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About the Role
This role is within a specialist sustainability function, shaping and delivering environmental performance across a diversified real estate portfolio. It combines technical sustainability expertise with commercial acumen to ensure environmental initiatives are practical, measurable, and aligned with investor outcomes, focusing on execution and embedding robust data and reporting frameworks.
Responsibilities
- Lead the implementation of environmental sustainability initiatives aligned to portfolio ESG strategy and investment objectives.
- Manage ESG data, reporting and assurance processes, ensuring accuracy, auditability and alignment with frameworks such as GRESB, NABERS, Green Star and NGERS.
- Drive asset-level environmental performance improvements across energy, water, waste and carbon reduction initiatives.
- Support delivery of net zero targets, including Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reduction pathways.
- Partner with asset management and operations teams to embed practical, commercially viable ESG solutions across assets.
- Analyse environmental and climate-related risks and opportunities, including resilience and adaptation planning.
- Contribute to investor and other stakeholder reporting, articulating ESG performance and initiatives in a clear, commercially meaningful way.
- Identify and implement innovative, technology-enabled solutions to improve sustainability performance and operational efficiency.
- Engage, influence and build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners to drive outcomes.
Requirements
- Proven experience in an in-house sustainability or environmental role within real estate, property operations, construction, retail or similar asset classes.
- Strong technical capability across sustainability data, reporting and performance measurement, with experience in relevant frameworks and benchmarks.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver environmental sustainability initiatives at an operational level, translating strategy into tangible outcomes.
- Highly analytical with strong attention to detail and the ability to manage complex datasets and reporting requirements.
- Commercial mindset with an understanding of sustainability through an investment and performance lens.
- Experience working with asset, operations or facilities teams to drive environmental improvements.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing capability across multiple levels of an organisation.
- Proven track record of managing competing priorities and delivering to tight timeframes.
Skills
- Sustainability data
- Reporting
- Performance measurement
- GRESB
- NABERS
- Green Star
- NGERS
- Net zero targets
- Scope 1 emissions
- Scope 2 emissions
- Scope 3 emissions
- Stakeholder engagement
- Influencing
- Innovation
- Technology solutions
Location
- Melbourne
- Brisbane
- Sydney
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Mid-level
Education Level
- Tertiary qualifications in environmental science, sustainability or a related discipline
Benefits
- Exposure to a large, diversified real estate portfolio with genuine scale and complexity
- Ability to shape and deliver ESG initiatives that directly impact asset performance and investor outcomes
- Highly collaborative environment working across investment, asset management and operations
- Opportunity to bring innovation, technology and fresh thinking to ESG delivery
About the Company
- QIC Real Estate manages a diversified real estate portfolio.