Sustainability Manager, Assurance

The Sustainability Manager, Assurance is a client-facing people leader responsible for managing the operations, quality, and growth of Environ’s greenhouse gas (GHG) and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) assurance services. The Manager translates department strategy into executable workplans, leads assurance engagements from scoping through issuance, and establishes the methods, controls, competencies, and performance measures needed for a credible and scalable assurance program. The role guides the professional achievement of individual contributors and is accountable for delivery quality, schedule, budget, risk management, client experience, and continuous improvement.

The Manager combines technical assurance expertise with practical project and people leadership. The individual collaborates with clients, partners, project directors, and multidisciplinary teams, explains complex requirements clearly, and ensures conclusions are supported by sufficient, appropriate evidence and documented assumptions and limitations.

About Environ

Our mission is to provide the best energy, engineering, and sustainability solutions to meet the challenges of our rapidly changing world.

Since 1995, Environ Energy has been a trusted advisor, delivering integrated energy management solutions that help clients lower costs, mitigate risk, improve efficiency, strengthen resilience, and meet evolving regulatory and environmental requirements. With billions in portfolio spend under management, Environ serves commercial and industrial organizations across healthcare, manufacturing, education, real estate, finance, government, and other industries with practical solutions that drive measurable results. Learn more at environenergy.com.

Core Responsibilities:

Assurance Program Leadership and Operations

• Manage day-to-day operations of the GHG/ESG assurance function and execute department strategies to achieve agreed key performance metrics.
• Build, maintain, and continuously improve an assurance methodology, including engagement acceptance, independence and conflict checks, scoping, risk assessment, materiality, evidence planning, sampling, review, issue resolution, documentation, and statement issuance.
• Establish repeatable templates, workpapers, review protocols, records-retention practices, and quality-control checkpoints that support consistent, audit-ready delivery.
• Plan the engagement portfolio, assign resources based on competence and independence, monitor capacity, and surface delivery, quality, budget, or client risks early.
• Define and monitor program measures such as on-time delivery, budget performance, review findings, rework, client feedback, staff utilization, and corrective-action closure.
• Maintain awareness of relevant assurance, GHG accounting, sustainability reporting, and regulatory developments; translate changes into practical updates to methods, training, and client guidance.

Engagement Delivery and Technical Oversight

• Lead and review GHG and ESG assurance engagements from discovery and proposal development through planning, fieldwork, reporting, and closeout.
• Scope work, estimate effort, develop workplans and budgets, identify required expertise, and document the criteria, organizational and operational boundaries, intended users, level and type of assurance, materiality, and deliverables.
• Evaluate GHG emissions sources, categories, calculation methods, emission factors, estimates, data controls, supporting evidence, consolidation approaches, and reporting boundaries across Scope 1, Scope 2, and relevant Scope 3 categories.
• Assess ESG metrics, management assertions, reporting processes, data lineage, internal controls, and alignment with applicable reporting criteria and client commitments.
• Apply professional judgment and professional skepticism; identify risks of material misstatement, design responsive procedures, evaluate evidence, and resolve exceptions or limitations.
• Perform or direct interviews, walkthroughs, analytical procedures, recalculations, sampling, source-document review, control testing, and site or system-level validation, as appropriate to the engagement.
• Review workpapers and client-ready deliverables for accuracy, completeness, traceability, consistency, and clear communication of findings, conclusions, recommendations, and limitations.
• Prepare, review, and when authorized, approve or sign assurance statements in accordance with applicable standards, licensing requirements, and internal authority protocols.
• Maintain clear separation between advisory support and independent assurance activities, escalating independence, ethics, quality, or scope concerns promptly.

People Leadership and Capability Building

• Lead a team of individual contributors by setting clear expectations, assigning work, providing timely feedback, and guiding professional development and achievement.
• Coach team members in assurance concepts, GHG/ESG technical topics, project management, client communication, documentation, and quality review.
• Assess team competence for assigned work, identify capability gaps, and implement training, supervised practice, and qualification pathways.
• Create a collaborative, accountable, and inclusive team environment in which risks and quality concerns are raised early and lessons learned are shared.
• Conduct quality reviews that strengthen judgment and independence while helping team members become more capable and self-sufficient over time.

Client, Commercial, and Cross-Functional Leadership

• Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders while maintaining objectivity, confidentiality, and appropriate assurance boundaries.
• Facilitate discovery, planning, status, issue-resolution, and closeout discussions; communicate technical matters in clear, practical language.
• Contribute to proposals, statements of work, pricing assumptions, presentations, and solution development for assurance and assurance-readiness services.
• Collaborate across sustainability, energy, engineering, procurement, data, and compliance teams to coordinate expertise and deliver integrated client outcomes.
• Document decisions, assumptions, limitations, dependencies, and changes to scope; manage expectations and obtain timely resolution of client information requests.
• Use lessons learned to improve delivery methods, tools, training materials, and service offerings.