Associate Director​/Technical Director, Environmental Policy - Belgium; Brussels

Description

What if you could do the kind of work the world needs? At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

The role is in WSP’s Environmental Policy and Economics team based in our Brussels office, working globally in collaboration with colleagues across the UK and Canada. The team provides robust, impartial and influential advice on policy development and strategic response across the full policy lifecycle (policy development and assessment; implementation; review, evaluation and revision). We combine policy analysis skills with in-depth technical knowledge of environmental issues and science, and knowledge of key sectors/industries.

We draw on skills from across the business and an extensive international supply chain. We are the leading consultancy in several key fields, including air quality and industrial emissions; chemicals; climate change mitigation and adaptation; water; circular economy; safety; and other fields.

We are looking for a candidate who can draw on an extensive existing network of contacts in EU environmental policy and who can expand that network to win, and deliver, new contracts with EU institutions and private sector bodies active in EU environmental policy.

Examples of recent projects delivered by the team include:

• Water:
  Fitness Check of the Water Framework Directive and Floods Directive, a study to support the impact assessment of the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive.
• Air quality and industrial emissions:
  Ongoing work over many years to support Defra with assessing costs and benefits of measures to reduce air pollutant emissions across multiple sectors; framework contract with the European Commission on industrial emissions; work with European Parliament on mapping and assessing local policies on air quality.
• Deforestation: back-to-back evaluation of the EU Timber Regulation and EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Regulation and impact assessment for measures against deforestation (EUDR).
• Circular economy: various studies at regional, national and international levels (e.g. Zero Waste Scotland, the World Bank) looking at material recovery, recycling and recyclability of packaging, single use plastics, etc.
• Chemicals:
  Leading projects on review of EU chemicals legislation (fitness check) and on REACH (e.g. the impact assessment for the revision of REACH, studies on introducing a mixture assessment factor and the essential use concept); POPs Regulation; the transition to safe and sustainable chemicals; impacts from chemicals on human health and the environment; transparency across the supply chain; socio-economic analysis for chemical substances;
  
  and assessing risk management options for PFAS.

Applications from those with European language skills - in addition to a high professional standard of written and spoken English - are particularly welcome. Our team is based across the UK, Belgium, Germany and beyond Europe, in Canada and the US. We are seeking to fill this role in Brussels, Belgium, but the position will involve work with colleagues and partners across our network of offices in Europe and the rest of the world.

• This is a key role within our team, and we would typically require around 10 or more years’ relevant experience.
• You will actively engage with clients and stakeholders from the public and private sectors
  , building and maintaining relationships to identify new business opportunities. You will successfully win new environmental policy projects through effective proposal writing
  and presentations, and represent WSP at relevant EU policy forums, conferences, and meetings.
• You will manage and/or direct a diverse range of environmental policy projects
  within thematic areas, including water, air quality, chemicals, industrial emissions, waste, etc., ensuring projects are executed…