Environmental Sustainability Manager at Mercy Corps

The Position

The Environmental Sustainability Manager sits within Mercy Corps global support services and is tasked with driving organizational-wide efforts at improving the environmental sustainability of our operations. They will work with senior HQ, regional and in-country leaders to hone strategies, implement plans and develop tools for related initiatives.The position is responsible for designing and leading change management processes and related activities towards our sustainability key performance indicators (KPIs) with HQ, regional and in-country teams. In collaboration with Operations, Finance and Program departments across the agency, the Environmental Sustainability Manager will consolidate progress to date on tracking and reporting our global carbon footprint, develop and work with global and country teams to implement strategies for reducing this footprint over time, support the roll-out of country-leveo Green Teams, and develop a more comprehensive vision for environmental sustainability.  

Essential Responsibilities

STRATEGY AND PLANNING

• Scope and gather current best practices already existing around sustainability and change management processes to smooth the up taking among Mercy Corps colleagues in different departments.
• Work with the senior leadership across global support teams to further develop strategies and work plans related to sustainability goals.
• Engage in-country leaders for input into strategies and build support for executing key components of the work plans.
• Refine measurement frameworks and key performance indicators as needed and produce regular reports on progress.

KEY INITIATIVES

• Work with the CCO and relevant teams to design and implement specific projects and initiatives aimed at reducing our carbon footprint, including office energy transition initiatives and global travel emissions reductions initiatives.
• Track progress of key initiatives and report as part of the Climate-Smart Commitment reporting cycle

DATA MANAGEMENT, REPORTING AND COMMUNICATIONS

• Support and strengthen the regular carbon accounting, data quality assurance, and reporting processes and protocols.
• Work with communications teams for external communication plans as needed.

COMMUNITY AND CAPACITY BUILDING

• Nurture, track and support ‘Green Teams’ across the globe seeking to reduce the environmental footprint of our offices.
• Build connections across office teams to share lessons and build a community of practice focused on our sustainability and safeguarding efforts.
• Develop or identify training products or processes to help build skills across the Mercy Corps global teams.
• Help onboard operations managers across the globe to the carbon accounting processes.

Supervisory Responsibility

• Supervises one or more program officer level positions that engage in specific elements of the sustainability work.

Accountability

• Reports Directly To: Chief Climate Officer
• Works Directly With: Global TSU, Finance, Travel, Compliance and Program Quality Teams, plus full network of country teams.

Accountability to Participants and Stakeholders

• Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to our program participants, community partners, other stakeholders, and to international standards guiding international relief and development work. We are committed to actively engaging communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.

Minimum Qualifications & Transferable Skills 

• Bachelor’s degree required. M.A, M.S., M.Sc., or equivalent in a field related to environmental science, climate change, environmental engineering, sustainability or similar.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience working on corporate sustainability, energy transition, climate risk management, or similar issues - of which at least 3 years on change management in multicultural contexts and across departments.
• Experience in project or program management and demonstrated ability to oversee multi-stakeholder engagement processes.
• Familiarity with Greenhouse Gas (GHG) accounting (example, Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3 GHG accounting) is required.
• Experience with the use of Microsoft Power BI or similar reporting and dashboard development tools is a plus.
• Experience working in international organizations is preferred.
• Fluency in English is essential, other language skills preferred especially French or Arabic.