Climate Adaptation Specialist

2 weeks ago


Burnaby, Canada AECOM Full time

**Job Description**:
Example of Project Types:
Climate adaptation strategies for municipalities, transportation agencies, utilities
Climate vulnerability and risk assessments for municipalities, transportation agencies, utilities
Resiliency Strategies and Plans for cities
Cost-benefit analysis for climate adaptation plans

**Qualifications**:
Minimum Requirements:

- 6 years of experience at a planning consulting firm, or equivalent. Demonstrated experience managing projects, conducting and/or overseeing analysis, and writing proposals and securing work; client management, experience managing a small team.
- Recent experience on adaptation planning essential, particularly policy and program design
- Recent experience on climate change vulnerability and risk assessments that consider an array of climate impacts, including sea level rise, precipitation, and temperature and development of adaptation strategies to reduce impacts
- Recent experience determining climate-related risks, vulnerability within the built environment, natural environment and communities of people, climate equity and adaptive capacity measures
- Fluency with Microsoft Office Suite; experience with other quantitative/statistical programs desirable; experience with GIS and other spatial analytical systems, desirable
- Familiarity with Climate Lens and PIEVC approaches, and others, is highly desirable
- Knowledge of government initiatives and funding opportunities is desirable
- Experience in related fields (land use planning, urban design, and transportation planning) is advantageous

Preferred Qualifications:

- 10 years of experience at a planning consulting firm, or equivalent. Demonstrated experience managing projects, conducting and/or overseeing analysis, and writing proposals and securing work; client management, experience managing a small team.
- Excellent quantitative skills
- Excellent project management skills
- Detail-oriented: Strong sense of commitment, a willingness to learn more and a desire to work in a dynamic, deadline driven team environment
- Excellent communication and writing skills are critical

Additional Information

Nous vous offrons des options de travail hybrides qui vous laisseront toute la flexibilité nécessaire pour effectuer votre meilleur travail. Que ce soit dans un bureau d’AECOM, en télétravail ou au chantier d’un client, vous travaillerez dans un milieu dynamique qui met en valeur votre intégrité, votre esprit d’entreprise et votre sens de l’innovation.

Vous nous aiderez à nourrir une culture d’équité, de diversité et d’inclusion, un milieu de travail sécuritaire et respectueux où nous invitons tous les employés à se donner entièrement à leur travail en mettant à contribution les talents, les antécédents et l’expertise qui leur sont propres afin d’offrir des résultats révolutionnaires à nos clients.

Nous favoriserons votre croissance et votre développement grâce à nos programmes de perfectionnement technique et professionnel et à la diversité de nos perspectives de carrière. Nous croyons au leadership à tous les échelons. Peu importe votre poste, vous pourrez exercer une influence durable sur les projets auxquels vous collaborez, sur les équipes et les comités dont vous faites partie et sur notre entreprise.

Nous vous offrons une rémunération et des avantages sociaux concurrentiels, des programmes de mieux-être pour vous soutenir et aider votre famille et les ressources de développement dont vous avez besoin pour faire progresser votre carrière.

En vous joignant à nous, vous entrerez en contact et en collaboration avec un réseau mondial de spécialistes (planificateurs, concepteurs, ingénieurs, experts-conseils et gestionnaires de programmes et de travaux de construction) qui opèrent la transition vers un avenir plus équitable et durable. Soyez des nôtres dans cette aventure.

Nous souscrivons au principe de l’égalité d’accès à l’emploi et nous croyons au potentiel de chaque personne. Laissez-nous libérer le vôtre.


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