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IMPORTANT: This Advertiser has requested that applicants MUST be National Residents / Valid Work Permit-holders. Other applicants need not apply.
The Director of LEED Rating System Maintenance oversees all activities of the LEED maintenance team. Duties include HR aspects of staff supervision, hiring, and training, team workload management, oversight of review consultants and technical development consultants, maintenance of good customer service, planning and executing team meetings, resolving challenging issues and tough customers, improving internal tools and processes, managing LEED program implementation improvements in conjunction with the Vice President for LEED Implementation, advocating for team needs to senior management, and thinking strategically about future needs. This person will also advise in reshaping team workflows for the next year. As a LEED Director, this professional is responsible for the transition to and establishment of a LEED program maintenance team that preserves LEED program integrity while providing a positive user experience for LEED customers. The Director coordinates the efforts of the maintenance team and technical development staff and serves as a point of contact for the project team. S/he strives to maintain equity, precedent, and technical rigor as it applies to continuously improving the implementation of LEED over time. LEED maintenance team responsibilities include: - PRIMARY:
- Ensure all required LEED certification submittals protect LEED program integrity and strive to minimize customer and reviewer errors by being clear, specific, consistent, thorough, and targeted
- Align submittals across all LEED rating systems as much as possible while preserving essential diversity among them
- Ensure all LEED data entry forms and certification templates reflect all submittal requirements while being clear, functional, easy to use, and reasonably free of errors
- Ensure LEED precertification, where offered, technically sets the stage for full LEED certification of the project
- Continuously improve LEED submittals, data entry forms, and certification templates over time in response to user feedback; update the contents of LEED Online versions 2.x and 3.x as needed
- Develop and refine formal business processes for all of the above to ensure institutional knowledge and procedures are retained over time
- SECONDARY:
- Assist the LEED Technical Development team in crafting LEED credit requirements language that is enforceable and suitable for practical submittals
- Propose improvements to certification procedures to make the process more efficient or user-friendly; advise GBCI staff as needed
- Propose errata, updates, and substantial future modifications / additions to reference guides and rating systems in response to stakeholder feedback; work cooperatively with stakeholders to develop needed improvements
Specific Responsibilities Include: - Communicates job expectations and standards, clearly assigning responsibility for tasks and decisions
- Distributes the workload fairly, delegates appropriately
- Provides specific performance feedback in a timely manner, providing guidance, praise, direction and/or discipline as appropriate
- Supports employee development efforts by providing challenging assignments, setting stretching objectives and/or providing coaching and training
- Takes the time to listen to other’s ideas, suggestions, problems and concerns
- Develops sound plans to assure the achievement of objectives, determining the length and complexity of tasks, processes and projects
- Is prepared for, anticipates, and effectively deals with issues and obstacles
- Monitors project or process timetables, milestones and deliverables ensuring timely and accurate completion
- Effectively manages multiple competing priorities
Related Organizational Goals and Objectives: - Encourage and accelerate global adoption of green building practices through LEED standards, tools and performance criteria. Offer a comprehensive portfolio of programs including technical tools and services supporting LEED products to meet the diverse needs of the building industry. Deliver customer service that is professional, timely and targeted to the customer’s needs.
- Provide Council with technical experience and knowledge as a design professional.
- Streamline LEED certification processes and procedures among consultants and committees.
- Create tools and methods to facilitate communication among both review and project teams, saving time and using resources most effectively.
Qualifications/Skills: - Bachelor or Master of Architecture or Engineering or Environmental Science with 5-10 years of professional practice experience
- 1-3 years experience managing technical work groups
- Ability to manage multiple projects and teams
- Team-building and supervisory skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Energetic, detail-oriented, comfortable handling multiple tasks, able to prioritize
- Detail-oriented, able to handle multiple tasks and good organizational, written, communication and computer skills (MS Office: Word, Access, Excel, Powerpoint)
- LEED Accredited Professional
- Passion for and commitment to USGBC’s mission
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