Sustainability Coordinator

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With over 75 years of excellence in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, UT Southwestern is committed to excellence, innovation, teamwork, and compassion. At UT Southwestern, we invest in you with opportunities for career growth and development that align with your future goals and help to provide security for you and your family. Our highly competitive benefits package offers healthcare, PTO and paid holidays, on-site childcare, wage, merit increases and so much more that are all available on the day you start work. UT Southwestern is honored to be a Veteran Friendly work environment that is home to approximately 800 veterans. We value your integrity, dedication, and the commitment you’ve made to our country. We’re proud to support your next mission. Ranked by Forbes as one of the Top 10 National Employers, we invite you to be a part of the UT Southwestern team where you’ll discover teamwork, professionalism, and consistent opportunities for growth.

Job Summary

UT Southwestern Medical Center is hiring for Sustainability Coordinator in the Facilities Management department. 

Works under minimum direction to plan, coordinate, and direct operations of the campus-wide sustainability/ energy use awareness program.

Experience and Education

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business sustainability, environmental science or studies.
• Three years’ experience with managing, leading and growing a sustainability, water and energy program with stakeholder engagement in either a medical or university setting.
• Sustainability Excellence Professional (SEP) or related certifications
• Master’s degree related in the areas of energy, sustainability, preferred.

Job Duties

• Develop, implements, administer, document and communicate a comprehensive campus wide sustainability initiatives and awareness program.
•  Works directly with the Sustainability Committee to advance sustainability initiatives at UT Southwestern.
• Assesses the cost effectiveness, feasibility, and engagement by the campus community of all sustainability program initiatives and seeks to achieve habit transformation from students, faculty, and staff.
• Collaborate and interact with a variety of departments to enhance existing initiatives and determine strategies that would be initiated successfully within unique department operations.
• Establishes and maintains effective communication strategies, including website, newsletter, social media and other methods for promoting campus sustainability initiatives internally.
• Provide input to institutional sustainability principles, standards and practices.
• May supervise existing staff and student voluntary sustainability program (Green Champions) with emphasis on best practices.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Work requires superb administrative and organizational skills.
• Work requires ability to work with divergent views on sustainability.
• Work requires endless persistence associated with advancing a sustainability / energy use awareness program.
• Work requires ability to maintain a sustainability / energy use multimedia presence (webpage, newsletter, blog, Facebook, etc.).
• Work requires excellent people skills, working with a diverse population, and excellent oral presentation skills.

Working Conditions

• Work is performed primarily in general office area. Working conditions may involve moderate exposure to disagreeable elements, such as dust, dirt, heat, fumes, etc.

To learn more about the benefits UT Southwestern offers, visit https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/employees/hr-resources/

This position is security-sensitive and subject to Texas Education Code §51.215, which authorizes UT Southwestern to obtain criminal history record information. UT Southwestern Medical Center is committed to an educational and working environment that provides equal opportunity to all members of the University community. As an equal opportunity employer, UT Southwestern prohibits unlawful discrimination, including discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or veteran status.

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