Job description

RE Tech Advisors, a Legence company

RE Tech Advisors 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 is seeking a highly motivated Director of ESG Programs to support our client commercial real estate ESG Programs. This is an exciting opportunity to join our rapidly growing firm working to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon future. The position will report to the Senior Director, ESG Programs, serve on RE Tech's Leadership Team, and have ultimate responsibility for the overall success for their team and client ESG Programs, and have responsibility of all aspects of management and direction of the team and work they oversee.
The position is based out of our office in Tysons Corner/McClean, Virginia (13 miles west of Washington, DC) or our Dallas, Texas office. We may consider a remote position for a highly qualified candidate with experience working remotely on a consistent basis.
Essential Job Functions / Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Company Leadership
• Support the implementation of company strategies, priorities, and evaluation criteria for projects, programs, and people. Elevate needs and opportunities to inform strategies and priorities to the Senior Director, ESG Programs
• Serve as a role model for the company and within the ESG industry. Drive collaboration and connection internally and externally. Continue to be a part of or join an industry community serving as a representative of RE Tech. Identify and oversee opportunities for team member participation In Industry groups.
• Serve on RE Tech leadership team. Ensure managers follow company processes.
• Client Scope of Work, Budgets, Invoicing
• Provide input into the annual business plan for ESG Programs Team to ensure achievement of team objectives and alignment with company strategies and priorities.
• Create program budgets, monthly staffing allocations, and oversee budget tracking, including budgets associated with client work, internal projects, and the team’s operating budget (as approved by Executive Leadership). Lead the training of your Senior Managers and Managers to perform these tasks (appropriate to their position level) and oversee them in completing them. Monitor key financial metrics within your team, to support achievement of the company achieving financial targets.
• Work with the accounting team to oversee, and where needed, conduct the invoicing process for your client’s scope of work. Ensure that invoicing is reviewed and sent out on time. Work with accounting to resolve any issues or questions with invoicing and provide guidance to senior managers and managers as appropriate regarding invoicing.
• Client Satisfaction - Ensure excellence and client satisfaction for all work delivered by your team the ESG Programs team, working with the Senior Director, ESG Programs and Practice Area Directors as needed to ensure overall client satisfaction.
• Serve as a Strategic Advisor on the team’s client engagements and as the main point of contact on matters related to client concerns and needs. Stay on top of and monitor for any risks and opportunities working with the Senior Director, ESG Programs as needed. Build trust and strengthen the long-term client relationship including having periodic one-on-one check-in calls directly with the main client point of contact to get feedback.
• Oversee and guide your managers on the successful completion of all work product, ensuring work is delivered on time, on budget, within scope, factually accurate, and meets client expectations. Assist your managers in troubleshooting and address issues on these KPIs, escalating to the Senior Director as needed.
• Oversee capacity, staff planning, sequencing, and prioritization of client work within your team, and keeping the Senior Director informed.
• Ensure your team is operating efficiently by implementing process improvements established by ESG Programs team, including processes, tools, software, practices, and replicable work that can be standardized to scale delivery. Identify the need for process improvements to the Senior Director, and support development of improvements when tasked.
• Ensure all client work is properly set up and closed out, with completion of After-Action Reviews (or periodic reviews), and address findings as appropriate, sharing with Senior Director.
• As needed, perform day-to-day client and project management responsibilities as the long-term client management team is onboarded to support the continuity of client scopes and consistent engagements.
• Team Performance - Oversee your team’s development, career progression, performance management, and engagement.
• Provide input to the Senior Director as they assess, identify, create, and maintain formalized learning opportunities specific to the ESG Program Team’s development.
• Ensure execution and proper alignment of goals, professional development plans, and performance feedback for all team members, including indirect reports.
• Contribute to team talent assessment, utilizing the Talent Review Grid to have meaningful conversations with Senior Managers and Managers. Maintain clear understanding of where all team members are in their career progression. Use information gleaned to make employment and development decisions, including succession planning.
• Oversee, direct, and develop Senior Managers and Managers. Evoke creative and innovative thinking while helping team members to develop their skills and align their career aspirations with business goals.
• Deliver appropriate trainings, exposure, and experiences within your team. Ensure that existing, new staff, and managers within your team are trained as appropriate for their role on team offerings, services, and processes, as well as any changes or additions therein. Recommend trainings to the Senior Director, ESG Programs, and support the development of training upon request.
• Team Resourcing and Staffing - Ensure your team is properly resourced and staffed.
• Oversee staff planning and resource allocation on client projects within your team, with oversight of the Senior Director, ESG Programs, and in collaboration with other ESG Programs Directors.
• Recommend staffing needs and decisions, such as hiring, exit, growth, succession planning, and compensation to the Senior Director, ESG Programs.
• Implement the ESG Programs Team recruitment process, such as interviewers, sequence, and interview questions specific to your roles (with support of the Talent Acquisition Team and HR). Ensure your team members are trained to effectively participate in the Talent Acquisition process.
• Effectively and appropriately utilize the ESG Rotational Program staff. Identify appropriate tasks for this team, oversee training of team members and completion of work.
• Innovation and Business Development - Contribute to business development efforts, in coordination with the Senior Director of ESG Programs, VP of Growth, the VP of Client Success
• Lead internal client strategy meetings, at minimum, annually.
• Ensure client success through renewals as well as expanding support for existing clients. Lead development of SOWs and budgets for your team’s client programs, in coordination with your leadership and the VP of Growth, as well as Practice Area Directors, as applicable.
• Redirect any new client business opportunities to the VP of Growth, and support those efforts as approved by the Senior Director, ESG Programs.
• Represent RE Tech at conferences, speaking engagements, and through thought leadership efforts.
• Promote and share information on upcoming relevant industry events to the clients. Identify opportunities for speaking engagements and panels that the client may participate on.
• Create business development materials, collaborating with the marketing team, including overviews, business cases, presentations, stats.
• Ensure you and your Senior Managers are engaging Legence companies, through the VP of Growth, where needed, to implement solutions for clients.
• Contribute to Legence cross-selling initiatives, as appropriate.
• Monitor and stay abreast of ESG industry topics. Work with the Senior Director, ESG Programs on strategies to adapt and evolve to industry needs and changes and to recommend the need to enhance to current offerings and develop new offerings or products. Contribute to the development/enhancement of offerings. Properly code time for these efforts using the RE Tech Innovation Code.
• Cross-Department Collaboration
• Anticipate client needs and drive the strategy and direction of the client account, identifying opportunities to expand the program and scope of work to other departments/shared services
• Ensure your client’s needs are met across services/departments. Collaborate with the other departments and directors for updates related to shared services for your clients.
• Understand the work being performed by the shared services areas and ensure you and your team are able to provide updates to the clients.
• Troubleshoot any issues with the directors of shared services and elevate to the senior director of ESG programs as needed.
• Follow appropriate processes for vendor vetting. And oversee your team in delivering vendor knowledge, insights, strategy to your clients.
• Perform all other duties as needed and assigned.

Essential Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge of energy, sustainability, and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices and programs.
• 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 foster inclusive and creative collaboration internally and externally to co-create successful outcomes.
• Ability to lead internal and client engagements.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and decision-making capabilities, with the ability to diagnose client needs and market context to translate into compelling ESG strategies that drive value. Strong attention to detail in your work and work produced by your team.
• Strong business acumen and knowledge of staff development, planning, resource allocations, and tracking against financial KPIs.
• 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 expertly 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

• Experience supporting the management of a team or functional area, including experience with leadership and team management.
• Experience serving as the lead Project/Program Manager for multiple ESG or sustainability client programs with little to no oversight and/or past experience operating in a similar capacity to this role.
• Experience independently developing and administering successful sustainability, ESG, energy and/or decarbonization programs at scale across large portfolios of commercial real estate assets, with specific expertise focused on one or more of the follow commercial sectors: office, multifamily, retail, warehouse, senior care, medical office, and hospitality.
• Experience independently developing and managing multiple time-based budgets, both as time and materials, as well as fixed price, balancing resources, timing, and quality of outcomes. Experience with resource and capacity planning.
• Experience independently managing people and teams, including all aspects of performance management, talent development, and hiring.
• 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 (Tysons Corner, VA and Dallas, Texas) for meetings (estimate of four times per year), as well as for Legence and/or client business needs.
Additional Requirements
As a federal government contractor, per requirements specified by Executive Order 14042, RE Tech must follow the federal COVID-19 vaccine requirements. As such, all RE Tech employees must be fully vaccinated as a condition of employment, unless a medical or religious exemption is approved by RE Tech. RE Tech enforcement of the vaccine requirement is on hold, as federal agencies are not currently enforcing the mandate. RE Tech may resume a vaccine mandate pending the release of updated COVID-19 safety protocols from the US Office of Management and Budget. https://www.saferfederalworkforce.gov/faq/contractors/
In compliance with Federal law and the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 22.1800, the selected candidate will be required to provide documentation that will verify their identity and eligibility to work in the United States.
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
• Bereavement leave
• Jury duty
• 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
If you require assistance applying online, email ta@wearelegence.com. Please include a description of the specific accommodations you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying. If you are selected for an interview, please notify your recruiter of your accommodation needs. All efforts to provide reasonable accommodations will be made.

To all recruitment agencies
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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