Tracking Code 328-427
Job Description
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is the nation's most effective environmental action organization. We use law, science and the support of 1.3 million members and online activists to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things. Founded in 1970 by a group of law students and attorneys at the forefront of the environmental movement, our people helped write some of America's bedrock environmental laws. Today, our staff of more than 430 lawyers, scientists and policy experts work out of offices in New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Beijing.
The Center for Market Innovation (CMI) is NRDC's private sector-trained, market-facing team that seeks to drive capital to scalable market solutions that address the most important environmental problems. CMI's focus is on areas where market fundamentals inherently create the opportunity for profitable investments. The current work addresses building energy efficiency, clean energy finance, green infrastructure, and sustainable food and agriculture.
Position Summary: CMI is seeking a two year fellow who will work with our building efficiency team, with a focus on multifamily residential building retrofits. In particular, the selected candidate will play an integral part of a priority initiative, the Affordable Multifamily Demonstration Project, with a goal to advance high performance energy efficiency retrofits and comprehensive urban solutions. This Project will demonstrate a scalable model emphasizing the economic case, stakeholder engagement and decision making process for energy efficiency and renewable energy investments and financing, which in addition to financial savings, also provide environmental and social benefits.
Through the Project we are working with a set of private and public partners to:
- facilitate a comprehensive process to suggest potential indoor environmental quality (IEQ) and energy conservation measures (ECMs), providing return on investment (ROI) and payback period analyses;
- develop a baseline energy usage model and cost estimate for hypothetical business as usual code-compliant build-out;
- apply market best practices for quantifying investment return with property owners pursue an integrated building approach to incorporate a high performance retrofit of the building's central systems;
- develop replicable models that present residents and owners with compelling business opportunities in, and a blueprint for executing advanced measures for energy efficiency and renewable energy;
- produce case studies showcasing economic and environmental returns from the high performance measures, and in the case of build-outs undertaken in high performance buildings, quantify and emphasize the added economic benefit that flows through to the resident from the building's more efficient central systems.
The selected candidate will receive a two-year fellowship with CMI commencing in June 2014. This will be a full-time staff position based in NRDC's New York office.
R esponsibilities: The Welch Fellow will:
- Work with both the internal and external team members to develop an Integrated Energy Retrofit Project, and provide detailed analysis of cost effective energy efficiency, indoor environmental quality opportunities, and a financing assessment to report the project recommendations and provide final documentation.
- Coordinate and review modeled baseline energy consumption, the expected reduction in energy consumption from installing efficiency measures.
- Calculate the projected ROI of various packages of ECMs for whole building and resident spaces, and refine and update a tool to determine the investment return of various efficiency measures.
- Develop guidance to be used by the real estate industry as a blueprint for incorporating energy efficiency and indoor environmental quality as an integral part of affordable multifamily capital improvement and comprehensive urban solutions plan.
- Develop case studies from executed affordable multifamily financing transactions to identify market best practices and solutions to market barriers.
- Assist with the execution of other initiatives of the CMI building efficiency team, with an emphasis on landlord/tenant collaboration opportunities, and development of various energy efficiency and clean energy financing mechanisms.
Q u alifications: We are looking for a real estate or financial sector professional with strong quantitative and writing skills and an understanding of energy efficiency and indoor environmental quality practices. In addition the ideal candidate would have:
- At least three years of relevant work experience in real estate management, finance, architecture, engineering, or construction.
- Demonstrated excellence in both verbal and written communication, including ability to transform complex analytics into a simple, visual story to influence decision makers.
- Demonstrated strength in quantitative analysis.
- Knowledge of the real estate industry, particularly the affordable multifamily housing sector, and LEED / high performance retrofit processes with a focus on energy efficiency and indoor environmental quality.
- Strong project management skills, including the ability to prioritize and manage multiple issues.
- Passionate about data and metrics.
- Quantitative reasoning skills, including the ability to work with numbers and to summarize data into graphical and tabular forms.
- Strong presentation skills. The ability to present, explain and discuss results of analyses to effectively drive fact-based decision making within all levels of the organization.
- Demonstrated ability to excel in a fast paced environment, working both independently and as part of a time, to meet tight deadlines while maintaining superior quality.
- Familiarity with energy modeling tools such as DOE's eQuest is a plus.
- Masters Degree in Business Administration with a focus on Real Estate, Masters Degree in Building Science, Master of Science in Real Estate, or equivalent.
NRDC is committed to workplace diversity and inclusion. We are equal opportunity employers and do not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. We offer competitive salaries, excellent benefits, and a pleasant working environment. Salary is based on a nonprofit scale and commensurate with experience.
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