Senior Sustainability Consultant

Uptime Institute is an unbiased advisory organization focused on improving the performance, efficiency, and reliability of business-critical infrastructure through innovation, collaboration, and independent certifications. For over 30 years, the company has established industry-leading benchmarks for data centre performance, resilience, sustainability, and efficiency, which provide customers assurance that their digital infrastructure can perform across a wide array of operating conditions at a level consistent with their individual business needs. Uptime Institute serves all stakeholders responsible for IT (Information Technology) service availability through industry leading standards, education, peer-to-peer networking, consulting, and award programs delivered to enterprise organizations and third-party operators, manufacturers, and providers. Offerings include the organization's Tier Standard and Certifications, Management & Operations reviews, and awards, SCIRA-FSI financial sector risk assessment, Uptime Institute Sustainability Assessment, and a broad range of additional risk management, as well as performance, availability, and sustainability offerings. Uptime also operates a Global Network of member companies, and our Uptime Education has taught thousands of data centre training courses around the world, graduating over ninety thousand students in over one hundred countries.

Uptime Institute, the Global Digital Infrastructure Authority is headquartered in New York, NY, with main offices in London, So Paulo, Dubai, Riyadh, and Singapore.

About the Role:

We are now looking for a Principal to deliver sustainability projects in the APAC region to be based in Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, or Singapore with the ability to travel domestically and internationally as needed.

The successful candidate, working in conjunction with our existing experts, our Vice President of Sustainability Program Management, and CTO will be responsible for:

• Delivering Uptime Institute's Sustainability Assessment program on-site at client locations;
• Assisting clients in developing their digital infrastructure sustainability and strategy plans by delivering Uptime's Sustainability Strategy Gap Analysis (SSGA) and the Uptime Institute's Sustainability Assessment
• Deliver related Uptime Education courses in the region;
• Support the development and delivering custom sustainability advisory solutions to meet unique client needs as they arise; and
• Support regional sales managers in business development meetings and by presenting at conferences.

EXPERIENCE

This is a key role aimed at improving our clients IT Estate's sustainability programs across facility operations and management, IT operations and infrastructure, and cross cutting areas such as greenhouse gas emissions and water usage. An understanding of infrastructure engineering/application engineering expertise is essential. The candidate should also have a working knowledge of IT equipment and systems; improving the efficiency and productivity of the IT infrastructure and systems will be a critical part of any sustainability strategy. Uptime is looking for individuals with 5+ years of experience with data centre operations, design, or management, with a focus on driving sustainability-related projects and programs.

The successful candidate will have exposure to developing and implementing sustainability programs in global organizations, with robust knowledge of technology, architectures, and related tools. Prior business experience with sustainability programs with a specific focus on ICT is required.

1. The role holder will have detailed working knowledge of current and emerging sustainability policies, trends, and regulations in the APAC region.
2. The role holder will have a deep understanding of greenhouse gas accounting, sustainability disclosure frameworks, circular economy practices, and other common standards, frameworks, and metrics used to collect and report on sustainability programs for data centres.
3. The role holder will possess first-hand knowledge of the Enterprise's typical IT/ infrastructure estates and will have demonstrable experience working with IT management to successfully create and grow sustainability frameworks and capabilities within these organizations.
4. The role holder will have specific experience in managing and or delivering sustainability-related projects with the enterprise or service provider sector in APAC and around the world
5. The role holder will be passionate about helping the global ICT sector to reduce its environmental impact and act as a good corporate citizen.
6. Experience interacting with regional regulatory or governmental agencies current and emerging regulatory requirements in APAC and the rest of the world is a plus.

SKILLS

1. Strong technology and/or ICT experience obtained via a career in industry or another consultancy. This includes a strong understanding of typical data centre electrical and mechanical systems.
2. Fluent in verbal and written English and Mandarin
3. Bachelor's degree in engineering, science, and/or business.
4. Knowledge of the latest data centre infrastructure technology trends, and an appreciation of the opportunities and risks they present.
5. Demonstrated ability to build effective relationships with multiple stakeholders across IT, facilities, sustainability, and compliance functions.
6. Ability to think creatively, generate innovative ideas, question the status quo at our clients operations, and deliver effectively against challenging objectives
7. Utilize analytical skills to identify and challenge perceived or actual conflicts between operational resilience and sustainability initiatives.
8. Self-motivated and takes initiative to ensure our clients needs are met while ensuring high-quality deliverables.
9. The ability to deliver bespoke and innovative approaches to make sure that our strategic legacy programs continue to evolve, maintaining our reputation as the leading expert on data centre resiliency and reliability while adding a sustainability focus to our offerings.
10. First-hand experience working in an operational role, and demonstrating knowledge of relevant legislation and regulations affecting sustainability
11. Excellent oral and written communication skills
12. Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
13. Ability to work iteratively, delivering quickly and frequently to produce high-quality documents and outputs that require little to no rework.