Carbon and Climate Change Specialist

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Turin or Milan; other Italian WSP offices may be considered | Hybrid | Full-time
Building a sustainable future, together.
At WSP, we design the future of our communities. As one of the world’s leading engineering and professional services firms, we bring together expertise across transport and infrastructure, buildings, energy, environment, water and sustainability advisory. Across Central Europe, we combine local knowledge with international reach to deliver projects that create a positive, lasting impact for clients, communities and the environment.
Our multidisciplinary Sustainability Services team delivers technical and strategic carbon and climate change advisory services. As part of our growth plan, we are expanding our experienced consulting team to develop client relationships and new business and manage and deliver Carbon & Climate Change advisory services for public and private clients, International Financial Institutions and related players in the project financing cycles.
The opportunity We are looking for a Carbon and Climate Change Specialist to join our Sustainability advisory team, primarily based in Turin or Milan, with Turin preferred. Other Italian WSP offices may be considered where arrangements for team collaboration and client presence can be agreed.
In this hybrid, full-time role, you will manage and deliver advisory projects covering carbon accounting, decarbonization, life cycle assessment and climate risk, resilience and adaptation.
You will work closely with multidisciplinary Sustainability Services colleagues, clients and business partners. The exact scope of the role can be adapted depending on the successful candidate’s experience, seniority and technical background.
How You Will Make An Impact Your work will support our carbon and climate change advisory services,



helping us deliver high-quality outcomes for our clients and communities.
Carbon accounting and life cycle assessment: Provide technical assistance on organizational and project carbon management, GHG inventories and carbon footprints, including Scope 1, 2 and 3 accounting, LCA, Product Carbon Footprint and environmental labels.
Decarbonization and climate resilience: Assess physical and transition climate risks and opportunities, undertake climate proofing studies, and develop mitigation and adaptation strategies, corporate decarbonization and net-zero pathways and targets (e.g. SBTi), low-carbon transition plans, climate adaptation plans.
Policy, disclosure and sustainable finance: Advise on climate-related policies and regulations, climate and sustainability disclosures, and access to project funding, including technical assistance throughout the financing cycle of sustainable, climate-proof investments (e.g. DNSH and EU Taxonomy).
Project delivery and technical reporting: Support project management and contribute technical expertise to effective, innovative reports and proposals across carbon and climate change advisory services.
Client relationships and business growth: Help establish trusted relationships with clients and business partners, contribute to bids and tenders and the development of new business,



and help shape our carbon and climate change services.
The team around you Within Sustainability Services, you will collaborate with specialists across disciplines and draw on WSP’s wider technical and professional network to deliver carbon management, climate change and sustainable investment projects.
The culture: A dynamic, collaborative working environment.
The projects: Innovative technical and strategic assignments, from decarbonization plans to climate-resilient investments.
The opportunity: Develop your expertise through on-the-job training, mentoring and coaching, with exposure to global projects and travel opportunities.
What You Will Bring To The Role We focus on the essential qualifications, skills and experience needed for success, while welcoming different technical backgrounds and career paths.
A degree in Engineering, or another relevant field of study with a sustainability focus.
At least five years of relevant experience, including work in an engineering or technical consultancy environment, with solid carbon management and accounting expertise and practical experience across most of the following areas: corporate carbon accounting (Scope 1, 2 and 3) and tailored decarbonization and net-zero pathways; climate mitigation and adaptation strategies; LCA and Product Carbon Footprint; climate resilience and climate proofing studies; climate-related and sustainability disclosures; and technical assistance throughout the financing cycle of sustainable, climate-proof investments, including DNSH and EU Taxonomy.
Knowledge of European and international sustainability and climate regulatory frameworks and sustainable finance.
Additional experience in climate finance, sustainability frameworks for buildings and infrastructure (such as

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