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.