Product Associate: BE+ CONNECTS

Boston Metro Area | Full-time Role | Salary $55 – 65k commensurate with experience.

About Built Environment Plus
Built Environment Plus (BE+) is a member-based community driving sustainable and regenerative design, construction, and operations of the built environment. BE+ provides green building education, networking, advocacy and leadership opportunities for the sustainable building practitioner community and beyond. Our events and programming are supported and enhanced by the volunteer efforts of our community members – the leaders and aspiring leaders in the green building industry.

The organization, and this role with it, evolves alongside the construction industry to find new ways to drive the sustainability of the built environment. The stakes are high and there’s a lot of work to do. The pace is fast. The work can be intense. At the same time the role and the work we do is extremely rewarding. Be ready to jump in and join our small team making a big impact

Job Summary
BE+ has funding to continue to build onto and grow our online directory of high performance building professionals called BE+ CONNECTS. It is an interactive and engaging discovery tool that curates evolving companies, and their linked professionals, to promote expertise to clients designing and constructing high-performance buildings. It all starts with the foundational perspective that a given company’s expertise is in its people and is proven through its completed and in-progress projects.

This associate position will play an important role in improving the site while also expanding its reach and increasing the data held within. It is a full-time exempt position that supports BE+ in achieving its mission by leading our efforts in decarbonizing the building stock in Massachusetts.

This position reports to the Innovation Director while working collaboratively across the BE+ leadership team. The role will start full-time remotely. BE+ anticipates securing office space in downtown Boston in the near future and at that point employees will be expected to be in the office 2-3 days a week.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
The BE+ CONNECTS Product Associate will have these primary areas of responsibility:

Program Management and Reporting

- Coordinate bi-weekly check-ins, including setting agendas and maintaining meeting notes.
- Coordinate and conduct surveys and interviews with priority stakeholders.
- Track the program metrics and provide quarterly and annual written reports.
- Complete admin tasks related to the site, including approving professionals and managing direct user correspondence.
- Help ensure ongoing site maintenance, improvement activities, and respond to troubleshooting needs.
- Coordinate yearly Net Zero Report effort and support the publication tasks.

Program Improvement

- Recruit companies and professionals to join the site.
- Through research, identify projects to add and additional project information to input.
- Work with peer organizations to exchange resources and best practices and to expand impact.
- Help to develop a long term funding strategy.
- Connect with industry leaders, and maintain connections with key stakeholders.
- Host public tutorial and info sessions to help welcome new and prospective professional users.
- Ensure that those with the greatest need benefit from our initiatives.
- Assist with the addition of existing buildings and related projects to the site.
- Work with the communications team to devise marketing strategies and partnerships in order to reach non-professional site users.

General

- Staff public events as appropriate.
- Help with marketing activities, such as advertising at conferences, and working with the communications team on continual promotion.
- Participate in BE+ activities, trainings, and events to help keep BE+ CONNECTS aligned with the needs and desires of the AEC industry.

In order to fulfill the stated responsibilities of the role, the ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:

Required:

- Bachelor’s degree in related field. Passionate commitment to the principles of sustainability, regeneration, green building.
- Detail-oriented and self-starter. We are a small team, and the individual will need to manage their own workload, as well as work well with the team.
- Strong work ethic, highly self-motivated.
- Flexibility in the job role, understanding the need to dynamically respond to evolving BE+ needs that are often driven by external events and opportunities;
- Project and program management skills; and a high standard for file management;