SEA - Climate & Sustainability – Adaptation & Resilience - Expert Consultant/Project Leader/Associate Director
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Practice Area Profile
What You'll Do
- Play a leading role in helping our clients to improve their climate adaptation/resilience capabilities through case leadership & execution, client development, and intellectual property & product creation
- Build, manage and maintain client relationships in the adaptation and resilience sector
- Help clients to formulate comprehensive climate adaptation & resilience capabilities, including scenario modelling, key risk diagnosis and opportunity identification & prioritisation
- Support selling and delivery of adaptation & resilience related projects/programs with private, public and not-for-profit sector clients
- Identify socioeconomic, cultural or regulatory factors that may affect potential adaptation & resilience solutions, and incorporate these into recommended solutions
- Provide intellectual leadership for project teams by generating key ideas and conceptual frameworks to guide research and analysis
- Develop BCG’s thought leadership content and programs as part of our Climate and Sustainability practice in support of BCG’s clients and commercial agenda
- Build internal affiliation and capability on adaptation & resilience specifically and Climate and Sustainability more generally
- Build connections to regional and global adaptation & resilience experts
What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)
- Deep technical expertise on key climate risks faced by Southeast Asian countries and regionally specific adaptation & resilience issues
- Technical understanding of climate drivers, hazards and impact analysis, as well as latest developments from UNFCCC, IPCC and other relevant technical sources/references
- Ability to thrive in a hypothesis-based environment where inductive rather than deductive reasoning is the norm
- Strong people skills including building empathy, strong relationships, and trust
- Experience leading and managing teams, providing thought leadership
- Proven ability to build and maintain senior executive relationships, influencing senior executives' agendas and supporting critical strategic decisions
- Relevant tertiary qualifications from a top tier institution(s); Master's degree, MBA or PhD preferred
- Fluency in English is a must
- Fluency in any ASEAN language is a plus
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