Low-Carbon Buildings Lead

The Carbon Leadership Forum is seeking a dynamic and innovative leader to fill the role of Low-Carbon Buildings Lead to execute the mission of this growing organization– to eliminate embodied carbon in buildings and infrastructure to create a just and thriving future.

Recognizing that buildings account for around 40% of global energy-related GHG emissions, the Carbon Leadership Forum is dedicated to accelerating the transformation of the building sector to radically reduce the embodied carbon in buildings and infrastructure. We improve data, inform policy and drive cross-sector collaboration to scale demand for low-carbon construction.

CLF’s Values define how we approach our work. We are:

• Collaborative :
  The “Forum” is core to CLF’s roots and shows up in our everyday work. We are team-oriented. We explore, convene, and partner with a growing community of climate leaders to scale action.
• Rigorous :
  We aim to deliver highly impactful work, informed by the best available science. We use transparent data to cut through the green washing and encourage others to bring the same rigor to their work.
• Curious :
  We know that we can never have “all of the information.” We continually seek new knowledge from diverse sources to build our expertise and iterate our approach.
• Agile :
  To avert a climate crisis, we are committed to working quickly and efficiently. We get things done and embrace impactful opportunities to pivot. Our rallying cry continues to be further, faster, together.
• Ambitious :
  We are a small team with an ambitious mission to create a just and thriving future. We are doers who aim to catalyze and sustain a growing movement to make construction a key mitigation solution to climate change.

The Low-Carbon Buildings Lead will drive technical guidance, collaboration, and research to support the CLF’s mission. In particular, this role will focus on implementing projects and activities that advance product and building decarbonization through life cycle assessment data and methods, including support for government and corporate policy development. The Lead will report to the Associate Director of Low Carbon Buildings. This is a remote position based in the United States.

70-75% Develop research and resources to support widespread embodied carbon reductions

• Develop and execute research and resource development to support developers, practitioners, manufacturers, policymakers, NGOs and others to drive decarbonization. Topical examples include:
  • Develop template language for government and corporate policy that supports adoption of robust embodied carbon targets for products and buildings
  • Convene companies with embodied carbon and Scope 3 reduction goals and co-develop standard practices and guidance related to LCA
  • Develop trainings, case studies, factsheets, and other outputs to increase understanding of measurement and reduction practices for different audiences, including public and private policymakers
• Manage moderately complex projects where approaches are mostly pre-defined. Includes planning, scheduling, and execution of activities. Develops basic time and financial budget projections. Monitors budgets and the work of others on the project.
• Continue to develop subject matter expertise on key topics, such as industrial decarbonization pathways for key building materials

20-25% Technical support for key stakeholders

• Provide technical support to developers, key public agency staff, AEC practitioners, NGOs, standards development bodies and others on relevant topics, such as whole building LCA and low-carbon procurement
• Coordinate with other NGOs to drive harmonization on technical topics to enable embodied…