Sustainability Mgr-30842

Location: Chicago, Illinois

Business Unit: Rush Medical Center

Hospital: Rush University Medical Center

Department: Rush Sustainability

Work Type: Full Time (Total FTE between 0.9 and 1.0)

Shift: Shift 1

Work Schedule: 8 Hr (8:30:00 AM - 5:00:00 PM)

Rush offers exceptional rewards and benefits learn more at our Rush benefits page (https://www.rush.edu/rush-careers/employee-benefits).

Pay Range: $41.44 - $60.14 per hour

Rush salaries are determined by many factors including, but not limited to, education, job-related experience and skills, as well as internal equity and industry specific market data. The pay range for each role reflects Rush’s anticipated wage or salary reasonably expected to be offered for the position. Offers may vary depending on the circumstances of each case.

Summary

The Office of Environmental Sustainability (OES) Manager position is a multifaceted and collaborative role that advances Rush’s systemwide goals to reduce its environmental footprint, promote long-term sustainability, and improve human health. The OES Manager will engage a broad range of internal and external stakeholders to develop, implement, communicate, and continuously improve sustainability programming. The role will lead systemwide strategy implementation across all Rush entities, ensuring alignment with enterprise-wide strategic goals and commitments to healthcare sustainability. This position helps minimize the environmental and health impacts of all Rush activities, including patient care, research, and education, in support of Rush’s mission to have healthy patients on a healthy planet.

Working alongside the Director of Environmental Sustainability and Sustainability Coordinator, the OES Manager will scale and replicate successful programs across the system and contribute deep expertise across the OES team’s five pillars of impact, with a focus on both environmental adaptation and mitigation. This position requires strong skills in data analysis, stakeholder engagement, and change management.

Other Information

• Bachelor's degree in Sustainability, Environmental Sciences, or a related field.
• Five+ years of environmental/sustainability experience required.
• Extensive data management and analysis experience required.
• Two+ years of experience managing staff and/or volunteers.
• Savvy with Microsoft Office suite, especially Excel and PowerPoint.
• Has the ability to plan and prioritize multiple, concurrent deadlines across many institutions and think strategically to ensure accuracy, timeliness, and budget alignment.
• Broad knowledge and appreciation of the key aspects of sustainable development, with particular emphasis on life sciences and the associated business impacts.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and a desire to provide quality reports and sound advice.
• Science Communication experience, and the ability to make technical scientific concepts/research accessible to all.
• A proven ability to engage with colleagues at all levels across an organization with the enthusiasm to drive change.
• Strong change management skills with an open minded, constructive, and collaborative approach to colleagues.
• Must be reflective and able to come up with solutions that can solve complex problems.
• Experience in healthcare sector strongly preferred.
  
  

Responsibilities

• Manage the collection of all sustainability-related data from a wide variety of internal and external sources—including utilities consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, hospital operations, cost and savings, waste generation and landfill diversion, procurement, employee engagement metrics.
• Create and maintain a centralized data dashboard and management system including key background information (e.g., data sources, points of contact, collection frequency) to ensure consistent documentation and evaluation of system-wide impact.
• Collate, calculate, and analyze OES data at quarterly and annual cadences from Rush and external stakeholders to generate actionable reports with key metrics for data-driven decision making.
• Lead the submission of annual performance data to Practice Greenhealth, Healthcare Anchor Network, Practice Greenhealth Climate Action, Resilience, and Equity Solutions Pledge, Arbor Day Tree Campus Healthcare, and other key external partners.
• Develop strategic goals and implementation plans, grounded in data, to advance environmental sustainability commitments and outperform industry benchmarks.
• Create and institutionalize enterprise-wide policies and frameworks that embed sustainability into long-term operations and procedures.
• Identify opportunities for OES program expansion through data collection and reporting (e.g., potential cost savings, environmental and human health impacts) and stakeholder and employee engagement.
• Facilitate collaboration across departments, such as hospital operations, supply chain, finance, clinical care, and community health, to integrate sustainability and identify common solutions to complex, interdisciplinary challenges.
• Facilitate best practice sharing, innovation, and implementation across the greater Rush system.
• Identify and executes sustainability communication strategies both internally and externally through collaborations with Marketing and Communications and other cross-functional working group team members.
• Manage payroll and budgeting for OES while seeking out philanthropic opportunities.
• Supervise OES interns, volunteers, and working group members to ensure workload prioritization and staff development.
  
  

Rush is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.