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This is a hybrid role with the flexibility to work virtually and from our New York City or Boston office
Aon is in the Business of Better Decisions
At Aon, we assist organizations in making improved decisions to safeguard and expand their businesses. Aon's Climate Risk Advisory team provides physical and transition risk assessments, consulting services, and risk transfer solutions that support clients in understanding and managing climate-related risks.
Our team comprises climate professionals spanning different regions, industries, and areas of solutions and is supported by a wider network of scientists, engineers, modelers, and risk specialists. Together, we offer actionable insights that aid clients in boosting resilience, improving decision making, and fulfilling their business aims.
About the Role
We are looking for an Associate Director, Climate Risk Advisory to assist with climate risk assessment delivery for power, renewable energy, digital infrastructure, insurance, and reinsurance clients throughout the Americas. As part of this visible role, you will integrate technical expertise, advisory capabilities, project oversight, and client collaboration to help organizations assess climate risk exposures and formulate actionable risk strategies. Working alongside clients and Aon professionals, you will deliver useful insights, optimize procedures, and advance creative climate risk initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the delivery and continuous refinement of climate risk assessment workflows and client solutions across North America.
- Partner directly with clients to understand business objectives, risk exposures, and decision-making needs.
- Analyze and interpret climate, catastrophe, and exposure data to generate actionable insights and support informed business decisions.
- Develop practical approaches for managing risk and resilience suggestions that assist clients in tackling current and emerging climate-related challenges.
- Guide clients and internal collaborators through the adoption of enhanced methodologies, analytics, and climate risk frameworks.
- Manage multiple projects simultaneously, including defining objectives, crafting project plans, establishing timelines, coordinating resources, and monitoring progress against key achievements.
- Lead client presentations, workshops, proposal development activities, and executive-level discussions.
- Review technical analyses, project documentation, and client deliverables to ensure quality, consistency, and accuracy.
- Collaborate with account executives, producers, analytics teams, scientists, engineers, underwriting specialists, and reinsurance professionals to deliver coordinated client solutions.
- Support the development of new advisory offerings, client playbooks, and business process improvements that increase efficiency and improve client outcomes.
- Help maintain strong governance, documentation standards, and internal controls across project delivery activities.
- Contribute to project financial management through informed resource planning, project prioritization, and delivery oversight.
- Support clients' resilience, continuity, and emergency planning efforts by evaluating climate-related threats to critical operations and assets.
- Find opportunities to expand client relationships and improve long-term client value through trusted advisory services.
- Develop deep knowledge in a focused area of climate risk and be acknowledged as a subject matter expert both within Aon and throughout the market.
Qualifications
Required Experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
- 7+ years of experience in climate risk, catastrophe modeling, risk advisory, insurance, consulting, analytics, or a related field.
- Experience performing physical climate risk assessments using catastrophe, natural hazard, or climate risk models.
- Strong understanding of risk analysis principles and their application to business, infrastructure, insurance, or resilience challenges.
- Demonstrated consulting experience with the ability to translate complex technical information into clear business recommendations.
- Experience managing complex projects involving multiple collaborators, timelines, and deliverables.
Technical Skills
- Advanced experience with data preparation, processing, analysis, mapping, and visualization.
- Proficiency in tools such as Python, SQL, Databricks, Power BI, Tableau, ArcGIS/ESRI products, QGIS, or similar technologies.
- Strong report-writing, documentation, and presentation skills.
- Ability to review technical content and communicate findings effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Professional Skills
- Outstanding business communication and relationship management skills.
- Strong collaboration and partner engagement capabilities.
- Ability to drive process improvements and operational efficiency.
- Dedication to high-quality work, client service, and professional integrity.
- Curiosity, problem-solving ability, and a passion for helping clients address complex climate and risk challenges.
For positions in San Francisco and Los Angeles, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction record in accordance with local Fair Chance ordinances.
Aon is not accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms for this position. If you are a search firm, you will not be compensated in any way for your submission of a candidate, even if Aon hires that candidate.
Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.
The salary range for this position (intended for U.S. applicants) is $135,000 to $170,000 annually. The actual salary will vary based on applicant’s education, experience, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data. The salary may also be adjusted based on applicant’s geographic location.
This position is eligible to participate in one of Aon’s annual incentive plans to receive an annual discretionary bonus in addition to base salary. The amount of any bonus varies and is subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable incentive plan.
Aon offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and regular part-time colleagues, including, but not limited to: a 401(k) savings plan with employer contributions; an employee stock purchase plan; consideration for long-term incentive awards at Aon’s discretion; medical, dental and vision insurance, various types of leaves of absence, paid time off, including 12 paid holidays throughout the calendar year, 15 days of paid vacation per year, paid sick leave as provided under state and local paid sick leave laws, short-term disability and optional long-term disability, health savings account, health care and dependent care reimbursement accounts, employee and dependent life insurance and supplemental life and AD&D insurance; optional personal insurance policies, adoption assistance, tuition assistance, commuter benefits, and an employee assistance program that includes free counseling sessions. Eligibility for benefits is governed by the applicable plan documents and policies.
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Associate Director - Catastrophe Modeling - Climate Risk Consulting
This is a hybrid role with the flexibility to work virtually and from our New York City or Boston office
Aon is in the Business of Better Decisions
At Aon, we assist organizations in making improved decisions to safeguard and expand their businesses. Aon's Climate Risk Advisory team provides physical and transition risk assessments, consulting services, and risk transfer solutions that support clients in understanding and managing climate-related risks.
Our team comprises climate professionals spanning different regions, industries, and areas of solutions and is supported by a wider network of scientists, engineers, modelers, and risk specialists. Together, we offer actionable insights that aid clients in boosting resilience, improving decision making, and fulfilling their business aims.
About the Role
We are looking for an Associate Director, Climate Risk Advisory to assist with climate risk assessment delivery for power, renewable energy, digital infrastructure, insurance, and reinsurance clients throughout the Americas. As part of this visible role, you will integrate technical expertise, advisory capabilities, project oversight, and client collaboration to help organizations assess climate risk exposures and formulate actionable risk strategies. Working alongside clients and Aon professionals, you will deliver useful insights, optimize procedures, and advance creative climate risk initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the delivery and continuous refinement of climate risk assessment workflows and client solutions across North America.
- Partner directly with clients to understand business objectives, risk exposures, and decision-making needs.
- Analyze and interpret climate, catastrophe, and exposure data to generate actionable insights and support informed business decisions.
- Develop practical approaches for managing risk and resilience suggestions that assist clients in tackling current and emerging climate-related challenges.
- Guide clients and internal collaborators through the adoption of enhanced methodologies, analytics, and climate risk frameworks.
- Manage multiple projects simultaneously, including defining objectives, crafting project plans, establishing timelines, coordinating resources, and monitoring progress against key achievements.
- Lead client presentations, workshops, proposal development activities, and executive-level discussions.
- Review technical analyses, project documentation, and client deliverables to ensure quality, consistency, and accuracy.
- Collaborate with account executives, producers, analytics teams, scientists, engineers, underwriting specialists, and reinsurance professionals to deliver coordinated client solutions.
- Support the development of new advisory offerings, client playbooks, and business process improvements that increase efficiency and improve client outcomes.
- Help maintain strong governance, documentation standards, and internal controls across project delivery activities.
- Contribute to project financial management through informed resource planning, project prioritization, and delivery oversight.
- Support clients' resilience, continuity, and emergency planning efforts by evaluating climate-related threats to critical operations and assets.
- Find opportunities to expand client relationships and improve long-term client value through trusted advisory services.
- Develop deep knowledge in a focused area of climate risk and be acknowledged as a subject matter expert both within Aon and throughout the market.
Qualifications
Required Experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
- 7+ years of experience in climate risk, catastrophe modeling, risk advisory, insurance, consulting, analytics, or a related field.
- Experience performing physical climate risk assessments using catastrophe, natural hazard, or climate risk models.
- Strong understanding of risk analysis principles and their application to business, infrastructure, insurance, or resilience challenges.
- Demonstrated consulting experience with the ability to translate complex technical information into clear business recommendations.
- Experience managing complex projects involving multiple collaborators, timelines, and deliverables.
Technical Skills
- Advanced experience with data preparation, processing, analysis, mapping, and visualization.
- Proficiency in tools such as Python, SQL, Databricks, Power BI, Tableau, ArcGIS/ESRI products, QGIS, or similar technologies.
- Strong report-writing, documentation, and presentation skills.
- Ability to review technical content and communicate findings effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Professional Skills
- Outstanding business communication and relationship management skills.
- Strong collaboration and partner engagement capabilities.
- Ability to drive process improvements and operational efficiency.
- Dedication to high-quality work, client service, and professional integrity.
- Curiosity, problem-solving ability, and a passion for helping clients address complex climate and risk challenges.
For positions in San Francisco and Los Angeles, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction record in accordance with local Fair Chance ordinances.
Aon is not accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms for this position. If you are a search firm, you will not be compensated in any way for your submission of a candidate, even if Aon hires that candidate.
Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.
The salary range for this position (intended for U.S. applicants) is $135,000 to $170,000 annually. The actual salary will vary based on applicant’s education, experience, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data. The salary may also be adjusted based on applicant’s geographic location.
This position is eligible to participate in one of Aon’s annual incentive plans to receive an annual discretionary bonus in addition to base salary. The amount of any bonus varies and is subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable incentive plan.
Aon offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and regular part-time colleagues, including, but not limited to: a 401(k) savings plan with employer contributions; an employee stock purchase plan; consideration for long-term incentive awards at Aon’s discretion; medical, dental and vision insurance, various types of leaves of absence, paid time off, including 12 paid holidays throughout the calendar year, 15 days of paid vacation per year, paid sick leave as provided under state and local paid sick leave laws, short-term disability and optional long-term disability, health savings account, health care and dependent care reimbursement accounts, employee and dependent life insurance and supplemental life and AD&D insurance; optional personal insurance policies, adoption assistance, tuition assistance, commuter benefits, and an employee assistance program that includes free counseling sessions. Eligibility for benefits is governed by the applicable plan documents and policies.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Visa Sponsorship as a Risk Management Consultant
Target firms with established sponsorship track records
Large consulting firms and financial institutions file H-1B petitions regularly and have in-house immigration teams. These employers move faster and make fewer procedural errors than smaller firms sponsoring for the first time.
Align your degree field with the role's requirements
Risk management is a specialty occupation, but only when the role requires a degree in a specific field like finance, statistics, or actuarial science. A general business degree may not satisfy the specialty occupation standard for all employers.
Emphasize quantifiable risk frameworks in your application
Employers sponsoring H-1B visas face scrutiny on specialty occupation status. Highlighting technical skills like credit risk modeling, Basel III compliance, or VaR analysis strengthens the case that the role requires specialized knowledge.
Consider the O-1A if you have documented industry recognition
Risk consultants with published research, speaking engagements, professional awards, or high-profile client work may qualify for the O-1A visa. This bypasses the H-1B lottery entirely and has no annual cap.
Understand how the H-1B lottery affects your timeline
H-1B registration opens in March for an October 1 start date. If you're not selected, your employer cannot legally sponsor you that cycle. Plan for this gap and explore cap-exempt employers or alternative visa categories.
Browse verified sponsoring employers on Migrate Mate
Not all risk management job postings include sponsorship details upfront. Migrate Mate filters listings to surface employers actively sponsoring work visas, saving you from applying to roles where sponsorship was never on the table.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does risk management consulting qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, in most cases. USCIS looks at whether the role normally requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific field. Risk management roles tied to quantitative analysis, financial modeling, or regulatory compliance generally qualify. Roles framed as general advisory work with no specific degree requirement are more vulnerable to a specialty occupation challenge.
Which visa types are most common for risk management consultants?
The H-1B visa is the most common path. Canadian and Mexican nationals may qualify for TN visa status under the USMCA, typically under the economist or financial analyst categories depending on role duties and degree. Consultants with exceptional credentials, publications, or high-profile client engagements may qualify for the O-1A, which has no lottery.
What degree do I need to get H-1B sponsorship as a risk consultant?
Most employers require a bachelor's degree in finance, economics, statistics, mathematics, or a related quantitative field. An MBA or master's in risk management strengthens your profile significantly. If your degree is in an unrelated field, three years of relevant specialized experience can substitute for each year of missing education under USCIS rules.
How can I find risk management roles that offer visa sponsorship?
Most job postings don't explicitly state sponsorship availability, which makes filtering difficult on general platforms. Migrate Mate focuses specifically on roles open to visa sponsorship, so you can browse risk management listings without wasting applications on employers who won't sponsor. It's the most direct way to identify willing employers in this field.
Do boutique risk consulting firms sponsor H-1B visas, or only large institutions?
Both sponsor, but the experience differs significantly. Large banks and consulting firms like the Big Four have dedicated immigration counsel and streamlined processes. Boutique firms can and do sponsor, but may be less familiar with the process, slower to act, and more hesitant due to legal costs. Vetting a smaller employer's willingness and experience early in the interview process is worth doing.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Risk Management Consultant jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.