Head of Reporting and Frameworks

Job Summary

Therma is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Head of Reporting and Frameworks to lead our ESG reporting efforts. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining expertise and processes for reporting and frameworks, overseeing training and development of staff, and serving as a strategic advisor to clients and internal stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain expertise and processes for reporting and frameworks, including staying up-to-date with emerging frameworks and their relevance in the marketplace.
• Oversee training and development of staff on associated services and products, including developing and delivering training programs and materials.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to clients and internal stakeholders on reporting and frameworks, including providing guidance on framework selection and implementation.
• Coordinate with internal teams to drive alignment of frameworks that are relevant for all client deliverables.
• Develop and maintain RE Tech's approach to developing a client sustainability reporting and frameworks strategy, including guidance that maps clients to select frameworks.
• Advise, direct, and/or review work produced under key service offerings that align to frameworks such as the Sustainability Gap Analysis, Investor Questionnaires, Reporting Framework Gap Analysis.
• Develop and deliver appropriate training, exposure, and experiences for reporting and frameworks to all employees supporting reporting.
• Ensure that existing, new staff, and managers are trained as appropriate for their role supporting reporting efforts.
• Communicate all existing and new changes for sustainability reporting to the entire company and provide training as appropriate.
• Responsible for framework alignment within all deliverables.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for RE Tech with reporting organizations/associations.

Requirements

• Knowledge and familiarity with most common ESG reporting frameworks and expertise in at least GRESB, PRI, GRI, IFRS (TCFD), and SFDR.
• 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 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.
• 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.
• 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).

Education and Experience

• Experience driving research projects, managing content creation and project execution.
• Experience managing reporting for multiple client engagements for various framework alignments.
• Experience serving as a program manager for multiple ESG or sustainability client programs with oversight and/or past experience operating in a similar capacity to this role.
• Experience administering and some experience developing 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 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 managing people and teams, including some aspects of performance management, training, 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

In compliance with Federal law and the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), 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.

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.legence.com/.

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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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