Position summary

GHD is hiring a Corporate Sustainability Advisor to identify and support implementation of decarbonisation activities toward its long-term net-zero goals. Pivotal to the role is gathering GHD’s performance data and reporting on progress to internal and external stakeholders, working with an energetic, high-performing team across a variety of work.

Why this role matters

As a global, employee-owned engineering, environmental and design firm, GHD is pursuing its own net-zero commitments. This role drives the enterprise and regional decarbonisation plans, assures the quality of GHD’s Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions accounting, and keeps the business on track against its SBTi targets.

Key responsibilities

• Support decarbonisation plans by implementing enterprise and regional decarbonisation plans and identifying strategic global initiatives to reduce emissions and meet targets.
• Manage champion relationships with regional champions and internal sustainability groups (such as HSE committees), influencing office managers and function leaders to achieve decarbonisation targets.
• Facilitate problem-solving with senior management across procurement, finance and property to resolve data collection and decarbonisation challenges.
• Track and report performance by tracking emissions-reduction KPIs and assisting in data gathering and analysis for SBTi progress reporting.
• Assure GHG accounting by providing quality assurance of annual Scope 1, 2 and 3 GHG accounting in accordance with the GHG Protocol, SBTi Net Zero or other standards.
• Support annual reporting by collecting information, providing analysis and drafting the annual emissions report, and developing communications for company-wide employee engagement.

Team and stakeholders

The role works with regional champions, internal sustainability groups and HSE committees, and partners with senior management across procurement, finance, property and other key internal stakeholders.

Key details

• Can sit at any GHD office in the United States or Canada; hybrid working, three days a week in office.
• GHD is an employee-owned firm of 12,000+ people across 200+ offices.

Requirements

• An understanding of SBTi.
• GHG emissions auditing experience and/or the ability to detect irregularities in large data sets.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including programming macros.
• Experience creating and communicating sustainability action plans and initiatives.
• Experience implementing successful change management strategies.
• Expert ability to resolve conflicts.