Senior Net Zero Technical Advisor – Real Estate

Description

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

Requirements

• Demonstrated ability to design and deliver robust KPI reporting structures and dashboards tailored to compliance needs.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement capabilities.
• 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 +)
• Familiarity with project pipeline tracking, gap analysis, and prioritization methods considering local mandates and incentives.
• Advanced proficiency in digital reporting tools (e.g., Tableau, PowerBI).
• Proven experience with sustainability regulations, standards, and certifications (LEED, WELL, BREEAM, ISO 14001, SBTi, TCFD, GRESB, etc.).
• Strong data validation, quality assurance, and exception management skills, including regulatory reporting.
• Relevant degree in engineering, sustainability, environmental science, or related field.
• Demonstrable track record in playbook documentation, methodology revision, and program management aligned to regulatory requirements. Preferably on the decarbonization of real estate portfolio’s.
• Experience working in or with multiple geographic markets and understanding of local sustainability drivers.
• Professional accreditation (e.g., LEED, WELL, CEM, PMP, or similar) preferred.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance