Senior Consultant – Sustainable Blue Economy

Role Overview

• Develop, lead and promote OPM’s work on the sustainable blue economy to build future work, whilst supporting the delivery of existing projects and program.
• Be an integral part of the Nature and Environment Team, and engage across other teams within the Climate, Sustainability and Resilience Practice to define, develop and deliver opportunity pipelines for key clients in line with portfolio acquisition and diversification targets.
• Oversee and manage teams of technical experts working on projects (OPM, consortium and external consultant inputs), deliver projects in line with financial targets and quality assure client reporting.
• Manage client relationships and build upon existing networks in the sustainable blue economy with key external organization's, associates and external consultants.
• Ensure that program inputs and deliverables are defined and delivered on time and to quality standards, providing support to the wider team and Project Director.
• Contribute to OPM’s internal learning on the sustainable blue economy.
• Ensure effective use of OPM administrative, HR, legal and finance support staff.
• Provide a mentoring role in technical area of expertise for more junior staff.

Requirements

• A Master’s or other post-graduate University qualification in relevant discipline
• Substantial relevant work experience (at least 7-10 Years) in the sustainable blue economy with experience of across-section of the following core areas; Essential; Sustainable economic development in coastal, near-shore and/or off-shore sectors
• Essential; Climate adaptation for marine ecosystems and coastal communities
• Essential; Livelihood development and poverty reduction for coastal communities
• Desirable; Marine ecosystem management and marine biodiversity conservation
• Desirable; Marine pollution and ocean plastics
• Ideally with experience of the following sectoral areas; international development, policy and regulatory reform in the marine sector, institutional capacity building, monitoring & evaluation of programs
• Experience in externally representing the sustainable blue economy with partners, donors and with other external experts.
• Experience in the development of project plans, priorities and processes to achieve its objectives, including managing budgets, resources and risk management.
• Demonstrated leadership skills, with experience in mentoring or managing staff, ability to manage time effectively in a busy environment.
• Sound decision making skills, experienced in evaluating technical and commercial information to provide clear direction on projects in line with the portfolios objectives.
• Strong bidding and proposal management skills, which includes proven ability in actively prepositioning for strategically important and impactful projects and developing clear strategy for submitting winning bids.
• Work experience in low and middle-earning countries, ideally within a consulting firm, NGO, think-tank, multilateral or government agency.
• Personal attributes: Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues and clients, verbally and in writing
• Excellent problem solving, organizing and management skills
• Switches comfortably between attention to detail and bigger picture, joined up thinking and approach to providing solutions
• Good at prioritizing changing and competing demands and tasks, while consistently delivering quality work
• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills; collaborative and constructive approach to working with others, building effective relationships internally and externally.

Benefits

• We enable colleagues’ capacity to grow professionally through enhanced learning resources, opportunities to work cross functionally, and space to engage with a range of internal and external industry events.
• Our non-hierarchical culture values support, collaboration, intellectual curiosity, and a rich diversity of perspectives.
• We provide an exceptionally generous annual leave entitlement and a hybrid working model to encourage and enable healthy work/life balance.
• Wellbeing resources including a global Employee Assistance Programme and access to the UnMind app.
• Competitive salary and contributory pension scheme.