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There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.
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Job Description
Due to exceptional growth in demand for our services we are currently recruiting for enthusiastic social impact consultants to join our Carbon & ESG practice. Successful candidates will work collaboratively with our highly experienced and specialist social impacts team to deliver a range of social impact, value and advisory projects for infrastructure and multi-national businesses as well as contributing to wider ESG advisory projects. You will gain valuable experience assessing social and equality impacts, conducting social research, and developing and implementing social value strategies and plans for some of the UK’s highest profile projects. You will also have a role in growing AECOM’s social consultancy offer and contribute to the development of innovative approaches for our clients.
Depending on your specific technical experience you will be accountable for:
- Conducting and delivering projects across a range of social consulting and advisory projects where your activities may include planning, research, measurement, engagement or reporting;
- Managing tasks and projects covering social impact or value delivery, quality and financial management;
- Working alongside or supporting and mentoring team members to build their capacity and expertise;
- Liaising and collaborating with colleagues, clients and their advisors to deliver work on time, budget and achieving excellence in delivery;
- Multitasking: working across several projects and proposals at one time;
- Preparing costed proposals and other business development materials (e.g. for webinars, flyers, case studies, etc.);
- Building positive long-term client relationships;
- Building internal networks to promote social impact, value and advisory services within AECOM;
- Supporting the social impacts and value team leadership and wider Carbon & ESG practice leadership to identify and secure new internal and external opportunities; and
- Assessing social and equality impacts using a range of social research methods including primary fieldwork, data analysis (qualitative and quantitative) and evaluation
Being part of the team
As one of the longest standing Carbon & ESG businesses in the industry, our team have been advising our clients on sustainability governance and performance for over 20 years - supporting not only infrastructure and energy but also our industrial clients. As one of our priority growth areas, the social impacts and value team as well as the wider Carbon & ESG practice fully aligns with AECOM’s Environment Water and Energy growth strategies and our Global Sustainable Legacies Strategy. Our collaboration with private and public sector clients is driven by a commitment to deliver on stakeholder expectations, anticipate and manage social and environmental risks and impacts, create social value and enable a just transition. Through our established skills in social value and equality, carbon accounting, net zero road-mapping and implementation, decarbonization and clean growth, ESG reporting, climate action and resilience, circular economy and, we pave the way for sustainable practices that align with global objectives and promote lasting positive impacts.
Qualifications
- Demonstrated experience and understanding of at least one or two areas below:
- Knowledge and evidenced understanding of the implications of the Equality Act 2010 in relation to planning, major infrastructure, urban regeneration and environmental enhancement schemes.
- Experience in social and/or equality impact assessment of projects, policies or plans.
- Experience in quantitative and/or qualitative data collection and analysis.
- Experience in measuring social value created by projects.
- Knowledge and/or experience of using social value measurement tools such as the national TOMs framework.
- Experience in human rights and modern slavery due diligence including in supply chains.
- Some experience of project management, including client liaison and the financial management aspects.
- Project and financial management experience;
- Commercial awareness for business development, marketing, and proposal preparation;
- Problem solving abilities: Self-starter, who can design and deliver work under own initiative.
Additional Information
You can learn more about us here: 2023 AECOM Candidate Brochure (adobe.com)
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About AECOM
AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.
Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity
You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.
You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.
AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.
Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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