An opportunity has arisen for a highly disciplined and experienced Marine consultant to join our offices in UAE or Saudi Arabia to help deliver high-level consultancy services.

The successful candidate\xe2\x80\x99s duties and responsibilities will include:

• Prepare comprehensive environmental reports including, but not limited to, scoping reports, environmental, social and health impact assessment (ESHIA) reports, strategic environmental assessments (SEAs), feasibility studies, environmental, social and health management plans (ESHMPs), audit reports, and environmental monitoring reports in line with national legislation, standards and guidelines, and relevant international standards, guidelines, and best practices.
• Consult with stakeholders and effectively manage sub-consultants
• Develop and maintain relationships with clients and regulatory authorities
• Provide technical input, co-ordination, review, and direction on projects
• Support the wider team, including mentoring junior staff as and when required
• Manage project financial performance and meeting profit targets
• Prepare and manage multi-disciplinary tenders and seek opportunities for new work
• Willingness to travel extensively throughout the region for marine based fieldwork
• Assist colleagues when they are under pressure to meet clients\xe2\x80\x99 expectations
• Represent the company at external events as required and directed including those relating to professional membership and business development
• Aim to achieve utilisation target as agreed with line manager

Desired experience:

• Degree in relevant environmental discipline (such as marine ecology, oceanography, coastal marine science, marine environmental management, marine conservation, marine geography, marine planning, remote sensing, environmental science)
• Over eight years\xe2\x80\x99 experience (senior) or 10 years\xe2\x80\x99 experience (principal) of delivering consultancy services to a range of clients, working directly for clients and meeting their expectations with deliverables
• A specialism in one of the following areas \xe2\x80\x93 marine modelling, marine water and sediment quality, corals, seagrass, mangroves, marine ecology (flora and fauna) etc
• PADI rescue diver or equivalent, would be preferable
• Solid understanding of the ESHIA process (including screening and scoping), national and international environmental legislation, standards and guidelines and international project financing mechanisms and implications
• Ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams working on a range of environmental inputs across energy and infrastructure projects, as applicable
• Ability to chair social / environmental impact identification (S/ENVID) workshops for energy and infrastructure projects
• Provide technical alternatives and solutions to technical clarifications to the clients in an energy and infrastructure setting
• Negotiate with regulators to achieve the best environmental outcome for the client
• Project management skills, including programming, staff resource management, and budget management
• Ability to lead meetings with colleagues and clients and positively influence the discussions
• Quality assurance and quality control \xe2\x80\x93 technically reviewing and approving the work produced by the project team
• Contribute to developing a pipeline of work
• An excellent understanding of project management requirements including how and where information is saved, requirements for version control and the requirement for technical and commercial reviews for projects and tenders
• An appreciation that contractual conditions affect a business and an understanding of the process to getting these reviewed and understood when submitting tenders and undertaking project work
• Very good writing skills and the ability to produce robust and comprehensive written deliverables on behalf of the business
• Very good competence in the use of Excel and the ability to interrogate, analyse and present data within spreadsheets
• Very good competence in the use of PowerPoint and the ability to produce presentations using RSK templates and present these to clients and colleagues
• Ability to listen effectively and work collaboratively with clients, other RSK colleagues (including within the wider RSK Group) and team members to ensure instructions are understood and carried out correctly
• Ability to communicate confidently and effectively with peers relating to project work including the ability to ask for help when needed
• Effective at delegating project work to junior members of staff, setting shared objectives and ensuring they are exposed to the right level of work for their capabilities and to meet the requirements of the client.

We operate an open and relaxed management culture that nurtures continuous improvement and innovation. This also enables us to achieve a staff turnover rate that\'s consistently below the industry average. Adopting a proactive growth strategy helps us to run a sustainable and profitable business while providing new and exciting career opportunities for all.

RSK is committed to its corporate responsibility strategy. We seek to minimise our impact on the environment; to engage positively with the community and education groups; to provide a safe and supportive atmosphere in which to work; and to promote corporate responsibility throughout our supply chain.

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Do you want a challenging and rewarding career, accelerated experience and the chance to make a difference in the natural environment? At RSK Middle East, we are always looking for ambitious, enthusiastic and driven people to join our team.

RSK Middle East is headquartered in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and has offices in Dubai, UAE, and Basra, Iraq. Through these established offices and a network of trusted local partners, we provide engineering, environmental, technical and laboratory services to local, international and government clients across the full Gulf Cooperation Council region \xe2\x80\x93 Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman \xe2\x80\x93 and Iraq.

We built the first fully integrated environmental and geotechnical ISO-17025-accredited laboratory in Iraq, and we are building on this success by continually growing and expanding our services in the region. We undertake environmental and social impact assessments, carry out environmental monitoring, implement remediation programmes and provide waste-management services.

RSK Middle East is part of the RSK Group, a leading integrated environmental, engineering, and technical services business providing dynamic, multidisciplinary services to a wide range of sectors. RSK was founded in 1989 and has grown considerably since then. In fact, Environment Analyst recently highlighted RSK\xe2\x80\x99s growth commenting, \xe2\x80\x9cFew companies in the environmental services sector can claim to be expanding at the same pace as RSK.\xe2\x80\x9d

RSK operates as a group of synergistic businesses with a growth strategy centred on diversification to build a resilient business that can withstand external pressures while also bringing more value to clients and opportunities to employees.

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