Principal Environmental Consultant

SUMMARY:
Our client has 20+ years' experience in environmental & social consulting, water infrastructure, and remediation. Collaborative approach, innovative solutions, and project efficiency in energy, infrastructure, extractives, and water sectors. They are looking for a Principle Environmental Consultant to join their team.

POSITION INFO:
Job Title: Principle Environmental Consultant
Location: Sandton 
Salary: R75 000 - R100 000 CTC pm - depending on qualifications, experience and IFC background.
Closing date: End July 2024 

 
Duties and responsibilities:

• Proactively build and maintain strong client relationships by developing repeat work from existing clients, as well as actively seeking and establishing relationships with regulatory authorities.
• Provide leadership on complex environmental and social impact assessments, strategic environmental assessments (SEA), and environmental and social due diligence (ESDD) audits for major energy, industrial and infrastructure clients in line with local and national legislation, standards and guidelines, and relevant international standards, guidelines, and best practices to enable safe, on-time and budget delivery.
• Prepare / review, according to experience, associated documentation including management plans, resettlement action plans (RAPs), livelihood restoration plans (LRPs), stakeholder engagement plans (SEP) and audit reports.
• Chair scoping and impact assessment phase mitigation design workshops and/or environmental impact identification (ENVID) workshops for energy, water, industrial and/or infrastructure projects.
• Consult with stakeholders and effectively manage sub-consultants.
• Manage project team workloads in collaboration with other senior team members to balance team wellbeing, utilisation, and client deliverables such that clients are satisfied, and projects are delivered safely, on time and in budget with support of the Director or their nominated deputy.
• Provide oversight to the team, including the mentoring of junior staff to help them grow in capability such that the teams produce robust and comprehensive written deliverables.
• Prepare and manage multi-disciplinary tenders and seek opportunities for new work.
• Manage project financial performance and meeting profit targets.
• Speak at internal and external events where appropriate.
• Willingness to travel within the continent.

• BSc degree level qualified in environmental science, geography, sociology or related discipline.
• Professional registration with EAPASA (SACNASP or equivalent may be considered)
• >15 years consultancy and project management experience in environmental and social impact assessment processes, including stakeholder engagement, in South Africa and other African countries with
• >5 years’ experience with international lender standards such as IFC and EP4.

• The leadership of complex IFC ESIA processes safely, on time and budget.
• Environmental and social lender due diligence.
• Excellent understanding of the ESIA process, international environmental and social legislation, guidelines and standards, and international project financing mechanisms and implications.
• Business development and commercial management.

• Master’s degree or equivalent qualification an added advantage.
• Business management would be an advantage.