Senior Consultant - Climate Response and ESG Advisory

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Your impact

At Jacobs, we help clients navigate the climate transition for a more sustainable world with advisory services that drive decarbonization, resilience, and inclusive growth. As part of the Climate Response & ESG Advisory team, this role supports the delivery of climate-focused advisory services that inform planning, design, investment, and decision-making across many markets that include Water, Transportation, Built Environment, Advanced Facilities, Health, and Energy.

Jacobs are seeking a Senior Consultant to join our Climate Response & ESG Advisory team in Dubai to support high‑impact climate, sustainability, and ESG advisory engagements across the region. If you are passionate about supporting the climate transition, advising clients on decarbonization, resilience, and ESG integration, and contributing to complex advisory projects that inform strategy, investment, and decision‑making, this role offers an exciting platform to accelerate your career.

Jacobs’ Strategic Consulting team provides strategic advisory in all phases of the business life cycle, informed by our operational knowledge and deep functional expertise. By integrating strategic and technical expertise, we support the full spectrum of client functions from executive leadership project delivery and operations.

The selected candidate must have excellent team-player attitude, with ability to consistently demonstrate the highest levels of professionalism, integrity, mutual respect and accountability to others. By joining Jacobs, you’ll commit to supporting and engaging with these teams, as we work to build a company like no other.

About the opportunity

• Support performance-based design decisions using data and modeling to optimize energy, carbon, comfort, and performance outcomes.

• Contribute to energy system validations to verify efficiency, reliability, and operational readiness against expected performance.

• Support the development of sustainability strategies and roadmaps that align business objectives with environmental performance and regulatory expectations.

• Contribute to ESG integration in planning and design to manage risk, improve resilience, and strengthen stakeholder confidence.

• Support GHG inventories and emissions reduction strategies across scopes, including development of practical, implementable carbon-reduction pathways.

• Support asset vulnerability and climate risk assessments to inform business continuity, emergency preparedness, and resilience planning.

• Contribute to community insights, social value creation strategies, and social return on investment (SROI) assessments to inform decision-making.

• Support sustainability due diligence, post-acquisition planning, climate-aligned deal structuring, and ESG reporting activities.

Here's what you'll need

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in a relevant discipline such as engineering, environmental science, sustainability, climate change, economics, planning, or a related field.

• 5+ years of experience supporting ESG, climate, sustainability, or environmental advisory projects, ideally within a consulting or professional services environment.

• Ability to work across a range of climate response and ESG topics, including decarbonization, resilience, adaptation, and sustainable finance.

• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder coordination skills.

• Experience in preparing high-quality reports, presentations, and client-ready advisory outputs.

• Experience supporting client and stakeholder engagement; contributing to workshops, consultations, and briefings; and helping translate technical climate and ESG analysis into clear, decision‑ready insights.

Ideally, here’s what you’ll also have

• Ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary team environment.

• A strong interest in climate response and ESG advisory work.

• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

A key attribute you will possess will be the ability to foster inclusive behaviors as well as creating the right working environment for employees. You will continue building on our global culture of caring creating a workplace where we value the safety, positive mental health, inclusion and belonging of all our employees.

Bring your program delivery skills, leadership talent, and client relationship expertise, and we’ll help you grow, pursue, and fulfill what drives you - so we can make big impacts on the world, together.

Jacobs. A world where you can.

From our inclusive employee networks, to our positive mental health champions - we are committed to driving a culture of caring where you can be you. Joining Jacobs not only connects you locally but globally - and together, our diverse perspectives and unique backgrounds power our collective strength. We collaborate and share! By supporting one another, we all succeed.

With safety and flexibility always top of mind, we have gone beyond traditional ways of working so you have the support, means and space to maximize your potential. You will uncover productive working arrangements, benefits, and opportunities to do good too - from participating in our global giving and volunteering program, to exploring new and inventive ways to help our clients make the world a better place. No matter what drives you, you will discover how you can cultivate, nurture, and achieve your goals - all at a single global company.

Start your Jacobs career with a company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow, and succeed - today and into tomorrow.

From our inclusive employee networks to our positive mental health champions – we’re committed to driving a culture of caring where you can be you. Joining Jacobs not only connects you locally but globally - and together, our diverse perspectives and unique backgrounds power our collective strength. We collaborate and share! By supporting one another, we all succeed.

With safety and flexibility always top of mind, we’ve gone beyond traditional ways of working so you have the support, means and space to maximize your potential. You’ll uncover flexible working arrangements, benefits and opportunities to do good too – from participating in our global giving and volunteering program, to exploring new and inventive ways to help our clients make the world a better place.

No matter what drives you, you’ll discover how you can cultivate, nurture and achieve your goals – all at a single global company.

We value collaboration and believe that in-person interactions are crucial for both our culture and client delivery. We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations enabling them to deliver their best work.

Your application experience is important to us, and we’re keen to adapt to make every interaction even better. If you require further support or reasonable adjustments with regards to the recruitment process (for example, you require the application form in a different format), please contact the team via Careers Support .