Job Description

What You Will Do:

Designs, coordinates, implements, promotes and supports regulatory and non-regulatory UCAR sustainability and resource conservation programs that are consistent with the goals of UCAR’s Sustainability Management Plan (SMP) in the nine impact areas of energy, water, waste reduction and recycling, transportation, sustainable procurement, indoor environmental quality, greenhouse gas emissions, site and land use and green building and construction practices.

Responsibilities:

Manages, designs, develops, implements, and directs comprehensive sustainability programs. Engages and influences staff to support and participate in offered sustainability programs. Designs and delivers outreach, education and training, and communications programs for employees for areas such as green purchasing, energy conservation, zero waste, alternative transportation, etc. Creates and implements internal sustainability outreach and engagement events, such as Bike to Work Week, workshops, lunch and learn presentations, contests, etc.

Provides timely, friendly, education-oriented customer service to employees.  Proactively  identifies  sustainability education needs and opportunities to improve staff’s understanding and utilization of programs. Performs quantitative and qualitative data analysis, and regularly communicates results by creating charts, graphics and other illustrations to show impacts and inform decisions.

Develops and implements strategies using the sustainability Community Based Social Marketing (CBSM) model for identifying barriers to sustainability practices and develops appropriate outreach programs, monitors the effectiveness of sustainability programs.

Establishes strong partnerships with UCAR operational departments that have key roles in the success of sustainability programs.     Collaborates  with  these  departments  to develop/enhance  procedures related  to sustainability programs, provides sustainability best practices industry information and guidance to management and  staff.  Represents  UCAR  sustainability  efforts  with  governmental  and  community  stakeholders and organizations to enhances public relations and collaboration with external partners.

Responsible for up-to-date knowledge, compliance and reporting to NSF on applicable regulatory guidelines and Executive  Orders  and  any  future  applicable  federal  regulations.  Responsible  for  ongoing  organizational compliance with local regulatory measures related to sustainability, such as the City of Boulder’s Commercial Building Energy Performance Ordinance and the City of Boulder’s Zero Waste Ordinance. Monitors and communicates status and compliance to external legislation, policy initiatives, and proposed regulations relating to sustainability issues impacting UCAR’s operations; conveys potential impacts of imposed regulation on UCAR’s  operating  plans  and  practices.  

Advances  the  development  and  implementation  of  information management strategies, sustainability performance metrics, scorecards, reporting, program management support, strategic sustainability performance plans, data management, report development, review and analysis associated

with  sustainability  goals.