Stonehaven Hiring for Senior Consultant – Dubai Job at Dubai Full Time

We can only accept applications from people with a legitimate work/residency visa/permit, to be able to live and work legally in the UAE.

The role

We are looking for a bright and passionate Senior Consultant with strong experience working in sustainability, to join our growing team at Robertsbridge and help us build our Dubai office. As an experienced consultant and sustainability professional, you will be excited by delivering positive change for clients. We welcome applications from candidates who have consultancy or in-house experience.

In your role, you will work with cross-sector clients to define sustainability strategies; deliver, communicate and implement sustainability programmes; and lead on strategic stakeholder engagement and mediation.

Our senior consultants manage the day-to-day delivery of work across numerous accounts and are expected to develop close relationships with clients, provide them with trusted and informed advice, regularly lead client facing meetings and ensure high quality client output.

About Robertsbridge

Robertsbridge is a specialist sustainability firm, currently operating from regional offices in London, Dubai, Singapore and Sydney. Our advisers are drawn from a dynamic global team of experts in data insight, ESG, policy, advocacy, business model transformation, coalition building, and public engagement campaigning.

Together with Stonehaven, our partner firm in international strategy, we help clients accelerate and unlock change as they navigate the societal and environmental transitions shaping the world’s economies.

Through unrivalled proprietary data insights, deep strategy and policy expertise, sustainability excellence and campaigning zeal, we help business leaders, philanthropists and investors improve their impact and secure long-term success.

At the heart of our approach is our proprietary research and data platform, helping us to understand the values and beliefs that are shaping public opinion in markets across the world. With this insight powering our offer, our clients can feel certain in their ability to shape public policy, secure long term success and deliver deep, sustainable change.

Responsibilities

• Leading on the day-to-day running of accounts, ensuring outputs are delivered on time and to a high standard
• Managing junior colleagues’ weekly activities and workloads, alongside providing direction, advice and role modelling desired behaviours
• Main client point of contact across accounts, leading regular client calls and presentations
• Supporting new business activity, including drafting of content

• Seeking opportunities for organic growth on accounts, and across personal network
• Effective managing upwards, including seeking input as required and escalating risks and issues in a timely manner
• Supporting on internal company people activities, including line management, recruitment, training and resourcing
• Working closely with our Managing Partner to build our Dubai office

The ideal candidate

• Strong track record delivering sustainability strategies, sustainability advisory and/or business change
• Experience of working in the GCC with knowledge of specific challenges being faced in the MENA region
• Displaying strong project management skills and understanding of client needs, they should be able to lead with minimal supervision on larger workstreams and/or provide strategic advice to clients
• Able to confidently interact with clients and stakeholders, building strong relationships with key client contact points
• Strong project management skills and good understanding of how to deliver sustainability strategies, campaigns and/or business change

• Take an active role in people development and growing their external network
• Proficient in Microsoft Office suite
• Professional network in the MENA region

Person profile

• Excellent analytical and strategic thinking skills, able to make good decisions quickly

• Demonstrates good client handling skills and ability to build trust with client
• Effective team leader and strong people developer
• Proactive and forward-thinking mindset, identifying new business and organic growth opportunities
• Demonstrable ambition to achieve excellent and flawless work
• Excellent knowledge of sustainability materials and tools to deliver projects effectively

• Clear specialism in an industry or area of sustainability

Benefits

In addition to a competitive salary the core benefits programme includes:

• A discretionary annual bonus, based on personal and business performance
• Pension contribution, Private healthcare cover, inclusive of dental and optical and DocTap same day Doctors appointments
• £500 towards gym membership on completion of probation
• 25 days annual holiday with additional office closure days
• An enhanced family leave package

• An employee assistance programme with 24/7 access to online, phone or face-to-face counselling.
• We encourage a mix of home and office-based working to help our team to achieve a healthy balance between work and their personal goals, and continue to adapt to the changing needs of our workforce