Consultant II

Position Overview

Now Hiring! Consultant II   Location: Houston, TX.   Salary: $80K-$105K/yr.   Job Summary: Acorn International is seeking a Consultant II to join our team! In this role, you will lead a team in successfully delivering consulting services to our clients, with a focus on meeting project expectations regarding scope, schedule, and budget. Additionally, you will conduct detailed analyses and develop content for Social and Environmental Baseline and Impact assessment studies for a diverse range of clients.   Benefits: - Health, Dental and Vision insurance - Company sponsored retirement program with match - Life insurance - Company paid LTD - Paid time off - Paid sick leave - Paid holidays and vacation   What You’ll Do: - As a project team leader, conduct site assessments, identify potential environmental and social risks and opportunities. - Effectively and efficiently develop reports as deliverables for clients. - Lead environmental and social projects from inception to completion, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards. - Develop relationships with clients to become dependable consultants. - Consistently deliver high-quality consulting services, maintaining responsibility for leading complex tasks and up to moderately complex (generally not multi-phased or multi-year) projects. - Start to develop reputation as widely recognized and respected environmental or social performance assurance subject matter expert with broad fungibility and knowledge/promotion of Acorn International mission. - Periodically contribute to industry knowledge through subject matter articles and speeches/panels. - Support management and development of key client relationships resulting in growing trajectory of repeat business. - Stay current with environmental regulations, sustainability practices, and industry trends. - Manage and approve project invoicing and collection of payment from client. - Apply technical knowledge to develop innovative solutions for complex environmental and social performance challenges. - Supervise data collection, analysis, and interpretation to inform project decisions and recommendations. - Assist clients in navigating impacts to the environment or community. - Represent the firm at industry conferences, meetings, and public forums. - Perform other duties as assigned. What You’ll Need: - Minimum of 5–10 years of experience in environmental consulting or a related field, with project management and leadership experience. - Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Sociology, Anthropology, Environmental Science, Engineering, Environmental Policy, or a related field. - Proven proficiency in the following software/platforms: Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, etc.), Microsoft Teams, Smartsheet, Forecast, and Harvest. - Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with strong problem-solving abilities, attention to detail, and organizational skills. - Physical demands: Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer. Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times.   Who we are: Acorn International delivers the expertise, solutions and assurance that global businesses need to thrive in high-risk environments amidst community opposition, environmental liabilities, and shareholder activism. We aim to promote more sustainable relationships between business, affected stakeholders and the affected environment, to help all three thrive.   Why Should You Join our Team?: Here at Acorn International we’re an integrated team of professional social and socioenvironmental specialists dedicated to working together to create solutions for a just energy transition, and we need other inspired consultants to help us reach our common mission. We’ve kept our business small to ensure we preserve a culture of caring for each other as well as our clients and their host communities and to promote inspiration, but our expertise is recognized and our growth is supported by on-going contracts with most of the world’s leading energy and mining companies, who treat us as a key partner to solve their most complex social and socioenvironmental challenges. Our careful growth has created a need to attract a few more exceptional team members who are likewise inspired and looking for opportunities to make a difference in the global energy transition. You will join a collegial, mission-driven team of experts in de-risking critical energy and minerals development projects and assets for the energy transition by helping us apply deep social risk management expertise, business sense and training/skills/techniques to build common ground needed for businesses and host communities to thrive in advancing energy transition developments.   We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.   Visit our website at https://acornintllc.com/

Pay Range

USD $80,000.00 - USD $105,000.00 /Yr.

Salary : $80,000 - $105,000