Natural Capital Consultant
Natural Capital Consultant
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Job Description
We are the independent expert in assurance and risk management. Driven by our purpose to safeguard life property and the environment we empower our customers and their stakeholders with facts and reliable insights so that critical decisions can be made with confidence.
As a trusted voice for many of the worlds most successful organizations we use our knowledge to advance safety and performance set industry benchmarks and inspire and invent solutions to tackle global transformations.
Our Opportunity:
This is an exciting opportunity to join our growing natural capital team doing innovative and challenging work across various infrastructure sectors. Our dedicated Nature team has several ecologists both terrestrial and marine that deliver site surveys and a suite of advisory services including biodiversity materiality assessments biodiversity due diligence TNFD assessments & reporting and naturebased solutions.
Biodiversity is a core element of DNVs strategy and we recently invested in a nature analytics platform that provides us with the latest nature data to inform our advisory services. We are also working to complement the nature data with our inhouse physical climate risk assessment tool Climatics to provide an integrated natureclimate view to support our clients with their investment decisions.
As a Senior or Principal Natural Capital Consultant youll bring your experience of providing strategic and technical advice to a range of clients. This role provides a great opportunity to deliver and expand our range of solutions in the nature area and in creating innovative solutions in the climatenature space. You will be supported by several technical experts in both the nature and climate areas.
Youll find that the nature of your work is varied challenging and fast paced as you manage or contribute to the delivery of projects for our clients supported by a large team (currently about 160 FTE) and collaborating with colleagues across DNVs services leveraging our broader technical expertise and global footprint. In addition you will use and enhance your skills to develop and maintain client relationships to support ongoing sales/bid development and market research activities.
Joining our growing team will enable you to develop your client relationship and project management skills whilst further enhancing your existing technical capabilities. Our consultants evolve and grow in a variety of different ways however typically they will specialise in a few technical areas/industries before progressing into project management overseeing our key strategic projects.
Responsibilities
We value all our people and the contributions they make to our business so its important that our rewards make us all feel valued here. Thats why we offer a flexible reward and benefits package allowing you to choose the things that matter most to you including;
- Noncontractual profit share scheme
- Excellent development and career progression opportunities
- Appropriate training to enhance your knowledge base to build your confidence and enable you to become more effective
- Lifestyle benefits: 26 days annual leave bank holidays opportunity for up to 10 days unpaid leave sabbatical leave flexible working options
- Wellbeing benefits: (inc Private Medical Dental Insurance Health Assessments Gym allowance). Company contribution towards eye tests and glasses (for computer/laptop users) and Flu Vaccinations. Also our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) provides free and confidential support for issues including work family relationships money and health and we provide free fruit in our offices
- Financial Benefits: including a Pension Scheme with employer pension contributions up to 9 Life Assurance and Income Protection
- Travel benefits: Season Ticket Loan Cycle to Work Scheme Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice Scheme (for personal use)
- Reimbursement of relevant Professional Membership Fees (up to 570
- Access to employee retail discount site for high street and online shopping
DNV is an Equal Opportunity Employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to gender religion race national or ethnic origin cultural background social group disability sexual orientation gender identity marital status age or political opinion. Diversity is fundamental to our culture and we invite you to be part of this diversity.
Qualifications
- Significant and demonstrable understanding of naturerelated regulations standards and frameworks particularly the TNFD
- Experience in natural capital work including natural capital accounting biodiversity materiality assessment (impact & dependency analysis) and qualitative approaches to valuing nature in decision making
- Familiarity with relevant natural capital guidance and tools (for example ENCORE etc. to assist clients with decisionmaking as well as experience in development of nature analytics tools
- Supporting with integrating natural capital and biodiversity metrics within frameworks such as TNFD and SBTN for a wide range of clients
- Leading projects with broader support of technical staff
- Carrying out business development activities and contributing to client proposals often in collaboration with other disciplines across DNV
- Supporting project managers & technical specialists in client meetings workshops preparing presentations and undertaking deliverables for projects
- Effective communication skills including the ability to clearly articulate findings and recommendations to clients both in writing and verbally
- A relevant degree in environmental/natural science environmental economics or related field would be an advantage
Required Experience:
Contract
Employment Type
Full-Time
