Sustainability Coordinator – Rotational Program – RE Tech Advisors

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.

Are you looking for an opportunity to use your passion for sustainability, climate change, and clean energy to help national and international clients reach their decarbonization goals? If so, we have the role for you! RE Tech Advisors is seeking entry level candidates and those early in their sustainability careers to join our next cohort of our ESG Rotational Program, beginning in July 2025. This is an exciting opportunity to join a rapidly growing sustainability advisory firm to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon future.
RE Techs ESG Rotational Program provides on-the-job training in a wide range of knowledge, skills and abilities needed for a career in sustainability. This program supports the transition to the professional work environment, fosters camaraderie among peers while exposing the participants to different areas of work in and sustainability across RE Tech, contributing to work on different client services, laying the foundation for your sustainability career. We work with team members in this program to develop the skills they need to advance into different roles within our organization.
Successful candidates must have demonstrate their passion and interest in sustainability, either through coursework, education, volunteer work, professional work such as an internship, or in their personal lives. Please ensure to reflect this through your resume.
We offer positions out of our headquarters office in Tysons Corner, Virginia (13 miles west of Washington, DC) and Dallas, Texas. RE Tech supports a hybrid work model with flexible work schedules that include a mix of in office and work from home, following a successful onboarding period.
The salary for this position is $60,000 per year. The start date for this position will be sometime in July 2025.

We will close applications for this position on November 30, 2024. If we need additional candidates, we will reopen the application some time in 2025.

Essential Job Functions / Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Support and learn about RE Techs ESG Programs and Data & Analytics Teams through:
• Ongoing ESG and utility data collection and reporting efforts
• Uploading and benchmarking building energy, water, and waste utility data in ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager.
• Analyze utility bills and upload data into software programs.
• Review utility data for variances and flag concerns.
• Build industry knowledge by monitoring and researching relevant industry news and trends, ESG policies, best practices, businesses, and Climate Frameworks. Compile weekly digests for executive leadership and support the preparation of external industry trends briefings/newsletters.
• Support RE Techs Compliance and Policy Team to gain experience in monitoring and tracking of state and local government benchmarking, energy efficiency, and/or carbon emissions ordinances. Gain knowledge, skills, and abilities in conducting research into ordinances and gathering the necessary information to populate RE Techs database.
• Support RE Techs ESG Reporting Team to gain experience in preparing submissions to ESG and sustainability reporting frameworks, such as GRESB, UNPRI, GRI, etc.
• Support RE Techs Climate & Energy Team by conducting research and synthesizing information related to carbon emission reduction and renewable energy. Conduct assessments to determine property climate risk.
• Support the Climate Partnership Programs Team to gain experience with government, non-profit, and association clients, such as the EPA ENERGY STAR Program and the DOE Better Buildings Program by researching and synthesizing information into 1-pagers, organizing information into spreadsheets, using charts and graphs to visually display the information.
• Assist in the ESG Programs and Green Building Certifications Teams to gain experience in the preparation of property certification materials, including IREM Certified Sustainable Property, LEED Existing Buildings, BREEAM, Fitwel, and others.
• Build knowledge of logistics, preparation, and running of meetings, events, and/or webinars. Learning activities may include scheduling, supporting registration, coordinating with presenters to prepare and collect materials, providing technical support during the event, and/or attending and taking notes.
• Become well-versed in the performance of quantitative tasks such as data gathering and analysis, Excel calculations, development of graphs and visualizations, and data QA/QC.
• Assist the Marketing, Communications, and Design Team by drafting social media posts.
• Gain professional experience in preparing written materials, such as emails, reports, meeting notes, fact sheets, presentations, resource tools, and case studies.
• Perform clerical duties, take notes, maintain files, and organize documents; photocopy, scan, etc. as needed.
• Learn time keeping best practices by properly and accurately tracking all of your time worked and expenses in RE Techs time keeping system. Understand and demonstrate billing to the correct projects and using the correct labor categories.
• Learn and follow company policies and processes.
• Perform all other duties as needed and assigned.

Essential Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Familiarity with commercial real estate, sustainability, greenhouse gas accounting, energy efficiency, and/or ESG is a plus.
• Demonstrate a growth mindset by living and breathing RE Techs culture of continuous learning, growing, and improving.
• Possess analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Demonstrate strong attention to detail in your work.
• Demonstrate sound business ethics, including the protection of proprietary and confidential information.
• Strong interpersonal skills including courtesy, professionalism, and a cooperative attitude.
• 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.
• Competent written communication skills with an ability to write in a clear, concise manner to convey points effectively and with the appropriate tone and professionalism.
• Competent verbal communication skills to effectively interact with and build confidence among internal and external contacts.
• Ability to effectively coordinate, collaborate and interface up, down, and across the organization, as well as with external stakeholders.
• High degree of initiative, proactiveness, drive, enthusiasm, energy, and follow through.
• 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

• Some professional work experience, such as an internship
• High school degree or equivalent
• Must be 18 years of age or older

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 may be required.
Additional Requirements
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
• 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.

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