Senior Manager, Sustainable Infrastructure - Environment

Palladium is a global consulting and implementation company operating in over 50 countries. We partner with governments, businesses, investors, and communities to design and deliver solutions that create lasting positive impact. Our work addresses complex challenges across infrastructure, economic growth, natural capital, health, energy, climate, environment, and digital transformation—strengthening systems, institutions, and markets to support inclusive and sustainable development. With more than 2,100 staff worldwide, Palladium combines deep technical expertise, innovative technology, and locally informed solutions to help organizations achieve measurable, sustainable impact. Palladium is part of GISI’s global family of companies, which generates $14 billion in annual revenues and employs approximately 15,000 people across 100 countries.

About the role

The Sustainable Infrastructure team, part of the broader Economic Growth & Natural Capital (EGNC) Portfolio, partners with mining companies to design and implement positive impact programs—such as workforce skilling, reforestation, and sustainable agriculture—that benefit mining communities and regions. The team works across the entire mining life cycle, helping clients achieve ESG targets while building the foundation for community resilience beyond mine closure. This role focuses on environmental risk management, impact strategy, and implementation, particularly within mining, infrastructure, climate, and nature-based solutions.

Palladium is seeking a Senior Manager, Sustainable Infrastructure – Environment to lead team management and provide technical expertise across business development and project delivery. The role requires strong expertise in environmental risks in mining, including experience designing and implementing environmental management plans, and overseeing biodiversity, decarbonization, major hazards, tailings, waste, water, air, and rehabilitation initiatives. Candidates should have experience in the closure phase of the asset lifecycle, including Post Mining Land Use planning and program design, and demonstrate a track record of working with diverse mining clients in North America. Fluency in English and one additional language (French, Spanish, or Portuguese) is required.

This position can be based out of Palladium’s Arlington, VA office or remote in the United States (only some states may be considered). Applicants must have current or future work authorization in the U.S., as visa sponsorship cannot be provided.

Responsibilities

• Lead multidisciplinary project teams to deliver high-quality, client-focused results across complex assignments.
• Oversee proposal development, budgeting, project planning, implementation, and reporting to ensure timely and effective delivery.
• Identify, engage, and manage partners and subcontractors to strengthen technical quality and delivery capacity.
• Manage partner and subcontractor performance to ensure contractually compliant delivery of agreed inputs, outputs, and outcomes.
• Serve as Project Director, providing quality assurance for deliverables and oversight of budgets, client relationships, and overall project performance.
• Contribute to the identification, assessment, and pursuit of new business opportunities, focusing on expanding Palladium’s work in closure and environmental performance.
• Prepare technical proposals targeting private sector and blended finance opportunities with mining sector clients, including impact program design, closure, post-mining land use, and integrated environmental risk management.
• Develop short-term inputs and consultancy assignments on environmental risk management, biodiversity, decarbonization, major hazards, tailings, waste, water, air quality, rehabilitation, regional economic development, climate finance, and nature-based solutions.
• Lead technical input into the design, planning, and delivery of environmental and socioeconomic impact initiatives driven by mining companies, including environmental management plans and systems that engage private sector, impact funders, or development organizations.
• Contribute to research, analysis, and publication of technical reports, case studies, policy/program approaches, and results summaries on themes related to environmental risk, community resilience, regional economic development, post-mining land use, closure, rehabilitation, and social and just transition in emerging markets.
• Identify, build, and maintain relationships with partners and consultants that can provide environmental and technical expertise to Palladium-managed projects.
• Stay current on trends and tendencies in the mining sector, tracking structural, governance, and ESG target changes for key clients, including evolving expectations on biodiversity, decarbonization, tailings, waste, water, and closure.
• Work with others in the EGNC Portfolio to promote and build Palladium’s technical capability, especially regarding integrated environmental and socioeconomic work with mining companies.

Requirements

• 7+ years of senior-level experience in a client-facing management role on large, private/public sector projects, especially relating to the mining industry, environmental management, closure, and/or ESG implementation with exposure to climate, nature-based solutions, or regional economic development.
• 5+ years working directly with mining companies as clients.
• Fluency in English and at least one other language: French, Spanish, or Portuguese.
• Master’s degree in Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering, Natural Resources, Economics, Anthropology, Sociology, Business Administration, International Development, Politics, or a related discipline (preferred).
• Strong networks in the mining and minerals sector.
• Preference for experience managing teams across geographies and cultures.
• Proven experience in or on emerging market issues and/or contexts.
• Experience leading business development efforts.
• Strong environmental background, including understanding of environmental risks in the mining context and demonstrated experience leading the design and implementation of environmental management plans and/or managing biodiversity, decarbonization, major hazards, tailings, waste, water, air, and rehabilitation efforts.
• In-house experience working for a mining company (preferred).

Skills

• Strong ability to manage multiple simultaneous tasks and/or complex projects.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, demonstrated by speaking engagements and/or written documents produced.
• Financial acumen and the ability to generate and analyze financial reports and forecasts using Excel.
• Sound problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Demonstrated commitment to encouraging diversity, inclusion, and equity in teams and programs.
• Experience implementing post-mining land use programs and working in the closure and rehabilitation phase of the asset life cycle.
• Experience engaging multisector stakeholders in mining communities and regions.
• Proven ability to apply and adapt models and approaches to catalyzing enduring and inclusive environmental and socioeconomic outcomes in emerging markets.
• Experience conceptualizing and writing technical proposals and reports for private sector clients as well as international donors, including both PowerPoint and text documents.
• Experience delivering presentations to small and large groups both in-person and virtually.

Pay

The annual base salary for this position is expected to range from $120,000 to $140,000. A final salary offer will be based on factors including qualifications, education, experience, skills, seniority, performance, and Palladium’s business or organizational needs.