Do you enjoy working as a consultant but want to dedicate your time and skills to projects that actually make a difference? Do you want to work in an ecosystem of impact leaders (colleagues, clients and partner organisations) in the energy transition, food transition and sustainable finance? Are you someone who gets things done? If so, we are looking for an experienced consultant to join our consulting team (20 people) in Amsterdam.

Opportunities

Join a team of passionate individuals committed to making the world a better place. Benefit and learn from over 10 years of experience in building our vision, executing pioneering projects, shaping global standards for impact measurement and management, and collaborating with leading organisations.

Your role

As an experienced consultant you lead projects with impactful organisations to accelerate the economy towards a fairer, more inclusive, and more sustainable society. While impactful projects bring meaning to your role, they also come with more complexity as they require you to manage stakeholders, explain challenging and new concepts, think creatively and influence decision making. At the same time, you will ensure effective project delivery, budget control and deliver proposals to win the projects we want to do.

You will focus on projects, working with organisations, in the energy, food, materials, banking, and impact investing sectors. You will help them transform by embracing and implementing tools and strategies to measure and manage their impacts, such as renewable energy access, climate change, biodiversity, and human rights in the value chain. You will build expertise in Impact Measurement & Valuation, Sustainability Regulation and True Pricing methods, advising our clients throughout their Impact Journey.

You will take the lead on impact consulting projects, with a focus on project and stakeholder management. You will talk to (potential) clients, develop proposals, guide the sales process, create project plans and oversee the team for seamless project execution. Additionally, you will lead client meetings and presentations, monitor budgets, oversee analyses, and develop recommendations. Beyond project work, you will contribute to sharing knowledge with other teams, product development, and innovation within our work.

Your responsibilities

Projects:

• Be the main responsible for managing projects and key accounts, ensuring client deliverables are met.

• Maintain an overarching view of projects, ensuring the most impact for the client (including proposing scope changes and recognizing follow-up sales opportunities).

• Review deliverables, provide input on storylines, and ensure materials are well-prepared for client meetings.

• Act as the client’s counterpart in project management and lead important client meetings.

• Monitor budgets and take necessary actions (e.g., in case of budget overruns)

Commercial:

• Pro-actively identify sales opportunities and new propositions.

• Independently manage leads from initiation to project execution

• Write client-ready proposals with minimal review from senior colleagues

• Review input from team members and ensure high-quality communication with the client.

Content:

• Identify new applications of the impact methodology to better respond to needs of the market or client.

• Ensure alignment with other business units when making key decisions.

• Responsible for ensuring the quality of models, analyses, and content in client deliverables.

Your skills and experience

• 6-10 years of consultancy experience

• Strong analytical and quantitative skills, with the ability to translate data into actionable and clear insights that lead to real impact

• Experience or motivation to coach and train junior team members

• Effective verbal and written communication skills in Dutch and English

• Completed relevant Master’s degree

• Specific experiences can be a plus, such as expertise in an impact theme (e.g., energy transition, climate change, biodiversity, human rights), sustainability regulation, or experience with change/transition management.

If you recognise yourself in the above-mentioned description, we would be happy to hear from you. We encourage you to apply if your experience does not match perfectly our description. In your application, please describe what valuable skills you can bring to our team.

What we offer?

• A young, professional, dynamic, and fun colleagues with intrinsic motivation to change the world with you.

• An open and flexible work atmosphere.

• 30 vacation days (full-time contract) to support a healthy work-life balance.

• Commute allowance for bike or NS-Business Card.

• Hybrid working policy.

• The opportunity to make a difference: contribute to a movement towards impact measurement and valuation that can change the world.

• The chance to work and live with a sense of purpose.

Are you ready?

We welcome you to apply for this position by sending your resume and cover letter (in English) to recruitment@impactinstitute.com by March 1, 2025. We review applications on a rolling basis.

We prefer to have direct contact with our applicants, therefore we do not work with intermediaries, such as recruitment agencies.

About Impact Institute

The Impact Institute is a social enterprise. Our mission at the Impact Institute is to empower organisations and individuals to realise the impact economy. We do this by creating a common language for impact through the publication of open-source standards and by providing the tools, training, and services to implement those standards. We give organisations – multinationals, SMEs, NGOs, governments – the information needed for sustainable risk management, innovation and stakeholder management. Impact Institute - Impact Management & ESG Compliance to learn more about us. The Impact Institute team also powers Home - True Price.