Sustainable Practice Leader

Position Overview: 

The Sustainable Practice Leader directs all aspects of sustainable design in the office, creating and maintaining initiatives that guide TK&A in continuing their success as a sustainable design firm.  The focus for the role is on ensuring an integrated, collaborative approach to sustainable design. This in-house expertise maximizes TK&A's ability to execute an efficient sustainable design process. 

Responsibilities: 

The role is responsible for the following:

LEED Certification Management:

Direct team members doing LEED administration for all TK&A LEED projects:

• Facilitate goal-setting sustainability charrettes to examine high-performance design opportunities and hold LEED credit review meetings regularly to maintain an integrated design process and hold the team to sustainable performance objectives
• Guide the team in using early design models, facilitate materials research and recommendations, life-cycle analysis, specification review, and funding and grant opportunities
• Direct the documentation process by guiding team members in coordinating, reviewing and submitting documentation for the LEED design and construction submittal and all regulatory processes

Continuing Education:

• Provide resources for staff to take LEED AP exam, including leading frequent study group and maintaining all study material, and keeping up to date with the current LEED system
• Facilitate training and programs for existing LEED AP's to maintain their credentials through the GBCI credential maintenance program
• Work with the Resource Manager to host relevant trainings, seminars and lunch and learns about sustainable design
• Help create sustainable design leaders at leadership and design levels  

Operations and Process:

• Work with the Core Values Group to create, maintain and implement sustainable design standards for the office through our integrated design process
• Implement AIA/Architecture 2030 Challenge via design, operations and education plans
• Form strategic partnerships with consultants that can help TK&A push the envelope of sustainable design
• Send out periodic newsletter (All the Green That's Fit to Print) updates with regional or national news about sustainability and plan and host periodic sustainability related events. Example: Earth Day events
• Maintain a database of all sustainable design project information to be used as a centralized resource, including building performance tracking database

Marketing:

• Work closely with the communications department to identify opportunities for design awards, articles, and other publishing opportunities that would highlight our sustainable design achievements or other innovations.
• Create proposal language, interview content and other marketing material to showcase our sustainable design expertise and specific project achievements related to LEED or sustainable design
• Maintain commitments to external resources including: Continuing Education Advisory Group, A+D Sustainable Design Leaders Group, USGBC Mass. Chapter, BSA COTE, ABC Sustainability Challenge

Qualitications: 

• Bachelors of Architecture with LEED AP preferred.
• Min Experience: 3-5 Years