Senior Consultant - Sustainability

**Overview** ------------ Our CS&A team is seeking an experienced Senior/Principal Sustainability Consultant to be based in Riyadh, KSA. The role requires proven expertise in delivering strategic sustainability advisory on large-scale developments, ideally across KSA and the wider Middle East, with a strong track record in achieving Mostadam Communities and LEED for Cities and Communities certifications across complex, multi-asset portfolios. The successful candidate will have demonstrable experience leading certification processes end-to-end, including consolidating evidence across large developments, and maintaining effective working relationships with key authorities such as the National Housing Council (NHC), Sustainable Building (SB), and ideally the Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI), ensuring close coordination throughout the certification lifecycle. The role is delivered as a full-time secondment within a leading developer, providing direct, embedded support to the client while maintaining a formal reporting line into our Sustainability and Environment (S&E) team. This position requires acting as a key interface between the client and our internal teams, ensuring alignment with AtkinsRéalis standards, governance, and technical quality while representing our capability on the ground. The successful candidate will work as part of a distributed team across the UAE, KSA, and India, driving collaboration, coordinating inputs, and ensuring consistent delivery across multiple workstreams. The role also involves knowledge transfer, maintaining strong communication channels between the client and S&E leadership, and supporting the integration of best practice, innovation, and certification strategies into the client's development portfolio. **Your role** ------------- * Develop a thorough understanding of the Client's master plan, infrastructure, and public realm, ensuring sustainability requirements remain aligned as designs evolve throughout the project lifecycle. * Lead the coordination and implementation of LEED for Cities and Communities (LfC) and Mostadam. * Communities certification requirements across all master plan, infrastructure, public realm, and transport / civil structure packages. * Monitor design and construction activities across development boundary, ensuring ongoing compliance with sustainability standards and proactively addressing risks and gaps. * Establish and maintain a Smartsheet tracking document to monitor certification progress, scores, risks, and issues at both masterplan and asset level, with monthly updates in coordination with PMCs, consultants, and contractors. * Act as the primary focal point for stakeholder engagement, including managing communications with certifying bodies and relevant authorities. * Prepare and manage all certification documentation, including narratives, technical studies, simulations, and operational policies on behalf of Client. * Coordinate and manage certification submissions, responding to review comments and driving processes through to final Mostadam Communities certification award and maintaining the already achieved LfC certification at hand. * Lead and participate in regular progress meetings, providing clear updates on status, risks, and mitigation actions. * Deliver monthly reporting summarising activities, progress, and key issues, in line with DC requirements. * Manage certification registration and administration, including coordination of submissions, documentation, and associated processes. * Provide sustainability inputs into tender documentation, including technical requirements and contract clauses aligned with LfC and Mostadam Communities, and masterplan objectives. * Undertake regular site visits and engage directly with design and construction teams to verify implementation and drive performance. * Act as a Mostadam Accredited Professional (AP), leading certification registration and engagement with Saudi Sustainable Building authorities. * Support in review of asset-level design and construction submissions to ensure compliance with LEED, Mostadam, and Parksmart requirements. **About you** ------------- **Key Competencies** * The successful candidate will be educated to degree / higher degree level in relevant subject (Engineering, Sustainable Energy, Building Services Engineering, Sustainable Development etc.) and will have achieved, chartered status and / or full or fellow membership of a recognized relevant professional body. * 8-10 years' experience across the fields of sustainability and certification in buildings and developments, including project management and business development experience. * Experience in leading projects involving city / community scale sustainability certification appraisals (BREEAM, LEED, WELL, Mostadam), community scale carbon footprints, climate change assessments, net zero transitions (embodied or net zero operational buildings), or related services. * Strategic sustainability ad