Sustainability Associate - Sports Venues (Remote)

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I. Job Summary
Environmentally motivated, customer service driven individual to manage comprehensive sustainability advisory projects for professional sports venues. This role will help conduct assessments, generate reports indicating overall sustainability baseline, create operations and management plans, and guide customer implementation and strategic planning. Customers include professional and collegiate sports venues. Projects involve organizational evaluations, program implementation, stakeholder engagement and training, emissions accounting and reduction strategies, supply chain analyses, material management programs, energy and water efficient resource utilization, and social sustainability programs, among other topics. Maintains pre-established standards for safety and environmental issues.

II. Essential Duties and Responsibilities
 

• Consult with customers to identify goals and solutions and develop implementation strategies. Engage with customers on their strategic direction for sustainability, including understanding their ambitions and context and advising on targets and potential improvement levers. Translate for customers the sustainability impacts of WM services and solutions into language and frameworks that matter to senior company leaders and investors.
• Perform full organization sustainability assessments. Analyze assessment results and consult with customer to identify, design, and guide implementation of environmental sustainability initiatives and cost saving opportunities and proposals. Prepare final reports, including environmental, social, and economic analysis, and present conclusions to the customer in a timely manner.
• Assess procurement and waste management activities and draft comprehensive materials management plans focused on waste reduction and diversion.
• Facilitate materiality assessments for sports venue customers and use results to guide strategic planning.
• Integrate environmental justice priorities into program development.
• Research and advise on the selection and implementation of greenhouse gas emissions reduction strategies.
• Design project schedules, maintain multiple projects at the same time, meet deadlines and delivery quality deliverables. Analyze data sets, baseline data, and assessment findings to identify improvement opportunities. Prepare final reports and presentations and deliver conclusions to the customer in a manner that fits their needs and in a timely fashion.
• Ensure compliance with customer and government regulations when performing assessments, implementing programs, and managing other on-site functions.
• Promote culture of safety by ensuring site personnel are properly trained to perform assigned duties and comply with safety, environmental, federal, state, and local regulations.
• Propose customer solutions that are compliant with appropriate …