Job Title:  Senior Manager | Social | Delhi | Sustainability

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Your work profile

As an Associate Director in our SRT- Sustainability Team you’ll build and nurture positive working relationships with teams and clients with the intention to exceed client expectations: -

Deloitte India is keen to hire a seasoned professional to work with the existing leadership team in the Sustainability practice. The objective is to bring a leader with strong experience who will help in executing Deloitte’s Social Assessment offerings. We are looking for candidates with approximately 13+ years of relevant experience in India and South Asia, which may comprise of a mix of work experience in two or more of the following areas:

• Impact Assessments and evaluations (SIA/ ESIA )
• Land Resettlement & Relocation Surveys and Plan (R&R, RAP)
• Livelihood Restoration Survey and Plan (LRP)
• Need Assessment & CSR Audit
• ESG Due Diligence
• Labor Audit

As a leader, you should be able to assist clients:

• Participation in social and land related engagements for multiple sectors as per regulatory requirements and international standards
• Participation in field work, surveys and client meetings related to various social & land related engagements.
• Defend your findings and observations with clients and related beneficiaries.
• Contribute towards report writing, reviewing and value addition.
• Contribute towards business development with active outreach and sales

You will be responsible for the business P&L and the growth of the resources reporting into you

Desired qualifications

• Postgraduate (Preferably Masters in Social  / Developmental Studies / Anthropology)
• Professional experience of 13 years+
• Good understanding and interpretation of key international ESG frameworks and standards (e.g. E&S Standards of multilateral funding agencies (IFC, World Bank, ADB, Equator Principles, etc.)
• Good understanding of India’s regulatory framework for Social & Labor aspects
• Willingness to travel
• Excellent technical writing skills
• Language skills (excellent written and spoken English skills).
• Cross sectoral understanding with deeper marketing skills with client centric approach
• Should have strong advisory experience across geographies, with proven experience of leading high-performance teams

Location and way of working

• Base location: Mumbai / Gurugram/ Bangaluru
• This profile involves frequent travelling to client location
• Hybrid is our default way of working. Each domain has customised the hybrid approach to their unique needs.

Your role as an Associate Director

We expect our people to embrace and live our purpose by challenging themselves to identify issues that are most important for our clients, our people, and for society.

In addition to living our purpose, Associate Director across our organization must strive to be:

• Inspiring - Leading with integrity to build inclusion and motivation
• Committed to creating purpose - Creating a sense of vision and purpose
• Agile - Achieving high-quality results through collaboration and Team unity
• Skilled at building diverse capability - Developing diverse capabilities for the future
• Persuasive / Influencing - Persuading and influencing stakeholders
• Collaborating - Partnering to build new solutions
• Delivering value - Showing commercial acumen
• Committed to expanding business - Leveraging new business opportunities
• Analytical Acumen - Leveraging data to recommend impactful approach and solutions through the power of analysis and visualization
• Effective communication – Must be well abled to have well-structured and well-articulated conversations to achieve win-win possibilities
• Engagement Management / Delivery Excellence - Effectively managing engagement(s) to ensure timely and proactive execution as well as course correction for

the success of engagement(s)

• Managing change - Responding to changing environment with resilience
• Managing Quality & Risk - Delivering high quality results and mitigating risks with utmost integrity and precision
• Strategic Thinking & Problem Solving - Applying strategic mindset to solve business issues and complex problems
• Tech Savvy - Leveraging ethical technology practices to deliver high impact for clients and for Deloitte
• Empathetic leadership and inclusivity - creating a safe and thriving environment where everyone's valued for who they are, use empathy to understand others to adapt our behaviours and attitudes to become more inclusive. 

How you’ll grow

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