Role: Senior Consultant
Location: Oxford or hybrid
Contract: Permanent, full time or part time
Remuneration: £45-£50k (depending on experience)
3Keel are looking for a Senior Consultant who will take a leading role in the delivery of project and consultancy work, winning new work and will be the key contact with clients.
Essential skills required:
- Sector knowledge: A strong technical and policy/regulatory understanding of corporate sustainability.
- Technical skills: Technically-minded with experience of working with data, with proven experience presenting complex analyses and data thoughtfully and effectively.
- Business development: Considerable BD and proposal-writing experience, with successful track record in winning new work with new and existing clients.
- Project management: Experience of leading project teams, planning and delivering high quality outcomes within agreed budget and timescales.
- Cross-disciplinary: Ability to engage with and work across a range of client-based teams with different levels of technical understanding, perspectives and needs.
- Negotiation skills: Proven influencing and negotiating skills to ensure that projects deliver the outcomes expected by clients and other key stakeholders.
- Presentation skills: The ability to confidently and clearly present complex information effectively to inform decision-making by non-technical senior managers within client organisations.
- Relationships: Developing and nurturing strong relationships with clients and team members that allows adaptability to exploit new opportunities and to tackle unforeseen challenges.
- Your approach: Self-starter and driven, with a passion for finding solutions to complex sustainability problems.
- Working with uncertainty: Ability to lead projects and advise clients in a rapidly evolving service area where standards and outcomes are still emerging.
- Clear communications: Clear and engaging writing style, and excellent verbal communication
Desirable skills:
- Line management experience.
- Experience of planning and running effective multi-stakeholder workshops and meetings.
- Knowledge of FMCG supply chains, agriculture and other land-based production systems.
- Academic background to degree or masters level in a relevant subject area.
- Technical expertise in corporate metrics and standards on nature and biodiversity (e.g. SBTN, TNFD, natural capital).
- Expertise in water resources management.
- Data collection, cleaning and management skills. Experience of data analytics, visualisation and practical business intelligence
software.
Above all else, we are looking for a great new member for our team! If you don’t meet all of the above criteria but feel compelled to apply, we encourage you to.
What 3Keel offer
- A friendly team of individuals from many walks of life, all constantly striving for excellence and committed to making a difference in sustainability – and having fun along the way!
- Genuine work-life flexibility for people at different life stages, with a well-established hybrid working culture
- Competitive salary depending on experience
- 30 days paid annual leave per annum.
- Pension scheme with 5% company contribution and personal investment/savings platform
- A generous employee share of profits bonus scheme
- Employee NHS Cash Top Up health insurance scheme
- Employee assistance and mental health support programmes
- Life cover
- Access to office space in various different locations in Oxford and London
- Three days of paid volunteering time per year for each staff member
- Generous maternity, paternity and sick pay/leave
- Annual training budget per employee
- 5 days for study per year
- Portion of annual profits donated to charity annually
- Salary sacrifice schemes for bikes (cycle to work scheme) electric vehicles and other tech
- Rail cards
About us…
3Keel is a small, specialist sustainability consultancy. We have grown organically since our founding in 2013, becoming a high impact team. The business is structured to address key sustainability issues, and we focus on innovations and coalition-building to develop approaches that challenge the status quo.
Case studies with more about some of our past work can be found here:
http://www.3keel.com/case-studies/
Friendly: join the friendliest consulting team there is – 3Keelers are warm, welcoming and genuinely open to diverse perspectives, different ideas and new ways of doing things! Joining our sociable team not only means you’ll be starting in a satisfying role – you will also be making new friends and having plenty of fun along the way!
Curious: 3Keel is a place to ask questions and seek answers. We embrace a growth mindset and love to learn from one another and our clients. We have recently set up ‘3Keel Learns for our staff – a series of external speakers and lectures to help everyone learn something new.
Practical: we take a practical approach to our work – but we also apply the same to work and life too. We understand people have a life outside of work and while we all want to get the job done well, we also understand the need to find balance. Our staff are supported at all stages of life, from early career starters to parents with young kids, to staff with ageing relatives: with flexible working arrangements, part time options available in many roles, and a range of policies which mean you aren’t penalised when ‘life happens’.
Ambitious: 3Keel is an award-winning consultancy and a B Corp – we know about ambition and we encourage our staff to channel theirs towards making a real difference within the sustainability field. We continually strive for the highest standards – whether it is with our client-facing work, or with how we run the company itself.
We are committed to offering equal opportunities and to creating a workplace where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, stay and deliver their best work. We encourage applications from applicants of all backgrounds, and from those who represent any diversity of gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability and all other characteristics. We want to play our part in increasing diversity within the sustainability sector, recognising that there is some way to go. We take our role in contributing to change in this area very seriously.
How to apply
Please apply with a CV and covering letter (not more than one side) outlining what makes you a good fit for the role.
The deadline for applications is the 1st December 2023, however we often schedule rolling interviews for interesting candidates, so we encourage you to apply at your earliest convenience.