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Manager, Climate Risk Solutions - RE Tech Advisors

RE Tech, 10807 Northwest Highway, Dallas, Texas, United States of America ● RE Tech, 1676 International Drive, McLean, Virginia, United States of America ● VirtualReq #1360

Thursday, April 11, 2024

RE Tech Advisors, a Legence company

RE Tech Advisors (https://www.retechadvisors.com/) is a growing, woman-led consulting firm of over 125 ESG professionals. We deliver results at the intersection of engineering, technology, and sustainability. RE Tech has a progressive and ambitious client base that includes numerous commercial real estate portfolios, private equity investors, federal agencies, industry associations, and manufacturing companies. By joining the RE Tech Advisors team, you will work closely with recognized industry leaders who are driving national and global sustainability initiatives providing you the opportunity to realize your own professional growth objectives in the ESG arena.

RE Tech Advisors is seeking experts in carbon strategy, carbon accounting, and climate risk management in the built environment to join our Climate Risk Solutions (CRS) practice area! Working across multiple sectors – including commercial real estate, private equity, and investment lending – we partner with clients to design and implement programs focused on building decarbonization and climate risk. Our group of trusted advisors and problem-solvers is committed to delivering scalable and actionable solutions that transform the built environment and mitigate the impacts of climate change. In this role, you will be responsible for day-to-day project management responsibilities, inclusive of client, project, budget and people, executing on established plans, and managing under the direction and oversight of a Senior Manager.

This position offers strong opportunities for professional development and collaboration with industry thought leaders in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate possesses a growth mindset, excellent communication and collaboration skills, and the ability to combine technical analysis with big-picture thinking.

Essential Job Functions:

• Perform day-to-day project management responsibilities, delivering excellence and client satisfaction for all work you manage.

• Oversee the implementation of client projects that include a range of components. Climate Risk Solutions tasks include, but are not limited to:

• Calculate, monitor, track, and report on greenhouse gas emissions and property performance, including development of formal carbon inventories.

• Identify appropriate energy efficiency and sustainability measures, to include low- and no-cost strategies as well as CapEx projects.

• Support for third party reporting, such as CDP, SFDR disclosures, and sustainability reports, as requested by the Sustainability Programs team.

• Coordinate with vendors to support implementation of procurement strategy for renewable energy, green power, RECs, offsets, and other decarbonization products.

• Implement physical risk process of identifying, evaluating, and recommending risk mitigation measures related to future climate scenarios.

• Provide insight and thought leadership on decarbonization trends and best practices to the broader market—to include potential publication, public speaking, conference presentation, and other opportunities.

• Support day-to-day budget management by inputting and updating hours allocations and budgets created and overseen by the Sustainability Programs Director/Senior Manager, review of time entries and reject incorrect entries; monitor time billed against allocations and address hourly budget issues.

• Support and contribute to the development, career progression, performance management, and engagement of the Climate Risk Solutions Team. Provide coaching, training, and feedback, as appropriate, to team members directly as well as to their supervisor and providing input on their goals and development plans, helping to track progress.

• Participate in the Talent Acquisition process to support hiring needs on your projects.

• Contribute to business development efforts.

• Support delivery of appropriate education, exposure, and experiences within your team. Help ensure that existing and new staff within your team are trained as appropriate for their role in team offerings, services, and processes, as well as any changes or additions therein.

• Effectively and appropriately utilize the RE Tech Rotational Program staff to perform work. Train or oversee the training of RE Tech Rotational Program staff and manage to ensure accurate completion of work.

• Properly and accurately track all time worked and expenses in BigTime, billing to the correct codes and using the correct labor categories.

• Know and follow company policies and processes.

• Perform all other duties as needed and assigned.

Essential Knowledge and Skills:

• Deep knowledge of greenhouse gas emissions and decarbonization strategies, to include two or more of the following:

• Carbon accounting—including methodologies, calculations, and guidance such as the GHG Protocol Corporate Standard

• Carbon reduction targets and disclosures—including Science-Based Targets, CDP, carbon neutrality, net zero, SFDR, renewable energy commitments, etc.

• Decarbonization strategies—including energy efficiency, renewable energy, green power procurement, renewable energy certificates (RECs), and carbon offsets.

• Knowledge and understanding of climate risk related to physical and transition risk.

• Knowledge of clean energy project finance methods such as PACE, energy-as-a-service, power purchase agreements, solar tax equity, etc., and/or private equity, investment, and/or finance sectors is a plus.

• Strong understanding of building systems and the ability to think critically and creatively about energy efficiency.

• Comfort with managing data-driven tasks in Excel and other software platforms, including some complex calculations and estimation methods.

• Possess a growth mindset seeking continuous improvement and supporting a culture of learning, growing, and improving as an individual, our team members, our business, and our client work.

• Ability to collaborate internally and externally to co-create successful outcomes.

• Analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.

• Strong attention to detail in your work and work produced by more junior team members.

• Understanding of how much time it takes to complete routine tasks and ability to make estimations of time it takes to complete non-routine tasks.

• Possess sound business ethics, including the protection of proprietary and confidential information.

• Ability to be flexible and adapt to a changing landscape and client needs, handle multiple time-sensitive priorities, excel in a fast-paced environment, and ability to pivot and adjust priorities and approaches.

• Ability to competently manage up, down, and across the organization, as well as outside clients and vendors.

• Superior interpersonal skills including courtesy, professionalism, and a cooperative attitude. Ability to manage challenging interpersonal situations, including employee and client relationships.

• Exceptional written communication skills with a propensity to write in a clear, concise manner to convey points effectively, creatively, and with the appropriate tone and professionalism.

• Excellent verbal communication skills to effectively interact with and build confidence with internal and external contacts, including public speaking.

• High degree of initiative, proactiveness, drive, enthusiasm, energy, and follow through.

• Advanced knowledge with online collaboration and file sharing tools, such as SharePoint and the Microsoft Office Suite (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams).

Required Education and/or Experience

• At least one to two years of experience handling day-to-day task level management and client communications on a small project or portion of client program, and/or experience operating in a similar capacity to this role.

• Experience developing greenhouse gas inventories, energy efficiency and/or decarbonization strategies, and/or supporting implementation of energy and/or decarbonization projects for clients at scale across large commercial estate portfolios.

• Experience delegating tasks and overseeing the work of others.

• Experience in a client facing consulting role, delivering professional services, and building relationships across clients and internal teams.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Travel Requirements

Periodic travel is required for the role. Travel may include travel to RE Tech offices, if remote, or between RE Tech offices (Fairfax, VA and Dallas, Texas) for meetings (estimate of four times per year), as well as for Legence and/or client business needs.

No sponsorship available for this position.

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Health and Welfare Benefits

• Health and Welfare

• Medical

• Dental

• Vision

• Prescription drug

• Employee assistance program

• Maternity and parental leave

Personal Benefits

• Paid vacation

• Company-paid holidays

• Volunteer time off

• Flexible/hybrid work schedule

• Annual professional development fund

• Voting leave

Financial Benefits

• 401(k) retirement savings plan

• Company-paid long-term and short-term disability insurance

• AD&D insurance

• Life insurance

• One-time home office bonus

Office perks

• Snacks, coffee and Bevi drink machine

• Regular social activities

• Free on-site parking

• Free on-site gym (Tysons Corner, Virginia office)

• Dog friendly office (Dallas, Texas office)

• Metro accessible office (Tysons Corner, Virginia office, Silver Line)

About Legence

Legence, a Blackstone portfolio company, is an Energy Transition Accelerator™ that provides advisory services and implementation focused on financing, designing, building, and servicing complex systems in mission-critical and high performance facilities. With five decades of expertise in the built environment, Legence has a proven track record of reducing carbon emissions, implementing renewables, lowering utility costs through efficiency consumption, and making systems run better at unmatched speed and scale. To learn more about Legence and its services, visit https://www.wearelegence.com/ .

Contingent Employment Statement

Offers of employment for this role may be contingent upon successfully passing a background check and/or drug screen. Execution of screens will vary based on role requirements and Company policy. All background checks and drug screens will be done in accordance with applicable federal, state, or local law.

Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

Legence and its affiliate companies are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), political affiliation, military service, other non-merit-based factors, and any other characteristic protected under applicable local, state or federal laws and regulations.

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Reasonable Accommodations

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Legence and its affiliate companies do not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Do not forward resumes to our career’s alias or employees of Legence and/or its affiliate companies. Legence and/or its affiliate companies are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes. Any third-party recruiting agreements for Legence and its affiliate companies may only be executed by Legence Holdings LLC’s CHRO or Director of Talent Acquisition, without exception. All others are done without proper authorization and will not be honored. We will not be responsible for any fees under any third-party recruiting agreement not executed by said authority.

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Legence and its affiliate companies will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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