Sustainability Advisor (Gulf Region)

Our Company:

The Louis Berger Group is a leading international consulting firm specializing in civil engineering, transport planning, environmental planning and infrastructure development.  We employ over 4,000 people in over 90 offices worldwide and are seeking additional senior construction personnel for our current work in the Gulf Region.

Job Description:

Advocate sustainable development concepts, share development experiences/good practices that have been acquired elsewhere and learn similar experiences/good practices in the Gulf region and share them with relevant stakeholders, as per the planned project activities; this advocacy will include mainstreaming climate change into the preparation and implementation of social economic development strategies and plans; provided high quality advice on capacity building needs and plans; provide effective training, with excellent facilitation skills and appropriate delivery skills and styles; high quality inputs into project progress reports and work plans, and review-comments of high quality and relevance; provide project management advice (planning, monitoring, and evaluation) of high quality and relevance; provide policy and technical advice of high quality and relevance.

Competencies:

Demonstrate knowledge and experience in working on policy development and capacity building. This includes setting technical methods to maximize performance for the Sustainable Development and Climate Planning in the Gulf Region.  Strong knowledge / experience in results based management and results oriented approach to project implementation; strong inter-personal skills, communication, networking and team-building skills; competent in leading teams and creating team spirit, management of inter-group dynamics and conflicting interests of various actors, stimulating team members to produce quality outputs in a timely and transparent fashion; excellent oral communication skills and excellent written communication skills, with analytic capacity and ability to synthesize project outputs and relevant findings for the preparation of quality papers and reports; capable of dealing with senior and high ranking members of national and international institutions, government and non-government; ability to deal with politically sensitive issues; results driven, ability to work under pressure and to meet strict deadlines; works well under pressure;

Job Qualifications:

Degree level qualification in environmental sciences, climate change or a related field; fifteen years working experience in the development field, previous work experience in the Gulf region

Desired qualifications include:

excellent project management skills (management of human and financial resources, team building, and ensure quality of project results as well as strict application of rules, policies and procedures); excellent skills in standard software (Word processing, spreadsheets); experience with the use of databases

Applications:

If this type of role interests you and you believe that you have the skills required, please email your CV to cgodfrey@louisberger.com or rhinault@louisberger.com.