Executive Advisor-Future Communities at GHD in Houston, Texas

Job Description:

Job Description



Your role in creating and shaping our Future Communities starts here with GHD.


At GHD we believe that communities are at their best when they are connected, inspired, productive and resilient. This defines how we do business, how we serve our clients and communities and how we care for one another. When you join GHD, we commit to encouraging your curiosity, to fostering new ideas, and to creating lasting community benefit. Our people are committed to the challenge of making water, energy, and communities sustainable for generations to come.

GHD has an immediate opportunity available for an Executive Advisor to join our Advisory practice.

The Executive Advisor will contribute to growing GHD's brand in the market and help develop new service offerings aligned to GHD's Future Communities strategy. The Executive Advisor will be responsible for supporting our clients as they seek to address their ESG goals through urban planning and leveraging GHD's unique value propositions. This position will work across GHD, driving positive social outcomes for our clients from business case to planning, and through design. The position can be based in most GHD office locations throughout the US and Canada. GHD supports a hybrid work model.



In this diverse role you will:

• Facilitate the integration of GHD's Future Communities capability, theory and practice into multi-disciplinary projects, working closely with Project Managers and Technical Leads, particularly those focused on Multi Criteria Analysis and Business Case development.
• Develop and maintain contemporary technical approaches and solutions to support the pursuit and delivery of projects.
• Drive and continue to grow the capability of our technical people to deliver with clients.
• Grow a strong pipeline of projects that adopt GHD's Future Communities value propositions through the understanding of North American clients and their ecosystem.
• Tailor GHD's value propositions to client context, with testing across a range of markets, project types and scale.
• Responsible for creating growth opportunities within North America.

What will you bring to the team?

• Minimum of 10 years' experience within the field of urban economics, finance, or business management.
• Postgraduate qualifications in economics, management, urban planning and social science.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to distil complex information into actionable insights.
• Leadership experience within a consulting environment and in multi-disciplinary team environments
• High level client relationship management skills including experience in business development activities leading to positive outcomes and tangible outcomes.
• Strong project management skills, including the ability to manage multiple assignments simultaneously.
• Extensive experience in delivering projects, and an established industry / client network.
• Ability to develop business opportunities through establishing trusted client relationships and winning repeat work.

As a multicultural organization, we encourage individual achievement and recognize the strength of a diverse workforce. GHD is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants without regard to race, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, or veteran status.

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GHD is a global professional services company that leads through engineering, architecture, and construction expertise. We are an employee-owned company with over 11,000 diverse and skilled individuals, across more than 200 offices spanning five continents.
The Power of Commitment is our brand promise. It's what makes us different. We are bound to our stated vision and determination to address humanity's most urgent needs: to make water, energy and urbanisation sustainable for generations to come. Apply Now