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Description
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is a global non-profit environmental organization with more than 1.2 million members and online activists. We have offices in New York, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and Beijing, China. Our staff of over 350 includes lawyers, scientists, economists, and policy experts who work to protect the environment and public health through advocacy and education.
Position Summary:
NRDC is seeking a Real Estate Sector Manager for its newly created Center for Market Innovation (CMI). The CMI combines business and policy innovation to accelerate deployment of clean technologies and practices. This full-time position would ideally be based in New York City, though for the right candidate we would consider other NRDC office locations.
Consistent with the Center's mission of helping to make markets work for the environment, the Real Estate Sector Manager will be an integral part of a team working to rapidly reduce global warming pollution from the built environment by scaling up energy efficiency and clean distributed generation. This will involve working closely with industry partners and policy makers to implement business and policy solutions that allow the real estate sector to play a central role in containing global warming at the lowest possible cost to society.
Priorities for the successful candidate will include:
- Establishing key partnerships across a broad spectrum of real estate interests - including both commercial and residential - to define and implement strategies that rapidly unlock low-cost energy efficiency and clean distributed generation.
- Developing and negotiating comprehensive policy solutions that will enable dramatically increased adoption of building sector energy efficiency.
- Managing close relationships with US Green Building Council, US Conference of Mayors, leading utilities, and other key institutions in the emerging green and energy efficient buildings sector.
- Managing comprehensive research to articulate market, policy and technology barriers to energy efficiency (including location efficiency) and clean distributed generation and the range of possible market-based policy solutions.
- Encouraging more systematic capture of energy efficiency investment opportunities through private sector innovation (e.g., new contractual structures, business models, and financing terms) and policy reforms (e.g., "decoupling" utility profits from electricity sales).
Qualifications:
The ideal candidate will have the personal and professional skills to advance the Center's objectives, including:
- Minimum five years private sector real estate sector experience;
- Demonstrated experience in strategic thinking and implementation of collaborative projects;
- Strong policy, financial and business analysis skills as demonstrated by previous experience;
- Superior written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to engage effectively with a broad range of stakeholders;
- Masters in Business Administration, Finance, Public Policy, or other relevant field;
- Demonstrated interest in Green Buildings, Energy Efficient Buildings, and Clean distributed energy generation (e.g. solar photovoltaic energy);
- Familiarity with public policy, particularly real estate, energy and climate change policy, and utility regulation.
The NRDC Center for Market Innovation offers a unique opportunity to lead change at the intersection between business and policy innovation.
We offer competitive salaries (based on a nonprofit scale and commensurate with experience), excellent benefits, and a dynamic work environment, and we are committed to workplace diversity.
To Apply:
Please apply online: www.nrdc.org/jobs. Applicants should include their cover letter with salary requirements, resume and writing sample by February 22, 2008. Please - NO PHONE CALLS OR FAXES.
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NRDC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
For further information about NRDC, please visit http://www.nrdc.org/ and http://www.marketinnovation.org/