Job Description

ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMIST CONSULTANT - KwaZulu Natal (Pietermaritzburg) or Gauteng (Pretoria)Competitive Package on Offer!Our Client, a Global Strategic Management Consulting firm is seeking to recruit an Environmental Economist Consultant within their dynamic Climate, Natural Resources and Infrastructure team of professional.One would describe you as an energetic problem-solver, who is open-minded with multi-perspective views on international development, natural resource management, infrastructure delivery, governance systems and policies.Main Purpose of the Role:To support the delivery of their conservation, biodiversity and climate finance, natural resource management and infrastructure portfolio, as well as to support their long-term consulting and project implementation assignments.Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Applying technical expertise to deliver a range of environmental-economic work with private and public sector clients. This may include natural capital and ecosystem services assessments, natural capital accounting, project appraisal, and the design and implementation of market-based mechanisms for environmental management and sustainable financing.
• Support to designing and applying economics tools, cutting-edge approaches and policy measures to solve a range of practical problems in the areas of natural capital accounting, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem restoration, climate change mitigation and adaptation, nature-based solutions, natural resources management, and sustainable livelihoods.
• Producing high quality economic research and analysis on costs and benefits (including impacts on natural capital and ecosystem services) of a range of natural resource and infrastructure investments, projects & policies.
• Applying a range of non-market valuation methods to investigate, prioritize and communicate the value of biodiversity and ecosystem services to expert and non-expert audiences.
• Supporting project teams to design and undertake cost benefit analyses.
• Contributing to, and taking ownership of, project deliverables or components of deliverables.
• Developing and presenting findings to clients, partners and senior decision-makers in government, development finance institutions and the private sector with a high level of confidence.
• Assisting with project management, coordination, and project logistics/administration.
• Contributing actively to developing new business opportunities and proposal development.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCERequired

• Undergraduate degree in Economics, Environmental Science, Finance or a related discipline. Postgraduate degree in an appropriate field such as (but not limited to) Environmental, Ecological or Natural Resource Economics, Econometrics, Finance or Environmental Science.
• 3-5 years of working in consultancy or in a relevant corporate setting.
• Comfortable working in Excel and other quantitative / statistical software packages.
• Experience of preparing cost benefit assessments and the valuation of non-market benefits.

Preferred

• Demonstrable interest in and/or practical experience of working in Africa and other frontier markets
• Proficiency in French, Portuguese, or Spanish would be advantageous.

Key Skills and Attributes:

• Self-motivated with the ability to work independently and deliver analytical tasks at a high-quality.
• Ability to analyse and interrogate environmental and economic data and communicate findings clearly to different audiences, including non-specialists
• Ability to integrate economic analysis and bio-physical modeling in the assessment of ecosystem services
• A team player who is productive working in a collaborative, inter-disciplinary environment.
• Desire to contribute towards making the world a better place, and belief that a small group of committed and hard-working individuals can have a significant impact

To apply for this role, please forward a detailed copy of your CV to Nicole Spamers: AND Andrea Jones: with Environmental Economist Consultant in the subject heading

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