We have a Junior Consultant opportunity in our Real Estate (large land and property owners) team. As Junior Consultant you'll be providing specialist technical resource to business development activities, supporting the delivery of complex projects for different teams and working with some of the UK's leading sustainability teams as well as large energy intensive clients.
Primary responsibilities
- Project Management: To deliver required inputs according to time, quality and budget requirements. In time, you will take responsibility for project work streams and small-scale consulting projects.
- Technical input: Provide technical input and high-quality insightful data analysis to projects to support the ongoing sustainability/energy management challenges faced by our clients.
- Business development and proposal writing: Assist proposal creation through the collation of required information and to provide support to managers and directors to achieve individual and sales targets.
- Client management: Maintain strong relationships with existing clients through professional interactions.
- Operational: Provide timely responses to operational needs including time-sheeting, invoicing, reviews, project management information, health & safety, etc.
- Performance targets: To take shared responsibility for meeting or exceeding targeted levels of personal performance and productivity and for advertising capacity levels and availability.
- Environmental: Contribute to Verco’s sustainability plans and outcomes as required.
Requirements
Essential
- A passion for sustainability & a desire to support others in reducing their environmental impact.
- Masters or other relevant post-graduate qualification in engineering, mathematics, geography, environmental science, energy/sustainability or economics with a minimum 2:1
- An understanding of sustainability issues and energy management including emissions sources across the economy & energy use in buildings and industry.
- Understanding of net zero & awareness of key UK, EU & international policies
- A sophisticated analytical approach with highly competent IT skills, particularly in the use of Excel, Word & Powerpoint
- Confident working with large data sets.
- Strong verbal, written and presentation skills
Desirable
- Previous experience of supporting/advising clients on technical issues associated with energy efficiency
- Familiarity with technology, financial, legislative and market instruments to achieve environmental objectives & targets
- Technical knowledge of energy use in building/s, industrial processes and/or sustainable energy generation technologies
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Power BI MS Project, GIS
- Any macro-economic or modelling tool
Training / personal development
The role represents the entry point within Verco’s consultancy career structure and the opportunity to develop and demonstrate the capabilities required to perform a full consultancy role within the business. You will be supported in your career development, through developing skills such as project management, your technical skills and to supporting you towards Chartership.
What we offer
You can look forward to working for an employee owned business with a strong values-driven culture. This will mean working as part of a dynamic, passionate team of like-minded professionals in a supportive, trust-based environment.
Our benefits include an annual performance-based bonus, 5% pension contribution, BUPA medical insurance, life assurance (4 x annual salary), travel insurance (including winter sports), payment of an annual membership of an association, interest free travel loans, cycle to work scheme, give as you earn scheme, annual eye tests/check-ups etc.
We care about your wellbeing, and we offer the flexibility through hybrid working where you can work from home and come into the office twice a week. We organise social events and volunteering activities especially regarding STEM.
