Jessica Buck

Led consult and construct projects and programmes, delivering client's sustainability objectives. Supported the Responsible Business (RB) team function with line management, up-skilling colleagues, interviewing, business development and representing the RB team on Mace's modern slavery (MS) board.

• Regularly led weekly project meetings, managed teams, and resources and delegated projects or tasks to colleagues. Built and managed stakeholder relationships, including those with top clients.
• Collaborated and supported teams to achieve sustainability and social value KPIs.
• Completed monthly reporting for clients and presented progress at UK Parliament client meetings.
• Developed sustainability and social value toolkits with project information, trackers, and progress dashboards to help teams work faster, smarter and achieve greater impacts.
• Created sustainability strategies and reporting processes. Set objectives, action plans, and KPIs to deliver innovation and best practices. Ensured clients achieved BREEAM Non-Domestic Refurbishment and Fit-Out 2014 and BREEAM New Construction 2018 v6. Conducted project surveys including an Ethnicity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) survey and an annual temperature check survey.
• Facilitated workshops to introduce sustainability innovation, circular economy initiatives and sustainable materials. Regularly presented and up-skilled colleagues on measuring carbon emissions, improving EDI and modern slavery awareness.
• Co-written several bids - won bids with UK Parliament, JLR and Dyson. Pitched consultancy and construction services to UK Parliament and Native Land which led to wins.

Promoted to Sustainability Manager.

• Managed several environmental planning projects which involved managing the tender process; coordinating the work of sub-consultants and colleagues; and managing project finances, including carrying out monthly WIP reviews with finance
• Worked with private clients on development planning helping gain consent Central London Developments. Coordinated large Environmental Statements and wrote socio-economic and climate change chapters.
• Represented LUC at national events such as a seminar - Air Quality - Implementing Practical Solutions.

Worked on the initial planning and development of solar parks and battery storage facilities, including site searches, site visits and gaining planning permission.

• Identified site specific constraints, including ecological designations and local grid capcaity, using QGIS, ArcMaps, Google Earth and Land Registry.
• Submitted grid estimates to DNO's and applied results to financial modules to estimate potential returns. Completed Pre-Application Advice Requests for two solar sites with specific ecological, noise and landscape constraints. Collated relevant local planning policies for each site.
• Wrote Planning, Design and Access Statements for battery storage facilities.
• Assisted with site visits and meeting the EPC contractor, as well as ecological bird surveys for solar site.
  Spent time in the legal department where I worked on the companies Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement.