Environmental and Sustainability Manager

2 months ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Absa Bank Limited Full time

Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together one story at a time.
- With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group. Job Summary

The purpose of the role is to support and implement the CRES’s environmental strategy in South Africa and across our African Regional Operations (ARO).
Responsible for managing the Group’s direct footprint environmental performance and ensuring compliance with regulatory and legislative requirements. The incumbent will also be responsible to contribute towards the development of environmental initiatives and oversee their effective implementation in order to achieve the Group’s EAP targets and ambitions.

It is expected that the incumbent will provide technical input and be accountable for the oversight in the planning, specifications, technology selection, analyses of alternative energy sources, provide input into the design and execution of engineering installations, and optimisation of utilities management for the Group (inclusive of ARO), in order to drive its sustainability programme.

Job Description

Strategy Formulation

Support development of a strategy for infrastructure and asset management that is integrated, multidisciplined and enables the long-term sustainability of the company’s assets and infrastructure.

Implement effectively and efficiently functional and organisational goals applicable to area of responsibility and ensure that appropriate remedial actions are taken.

Implement controls as prescribed in the approved Group Environmental Policies and Standards.

Standards, Frameworks and Policy Development

Assist in the development/adoption of Policies, Standards and guidelines to enable Absa to achieve the Group’s Environmental Key Performance indicators in terms of energy conservation and efficiency, water reduction and savings, waste reduction, paper reduction, carbon reduction and to increase our renewable energy initiatives at different stages of new buildings development and/or refurbishments, asset upgrades and replacement cycles and energy requirements across its real estate

Maintain a comprehensive library of legislation and legal registers regarding environmental requirements and ensure that CRES’s legal obligations are met in line with the relevant legislation in South Africa and ARO.

Establish, implement, and proactively lead the review of the processes and procedures, and initiatives to continually improve CRES’s environmental performance and ensure that it complies to all the relevant Group policies, statutory and regulatory requirements.

Assist in the development/adoption of a robust ESG data management system/tool for Absa to capture and monitor consumption and cost data, and perform analyses of such information

CRES Sustainability Management Solution

Implement and manage CRES's sustainability management solution (SMS) in line with company standards.

Analyse data for trends at least monthly and track performance afainst EAP targets (Recalculate and correct where required.)

Design and Analysis

Develop and drive interventions that inculcate energy efficiency, water reduction / savings, waste reduction, paper reduction, carbon reduction and increase our renewable energy initiatives into ABSA real estate and operations (both for Corporate and Retail)

Conduct audits and compile audit reports for all our CRES environmental KPI’s (Energy reduction, water reduction and savings, waste reduction, paper reduction, carbon reduction and renewable energy initiatives).

Work closely with our energy management partners to develop new energy conservation and infrastructure improvement measures

Provide input into real estate development plan in line with field of expertise.

Compliance

Draft and implement relevant statutory/legislative regulations, SOP's, operational standards, policies and practices to Absa principles.

Coordinate external and/or Group environmental-related audits.

Implement and conduct regular environmental inspections and conformance reviews, including the completion of documentation on risks and compliance and mitigating or corrective actions taken or to be taken.

Draft Environmental submissions for committees as required for review by the Head of risk.

Prepare quarterly dashboard reporting in line with Group, CRES and Functional Balanced Scorecard reporting cycle, including variance commentary

Lead and assist in regular root cause analysis to identify areas for improvement in CRES’s Environmental KPI performance and implement continuous improvement initiatives

Monitor and report on CRES’s environmental key performance indicators (KPIs) to ensure internal objectives and targets are met

Manage and monitor accuracy and completeness of data on the environmental management solution

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