Climate Risk Consultant

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

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Waterplan

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2020

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

☁️ SaaS

Artificial Intelligence • SaaS

Waterplan is the AI-native Operations, EHS, and Sustainability platform for water-dependent companies. By unifying environmental, production, and financial insights in one place, Waterplan empowers faster, data-driven decisions that prevent disruptions, ensure compliance, and optimize resources. Their solutions include Water Risk (site-level water risk measurement and monitoring with high-resolution data), Water Stewardship (setting, tracking, and reporting water targets and managing projects and volumetric water benefits), AI Metering (detecting water, gas, and energy anomalies), and Carbon (actionable, auditable carbon roadmaps). Waterplan uses expert-validated, AI-powered, high-resolution local water data and AI agents to streamline data collection, analysis, reporting, and decision-making across operations, EHS, and sustainability for water-dependent industries.

📋 Description

• Build and refine climate risk indicators and a climate risk framework covering physical and transition risk • Design physical and transition risk indicators using a hazard × exposure × vulnerability structure based on IPCC AR6 framing • Define thresholds, normalization, scoring and classification logic, and aggregation from grid cell to asset, basin, and portfolio level • Support development of scenario analysis aligned with IFRS S2 and ESRS methodologies • Select, process, and validate climate projection datasets across emissions scenarios, time horizons, and baseline periods • Write indicator specifications, data dictionaries, and methodology notes for Product and Engineering implementation and CSRD limited-assurance disclosures • Advise on financial implications of climate scenarios, including cost modeling and financial impact assessment for manufacturing, technology, and textiles sectors • Develop a climate change risk resilience and adaptation opportunities library • Validate indicators against observed data and published benchmarks • Run sensitivity analyses and define communication of uncertainty and confidence to platform users • Support preparation of CSRD (ESRS) and IFRS S2 climate-related disclosures and map required data points and metrics • Track and interpret evolving ESRS/CSRD and IFRS regulatory guidance • Partner with the Professional Services team to translate technical climate and disclosure requirements into internal frameworks and deliverables • Support CSRD requirements gap analysis and preliminary/dry-run and first-time disclosure exercises • Ensure alignment with Waterplan's existing water risk indicators • Provide internal training and knowledge-sharing on climate risk and disclosure topics • Primarily consult internally with the Professional Services and Product teams; occasional client involvement may be requested

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Climate Science, Environmental Science, Sustainability, MSc/PhD in Climate or Atmospheric Science, Hydrology, Geosciences or a related field • 7+ years of senior-level experience in climate risk and resilience assessment, corporate sustainability, or climate disclosure consulting • Ideally, experience leading or owning climate/CSRD-type engagements end-to-end • Strong working knowledge of climate-related financial disclosure frameworks, including IFRS S2 • Familiarity with CSRD/ESRS requirements • Experience with physical and transition risk scenarios and data, including NGFS scenarios, IEA pathways, carbon price trajectories, and sector decarbonization pathways (SBTi, TPI) • Understanding of translating climate scenarios into financial impact assessments • Experience integrating climate risk into enterprise risk management or disclosure frameworks • Strong data analysis skills • Comfort working with evolving regulatory guidance • Strong written communication skills and ability to translate technical climate concepts into clear, internal-facing guidance • Interest in software, technology, or digital transformation is a plus • Experience with double materiality assessments (CSRS/ESRS, TCFD/IFRS use financial materiality) is preferred • Exposure to multi-country or multi-jurisdiction climate disclosure requirements is preferred • Experience developing climate risk deliverables into a data/indicator model suitable for a software platform is preferred • Strong organizational skills and attention to detail • Self-directed, high-initiative, and comfortable operating with ambiguous or evolving requirements • Collaborative and able to work closely with a cross-functional, distributed team • Ability to multitask across concurrent workstreams and shifting priorities • Able to work independently and deliver results with limited day-to-day oversight • Proactive in flagging gaps, risks, and open questions before they become blockers

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote working environment • Unlimited PTO • Impactful mission contributing to a water-secure future • Growth opportunity at the forefront of water security and sustainability • Diversity and inclusion-focused workplace • Collaborative, distributed team environment

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