US Climate Risk Lead, Climate & Sustainability Advisory

Arcadis • Chicago, IL

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

Arcadis is seeking a U.S. Technical Lead, Climate Risk, for its Climate and Sustainability Advisory team. The role leads climate risk engagements for clients across multiple sectors, helping organizations understand, quantify, and manage climate-related physical and transition risks. It translates climate science, engineering, financial analysis, and regulatory requirements into actionable business strategies, supporting climate risk assessments, disclosure readiness, transition planning, and enterprise risk management.

The position combines technical leadership, client relationship management, and practice development. The lead manages complex projects, mentors junior team members, advances climate risk methodologies and digital solutions, and supports growth of climate risk services across North America. This is a hybrid role based in Washington, DC; New York City; or Chicago.

The role leads assessment, reporting, and transition-planning engagements across sectors such as real estate, manufacturing, infrastructure, transportation, technology, and consumer products. As a trusted advisor and primary client contact, the lead guides organizations through climate risk, resilience, and disclosure challenges; directs physical and transition risk assessments, vulnerability and criticality assessments, scenario analyses, and climate-related financial impact evaluations; and communicates findings and recommendations to public officials, senior leaders, boards, and investors. The position also supports alignment with frameworks and requirements including ISSB, CSRD, TCFD, and California climate disclosures; leads business development and proposal efforts; directs multidisciplinary teams; contributes to Arcadis’s Climate Risk Nexus platform and service offerings; and mentors junior consultants.

Arcadis describes its work as delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. It states that it has more than 34,000 people in over 30 countries and is committed to equality, diversity, inclusion, and belonging.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field of study.
• At least 10 years of professional consulting experience focused on climate risk assessment and reporting.
• Demonstrated expertise in climate physical and transition risk assessments, vulnerability and criticality assessments, scenario analysis, and climate-related financial impact modeling.
• Strong consulting, client management, project leadership, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear business insights.
• Experience managing multidisciplinary project teams and delivering complex projects across multiple stakeholders and geographies.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree and/or additional certifications in relevant sustainability disciplines.
• Strong familiarity with climate scenarios and frameworks including IEA, NGFS, and IPCC.
• Experience supporting clients with ISSB, CSRD/ESRS, TCFD, SEC, California climate disclosure requirements, or climate transition planning.
• Experience with climate-related financial analysis, resilience planning, enterprise risk management, or climate disclosure programs.
• Experience with climate risk and vulnerability assessment for the transportation and energy sectors.

Responsibilities

• Lead climate risk assessment and reporting engagements from planning through delivery, including scenario analysis, quantitative risk assessments, and financial impact modeling.
• Manage client relationships and facilitate workshops, interviews, and executive-level discussions.
• Support client development, business development, and pursuit activities related to climate risk, including proposal development and identifying growth opportunities.
• Lead physical and transition risk assessments, vulnerability and criticality assessments, scenario analyses, and climate-related financial impact evaluations for asset-portfolio and enterprise-level decisions.
• Translate technical findings into practical recommendations and executive-ready communications for public officials, senior leaders, boards, and investors.
• Support clients in aligning with climate risk and disclosure frameworks and requirements, including ISSB, CSRD, TCFD, and California climate disclosure requirements.
• Oversee technical analyses and deliverables for accuracy, consistency, quality, and alignment with project objectives.
• Direct multidisciplinary project teams and manage schedules, budgets, staffing, and delivery across multiple engagements.
• Communicate findings through reports, dashboards, workshops, and executive presentations.
• Advance climate risk methodologies, tools, best practices, the Climate Risk Nexus platform, and service offerings.
• Stay current on climate science, risk modeling approaches, regulatory developments, and disclosure requirements.
• Collaborate with sustainability, resilience, adaptation, engineering, and digital solutions teams.
• Contribute to thought leadership through conferences, professional organizations, blogs, videos, and other multimedia.
• Mentor junior consultants and support technical excellence and professional growth across project teams.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• Employee assistance program (EAP).
• 401(k).
• Short-term disability (STD), long-term disability (LTD), AD&D, and life insurance.
• Paid parental leave.
• Reward and recognition program.
• Optional wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance, and tuition reimbursement.
• Nine paid holidays.
• 15 days of paid time off accrued per year.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior