difficult standards.
• Focus Preference for organization procedure and exactitude.
• Persistence A tendency toward passionate and steadfast pursuit of long-term goals in spite of obstacles discouragement or distraction.
• Adaptability Comfort with unanticipated changes of direction or approach.
• Confidence The degree to which a person is convinced that they control the course of events in their lives.
• Sociability The natural inclination to engage with and interact with others.
• Composure The ability to stay calm and poised in stressful difficult or ambiguous situations.
• Tolerance of Ambiguity Comfort with uncertain vague or contradictory information that prevents a clear understanding or direction.
• Curiosity The extent to which a person is likely to tackle problems in a novel way see patterns in complex information and pursue deep understanding.
• Assertiveness The degree to which people enjoy taking charge and directing others.
• Credibility The degree of consistency between a persons words and actions.
• Influence The ability to motivate and persuade others.
• Optimism The degree to which people are comfortable with themselves and positive about life.
• Risk-Taking A willingness to take a stand or take chances based on limited information.
• Empathy Being attuned to others feelingsmotivations and concerns.
• Situational Self-Awareness The ability to stay attuned to ones own experiences motivations and reactions in the present moment.
• Openness to Differences A desire to consider and explore differences in perspective thought and experience of persons from a variety of backgrounds.
• Affiliation A preference for aligning with a larger team or organization toward a common goal.
• Trust An expectation of honesty and forthrightness on the part of oneself and others.
• Humility The degree to which a person is seen as courteous free from self-absorption and easy to get along with.