Head of Sustainability

POSITION SUMMARY:

At MassMutual, weâ€™re passionate about helping millions of people find financial freedom and this passion has driven our desire to develop a sustainable business for generations to come.

MassMutual is seeking a highly motivated and experienced professional to lead MassMutual's sustainability efforts, including coordination of investment, environmental, social and governance components. Responsibilities include building out and further developing existing sustainability strategy, syndicating, and implementing change, as well as communicating and engaging with senior management, employees and external stakeholders.

To help us achieve our mission, we are seeking a Head of Sustainability. This role will report to MassMutualâ€™s Chief Risk Officer who is also the executive sponsor of the sustainability program.

What great looks like in this role

Our ideal Head of Sustainability candidate is a strategic leader with an ability to inspire and influence others to adopt and drive forward the sustainability strategy and integrate it into everything we do at MassMutual. This candidate will have a passion for ESG topics, and experience leading change. Measures of success will include;

guiding MassMutual in setting aspirational goals and ensuring that a roadmap exists to achieve these, then measuring and reporting progress,
effective communication, internal and external, around our sustainability strategy, including coordinating an employee engagement strategy which achieves a cultural shift towards alignment with MassMutual's commitment to sustainability,
increasing public and stakeholder perceptions and reputation, ensuring continuing authenticity in MassMutual commitment to sustainability.

OBJECTIVES OF THIS ROLE

Strategic:

Assess and build upon MassMutual's current sustainability strategy; develop and communicate a comprehensive sustainability vision and operating principles, and lead the evolution of the strategy to support them; drive the setting of aspirational sustainability goals, identifying and syndicating the prioritization of key initiatives,
Collaborate to ensure a consistent, coherent representation of MassMutual's aggregate ESG positioning and policy positioning; coordinate and collaborate with MassMutual's subsidiaries and affiliates to ensure consistency and alignment
Provide regular updates to MassMutualâ€™s Executive Leadership Team, Board of Directors, and other key stakeholders as required

Internal:

Secure and leverage senior level commitment and support for integrating sustainable development into core processes and decision-making throughout the organization; Collaborate with leaders across key areas of the company (e.g. Investment Management, HR, Facilities, Community Responsibility, Brand, Products, Finance, Legal, Government Relations, Public Policy, Corporate Strategy, etc) to coordinate the integration of the sustainability strategy across MassMutual's businesses
Collaborate in building sustainability principles and targets into short and long-range business and operations planning. Â Measure and monitor progress against sustainability strategies, goals and performance targets, developing evaluation systems as required
Maintain awareness of the external sustainability environment, researching and monitoring emerging trends, programs and issues, and stakeholder concerns, and communicating and educating others
Foster a culture of sustainability through collaboration, ongoing organizational communications, education and engagement. Create and implement communication strategies to publicize the company's sustainability efforts and promote broad awareness of sustainability initiatives, both internally and externally as required
Ensure robust governance through a cross-functional sustainability committee of senior executives; drive its agenda and develop materials; develop internal sustainability policies as needed
Serve as the internal leader and expert for sustainability topics
Periodically evaluate the effectiveness of the sustainability program

External:

Review external best practices and seek/propose opportunities to ensure that MassMutual is well positioned and positively differentiated from peers; maintain awareness of current and evolving sustainability/ environmental standards or regulations, and ensure compliance where appropriate
Maintain awareness of ESG reporting standards, syndicate appropriate choices, and coordinate the production of external reporting; coordinate with Brand/Marketing and other stakeholders to create MassMutual's annual sustainability report ensuring differentiated and compelling content; respond as needed to client and stakeholder enquiries and information requests
Be MassMutual's external sustainability ambassador, coordinating with Brand/Marketing and Strategic Communications; cultivate relationships with various ESG organizations as appropriate
Collaborate with the Public Policy and Government Relations functions in developing policy positions which enable MassMutual to be active and authentic in driving climate action and helping shape the US climate agenda

SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

5+ years of experience in corporate sustainability or other ESG role preferred
Familiarity with ESG reporting standards, ESG organizations, and ESG reporting
Bachelor's degree or equivalent is required; advanced degree/certificates highly preferred
CFA and/or investment experience preferred
Demonstrated success in leading and driving solutions involving multiple stakeholders and layers of management, and multiple simultaneous deliverables
Thrives when facing ambiguity and complexity; willingness to explore multiple solutions to a problem
Highly effective critical thinker who can synthesize information from disparate sources and recommend appropriate management action
Compelling communicator, both written and verbal, effective at presenting to all levels of the organization
Strong leadership skills; ability to engage and inspire; fosters a sense of energy, ownership, and personal commitment to the work; create an environment in which performance excellence is rewarded
Experience influencing and advising on a wide range of complex ESG issues
Ability to listen, but also to persuasively convey opinions and recommendations
Excels at leading through ambiguous situations or for activities not directly associated with well-defined responsibilities
Strong matrix management skills; proven success in managing cross functional teams
Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work with others, influence key stakeholders and lead sustainability-related discussions

Working at MassMutual:
A career at MassMutual means you will work alongside exceptional people and be empowered to reach your professional and personal goals. Our employees are the foundation of what makes MassMutual a strong, stable and ethical business. We seek and value unique and varied perspectives and experiences because we believe we are stronger when all voices are heard. We invite you to bring your bright, innovative ideas to MassMutual as we continue to help millions of Americans rely on each other.

Sustainability Program Administrator

County of Ventura, CA

The Sustainability Division
The Sustainability Division is the program administrator of the Tri-County Regional Energy Network (3C-REN) with the California Public Utility Commission. The 3C-REN offers a variety of programs designed for regional integration and delivery of energy efficiency solutions that pilot innovative ideas and serve the specific needs of the Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo region.

Additionally, the Sustainability Division administers the Ventura County Regional Energy Alliance (VCREA), a JPA composed of public agencies working in collaboration to address good energy stewardship and sustainability practices in the region.

The Sustainability Division supports the County’s commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and efforts to improve its environmental performance by managing the energy efficiency activities and responsibilities. The Division is a regional lead in identifying and leveraging energy efficiency, clean transportation and renewable-energy opportunities; matching projects with funding mechanisms.

The Division assists the Ventura County Board of Supervisor’s representative to the Clean Power Alliance of Southern California – a Community Choice Energy Joint Powers Authority (JPA) that procures alternative energy supplies to the residents of Ventura County.

The Position
Under direction, plans, organizes, and performs a variety of monitoring, evaluation, and reporting activities in support of the Sustainability programs and outreach; works with stakeholders such as contractors, homeowners, and partner counties to coordinate and monitor various energy-related programs. This position will also oversee and coordinate the activities of specific Sustainability Division-focused projects and initiatives, oversee the management and implementation of contracts and grants; and identify emerging trends, potential challenges and new opportunities for the Sustainability Division.

The ideal candidate
Will have a Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in business administration, energy management, sustainability, energy efficiency, climate change. government or other related field; knowledge of energy and sustainability programs and the ability to understand and implement energy conservation techniques and methods; and experience involving program management and administration. This person will also be a team player, a dynamic public speaker, and will demonstrate political acumen when dealing with various stakeholders and representatives.

Agency/Department: County Executive Office – Government Affairs, Water, and Energy

Program Administrator I/II/III/Senior is a Management classification and is not eligible for overtime compensation. Incumbents in the Program Administrator I/II/III are eligible for benefits at the MB4 level and the Senior Program Administrator is eligible for benefits at the MB3 level.

Examples Of Duties

Duties may include, but are not limited to the following:

Manages Regional Energy Network energy efficiency incentive programs including data collection, analysis, and reporting; evaluation of energy efficiency in buildings and infrastructure; benchmarking; participation in utility programs;
Plans, organizes and administers education and engagement program in workforce education and training outreach programs for contractors, government employees, and businesses including design and development of outreach materials, website design, development and analytics, social media, and newsletters;
Participates in the development and implementation of program goals, objectives, policies, procedures, and priorities of strategies and work plans;
Manages and participates in public events and workshops and coordinates participation in other energy efficiency, building, and code enforcement-related events;
Assists management staff; participates in and provides support to a variety of committees and boards; prepares and presents staff reports and other correspondence as appropriate and necessary;
Ensures that assigned program activities comply with relevant federal, state, and local laws, policies, and regulations;
Creates presentations for stakeholders and citizens on new programs, policies, or other sustainability efforts; showcases individuals, businesses, and projects for recognition of leadership in sustainability;
Maintains and updates web content and design and mailing list communications; and
Performs other related duties as required.

Typical Qualifications

These are the entrance requirements to the examination process and assure neither continuance in the process nor placement on an eligible list.

DESIRED

Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in business administration, energy management, sustainability, or a closely-related field.
Ability to perform dynamic public speaking and experience with public outreach.
Proficiency with MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and TEAMS.
Proficiency with Adobe Acrobat and/or Photoshop and Salesforce.
Knowledge of California energy issues, policies and practices, including an understanding of local, regional and state planning, polices and administrative practices.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Working knowledge of:

energy and sustainability program development;
energy technologies that support customer energy and sustainability initiatives;
principles and practices of program planning, development and administration;
terminology used in the are of assignment;
modern office procedures, methods, and equipment including computers and software packages, which may include desktop publishing, spreadsheet, database and energy modeling software applications.

Ability to:

understand, interpret, and apply administrative and departmental policies and procedures as well as pertinent federal, state, and local laws, codes, and regulations;
understand and implement energy conservation techniques and methods;
establish effective, courteous working relationships with a variety of individuals representing diverse cultures and backgrounds, including management, employees, the public, community partners, and the media;
organize resources, establish priorities, meet deadlines and objectives, and develop and maintain record keeping systems and procedures;
work independently while collaborating closely with key stakeholders.

Skill:

to operate and use modern technology including computers, tablets, smart mobile devices and various software packages including spreadsheets, databases, information systems, modeling, mapping, emissions, and benchmarking tools.
in written and oral communications, including public speaking, and effective community engagement.

Sustainability Officer

Augsburg University

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 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

Sustainability Specialist, Expert

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.

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.

Environmental Sustainability Technical Expert Consultancy

TechnoServe

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 theseinterventions, Support validation of archetypes with AOE leads and other relevant TNS colleaguesDeliverable: Green Growth Intervention archetypes (Ppt), including measurement indicators and projected impact, draft and final version

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 GrowthReview and give input to TechnoServe’s analysis of relevant donors and other funding sources focused primarily on green growthDeliverables:Updated iteration of TechnoServe’s Green Growth primerComments to policies, plans and analyses

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