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Climate Risk Senior (Hybrid - 3 Days in Office - VA)

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Freddie Mac

Climate Risk Senior (Hybrid - 3 Days in Office - VA)

McLean, VA

At Freddie Mac, you will do important work to build a better housing finance system and you'll be part of a team helping to make homeownership and rental housing more accessible and affordable across the nation.

Position Overview:

Are you passionate about climate change? How about the US housing market? We are seeking a business management professional to make an impact on the domestic housing market by considering climate policy changes. This role will help further our efforts to measure, mitigate, and manage climate related risks. Apply now and learn why there's #MoreAtFreddieMac!

Our Impact:

We advance the climate discipline within the single-family portfolio division and across the enterprise. This team is focused on promoting a framework to identify, measure, monitor, control, and report climate-related risks. Our goal is to integrate the framework with existing risk management structures to mitigate its impacts on vulnerable communities. Our core functions include:

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  • Facilitating climate change-related research projects to analyze the impact of physical and transition risks on the portfolio and improve the resilience of the housing market.
  • Evaluating climate change-related data and gaps within the enterprise.
  • Driving a governance framework for climate risks.

Your Impact:

  • Manage multiple concurrent projects and deliverables while supporting business management functions across the team.
  • Develop light-touch, high-value processes that adapt and integrate activities across partner groups towards efficient execution of the strategy.
  • Support the development of a climate risk management strategy that aligns with our governance and regulatory requirements.
  • Help drive our corporate strategy by incorporating appropriate industry best practices.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree in a preferred field such as Liberal Arts or Behavioral Sciences with 5+ years professional work experience
  • Outstanding relationship management and collaboration skills with the ability to navigate among partner groups
  • Proficient core business management and project management skills (conceptualizing work breakdown, driving task execution and delivering within timelines)
  • Knowledge of climate risk-related or mortgage finance concepts such as physical and transition risk, catastrophe and/or climate modeling is strongly preferred
  • Create reports and executive-level presentations with visually oriented information that is fit-for-purpose, intuitive, and easy to consume

Keys to Success in this Role:

  • Self-starter that takes initiative and is able to thrive in new and ambiguous environments
  • Develop and maintain strong strategic relationships and influence partners without direct authority
  • Operate effectively in a fast-paced environment and be able to multi-task effectively
  • Remain intellectually curious; quickly digest new industry information, data and/or regulations, derive insights, and determine impacts to our business
  • Assist in establishing a comprehensive climate risk management framework against an ambitious timeline

Current Freddie Mac employees please apply through the internal career site.

Today, Freddie Mac makes home possible for one in four home borrowers and is one of the largest sources of financing for multifamily housing. Join our smart, creative and dedicated team and you'll do important work for the housing finance system and make a difference in the lives of others.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will ensure that individuals with differing abilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

CA Applicants: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Notice to External Search Firms: Freddie Mac partners with BountyJobs for contingency search business through outside firms. Resumes received outside the BountyJobs system will be considered unsolicited and Freddie Mac will not be obligated to pay a placement fee. If interested in learning more, please visit www.BountyJobs.com and register with our referral code: MAC.

Time-type:Full time

FLSA Status:Exempt

Freddie Mac offers a comprehensive total rewards package to include competitive compensation and market-leading benefit programs. Information on these benefit programs is available on our Careers site.

This position has an annualized market-based salary range of $97,000 - $145,000 and is eligible to participate in the annual incentive program. The final salary offered will generally fall within this range and is dependent on various factors including but not limited to the responsibilities of the position, experience, skill set, internal pay equity and other relevant qualifications of the applicant.

Client-provided location(s): McLean, VA, USA
Job ID: Freddie_Mac-JR13891
Employment Type: Full Time