Sustainability

We are experts in sustainability - it’s our passion and in our DNA. We believe that sustainability professionals play a vital role by driving sustainable outcomes for their organisations, clients and society.

Sustainability professionals along with their ESG peers are the engine room of social licence and help protect and enhance your organisation, reputation and brand. Sustainability professionals may come from a wide range of professions and we know how to pick them for your organisation because we are sustainability professionals. We can see the unseen and identify the transferable skills that these professionals have to seamlessly slot them into your roles.

Environmental Management

Professionals in this field are expected to have a broad working knowledge of environmental legislation and how an organisation's activities interact with the environment and stakeholders.

Candidates in this role have a well-rounded base through which they can often see the ‘bigger picture’ and help organisations optimise their environmental management practices. They are engaging, pragmatic, and are ‘get up and go people’ who have a great desire to make a difference to the environment and your organisation.

Candidates can expect to work across resource consents, legal compliance, oversee ecological work, discharge monitoring, stakeholder engagement, carbon / greenhouse gas reporting and system development plus many other fields of environmental management.

Using our extensive network of sector contacts across Aotearoa, we are able to connect the right candidates with the right organisations to achieve the best possible outcome for our environment.

Planning

Professionals in this field help shape the future of Aotearoa, with the aim of improving the quality of life for all New Zealanders. As the population of the country continues to grow, the balance between the built and natural environment becomes increasingly important year on year.

Planning in Aotearoa requires holistic thinking and integrating the sustainability, climate change, cultural and regenerative design disciplines. The Zero Carbon Act and Natural and Built Environment Bill emphasise the need for holistic planning.

Planning roles are varied across urban, environmental and regional roles spanning across the policy, plan writing, resource consent, development, designation, spatial, regulation and advisory spaces. We help organisations place planning candidates across the public and private sectors who will make a difference to the future of Aotearoa.

Climate Change Risk & ESG

We can now all see the very real impacts of climate change on our daily lives. The increased severity of climate change events is beginning to have profound environmental and socio-economic impacts around the globe.

Business, more than ever, needs to understand the risks and impacts their operations have on the environment and society, and also understand these risks and impacts in the context of their respective value chains, market, held assets, stakeholders, investors, and ultimately, continued operation.

There is an established global movement that recognises businesses that operate in an ethical manner through environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations being incorporated into day-to-day decision-making. Voluntary ESG frameworks that cover various sectors such as GRI, MSCI and SASB are now part of managing broad sustainability and governance related risks for listed companies in Aotearoa.

Regulatory frameworks such as the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures 'TCFD' are new to the New Zealand market and are part of a mandated shift towards fundamentally addressing climate change through the introduction of new and revised regulatory reporting requirements for businesses. Understanding climate risk is now mandated for all NZX listed companies but is also essential in terms of their improved understanding of their long-term climate risks and opportunities for investors and stakeholders.

We have the knowledge and experience to understand what is required to be effective in climate risk and ESG related roles. These roles play a key part in guiding businesses through transitional risk and change.

Candidates for climate risk and ESG roles are a rare breed. Our deep knowledge of this area enables us to connect the right candidates with the right organisations so they can continue to be sustainable and profitable businesses that positively contribute to our society.