Senior Consultant: Corporate Sustainability and ESG Advisory at Trialogue

About Trialogue’s ESG Advisory services

• Trialogue provides support on embedding material ESG elements of sustainable business based on our holistic integrated thinking model. Analysis of a corporate performance against this model assists companies in identifying actions and processes that can be improved to advance internal integrated thinking and ESG performance across the business. We support a blue-chip book of South African and multinational corporate clients.

Specific services include:

• gap analysis and benchmarking
• sustainability strategy and roadmap
• sustainability positioning
• conscious adoption of standards and codes
• materiality assessments
• stakeholder engagement processes
• internal management accountability and performance tracking and internal and external communication.
• ESG / sustainability management framework development and roll-out
• TCFD advisory, including skills development and framework integration

Integrated Thinking

• Trialogue has developed an integrated thinking framework for assessing the status of adoption of integrated thinking within a business. The analysis serves to identify levels of adoption and to frame a roadmap for advancing integrated thinking practices. This can be set out as a sustainability strategy and roadmap, that combines aspirations, priorities, capacity and resources and timelines. It also enables a company to identify ‘quick wins’ and make conscious choices about where practices are to be improved and over what time period.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Develop proposals and budgets
• Manage projects and client relationships
• Design or amend existing consultancy tools for client requirement
• Provide excellent guidance and assistance on sustainability matters to corporate clients
• Conduct integrated thinking and related sustainability assessments
• Design presentations, write reports and prepare workbooks for clients
• Run workshops with clients
• Conduct reviews to ensure lessons learnt are integrated for future assignments
• Meet important milestones, while ensuring professional relationships are enhanced and preserved
• Interview client representatives at Board and Exco levels
• Perform ad-hoc research

Minimum academic qualifications and experience:

• Qualifications: Post-graduate degree with a focus on sustainability.
• Experience: 5 years’ experience in corporate sustainability consulting and/or management consulting

Competencies and skills

• Good interpersonal skills
• Firm understanding of sustainability codes and standards (ISSB, GRI, SASB, CDP, TCFD, TNFD, and SDGs)
• Attention to detail
• Excellent understanding of Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word
• Liaise with various levels of stakeholders
• Use appropriate judgment
• Focus on the stakeholder
• Manage execution and results
• Team player
• Having a positive attitude and being quickly adaptable
• Take ownership of tasks
• Excellent time management and planning
• Multi-tasking
• Effective communication
• Risk management
• Critical thinking
• Problem solving
• Proactive planning
• Mentorship and training