Description

Full time: Consulting Director, with a possibility to be promoted to Associate Partner
Location: India (Mumbai/Gurgaon/Bengaluru)
Skills: Deep technical and consulting experience in Social Impact and Human Rights

ERM is seeking a self-driven, purpose driven and motivated ‘Consulting Director’ to join our Social Impact and Human Rights team with a focus on India and South Asia. You will be part of a dynamic, cross-country and multidisciplinary team that will be responsible to scale ERM’s social consulting services and to innovate across the intersection of a just energy transition, nature and human rights. You will provide business and technical leadership to a growing team of consultants in India; generate and deliver high profile projects; and develop excellent client relationships.

In addition, you will play a key role in coordinating with ERM’s Capital Project Delivery (CPD) leadership across South & East Asia, when required.

Key Responsibilities

As a Consulting Director joining our team, your key focus will be leading a high-performance team to help our clients on social performance (including resettlement), human rights, strategic communications and stakeholder engagement, DEI, political risk advisory and just transition.

Technically, the role requires demonstrated experience in some or all of the following areas:

Experience with social performance and human rights issues across geographies (previous experience within consultancy is desirable).
Experience in delivering and implementing social impact assessment, resettlement planning and implementation as well as social/human rights due diligence.
Experience in embedding social issues and topics into ESG and sustainability strategies as well as operational management systems.

You will be responsible for:

Managing or coordinating medium to large sized projects or whole elements of larger multidisciplinary projects in South Asia (we anticipate that this role will also require close collaboration with our regional and global social performance teams).
Active leadership of multidisciplinary teams to deliver project tasks or components, including proposals.
Supervising project team(s) and mentoring direct reports (social/human rights consultants).
Remaining up to date with external market and client industry trends.
Understanding how work of the project team and or practice community contributes to ERM’s success.
Ability to travel (including fieldwork) on a regular basis.
Establish and develop long-term senior level relationships with clients in South Asia; and
Raise ERM’s profile in Social Impact and Human Rights.

Requirements

Post graduation, in Social Sciences, Development Studies, Economics, Planning or similar degree that is relevant to social impact, resettlement and human rights.
Minimal 15 years of relevant work experience across geographies in Asia on Social Impact, Resettlement and Human Rights.
Strong knowledge of priority sectors (Finance, Energy Transition, Extractives and Technology).
Demonstrated competencies of applying international environmental and social safeguards (World Bank, ADB, IFC etc.).
Excellent language skills.
Ability to lead and work with multi-cultural teams.

Who We Are

As the world’s leading sustainability consulting firm, ERM is uniquely positioned to contribute to the environment and society through the expertise and energy of our employees worldwide. Sustainability is what we do, and is at the heart of both our service offerings and how we operate our business. For our people, our vision means attracting, inspiring, developing and rewarding our people to work with the best clients and on the biggest challenges, thus creating valuable careers. We achieve our vision in a sustainable manner by maintaining and living our ERM values that include Accountability, Caring for our People, Client Focus, Collaboration, Empowerment, and Transparency.

Please submit your resume and brief cover letter.

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ERM is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status or disability status.

Thank you for your interest in ERM.

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