United Kingdom Job Openings
CBRE
2025 Graduate Scheme - Environmental, Social and Governance Consultancy
London
FULL TIME
September 2, 2024
2025 Graduate Scheme - Environmental, Social and Governance Consultancy
Job ID
182837
Posted
30-Aug-2024
Service line
Advisory Segment
Role type
Full-time
Areas of Interest
Interns/Graduate/Apprentice, Graduate
Location(s)
London - England - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Environmental, Social and Governance Consultancy Graduate Scheme
Closing Date - 20 October 2024
£31,000 + benefits
In joining CBRE’s Next Generation Cohort, you will be shaping the future of Real Estate. You will have excellent training and mentoring from industry experts and specialists, who will share invaluable knowledge and experience with you. You will be a part of a wider cohort of like-minded young professionals who you will develop with in your career. We give you the opportunity to work on world class projects, with an unmatched portfolio of clients, so that you gain the knowledge, skills and ability to become the future leaders and our Next Generation of CBRE.
What is the opportunity?
Our Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) consultancy teams provide expert guidance to clients, helping them to set and deliver ESG strategies at every stage of the property lifecycle. Our 24 month programme provides you with the opportunity to gain experience from four five-month placements within the ESG Consultancy Group before focussing on an agreed pathway in the second year to gain a greater depth of understanding. This will provide you with unique knowledge of sustainability across the whole property lifecycle:
Investor ESG Strategy – Strategic approach to delivering ESG across property portfolios considering the commercial, environmental, and social sustainability priorities of investor clients.
Occupier Sustainability – Supporting occupier clients to develop and deliver ESG strategies relevant to their business. Leading CBRE’s own net zero journey and providing health and wellbeing certifications.
Risk & Resilience – Conducting holistic environmental risk assessments associated with land contamination, physical climate risk, energy performance standards, and net zero transition risk, to advise and inform real estate investors and investment managers as part of the transactional due diligence process. As well as undertaking detailed climate change risk assessments for occupier clients.
Sustainable Development Advisory – Building level sustainability strategy, performance appraisal and certification expertise across new developments, major refurbishment and existing assets. Considers holistic sustainability solutions across key thematic areas including whole life carbon, health and wellbeing, resource use, climate resilience and construction practices.
We will help you to gain relevant professional accreditation to reflect your field of career development. Typical accreditation would be through the Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment (IEMA).
What will you be doing?
- Your role will typically include a variety of desk based tasks, as well as external site work. The balance of this work will vary depending on the rotation.
- Day to day activities and responsibilities will include project tracking, conducting site visits, attending client meetings, undertaking research, collating data, evidence validation, and preparing reports and presentations.
- You will be learning about key ESG regulations, benchmarking and standards and how they connect within real estate.
- Work will vary between short, and medium to long term projects depending on the rotation and will predominantly be focused on commercial (e.g. office and retail) and industrial buildings;
- The graduate scheme offers periods of fast paced learning, which benefit from a proactive approach and good communication skills to navigate.
- To maximise learning, we ask all of our next generation cohort to be in the office on each of their working days
- You may from time to time be required to work additional hours as is necessary
What you will need in order to succeed
- A forward-thinking and enthusiastic individual with a passion for real estate & the built-environment.
- Self-motivated with good written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong work ethic and proactive with a positive attitude.
- Attention to detail, accuracy and good time management.
- The successful candidate must, by the start of the employment, have permission to work in the UK.
- Students will need a relevant degree discipline (achieved or on track) at grade 2:1 or above. All degrees with Environmental Science/Management, Earth Science, Climate Science, Sustainability, and ESG elements will be considered. Preference will be given to students with Earth and Climate Science, Real Estate knowledge, Maths or Data skills.
- Good MS Office skills including Word, Excel, Outlook and Power Point*
- Not an essential requirement for the role, but desired
The Application process
- Online job-focused testing
- Phone screening
- Assessment Centre (held in December or January)
- Interview
Benefits
- Dedicated learning and development team
- Employee discounts
- 25 days holiday + 2 at Christmas
- Private health care
- Yearly salary reviews and discretionary bonus
- Plus many more…
Working at CBRE
When you join CBRE you will have the support and resources of a global firm where an entrepreneurial mind-set is encouraged. You'll realize your potential with challenging work, fast-paced assignments, an environment of constant learning and commitment to results. To enable your success, we provide the best tools, training and leaders in the industry.
Our collaborative culture is built on our RISE values and reflects the needs and perspectives of our clients and our people. Our work is guided by our North Star: Creating the real estate solutions of tomorrow, so businesses and people thrive. This informs everything we do—from diversity, equity, and inclusion to sustainability initiatives to workplace safety and wellbeing.
At CBRE, we believe that the more perspectives we have, the more dimensions we see. We welcome people with different backgrounds and experiences across industries to apply for open positions even if you do not match every element of the required skills. To discover more about what it’s like to work at CBRE, visit Life at CBRE
About CBRE
CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE:CBRE), a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company headquartered in Dallas, is the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm (based on 2023 revenue). The company has more than 130,000 employees (including Turner & Townsend employees) serving clients in more than 100 countries. CBRE serves a diverse range of clients with an integrated suite of services, including facilities, transaction and project management; property management; investment management; appraisal and valuation; property leasing; strategic consulting; property sales; mortgage services and development services.
Equal Opportunities
We are an equal opportunities employer and do not discriminate on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age. For information about accommodations we can make during the recruitment process, please visit: https://www.cbre.co.uk/careers/accommodations
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