Climate Risk and Resilience Managing Consultant

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What You Will Do:

Our Climate Risk Resilience and Sustainability team helps clients understand quantify manage disclose and act on climate-related risks and opportunities across physical climate risk transition risk resilience adaptation mitigation decarbonization and regulatory readiness. Our work combines climate data geospatial and scenario analysis financial and operational analysis and leading frameworks such as TCFD CSRD IFRS sustainability standards SASB CDP and related regulatory and investor expectations.

As a Managing Consultant you will lead client-facing workstreams translate climate science policy data and business implications into practical strategies and implementation plans and support the growth of digitally enabled and AI-supported climate risk and resilience offerings.

Key responsibilities for this position include:

• Manage climate risk and resilience mitigation and adaptation and regulatory readiness workstreams including scoping support workplan development delivery management client coordination and quality review.
• Assess physical and transition climate risks by combining climate datasets asset-level exposure and vulnerability information scenario analysis geospatial analysis financial and operational impact assessment insurance considerations such as insured value uninsured exposure insurability and potential coverage changes policy and regulatory developments market shifts technology change carbon pricing value-chain risks and stakeholder requirements.
• Develop practical climate transition and resilience programs including governance structures and processes operating models KPIs implementation roadmaps capital and operational measures cost-benefit analyses data management approaches and change management plans.
• Support climate disclosure and reporting by translating TCFD CSRD IFRS Sustainability Standards SASB CDP assurance readiness regulatory gap assessment metrics targets and disclosure narrative requirements into actionable client deliverables.
• Translate climate science risk analytics financial and insurance-related implications policy developments enterprise risk management considerations and implementation options into executive-ready presentations decision-useful insights and practical recommendations.
• Facilitate client executive briefings workshops interviews and working sessions with confidence clarity and strong business judgment.
• Manage project teams and consultants by setting clear expectations reviewing work products coaching team members and supporting a collaborative high-performance culture.
• Contribute to business development and solution innovation including market research solution design proposal development thought leadership and the growth of Guidehouses climate risk and resilience services.
• Apply digital tools automation / coding data analytics and AI-enabled approaches to improve climate risk assessment program implementation reporting and client decision-making.

What You Will Need:

• Must be a US Citizen or US Permanent Resident due to nature of client engagements.
• Bachelors degree in climate science sustainability environmental management engineering economics finance data science public policy business or a related field from an accredited university or college.
• Six (6) plus years of relevant industry consulting or post-graduation academic research experience. Note that internships co-ops graduate research conducted as part of a degree program and fellowships are not counted towards years of experience.
• Experience with climate datasets asset-level risk screening catastrophe or hazard modeling and analytical platforms such as ArcGIS Python R and Power BI. This experience may include hands-on programming process management and/or project management.
• Professional or technical background in climate risk resilience mitigation adaptation planning climate policy enterprise risk management and/or corporate sustainability.
• Strong analytical problem-solving research written communication verbal communication relationship-building and project management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to manage project teams coordinate with internal teams and external vendors or contractors deliver client-ready work products with limited supervision and collaborate with leadership to create refine and scale effective offerings.
• Ability to travel as needed.
• Ability to work in a Guidehouse Office or Client Office.

What Would Be Nice To Have:

• Management consulting experience with a large consulting firm.
• Sector experience in real estate healthcare consumer packaged goods agriculture apparel logistics packaging or other climate-exposed industries.
• Professional Engineering certification and/or specialized experience in facilities management and building systems energy or civil infrastructure site inspection permitting and construction oversight.
• Experience integrating climate risks and sustainability activities into corporate risk management activities and/or enterprise risk management.
• Demonstrated success in business development proposal development offering design or growth of a consulting service area.
• Familiarity with insurance considerations related to climate risk including insured and uninsured exposure asset insurability and the potential impacts of climate hazards on insurance availability pricing and coverage.

What We Offer:

Guidehouse offers a comprehensive total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.

Benefits include:

• Medical Rx Dental & Vision Insurance

• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays

• Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus

• Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance

• 401(k) Retirement Plan

• Basic Life & Supplemental Life

• Health Savings Account Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts

• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability

• Student Loan PayDown

• Tuition Reimbursement Personal Development & Learning Opportunities

• Skills Development & Certifications

• Employee Referral Program

• Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach

• Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program

• Mobility Stipend

About Guidehouse

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