Consultant, Resilience

Company: WSP in the U.S.
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: February 15, 2025

Job Description:

This OpportunityWSP is currently initiating a search for a Consultant to support our company's growing Resilience Services Practice and our Climate, Resilience and Sustainability team. This is a full-time position located in any of our offices in the United States.This new technical position is for a team member that will support climate adaptation and resilience planning, research and communication. You will work with other experts from our Resilience Services Practice, including climate scientists, engineers, planners, economists, policy specialists, and risk modelers, and expand our organization to meet our growing portfolio of clients, for whom we identify their risk to climate-related hazards, including socio-economic impacts, and develop resilience strategies and plans to reduce these risks.Your Impact

• Research and summarize climate stressor information and applicable local, regional, state, and federal climate adaptation guidance, policy, or regulations for climate impact assessments.
• Communicate and visualize results of quantitative analysis of exposure, vulnerability, risks, and resilience associated with long-term climate change considerations for a range of clients such as municipalities and infrastructure agencies.
• Support preparation of documentation that succinctly summarizes methodologies and results for technical and lay audiences.
• Develop climate adaptation and resilience strategies and plans.
• Participate on multiple projects, delivering on project commitments through effective coordination with internal colleagues, external resources and agencies, and consulting team partners.
• Contribute to a diverse team of experts working to advance the Resilience Services Practice through effective data-driven analysis and decision-making.
• Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources and conduct, and adhere to WSP's Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures.
• Perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs.Who You AreRequired Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree or higher in urban planning, public policy, civil and environmental engineering, environmental science, or a related field.
  • 3-5 years of experience working on climate change vulnerability and risk assessments.
  • Familiar with geospatial processing tools (e.g., GDAL, QGIS, ArcGIS, Google Earth Engine).
  • Proven capabilities for technical project delivery.
  • Experience communicating orally and in writing technical analysis and results to non-technical audiences using data visualization and maps.
  • Attention to detail; commitment and skills to identify and detect errors; commitment to thorough quality reviews and checks; and commitment to accuracy, correctness, and excellence.
  • Ability to innovate on challenging topics to produce client-tailored products.
  • Experience working both independently and on efforts requiring remote collaboration.
  • Ability to work schedules conducive to project-specific requirements that may extend beyond the typical workweek.Preferred Qualifications
    • Consulting experience in the climate adaptation and resilience field.
    • Experience working with climate data to inform hazard and impact analyses.
    • Experience analyzing the impacts to assets, infrastructure, and communities caused by climate-related hazards.WSP Benefits:WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee's career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.Compensation:Expected Salary (all locations): $64,000 - $125,400WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant's sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.Expected Salary (Colorado only): $64,000 - $117,700WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position within the state of Colorado, based on the successful applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant's sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.
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