Our consulting services combine the technical and pragmatic approaches of engineering and business with the holistic and innovative approaches of efficiency and sustainability. We excel at helping clients look at their sustainability and social initiatives through various lenses including public relations, financial, political, and environmental impact.
The work we do makes a difference, and we want a broad audience to engage with it.
- We recognize that great relationships form the foundation for great projects. We take the time to get to know our clients – their context, motivation, and goals. We invest in our relationships with our employees and contractors because we recognize that they are integral to our success.
- We do great work, and we turn it around quickly so that our clients can deliver on their commitments.
- We use a wide range of communication skills to deliver the results of our analysis so that non-technical audiences can use them to make decisions.
Our projects address sustainability, climate action, and resiliency planning; greenhouse gas
accounting; environmental justice and social equity issues; energy efficiency program development and management; and market/regulatory analyses.
Team Environment
Lotus believes that collaboration and cooperation result in better outcomes for our clients and our team members. We respect the unique talents and perspectives that each person brings to our team and encourage them to leverage those skills to bring value to our clients. Our success as a team is intertwined with the success of each individual.
We rely on our team members to deliver high-quality work on time and on budget in a fast-paced, demanding environment. We are able to be responsive to our clients because we are responsive within our team. We are a flat organization that relies on effective and proactive communication, typically during regular business hours, to achieve our goals.
We succeed because we consider issues from many points of view. We assess how someone else’s context affects their position on an issue; we do this for each stakeholder in a discussion, whether it is inside a client organization or in a broader group. We take the time to synthesize these perspectives and identify solutions that create lasting benefits. Each team member contributes their unique experiences and perspectives to consider issues from many points of view.
A Week in the Life of a Lotus Employee in this Position
We are looking for someone who is willing to get their hands dirty – to pitch in on all tasks that come up in the course of business. We need you to be flexible and nimble, willing to adapt to the needs of a business in a rapidly evolving market.
Our business model relies on your ability to work independently, ask good questions at the right time, and figure things out on your own. We need you to be resourceful, quickly leveraging the contacts and resources at your disposal in a strategic manner to work through day-to-day challenges.
During the course of a given week, we’ll ask you to employ a broad range of skills. We’ll ask you to use both sides of your brain. The majority of your work will support our projects with clients. This role will mostly focus on our climate and building policy work. Here’s a snapshot of some of the work that we currently anticipate:
More than anything else, we’ll rely on you to support climate mitigation implementation and policy work, specifically in the buildings sector.
- Provide subject matter expertise to support the facilitation of stakeholder, task force, and community meetings focused on the development of building policy for both new and existing buildings.
- Lend expertise and support to drafting building codes and building policies for jurisdictions.
- Perform research on measurable impacts of building policy and summarize and effectively communicate results of research to various stakeholder groups.
- Support the development of climate mitigation, resiliency, and sustainable development strategies in all sectors for a diverse range of clients.
- Develop and effectively communicate implementation steps for climate mitigation, resiliency, and sustainable development strategies in all sectors for a diverse range of clients.
We’ll ask you to support us in delivering the highest-quality services to our clients.
- Identify, organize, and help respond to upcoming project opportunities.
- Ensure that our clients’ needs and wants are met.
- Ensure consistent communication with your clients and among your teammates.
- Jump in as needed to support projects and client needs in any of Lotus’ practice areas.
We’ll ask you to support Lotus’ and our clients’ commitment to equity and environmental justice.
- Identify ways to integrate components that address equity and issues of environmental justice issues through all our engagement, climate mitigation, and policy work.
- Identify opportunities to improve our understanding of equity implications of climate mitigation policies in the public sector, and research practices to embed equity into climate policy.
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