Job Description
What if you could do the kind of work the world needs?
At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.
A Little More About Your Role…
At WSP, we are dedicated to ensuring sustainable futures for our places, societies, and environments. With global challenges like climate changing having local impact, we are agents of change who dare to challenge the status quo by providing strategic advisory and consultancy to clients in all sectors.
With a Growing Portfolio Of Projects And Clients, We’re Expanding Our Climate Risk And Adaptation Team. If You’re An Experienced Professional With Practiced Expertise In Any Of The Following Areas, We’d Like To Hear From You
- Climate change risk and vulnerability assessments
- Adaptation Planning and Adaptive Pathways
- Climate modelling, projections and scenario analysis
- Advising on climate adaptation measures
- TCFD assessment and reporting
- Climate and disaster risk management
- Implementing adaptation
- Climate justice
- Cost-benefit and multi-criteria analysis for climate adaptation
- Climate finance
- Resilience metrics and indicators
- Co-creation and stakeholder engagement
At WSP, we provide organisations with the advice and support they need to plan for an uncertain future, by identifying climate- and weather-related risks and developing strategies to help them adapt and be climate resilient. We’re at the forefront of helping governments, businesses and communities become Future Ready. Our experts are innovative and work collaboratively with colleagues, partners and clients, and are driven to produce high-quality solutions.
Our climate resilience work focuses on assessing climate risks and developing implementable adaptation solutions for clients in the public, private and third sector. We have delivered climate risk assessments and adaptation plans in a range of sectors from local governments to multi-national corporations. We have also produced reports for the transport sector to support their submissions for the UK Adaptation Reporting Power Third Round and we undertake a wide array of climate resilience assessments for EIAs for energy, transport, utilities, defence and property developments. Internationally, we are supporting international organisations to develop National Adaptation Plans in Central and East Asia and have developed climate risk and adaptation strategies for central government organisations in the Caribbean. More about our projects can be found on our website at https://www.wsp.com/en-gb/services/climate-risk-and-adaptation
We are making strong progress in meeting our own sustainability objectives, as well as helping our clients prepare for the future. Our ESG and TCFD Reports demonstrate how we have advanced on our commitments. We are supporting this by continuing to deploy our Future Ready approach globally throughout our project delivery process to contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation and to promote positive social impact.
WSP TCFD Report: https://www.wsp.com/en-gb/investors/reports-and-filings/esg-report
WSP ESG Report: https://www.wsp.com/en-gb/news/2022/wsp-publishes-first-tcfd-report
At WSP, we support your career development by providing opportunities for growth and learning as well as an opportunity to work in a flexible and inclusive culture. We actively encourage our people to make time for the other things in life – be that families, friends or yourself. So, if working part-time or having a flexible start and finish time will help, then we will be keen to support you with this.
So if you’re passionate about understanding the effects of, and finding solutions to adapt to climate change, and you’re driven to create positive impact, WSP is the right place to be.
Express your interested in joining the team ASAP!
Imagine a better future for you and a better future for us all.
Join our close-knit community of talented individuals who share your passion for making a positive impact. Our global team includes more than 69,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world.
With us, you can. Apply today.
