SUS - Senior Sustainability Manager

Overview

KEO is a creative enterprise, where innovation is a way of life. We are uniquely resourced with end-to-end services to take clients from inspiration through conceptualization to realization of planning, design or project delivery in the built and natural environments. For over 60 years, we've led with vision, contributing to many of the world's most ambitious projects, iconic places, remarkable experiences and prosperous communities.

As a highly integrated and agile AEP/PMCM firm, KEO is recognized by ENR as one of the Top 225 International Design Firms and one of the Top 20 International PM/CM Firms. We are also ranked by World Architecture as the 51st largest global architecture firm and the #1 firm in the Middle East Region in their 2024 WA100 Survey.

We invite you to join us. Why?

When you join KEO, you'll discover more than just a job - you'll find a supportive environment that fosters your professional development through internal global mobility and career development and does so within a culture that supports company-wide health and well-being through on-demand counselling services and regular workplace clinics. You will be invited to celebrate community events such as sports days, fun-runs, in-house sports teams and beach clean-ups. In addition to your competitive package and benefits, you will have access to a suite of policies that include hybrid working arrangements, individual athletic sponsorship, study assistance sponsorship, and employee referral rewards.

Responsibilities

Our newest opportunity is for a talented Senior Sustainability Manager to join our team. This person will be responsible for overseeing project governance to ensure consistency and compliance with the approved processes (Integrated Development Process, Design Management).

We envisage success in this role to include:

• Supervise the development and the approval of the policies and procedures related to sustainability and secure approval from related departments.
• Track and report the progress of different projects at different stages (Studies, Design & Construction).
• Develop and maintain a sustainability dashboard.
• Identify, manage, and communicate with all sustainability internal and external stakeholders to ensure their needs and expectations are understood and addressed.
• Aggregate estimated project costs to develop the sustainability department budget and report costs throughout the project lifecycle.
• Manage sustainability project documents, ensuring they are created, shared, organized, stored, and retrieved efficiently.
• Manage changes to the project's scope, schedule, budget, and other key elements, ensuring that all changes are evaluated, approved, and implemented successfully.
• Identify, assess, and control potential risks that could impact the objectives of the sustainability projects.

Qualifications

To be successful in this dynamic opportunity, we envision that your career journey to date will include 8+ years of relevant experience partnered with a Bachelor’s degree. A Master's degree is preferred. You should be a member of an associated professional body and hold certifications such as LEED AP, PSP, PMP, Mostadem, WELL, and advanced Power BI.

KEO's performance is founded upon integrity, results, innovation, safety, and our people. We embrace diversity and recognize its contribution to client success wherever we work.

We are excited to hear how you can partner with our award-winning team and treat all expressions of interest confidentially.