Position summary

Pegasus Group, a UK multidisciplinary development consultancy, is seeking a Principal / Associate Climate Change Consultant to play a key role in establishing, growing, and technically delivering the climate discipline within a relatively new and expanding service offering. The role suits an experienced consultant with strong technical capability, a proven consultancy track record, and a clear commercial focus, helping shape a high-quality, client-facing climate advisory service.

Why this role matters

Pegasus Group’s Climate, Air and Noise team is on a trajectory of growth and diversification, making the climate discipline a priority area. This role helps clients understand, manage, and respond to climate-related risks, carbon impacts, and regulatory requirements across the development lifecycle, unlocking development potential and creating long-term value.

Key responsibilities

• Support clients across the development lifecycle, helping them understand, manage, and respond to climate-related risks, carbon impacts, regulatory requirements, and opportunities for more resilient, future-proofed development.
• Deliver technical climate advisory combining robust technical delivery with practical, commercially aware advice that helps unlock development potential.
• Work across disciplines with planning, design, environmental, transport, infrastructure, and wider technical teams.
• Grow the climate discipline by contributing to the establishment, growth, and technical delivery of a new and expanding service offering, with a clear commercial focus.

Team and stakeholders

The role sits within the Manchester-based Climate, Air and Noise team (though it can be based at any Pegasus office) and works closely with planning, design, environmental, transport, infrastructure, and wider technical teams, alongside a range of development clients.

Key details

This is a full-time, permanent role based in Manchester, with flexibility to be based at any Pegasus Group office and agile working offered. Benefits include private healthcare, life insurance, a generous annual leave entitlement with buy/sell options, and enhanced maternity and paternity pay.

Requirements

• A degree or postgraduate qualification in climate change, environmental science, sustainability, carbon management, engineering, planning, built environment, or a related discipline.
• Chartered or working towards chartered status with a relevant professional body (e.g. ISEP, previously IEMA; CEnv; or an equivalent route) would be advantageous.
• Demonstrable consultancy experience in climate change, carbon, sustainability, environmental planning, or a closely related discipline.