Severn Trent Plc is seeking a Climate Change Specialist to join our Climate Change Team. You will play a pivotal role in embedding climate adaptation across the business, leading the development of tools, systems, and processes to improve climate risk assessment and turn insight into action for resilient decision-making.
What You'll Do
- Standardise and increase the use of climate-related data across the business.
- Develop and maintain a high-quality climate risk assessment approach to build an improved understanding of climate risk at varying granularity.
- Coach other teams through delivery of climate risk assessments to maintain high-quality insights.
- Quantify current and future risks, impacts, and performance to understand the real-world implications of climate change.
- Quantify the financial cost of events, risks, impacts, and solutions to feed into operational management, investment plans, and risk systems.
- Monitor and track climate risk over time and space to enable prioritised management and adaptive planning.
- Build consideration of climate risks and impacts into other company systems and processes and produce tools to support decision making.
What We're Looking For
- Significant experience of risk assessment, management and its application to business decisions.
- Knowledge and experience in climate change, climate risk analysis and their future modelling.
- Experience working with climate data and models (e.g. IPCC scenarios).
- Knowledge of the national landscape for climate adaptation.
- A proven track record of detailed analysis, trend spotting and insight presentation to shape and drive business decisions.
- Experience of building relations with diverse stakeholders.
- Understanding of Severn Trent’s progress, plans and reporting on climate adaptation.
- Experience of successfully creating, developing and embedding new processes to meet changing needs.
Team & Environment
You will be part of the Climate Change Team, working within an inclusive workplace where people are at the heart of everything we do. We are focused on making a positive impact on the environment and communities we serve, and you will be valued and supported in this mission.
Benefits & Compensation
- Salary starting from £50,000.
- 28 days holiday + bank holidays (and the ability to buy/sell up to 5 days per year).
- Annual bonus scheme (of up to £2,250 per annum based on company performance).
- Award-winning training to help you reach your potential.
Work Mode
This is a hybrid position based in Coventry.
Severn Trent Plc is an equal opportunity employer.
