Assistant Vice President, Sustainability, Energy and Climate Change

This position could work out of WSP’s offices in Arlington, VA; Bethlehem, PA; Boulder, CO; Buffalo, NY; Chicago, IL; New York, NY; Portland, OR; San Diego, CA; San Francisco, CA; or Seattle, WA. Other WSP office locations or remote options may be considered for an exceptional candidate.

The individual will support a client–facing team in the design, implementation, and management of sustainability programs for a variety of clients, including Global 100 corporations. The ideal candidate will have the flexibility and capacity to work on a wide variety of projects and the demonstrated ability to work well with cross-functional teams. Candidates should be passionate about sustainability and climate, self-motivated and self-directed, collaborative, and able to produce high-quality work products.

• Please include a cover letter describing your interest in sustainability.**

Your Impact

Duties and Responsibilities

Responsibilities

As an Assistant Vice President, you will be expected to join and lead teams to complete projects, providing experienced project leadership and guidance. Candidates are expected to be experienced subject matter experts able to communicate with clients, design project scopes of work and deliver projects on time and on budget. Additional responsibilities include:

• Manage multiple projects/project teams concurrently to build client relationships and deliver positive client outcomes.
• Direct complex client delivery teams of internal and external stakeholders and provide technical direction and expertise
• Collaborate with clients to design and deliver solutions to achieve strategic priorities for high-profile sustainability initiatives
• Lead business development activities with existing and prospective clients
• Supervise individuals and support management of the SECC practice

Project tasks and deliverables will span a wide variety of disciplines and topics but are likely to include the following:

• Lead complex client delivery teams of internal and external stakeholders and provide technical direction and expertise
• Serve as the lead thought-partner to clients, designing and delivering solutions to achieve strategic priorities for high-profile sustainability initiatives
• Architect and author professional technical memos, reports, and proposals summarizing complex concepts and project outcomes
• Coach teams in the successful development of complex, entity-wide sustainability data inventories for energy, GHG, water, waste, and other resources and build the foundational elements of corporate sustainability programs
• Organize and derive insights from large ,unwieldy data sets; effectively communicate findings to executive audiences
• Partner actively with clients to develop ambitious sustainability performance targets with accompanying strategies and achievement plans
• Develop and evaluate metrics and tactics for tracking and achieving energy, GHG, and other resource reductions
• Lead teams to design corporate decarbonization strategies, evaluating and including a variety of energy efficiency measures and renewable energy procurement options
• Lead climate-related risk and opportunity assessments
• Guide clients and teams to identify appropriate industry benchmarks and sustainability programs
• Develop content and support public disclosures through sustainability reports, voluntary reporting programs and compliance with regulatory requirements

Who You Are

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Minimum of 10 years of professional consulting and/or corporate experience with a focus on sustainability, energy, climate, and/or environmental management
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, energy, sustainability, or environmental discipline required
• Demonstrated expertise with sustainability frameworks such as the GHG Protocol, supply chain management, LCA, SBTi, CDP, GRI, and/or TCFD.
• Demonstrated project and client relationship management experience
• Demonstrated leadership experience in operating a practice and supervising individuals
• Well-developed interpersonal skills, maturity, credibility, confidence, and integrity: ready to learn and work on a team.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, and use of Microsoft Office programs including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Ability to develop and present analyses using programs such as Microsoft Excel, Access, and Power BI
• Ability to work independently, multitask, and manage time efficiently
• Ability to collaborate remotely across geographies and platforms

Preferred Qualifications And Skills

• Master’s degree in engineering, energy, sustainability, or environmental discipline
• Demonstrated expertise and industry leadership in one or more of the following emerging sustainability domains; supply chain management, circularity, water stewardship, biodiversity, renewable energy procurement, zero-waste certification and strategy, water resource management, climate risk assessment, and life cycle assessment.

WSP Benefits

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.

Compensation

Expected Salary (all locations): $95,300 – $169,840

WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.

Expected Salary (Colorado only): $95,300 – $159,390

WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position within the state of Colorado, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.

About WSP

ABOUT US

WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world’s leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.

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WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.

At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?

WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.

The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.

Notice To Third Party Agencies

WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.