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Head of Sustainability
Sustainability Officer – Augsburg University
Location: Minneapolis, MN
PURPOSE: To advance Augsburg’s mission and public purpose and commitments to equity-based environmental stewardship and civic/community engagement through collaborative leadership.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Advance Augsburg’s commitment to equity-based environmental stewardship:
- Co-create and lead implementation of institutional policies, commitments, and strategic initiatives, including institutional carbon neutrality goals
- Develop and implement strategies to elevate awareness, increase participation, and cultivate a culture of equity-focused environmental stewardship
- Determine data needs for climate commitment reporting and partner with appropriate units for collection, evaluation, and management
- Guide departments in aligning practices with policies, commitments, and strategic initiatives
- Facilitate collaboration among Augsburg faculty, staff and students; other institutions; and community partners for sustainability initiatives
- Supervise Environmental Stewardship Graduate Fellow and team of undergraduate interns
- Advance Augsburg’s public purpose in civic engagement:
- Oversee Augsburg community garden and other food justice initiatives
- Support anchor institution work through local and equitable purchasing and investing
- Maintain relationships with local community partners
ADDITIONAL EXAMPLES OF WORK PERFORMED:
- Maintain an active professional life, staying current in practice and research on environmental equity, sustainability in higher education, and civic and community engagement in order to better steward Augsburg’s distinctive role in these fields
- Chair University Council Environmental Stewardship Committee
- Guide revision and implementation of new Climate Action Plan
- Collaborate with Environmental Action Committee (student government) and Environmental Studies program
- Prioritize new goals and initiatives based on environmental impact, budget considerations, and community support
- Manage operating budget and seek grants and fundraising opportunities as needed
- Train, present, and lead workshops on sustainability, civic engagement, and related institutional commitments
Job Requirements:
JOB SPECIFICATIONS:
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree
- Minimum of five (5) years of professional experience in sustainability, food justice, community engagement, community organizing, and program coordination.
- Ability to work effectively and collaboratively in a diverse work environment.
- Ability to build cross-cultural and cross-generational relationships on campus and with community partner organizations
- Attention to detail, accurate and precise record keeping and communication.
- Ability to work independently with little supervision, and work effectively in a team environment.
- Ability to reason/analyze; maintain confidentiality; and demonstrate patience, understanding.
- Ability to show initiative; organize workflow; manage multiple projects; and handle frequent interruptions.
- Ability to lead, teach, and mentor others.
Preferred:
- Masters degree in a related field such as environmental sustainability, public policy, public health, higher education administration, or nonprofit development is preferred
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Sustainability Specialist, Expert – flexible location
PG&E CorporationThe Corporate Sustainability team, which is part of the Corporate Affairs organization, works to integrate and align PG&E’s sustainability strategy with its business strategy. With the support of PG&E’s Chief Sustainability Officer, the team works collaboratively to advance energy and environmental policy issues important to our business and customers; integrate forward-looking climate data into decision-making across the company; identify, benchmark, and implement best practices to drive continuous improvement within our business; and engage with a wide range of stakeholders, both within and outside the company, to guide and advance PG&E’s sustainability strategy.
Position Summary:
The Sustainability Specialist, Expert will support PG&E’s climate resilience and adaptation program, a core initiative within the sustainability team. This position will work to identify and analyze physical risks related to climate change that impact PG&E’s business, employees, customers and communities, with a focus on integrating climate data into enterprise and operational risk models. The candidate will work with PG&E’s gas, electric, and generation lines of business as well as the Enterprise and Operational Risk Management organization to assess how climate change will affect the safety and reliability of PG&E’s assets, operations and services over time. The candidate will also work collaboratively within and across internal departments to innovate, design and implement tools and processes for managing climate risks, and will lead initiatives to measure and track PG&E’s progress in increasing climate resilience.
Desired Skills:
The successful candidate will have demonstrated knowledge of climate change risk; strong research and analytical skills; experience with risk management and modeling, and familiarity with environmental and energy issues. Familiarity with energy infrastructure is a plus. The individual will possess outstanding written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills and the ability to communicate complex issues to a range of audiences. The individual will have strong organizational, creative, and strategic thinking skills. The successful candidate will also be able to effectively operate both independently and as part of a team and to manage multiple projects simultaneously from conception to implementation.
Responsibilities:
Work across lines of business to integrate forward looking climate data into enterprise and operational risk models.
Support development of innovative ways to mitigate climate risk that will form the basis for climate adaptation plans.
Lead efforts to measure and track climate resilience, including development of metrics and assessments of how PG&E’s capabilities on managing climate risk are changing over time.
Research latest developments on climate change models and studies to understand and assess potential climate impacts on PG&E’s infrastructure, operations, services, employees and communities.
Support team initiatives to achieve PG&E’s climate resilience goals, including the company’s Climate Vulnerability Assessment.
Qualifications:Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
Seven years of experience in a related field
Desired Qualifications:
Master’s degree
Experience working with climate-related models and associated outputs or natural resource-related models and associated outputs
Experience in risk modeling and quantification and demonstrable familiarity with applicable software tools.
Familiarity with energy and/or utility infrastructure, particularly in California.
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Environmental Sustainability Technical Expert Consultancy
Scope of Work
Duration: 30 days LOE over 3 months (February 15th- May 15th, 2021)
Start Date: February 15th, 2021
Location: Remote
About TechnoServe
TechnoServe is a leader in harnessing the power of the private sector to help people lift themselves out of poverty. A nonprofit organization operating in 29 countries, we work with women and men in the developing world to build competitive farms, businesses, and industries. By linking people to information, capital, and markets, we have helped millions to create lasting prosperity for their families and communities.
Background
Four Areas of Excellence (AOE) serve as the foundation for TechnoServe’s global portfolio of interventions: coffee, entrepreneurship, food processing and high margin agriculture.
We measure our success in terms of business growth and longevity—whether those businesses are small farms, micro-retailers or mid-size processors — because we believe that profitable businesses are key to economic growth and inclusion, and long-term income and job creation.
These sectors not only offer the opportunity to substantially increase economic inclusion in developing economies, but also the potential to mitigate the effects of climate change and to protect and sustain the natural resources on which we all depend. We believe it’s possible to capitalize on this potential in a manner that makes business sense as well climate sense. We, therefore, anticipate a strategic pivot to ‘green growth’, which is aligned with our mission and encompasses the expertise for which we are known as well as our commitment to climate change resilience as a cross-cutting priority.
TechnoServe has drafted a preliminary Green Growth framework and theory of change that envisions working through market actors: Greening the Farm, Greening the Firm, and Greening the Market. This framework is nascent and high level, and must be refined and more extensively detailed through consultation.
Scope of Work
TechnoServe will engage an Environmental Sustainability Technical Expert to provide expertise to the development of a Green Growth strategy. This expert consultant will: a) identify and describe the causal links or potential causal links between TechnoServe’s economic growth interventions and positive or negative climate change adaptation and mitigation effects (e.g. deforestation, soil health, water use, food waste); b) quantify those effects to determine where increases, decreases and/or changes to our interventions can have the greatest positive climate impact; and c) formulate recommendations on changes to our interventions that would improve impact on climate and the environment. The Expert Consultant will also help TechnoServe identify relevant funding and implementation partners and provide other technical support for TechnoServe’s emerging Green Growth strategy.
Activities
- Assess how and to what extent TechnoServe programs, by Area of Excellence, are contributing to ‘green growth’
- For each Area of Excellence, review the most dominant approaches, including at least one archetypal program for each, to identify and describe the causal links or potential causal links between TechnoServe’s economic growth interventions and positive or negative climate change adaptation and mitigation effects (e.g. deforestation, soil health, water use, food waste)
- Analyze impact of current approaches and programs, with a deep-dive on 6-8 selected programs (>1 in each AOE) that have an explicit mandate to address and report on environmental concerns or relevant SDGs, to better understand existing green growth activities and missed opportunities for climate impact
- This will require reviewing existing data and collecting new data from TechnoServe’s country-level teams, through email and calls
- For example, in improving the efficiency of MSMEs around the world, elements of our work may be delivering carbon benefits that are not being quantified. We need to better understand if this is true and how substantial an opportunity it is.
- Deliverable: Program assessment report (Ppt), including separate dedicated sections for the deep dive programs, draft and final version
- Develop and help validate TechnoServe’s prioritized Green Growth intervention “archetypes”
- Identify the highest (impact) potential green growth impact pathways within TechnoServe’s four AOEs (high margin agriculture, coffee, entrepreneurship, food processing)
- Assess and quantify potential impact and feasibility of these interventions
- Develop/recommend standard Green Growth impact indicators and recommendations for monitoring and evaluating TechnoServe’s Green Growth interventions,
- Assess the potential for replicating and scaling current approaches
- Identify any inadvertent negative impacts (apparent or potential risks)
- Identify and give recommendations regarding any capabilities TechnoServe would have to develop for effective implementation of these interventions
- Support validation of archetypes with AOE leads and other relevant TNS colleagues
- Deliverable: Green Growth Intervention archetypes (Ppt), including measurement indicators and projected impact, draft and final version
- Identify the highest (impact) potential green growth impact pathways within TechnoServe’s four AOEs (high margin agriculture, coffee, entrepreneurship, food processing)
- Identify significant opportunities (as well as required capabilities) to start implementing new types of green growth interventions or adapt existing program interventions to generate greater environmental outcomes:
- Through experience, focused research and consultations with relevant players in the sector, identify impactful intervention opportunities that are not currently addressed by TechnoServe’s interventions, along with rationale and supporting analyses for prioritization; Provide detailed implementation recommendations. This will include but not be limited to:
- Assessment and recommendations regarding TechnoServe’s participation in the global carbon offset market
- Analyze commercial feasibility of regenerative agriculture practices for smallholder farmers, based on a review of secondary data / research and analysis of our own programs in which regenerative practices have been promoted.
- Deliverables:
- Recommendations of new TechnoServe green growth interventions (Ppt), draft and final version
- Analysis of regenerative agriculture and recommendations for TechnoServe(Ppt)
- Provide other technical inputs to TechnoServe’s Green Growth strategy, which may include some or all of the following:
- Review and give input to a concise internal primer on ‘Green Growth’, tailored to TechnoServe. This primer will help us establish a shared understanding of the terms most commonly used in our sector
- Review and give input to draft organizational policies, strategic plans and other strategic inputs in regards to Green Growth
- Review and give input to TechnoServe’s analysis of relevant donors and other funding sources focused primarily on green growth
- Deliverables:
- Updated iteration of TechnoServe’s Green Growth primer
- Comments to policies, plans and analyses
- Through experience, focused research and consultations with relevant players in the sector, identify impactful intervention opportunities that are not currently addressed by TechnoServe’s interventions, along with rationale and supporting analyses for prioritization; Provide detailed implementation recommendations. This will include but not be limited to:
Summary of Deliverables
- Program assessment report (Ppt), including separate dedicated sections for the deep dive programs, draft and final version
- Green Growth Intervention archetypes (Ppt), including measurement indicators and projected impact, draft and final version
- Recommendations of TechnoServe green growth interventions, including existing interventions to amplify or scale, new interventions to add within or alongside Areas of Excellence (Ppt), draft and final version
- Analysis of regenerative agriculture and recommendations for TechnoServe (Ppt)
- Updated iteration of TechnoServe’s Green Growth primer
- Comments to draft policies and plans
Required Qualifications
- Graduate level degree in sustainability related areas, including Climate Action, Climate Change or Environmental/Ecology Sciences and Policy
- Minimum 8 years relevant work experience, including technical research and technical advisory projects
- Demonstrated work experience at the nexus of international development and climate change
- Excellent, demonstrated analytical skills
- Excellent communicator, including interviewing and writing
- Fluency in MS software, especially PowerPoint and Excel
- Fluency in English
Preferred Qualifications and Capabilities
- Experience working on economic growth and/or green growth within the international development sector
- Demonstrated experience effectively delivering climate-related technical assistance to organizations
- Strategy development experience
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