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ERM

Principal Consultant – Sustainability Strategy, Implementation & Disclosure

Melbourne, Australia

Job Summary

We are seeking a motivated and experienced individual to join our corporate sustainability and climate change (CS&CC;) team as a Principal Consultant, focusing on mandatory and voluntary sustainability strategy, implementation and disclosures.

Why This Role Matters

From climate change to nature and human rights, there is increasing urgency in company boardrooms to address the complex sustainability challenges facing the world. Executives are under pressure from investors, customers and even employees to increase the pace, scale and transparency of their sustainability-related actions. This is where ERM drives value.

Our CS&CC; team works with leading organisations to address complex sustainability challenges and create long-term value by clarifying strategic direction, driving organisational change, and enhancing transparency and the robustness of public sustainability-related disclosures.

What Your Impact Is

Our Principal Consultants provide leadership in consulting projects, helping to ensure quality delivery of service. They manage complex large projects or a portfolio of smaller projects and are accountable for the project budget, performance and results, risk management and governance. They also support revenue generation through identification and conversion of new client opportunities in line with evolving services and client needs.

Key Responsibilities





The role is varied and dynamic and the successful candidate will have a proven track record across all of the following:

Providing deep expertise in mandatory and voluntary sustainability strategy and reporting

Expertise across materiality & strategy setting, transition planning and systems implementation and disclosure preparation.

Practical understanding of climate risk and opportunity identification, assessment and resilience strategy

As well as deep experience guiding organisations through AASB S2, the successful candidate will also ideally have worked with voluntary sustainability strategy setting and reporting frameworks (ISSB S1, GRI, SASB).

Client and Project Management

Works comfortably within a diverse range of multi-discipline programmatic project structures, collaborating with our internal SMEs across all the disciplines required by our clients as they navigate the complexity of sustainability strategies and mandatory climate reporting.

Demonstrates strong client relationship building and quickly builds trust with a range of internal and external stakeholders.

Leads effectively through the project lifecycle, including scoping, budget and delivery including all project accounting fundamentals.

Thinks strategically in order to influence decision-makers and outcomes.

Demonstrates strong analytical skills, excellent writing and presentation skills,



extensive stakeholder engagement (e.g., workshop facilitation/delivery) and a mastery of impactful board level communication.

Teamwork and organisation

Structured and effective communicator that can shape and deliver messages to executive level and facilitate effective client engagements.

Demonstrates strong people management skills; particularly the ability to support, coach and celebrate others in order to advance employee engagement and achieve results.

Mentors junior staff in the planning and execution of projects, and in directing or conducting independent technical reviews of deliverable work products.

Skilled in breaking down complex problems into discrete tasks and communicating them effectively to a diverse range of technical specialists including climate scientists, engineers, and ecologists.

Manages a team of junior project managers and consultants.

Identifies, evaluates, cultivates and manages partnerships and relationships with senior clients, external stakeholders and key opinion leaders.

Effectively collaborates internally to bring our services to existing clients.

Business Development Activities

Enhances ERM’s capability to sell and deliver Corporate Sustainability & Climate Change services.

Proven ability to seek out and win recent client opportunities.

Demonstrated experience in leading complex bids.

Drives the preparation of winning proposals and pitch documents with a strong track record of interpreting requests for proposals and developing project methodologies.

Supports new business development campaigns and thought leadership initiatives.

Requirements

In addition to

📌 Principal Sustainability Strategy (Melbourne)
🏢 Environmental Resources Management Southwest
📍 Melbourne