Senior Net Zero Technical Advisor – Real Estate

Overview

Senior advisor guiding global real‑estate net‑zero strategies, compliance and data reporting

Key Responsibilities

• data validation
• kpi reporting
• dashboard development
• regulatory compliance
• playbook management
• stakeholder workshops

Tasks

-Conduct advanced data integrity checks and analyses for quarterly KPI calculation and reporting, ensuring regulatory readiness. -Design and deliver standardized monthly and quarterly status reports, integrating with digital dashboards (e.g., Tableau), tailored to local reporting requirements. -Refine and align Net Zero KPIs in collaboration with cross-functional teams, incorporating regulatory and standards-based metrics. -Establish and monitor performance triggers to enable corrective actions in line with compliance needs. -Lead initial dataset validation, quality assurance regimes, and exception management processes, ensuring regulatory reporting integrity. -Support the development of reporting tools and dashboards that enable regulatory data tracking and standards-based analytics. -Coordinate documentation and integration of best-practice approaches tailored to local market contexts. -Maintain and update the Net Zero Delivery Playbook, ensuring all methodologies reflect current standards and regulatory requirements. -Facilitate gap-to-goal calculations and project prioritization considering regulatory requirements and incentive programs. -Integrate governance frameworks within playbook and reporting structures, ensuring compliance oversight where required. -Conduct quarterly portfolio change reviews and ensure ongoing assurance and data validation. -Ensure all organizational playbooks, strategies, and project implementations comply with relevant regulatory frameworks and industry standards. -Produce, disseminate, and align regular reporting with project and portfolio implementation, including regulatory disclosures. -Monitor and interpret evolving sustainability regulations, standards, and certifications (e.g., LEED, WELL, BREEAM, ISO 14001, SBTi, TCFD, GRESB) for all geographies served. -Provide tailored advisory support that reflects the regulatory, climatic, and market realities of each geography served. -Provide expert research, benchmarking, and advisory support on sustainability / real estate decarbonization topics as requested, with a focus on regulatory changes and standards evolution. -Advise on the implications of regulatory changes and best practices for multi-jurisdictional real estate portfolios. -Support internal communication efforts to drive net zero program adoption in compliance with local and international mandates. -Integrate key net zero roadmap recommendations with internal communications and engagement plans. -Lead creation, integration, and adjustment of client-specific net zero strategies and decarbonization roadmaps, ensuring alignment with global, national, and local sustainability regulations (e.g., EU Taxonomy, UK Net Zero Strategy, US EPA Guidelines, local ordinances). -Advise clients on compliant pathways to net zero across diverse real estate portfolios, considering regional policy frameworks and permitting requirements. -Organize and lead KPI workshops to ensure stakeholder engagement and governance integration. -Manage the ongoing project pipeline tracker, including monthly reviews and sourcing/documenting with new (Net Zero for Real Estate) projects with attention to regulatory deadlines and compliance triggers. -Develop ongoing roles and responsibilities for project teams with clear accountability for regulatory adherence. -Coordinate with regional subject matter experts to ensure solutions are locally relevant and globally benchmarked.

Requirements

• leed
• well
• tableau
• powerbi
• net zero
• stakeholder engagement

What You Bring

-Professional accreditation (e.g., LEED, WELL, CEM, PMP, or similar) preferred. -Proven experience with sustainability regulations, standards, and certifications (LEED, WELL, BREEAM, ISO 14001, SBTi, TCFD, GRESB, etc.). -Familiarity with project pipeline tracking, gap analysis, and prioritization methods considering local mandates and incentives. -Relevant degree in engineering, sustainability, environmental science, or related field. -Demonstrated ability to design and deliver robust KPI reporting structures and dashboards tailored to compliance needs. -Demonstrable track record in playbook documentation, methodology revision, and program management aligned to regulatory requirements. Preferably on the decarbonization of real estate portfolio’s. -Advanced proficiency in digital reporting tools (e.g., Tableau, PowerBI). -Deep expertise (10 years +) in net zero / decarbonization strategy, roadmap development and implementation of these strategies for real estate portfolios across diverse geographies. Preferably for other financial institutions / global real estate portfolio’s. -Hands-on experience with energy efficiency retrofits and construction projects (5 years +) -Excellent stakeholder engagement capabilities. -Experience working in or with multiple geographic markets and understanding of local sustainability drivers. -Strong data validation, quality assurance, and exception management skills, including regulatory reporting.

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