Director of Environmental Impact

Barkley is hiring a Director of Environmental Impact in Kansas City, MO. The role involves leading sustainability programs, developing impact measurement strategies, and collaborating with teams to promote environmental initiatives. Candidates should have at least 8 years of experience in Environmental Sustainability and Strategic Communications, along with expertise in measuring greenhouse gas footprints and ESG frameworks. The position emphasizes diversity and inclusion within the company.
BarkleyOKRP is seeking a Director of Environmental Impact to support the growth of our Impact (Purpose and Sustainability). As part of the Impact department, you will also steward the agency's status as a Certified B Corporation. In this role, you will lead the strategic development of ideas, impact-based measurement and communications of social and environmental programs.

Responsibilities:
• Lead Sustainability program development for clients from vision, target setting, to metrics.
• Work with the consumer research team to develop quantitative and qualitative research briefs that unearth insights to advance deeper adoption of sustainability.
• Work with account management teams to craft briefs and collaborate with creative teams to preserve the integrity of impact-based ideas - avoiding misleading claims or greenwashing.
• Develop strategies and drive programs that advance the reduction of a brand's environmental footprint.
• Present research, strategies and purpose or sustainability-based concepts to clients, new business partners and internal stakeholders.
• Engage cross-functional teams to champion sustainability initiatives across internal teams, clients, or external partners
• Monitor and interpret key sustainability and purpose trends for clients.

Qualifications:
• At least 8 years of experience or education in an Environmental Sustainability and Strategic Communications rile either in-house or consultancy.
• Experience in applying social and environmental principles into brand narratives and marketing campaigns.
• Expertise in measuring and analyzing greenhouse gas footprints against international standards (e.g GHG Protocol)
• Strong command of ESG disclosure frameworks (e.g. CSRD, CDP ) metrics and lifecycle assessments to measure and communicate impact

Experience leading sustainability workshops or panels where collaborating across creative, media, and strategy departments to implement green practices was required
• Ability to translate complex environmental data or goals into compelling, consumer-friendly insights and storytelling that resonate across key audiences.
• Ability to read, analyze and interpret information from a variety of sources, such as trade journals, research reports, white papers and cross-tabulated survey data.
• Ability to draft reports, presentations, white papers and general business correspondence.
• Ability to effectively support moderating and presentation of ideas and results to customers, clients and employees.
• Excellent reasoning ability: define problems, collect information, establish facts and draw valid conclusions based upon information furnished in written, oral or diagram form.
• Project management experience, attention to detail, ability to manage work across with different priorities and timescales.

BarkleyOKRP's Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion
• We believe being radically diverse and inclusive is the key to becoming one of the world's great creative idea companies. By embracing everything that makes our partners who they are and what makes them unique to the world around them, we create the conditions and capacity to help creative, original thinking thrive.
• BarkleyOKRP is committed to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging as part of our corporate strategic goals, supported by a formal DEI+B program, Employee Resource Groups, Director of Diversity leadership and agency commitment to The Brand Lab, Creative Accelerator, Fellowship, MAIP, and BLAC.