Sustainability Project Manager

The Opportunity

As our client base continues to grow, Considerate Group is looking for an experienced, sustainability project manager to enhance our team. Reporting to the Senior Sustainability Advisor, Managing Partners and the COO, this role will support the management and high-quality delivery of Considerate’s products, services, and strategic projects.

In addition to coordinating and quality-assuring the activities of Considerate’s team, the role will require the scoping and management of consultancy projects, including the development and implementation of client ESG strategies, and delivery of engaging webinars and workshops.

Key to the role is an ability to develop relationships quickly and easily with existing clients and partners.

Company Background

Considerate’s mission is to help hospitality businesses become measurably and inspiringly more sustainable. We achieve this through a combination of innovative technology tools, advisory services, and first-class customer service .Through our sophisticated environmental data management system designed specifically for the hospitality sector, we allow hospitality businesses to monitor, analyse and improve their environmental performance, while saving costs and reducing inefficiencies in their operations.

Con-Serve™ is certified as ISO 50001 compliant and allows for a correlation of consumption to other metrics such as hotel’s occupancy, restaurant’s food covers or outside temperatures. We have also been developing a complementary mobile app, fluttr, as part of an innovation competition funded by the UK Government.

Considerate Group provides data-driven advisory services to the hospitality sector, covering the environmental, social and governance dimensions of sustainability. This includes, but is not limited to, developing holistic ESG strategies, delivering workshops and professional seminars, creating sustainability toolkits, and corporate sustainability reporting.

We are a growing team of dedicated hospitality and sustainability specialists, currently operating out of London, Munich and New York, servicing clients worldwide. Considerate Group opposes any form of less favourable treatment of employees or job applicants on the grounds of sex, marital status, race, colour, nationality or ethnic origin, disability, religion, gender reassignment, sexual orientation or age.

We will ensure that individuals are recruited, selected, promoted and treated on the basis of their relevant aptitudes, skills and abilities, rather than any protected characteristics or stereotypical assumptions.

Responsibilities

Coordination and delivery of consultancy projects

Take a leading role in the coordination and delivery of advisory projects which may range in scope from environmental, resource consumption data analysis and compiling carbon footprinting reports to delivering workshops or writing policies for individual clients.

Provide support to the scoping of strategic projects and solutions for clients

Oversight of timely and high-quality input from the team into client work packages

Quality-assurance of work-stream outputs

Delivery of engaging webinars and workshops

Design and deliver virtual webinars and face to face workshops

Actively promote and represent Considerate Group at events with potential clients and industry peers

Relationship building

Develop and maintain client relationships

As part of a small team with a relatively flat reporting structure, support colleagues at all levels as needed to ensure effective client/project delivery

Matrix management of team members to ensure smooth project delivery

Innovation

Keep abreast of sustainability and hospitality landscape, including scientific and industry developments (as well as political, legislative, market and voluntary market developments)

Keep up to date with technical developments in fluttr and Con-Serve™

Deliver entrepreneurial advice/suggestions to further develop Considerate Group’s offer

Requirements

Required experience & interests

At leastthree years of work-based experience in sustainability, either as a consultant or in-house corporate sustainability professional

Direct experience working in hospitality operations and/or management

Experience in project and people management and/or supervision

Passionate about sustainable hospitality and tourism

Essential skills

Fluent professional written and spoken English

Highly organised and pro-activeproject management skills, with an ability to work to tight deadlines

Excellent data analysis and presentation skills

Excellent communication skills with an ability to explain complex ideas in simple terms

Strong presentation and workshop delivery skills; able to present ideas in a proficient manner suited to different settings and a variety of audiences

Excellent attention to detail; confident quality assuring own and others’ work

Adaptable with ability to learn and quickly understand new concepts outside area of expertise

Highly customer service orientated with strong business/commercial acumen

Self-driven and reliable Desirable skills and experience

Fluent in one of the following languages: German, French, Italian, Spanish, Arabic

Experience delivering carbon footprint and/or non-financial reporting

Strong knowledge of relevant legislative, market, and voluntary market developments

Experience working withlarge asset investment funds, including work on investment, sales, and acquisitions

Experience in conducting broaderESG, CSR or sustainability audits

Understanding of technological/operational interventions designed to meet carbon reduction strategies

Business developmentskills;

identifying new opportunities and responding to tender

Other benefits:

Access to benefits including:

an annual bonus scheme,

pension contribution,

flexibility to work from home 2 or 3 days per week,

home working comforts budget,

flexibility to work from ‘anywhere in the world’ for up to 10 days per year, volunteering days,

25 days annual leave plus 1 additional day of annual leave per year of employment,

a training and development package,

HealthShield wellbeing package,

access to complementary/discounted stays in client hotels*

You must be eligible to work in the UK

Apply Send yourCVanda cover letterto Kate Orszulik at [email removed - click apply for more details] by22 March 2022.The cover letter should set out how you fulfil the requirements of the role and your salary expectations.Shortlisted applicants will be asked to complete a short task, before being invited to attend an interview. PLEASE NOTE THAT APPLICATIONS SUBMITTED WITHOUT A COVER LETTER WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED