Manager, Sustainability Strategy bei Rockefeller Foundation

Position Overview

The Sustainable Operations team ensures the Foundation’s workplaces are safe, efficient, and aligned with its sustainability goals. Through strategic oversight of facilities, workplace administration, logistics, and vendor management, the team integrates environmentally conscious practices into daily operations. It leads efforts in net-zero and sustainability strategy, implementation, and performance tracking, while fostering innovation and cross-functional collaboration. By managing infrastructure, space planning, and internal services across locations, the team supports a high-quality, inclusive, and future-ready work environment.

Pay Range: $126,500 - $145,000. This represents the present low and high ends of the Foundation’s pay range for this position. Actual pay will vary based on various factors, including but not limited to experience.

Work Schedule: This role is based in New York, NY, and required to be in the office on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Net-zero strategy: Leads global Net Zero project management, guiding cross-functional teams through planning and implementation. Drives internal change management to align departments with emissions reduction goals, embed sustainability into daily operations, and foster long-term accountability.
• GHG-management: Oversees greenhouse gas (GHG) tracking, analysis, and reporting across operations. Develops systems to monitor emissions, identify reduction opportunities, and ensure compliance with international standards and organizational targets.
• Market solutions: Evaluates and manages procurement of market solutions to greenhouse gas emissions, such as renewable energy, sustainable aviation fuel, or carbon credits to be determined. Partners with vendors and internal teams to ensure sourcing aligns with climate goals and financial priorities.
• Strategic Planning and Analysis: Leads the sustainability strategic planning process, integrating climate objectives into broader organizational strategies. Conducts financial analysis of sustainability initiatives to evaluate cost-effectiveness and long-term impact. Leverages AI tools to enhance data analysis, forecasting, and decision-making across sustainability initiatives. Uses automation and predictive modeling to optimize resource use and identify high-impact opportunities.
• Stakeholder management: Facilitates collaboration across departments to embed sustainability into operations, procurement, and planning. Champions change management practices to build internal capacity, shift mindsets, and support a culture of innovation and climate leadership.
• Other duties and projects as assigned. 

Education, Experience, and Skills

• Wide-ranging professional experience and a full understanding of sustainability management, and net-zero strategies, and accounting.
• Generally expected to have at least 7 years of relevant experience.
• Bachelor's degree.

Qualifications and Competencies

• Balances Stakeholders: Anticipates and balances the needs of multiple stakeholders.
• Cultivates Innovation: Creates new and better ways for the organization to be successful.
• Develops Talent: Develops people to meet both their career goals and the organization’s goals.
• Manages Complexity: Makes sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
• Values Differences: Recognizes the value of different perspectives, commits to being self-aware and respectful, and seeks to learn from new and different voices.

About The Rockefeller Foundation

The Rockefeller Foundation is a pioneering philanthropy built on collaborative partnerships at the frontiers of science, technology, and innovation that enable individuals, families, and communities to flourish. We make big bets to promote the well-being of humanity. Today, we are focused on advancing human opportunity and reversing the climate crisis by transforming systems in food, health, energy, and finance. For more information, sign up for our newsletter at http://rockefellerfoundation.org and follow us on X @RockefellerFdn.

The Rockefeller Foundation offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits package that includes health insurance programs, tuition reimbursement and student loan repayment, a generous 401K, parental leave, and various forms of paid time off, all to help our employees feel energized, cared for, and engaged.

As an organization, we focus on six values to advance our culture and continue our success. We are dedicated to being Transparent, Optimistic, Accountable, Collaborative, Trusted, and Equitable. We expect all employees at the Foundation to contribute by developing their unique perspectives and talent, challenging conventional wisdom through evidence and reason, and amplifying marginalized voices.

The Rockefeller Foundation is committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity and compliance with all federal, state, and local laws concerning employment discrimination, including the Americans with Disabilities Act. To this end, the Foundation ensures equal opportunity to all employees and applicants regardless of race, color, age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, lawful alien status, physical, mental, and medical disability, veteran status, liability for service in the United States Armed Forces, or any other protected status. 

The Rockefeller Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer.