Senior Manager, Climate Risk Solutions - RE Tech Advisors

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.


Summary Description
Lead multiple CRS projects and programs of varying size and scope. Train and oversee CRS Managers executing project and task-level management responsibilities. Provide strategic oversight and direction of client programs, collaborating with multiple RE Tech teams to ensure client satisfaction. Execute all responsibilities with no need for regular oversight. Supervise CRS team members, responsible for all aspects of performance management.
Essential Job Functions:
• Design, pitch, and lead multiple client programs across sectors that may include commercial real estate, private equity, lending, government, and public-private partnerships.
• Oversee teams implementing client projects comprising a range of components, including carbon accounting, decarbonization, climate risk management, vendor management, and public disclosures and third-party reporting.
• Ensure excellence and client satisfaction for all work delivered by the CRS team supporting your projects/programs, engaging CRS leadership, Technical Leads, and multi-disciplinary RE Tech team members as needed to ensure overall client satisfaction.
• Manage client projects delivered by the CRS Team under your purview, ensuring work is delivered on time, on budget, within scope, and in line with client expectations. Oversee budgets, schedules, and deadlines via effective, regular communication with internal and external stakeholders.
• Create program budgets, monthly staffing allocations, and oversee budget tracking for your client programs. Lead invoicing for assigned scopes of work, as needed. Train and oversee CRS managers to support the invoice process as needed.
• Facilitate proper setup, closeout, and periodic reviews of client engagements, including After-Action Reviews.
• Provide subject matter expertise on client programs that include the following:
◦ Design, development, and execution of organizational or fund-level decarbonization strategy.
◦ Monitoring, tracking, and reporting on greenhouse gas emissions and property performance, including development of formal GHG inventories.
◦ Climate risk management in alignment with best practice guidance from voluntary standards (e.g., TCFD, IFRS) and mandatory reporting requirements.
◦ Identification, evaluation, and mitigation of transition risks at the client portfolio and their assets, including compliance with state/local building performance and/or emissions benchmarks.
◦ Identification and evaluation of vulnerability and exposure to physical risk related to future climate scenarios; strategies to reduce Value at Risk.
• Identify and recommend opportunities for process improvements in CRS service offerings and execute them as needed and assigned by CRS leadership.
• Serve as supervisor to two or more direct reports, responsible for all aspects of employee performance management and engagement.
• Ensure your team is properly resourced and staffed. Participate in the Talent Acquisition process, as directed by CRS leadership.
• Contribute to business development efforts via participation in or leadership of client strategy meetings, providing recommendations to add or enhance CRS team support, and participation in industry webinars or presentations. Create program budgets and scopes of work (SOWs) for assigned clients.
• Properly and accurately track all time worked and expenses in BigTime.
Essential Knowledge and Skills:
• Deep knowledge of Climate Risk Solutions service offerings and related subject matter domains, to include the following:
◦ Carbon accounting – including methodologies, calculations, climate data software providers and tools, and industry guidance frameworks (e.g., GHG Protocol Corporate Standard, PCAF)
◦ Carbon reduction targets and disclosure frameworks (e.g., SBTi, CDP, RE100)
◦ Physical risk – including climate risk analytic software providers and strategies to identify, evaluate and mitigate physical risk related to future climate scenarios
◦ Transition risk – including technical requirements and pathways to compliance with state/local building performance standards