Senior Consultant - Reporting and Investors, Sustainability Advisory

Senior Consultant - Sustainability Advisory

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Join Arcadis to drive real impact. Arcadis is seeking a Senior Consultant to join our U.S.-based Sustainability Advisory business. In this role, you will help shape the future of sustainability by leading sustainability initiatives for complex client engagements. As a trusted advisor, you'll collaborate with diverse teams and industry leaders to solve some of the world's most urgent challenges, including climate change and the transition to net zero. We offer a supportive culture that values integrity, professional growth, and innovation. If you are passionate about making a measurable difference and thrive in a fast-paced, client-focused environment, we want to hear from you.

At Arcadis, you will have the opportunity to drive transformational change for clients and communities by addressing some of the world's most critical climate and resilience challenges. As a leading global consultancy, we combine deep technical expertise with innovative digital solutions to help organizations understand, quantify, and manage sustainability challenges.

This hybrid role is preferably located in Washington DC, New York City, or Chicago. The ideal candidate for this role will be a highly organized self-starter with strong project management and communication skills, proven experience delivering sustainability reporting programs to global portfolios, and ability to collaborate across internal functions, cultures, and geographies.

Role Accountabilities

As a Senior Consultant in our Sustainability Advisory team, you will lead the delivery of sustainability reporting projects with investors and financial institutions but additionally across multiple other sectors such as real estate, retail, manufacturing, infrastructure, technology, and transportation. You will serve as the primary point of contact for clients, ensuring that all deliverables are accurate, timely, and client-ready. Your role will include developing and implementing reporting strategies, managing project teams, and providing quality assurance for technical analyses. You will also play a key role in mentoring junior staff, identifying opportunities to expand client relationships, leading workstreams within larger programs and supporting the development of Arcadis's broader sustainability offering. This position requires strong consulting experience, the ability to communicate complex topics clearly, and a thorough understanding of the latest sustainability frameworks and standards, including GRESB, CDP, DJSI, Ecovadis, and ISSB S2.

Responsibilities Include:

• Lead complex reporting portfolios and projects. Lead projects from concept to delivery.
• Deliver projects or workstreams on broader sustainability topics. Topics may include GHG accounting, ESG strategy, climate risk, decarbonization, biodiversity, and others to meet diverse client needs.
• Owning client relationships. Act as a trusted advisor, anticipate needs, and consistently deliver high-quality, client-ready work directly and through others.
• Driving results independently. Take a challenge, brainstorm solutions, and deliver proposals, analyses, client communications, and deliverables with minimal supervision. Track schedules, deliverables, budgets, and staffing on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Coaching and elevating junior team members. Guide project teams, give actionable feedback, and help colleagues grow.
• Ensuring quality and accountability. Review analyses, ensure deliverables meet the highest standards, and keep projects on time and on budget.
• Developing and upholding technical standards. Establish, document, and enforce rigorous technical standards and best practices to ensure consistency, reliability, and excellence in all deliverables.
• Championing innovation. Identify new ways to create value for clients and help improve reporting processes.
• Communicating with clarity. Present complex topics in simple, compelling terms to executives and stakeholders, including developing executive-level presentations for c-suite level audiences.
• Demonstrating responsiveness in high-pressure situations. Proactively manage demanding client requests and deliver high-quality work under tight deadlines, adapting quickly to shifting priorities.
• Staying current with the latest frameworks and standards. Maintain deep expertise in relevant guidelines such as GRESB, CDP, Ecovadis, DJSI and the GHG Protocol.
• Collaborating across teams and geographies. Navigate a matrix organization and work with colleagues worldwide

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in relevant field of study.
• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in sustainability consulting or closely related fields with a focus in voluntary sustainability reporting.
• Proven experience leading reporting projects and teams.
• Extensive experience preparing GRESB Infrastructure responses in-house or as a consultant.
• Track record of reliable, on-time delivery and transparent communication.
• Strong analytical and communication skills, including senior-level presentations.
• Ability to work independently, prioritize, and juggle multiple projects.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Additional certifications in relevant sustainability disciplines.
• Experience across multiple sectors.
• Extensive experience leading GRESB Real Estate responses in-house or as a consultant. Experience in other relevant protocols (CDP, Ecovadis, DJSI, GHG Protocol).

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It's why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You'll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you'll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer nine paid holidays and 15 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $89,496 - $165,951. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.