Senior Consultant - Sustainability

Your role

• Develop a thorough understanding of the Client s master plan, infrastructure, and public realm, ensuring sustainability requirements remain aligned as designs evolve throughout the project lifecycle.
• Lead the coordination and implementation of LEED for Cities and Communities (LfC) and Mostadam.
• Communities certification requirements across all master plan, infrastructure, public realm, and transport / civil structure packages.
• Monitor design and construction activities across development boundary, ensuring ongoing compliance with sustainability standards and proactively addressing risks and gaps.
• Establish and maintain a Smartsheet tracking document to monitor certification progress, scores, risks, and issues at both masterplan and asset level, with monthly updates in coordination with PMCs, consultants, and contractors.
• Act as the primary focal point for stakeholder engagement, including managing communications with certifying bodies and relevant authorities.
• Prepare and manage all certification documentation, including narratives, technical studies, simulations, and operational policies on behalf of Client.
• Coordinate and manage certification submissions, responding to review comments and driving processes through to final Mostadam Communities certification award and maintaining the already achieved LfC certification at hand.
• Lead and participate in regular progress meetings, providing clear updates on status, risks, and mitigation actions.
• Deliver monthly reporting summarising activities, progress, and key issues, in line with DC requirements.
• Manage certification registration and administration, including coordination of submissions, documentation, and associated processes.
• Provide sustainability inputs into tender documentation, including technical requirements and contract clauses aligned with LfC and Mostadam Communities, and masterplan objectives.
• Undertake regular site visits and engage directly with design and construction teams to verify implementation and drive performance.
• Act as a Mostadam Accredited Professional (AP), leading certification registration and engagement with Saudi Sustainable Building authorities.
• Support in review of asset-level design and construction submissions to ensure compliance with LEED, Mostadam, and Parksmart requirements.

Key Competencies

• The successful candidate will be educated to degree / higher degree level in relevant subject (Engineering, Sustainable Energy, Building Services Engineering, Sustainable Development etc.) and will have achieved, chartered status and / or full or fellow membership of a recognized relevant professional body.
• 8-10 years experience across the fields of sustainability and certification in buildings and developments, including project management and business development experience.
• Experience in leading projects involving city / community scale sustainability certification appraisals (BREEAM, LEED, WELL, Mostadam), community scale carbon footprints, climate change assessments, net zero transitions (embodied or net zero operational buildings), or related services.
• Strategic sustainability advisory across large-scale, multi-asset developments.
• Deep knowledge of Mostadam Communities and LEED for Cities & Communities frameworks to achieving certification at the design and construction stages.
• End-to-end certification management, including evidence collation and submission.
• Understanding of sustainability strategies at project, portfolio, and organisational levels
• Familiarity with Middle East regulatory context, particularly KSA frameworks and authorities.
• Strong engagement with regulatory bodies (NHC, SB, GBCI)
• Manages and coordinates incoming documentation, ensuring efficient tracking, review, and alignment across stakeholders.
• Reviews and assesses design information directly using AutoCAD and related tools to validate compliance and technical integrity.
• Critically reviews and challenges shade and microclimate assessments, ensuring robustness of methodologies, assumptions, and outcomes.
• Managing multiple stakeholders across client, internal teams, design teams, contractors and authorities.
• Coordination of complex, multi-disciplinary workstreams across large mixed use development that has portions under design, re-design and construction.
• Oversight of deliverables across UAE, KSA, and India teams.
• Ensuring quality assurance, governance, and consistency with AtkinsR alis standards
• Proven experience in business development and bid management within secondment role, including initiating opportunities with Client to preparing comprehensive technical and commercial proposals.

Personal Attributes

• Proactive, self-driven, and comfortable working in an embedded client role
• High level of accountability and ownership
• Strong organisational and problem-solving skills
• Adaptability in a fast-paced, evolving project environment
• Must have Mostadam Communities accreditation and at least one of the following credentials:
  • LEED Accredited Professional (LEED AP) with specialty (BD+C, ID+C, O+M, ND, Homes)
  • WELL Accredited Professional
  • Low Carbon Consultant/Low Carbon Assessor
  • Other credentials focused on sustainability and sustainable development.