Graduate Opportunities in Climate & Sustainability Services (2993) London, England
Job description
Launch your career with Arup:
Dedicated to sustainable development, Arup is a collective of advisors and experts working across 140 countries. Founded to be both humane and excellent, we collaborate with our clients and partners using imagination, technology and rigour to shape a better world.
Introduction to Climate and Sustainability Services
Our Climate and Sustainability Services team delivers specialist advisory services that address society's need to respond to the climate emergency. We help our clients to avoid and reduce carbon emissions, manage climate risk and enhance the resilience of their business systems and assets as well as the communities and natural environments they operate in.
We work collaboratively with central and local government bodies, investors, non-government organisations, academia and the private business community to help shape and deliver ground-breaking research, new policies, financial models, strategies, action plans as well as governance and reporting that enable organisations to realise their sustainability commitments and aspirations.
Our experts work with teams across the globe to drive more sustainable outcomes such as improved water quality; enhanced energy and food security; high quality habitats and biodiversity rich green spaces that help ensure environmental and human health and wellbeing. Our role is to develop and bring together innovative solutions from different sectors, organisations and countries to accelerate decarbonisation, adaptation and resilience across the UKIMEA region.
Opportunities available within Climate & Sustainability Services
Health and Equalities Impact Assessment (HIA) (Click here for more information and to apply)
This opportunity will be based in London
Right now, we're looking for graduate consultants to join our London consulting team of bright and motivated professionals. As our consulting team offers a multidisciplinary service, we are looking for graduates with diverse skills and interests to join our Environmental Assessments team.
In your first year, you will have the opportunity to spend four months in two or more of our other environmental teams namely: Waste and Resources, Atmospheric Emissions, Contaminated Land, Ecology and Biodiversity, Historic Environment and Sustainability. This will provide invaluable opportunities for professional growth including developing a diverse range of technical skills, a wide support network and a good insight into our capabilities.
From your first day you'll join an unrivalled community of experts, where you will be supported and mentored. You will be guided by a ‘buddy' who will help you to find your feet within the first few months of settling into Arup.
We take professional development seriously, with frequent internal seminars and training and also access to external national training opportunities supporting you to progress towards a professional qualification (Chartership) early in your career with us.
You'll help us to deliver effective and professional services for a range of varied and high- profile clients. You'll have a good level of responsibility from day one which will increase as you progress and broaden your skills.
We are looking for individuals with a minimum 2.1 Bachelor's degree or higher degree in a relevant subject such as Public Health, Urban Planning, Social Sciences, Geography, Economics or Environmental Sciences.
Graduate Ecologist (Click here to find out more and apply)
This opportunity will be based in Birmingham
We are looking for a Graduate Ecologist to join our ecology team in the Midlands. Our focus is driving high quality design that achieves biodiversity net gain as part of complex development projects. We operate as part of multidisciplinary project teams working with other environmental specialists and engineering colleagues to embed biodiversity within new schemes across sectors including highways, rail, energy and flood risk management. Our clients include major public and private sector organisations that rely upon our expertise within ecological assessment, mitigation and enhancement to deliver high profile projects sustainably, both in the UK and internationally.
You will help us to deliver effective and professional ecology services across a diversity of projects. The role will be a varied mix of office and field work. You will assist with habitat and species surveys, and analyse the results to prepare clear and concise ecological reports and calculations of predicted biodiversity change.
We are looking for individuals with a Bachelor's degree or higher degree in Biology, Ecology, Zoology, Botany, Geography or Environmental Sciences (Prediction of 2.1 or higher) or equivalent.
What we're looking for:
We're looking for graduates with personal drive and with a passion for addressing the challenges of climate change and the race to net zero. If you can combine these skills with an understanding of (or willingness to learn about) and a desire to deliver excellent services for clients, we'd like to hear from you.
You should be available to start this opportunity in September 2023
What we offer you:
Beyond a great salary and stimulating, technically challenging work, Arup offers a range of additional benefits to its people.
As a membership organisation, everyone shares in our success through a global profit share scheme. Our people also have access to a range of broader wellbeing benefits.
You'll have access to lots of learning opportunities including a structured induction and ongoing training through Arup university.
Additionally, you'll have the opportunity to utilise your technical expertise to improve the lives of the most vulnerable in the communities in which we live and work through Arup's community engagement programme.
Next steps:
Please click on the role that most interests you to find out further information and to apply. We then ask that you complete the application form, attaching any required documents. We'll be reviewing applications on a rolling basis. You are therefore strongly encouraged to apply in advance of the application deadline. Our assessment centres for this opportunity will take place from March 2023.
Different people, shared values:
At Arup, we believe when talented people collaborate, great things are possible. Arup hires people with proven skills and open minds. We are taking deliberate action to create an inclusive culture that is grounded in our purpose to shape a better world.
At Arup, we welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and any other protected characteristic. Our internal employee networks - BAME, Culture, Disability, LGBTQ+ and Women - provide a space for you to express your views and to make a positive difference - discover more about life at Arup here.
At Arup, we are committed to making all stages of our recruitment process accessible to all candidates. Please let us know if you need any assistance or reasonable adjustments throughout your application and we will do everything we possibly can to support you.
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