Analyst / Senior Analyst / Manager - Climate Risk and Resilience

Date:  29 Aug 2024
Location: 

Canberra, ACT, AU

Department:  Risk Advisory
Description: 

Job Requisition ID: 36232 

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Deloitte’s national Climate Risk and Resilience advisory team is growing and requires a number of outstanding, innovative and engaging professionals to join the team – that’s where you come in. Through our services, we help our clients understand, engage with and act on their climate, nature, and sustainability-related risks and opportunities. 

 

We are looking for candidates spanning analyst, senior analyst, and manager level, to join our team.

  

About our team 

  

Our highly diverse and multi-disciplinary team combines deep subject matter expertise, strategic thinking, and data and technology to meet the equally diverse and fast-evolving needs of our clients.  

 

These roles are preferably Canberra based. The Canberra sustainability and climate team are focussed on working with government and public sector to help support, design, implement, and enhance climate and sustainability related policy and programs. Candidates will hold, or be eligible to obtain, a national security clearance.

 

The broader practice’s experience and expertise spans sustainability/ESG strategy (including nature advisory), climate risk analytics, disaster resilience, work health and safety, energy and climate advisory, technology, crisis management and resilience, risk culture, human rights and ethics, government policy and program advisory services.

  

What will your typical day look like? 

  

In your role you will be part of a team delivering innovative services to clients with the opportunity to work closely with our local, regional and global teams.  

 

You will have a minimum baseline security clearance (or the ability to obtain), management consulting experience, including in working with governments. Technical specialists are required to demonstrate sufficient project management skills, including demonstrated experience contributing to, or managing, diverse teams. Federal government experience will be highly regarded, particularly relating to project management, stakeholder engagement, technology and digitisation skills – especially as demonstrated in the climate risk and resilience context. 

  

You will be part of a leading practice working with the best clients with the guarantee of no day being the same. Your role will include: 

 

  • Leading the design and delivery of projects for a range of government clients, predominately focussed on Federal Government including Department of Defence that relate to subject matter including climate mitigation, climate adaptation, climate risk and resilience, environmental policy, programs, and nature-related advisory services, and disaster risk reduction and resilience.
  • Developing and applying your skills relating to some or all the following skill sets: climate risk in all its facets; climate data analytics; governance and integrity of programs (for government) or strategies (for private sector); adaptation planning and implementation; emergency management and disaster resilience; environmental policy, programs, and nature-related advisory and services.
  • The opportunity to take charge of your career and make an impact that matters.

  

Enough about us, let’s talk about you. 

  

You will bring a strong passion to make a difference for our clients and in both supporting and enhancing governments with their mandate, with demonstrated understanding of the relevant issues and how to solve for these, relevant to this position. You will have experience in management consulting or equivalent (dependent on level you are applying for). You will be a self-starter and a team player who thrives on meaningful and challenging opportunities – we want you to build a great career with us. You will be cognisant and respectful of Australia’s First Nation’s values.  

 

Requisite skills and experience: 

 

  • Requisite of several years’ experience (relative to which role you are applying for) relating to working with government, industry, non-profit or private sector clients on topics relating to climate and/or sustainability.
  • Proven management consulting experience, or demonstrated equivalent.
  • Demonstrated ability to understand and engage with the public policy landscape, including regulatory frameworks, machinations of government, and complex stakeholder engagement.
  • Demonstrated strong analytical skills, and demonstrated ability to effectively draw insights from research and data to support inform solutions. 
  • The ability, drive and determination to methodically work through complex problems and synthesise outcomes into clear and impactful communications, without forsaking quality.  
  • Demonstrated ability to work within a diverse team environment.  
  • An ability to build long-lasting and meaningful relationships with diverse stakeholders, both internal and external to Deloitte.
  • A degree or equivalent in law, public policy, environmental science, engineering, business, international development, sustainability, politics, the arts, finance or business - with a passion to apply your expertise to real world client problems. 
  • Currently held, or ability to obtain, a baseline security clearance or above.
  • Desired: climate risk and resilience data analytics skills, or willingness to learn.

 

These roles are preferably Canberra based, but we are open to a conversation on location, for the right candidates.

  

Why Deloitte?

 

At Deloitte, we create positively differentiated work experiences that enable our people to feel valued and achieve their full potential. Deloitte Australia opens the door to a career that can cross borders virtually and physically, to gain experience and access projects across the world. We value difference, and embrace people with diverse backgrounds, experiences, gender identities, abilities and thinking styles. Knowing that people work best in a variety of ways, we are happy to discuss alternative arrangements if the working pattern you are looking for is not specifically indicated. 

We’re committed to continually building a safe and respectful workplace, where all our people feel appreciated and accepted. Through the creation of endorsed employee-led diversity networks which promote cultural, disability, LGBTI+, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and gender equality, we’re leading the way to shape an environment where everybody can thrive. 

We prioritise flexibility and choice and will help you to live and work well. To support your personal and professional life, we offer a range of perks and benefits, including retail discounts, wellbeing leave, paid volunteering days, twelve flexible working options, market-leading parental leave and return to work support package. 

We are proud to have been recognised for our efforts in inspiring change and accelerating progress – check out our careers site for recent recognition in this space.
 

Next Steps

Sound like the sort of role for you? Apply now. We’d love to hear from you

 

 

 

By applying for this job, you’ll be assessed against the Deloitte Talent Standards. We’ve designed these standards so that you can grow in your career, and we can provide our clients with a consistent and exceptional Deloitte employee experience globally. The preferred candidate will be subject to background screening by Deloitte or by their external third-party provider.