Job Purpose and Background in summary

The Technical Manager will utilise their expertise in the financial sector, understanding of best practices in environmental stewardship, and skills in research and analysis, to help develop CDP’s financial services sector questionnaire and guidance.

The Disclosure Content department develops CDP’s world leading questionnaires and guidance for organisations reporting environmental information to investors and other data users. We ensure the questionnaires push companies beyond business as usual, catalysing change in their environmental performance. We aim to balance completeness, transparency and quality of data disclosed with the practicality and resources required by companies to collect and report on this data within their own operations and throughout their value chain.

About CDP

CDP is a not-for-profit charity that runs the global disclosure system for investors, companies, cities, states and regions to manage their environmental impacts. The world’s economy looks to CDP as the gold standard of environmental reporting with the richest and most comprehensive dataset on corporate and city action. In 2021 we launched our new five-year strategy: Accelerating the Rate of Change - find out more here. Visit  https://cdp.net/en or follow us @CDP to find out more. 

Key responsibilities include:

• Undertaking research to support the development and delivery of CDP’s financial services sector questionnaire and guidance
• Leading the development of new environmental indicators for financial institutions
• Leading and facilitating industry working groups and managing key stakeholder relationships
• Providing technical support to engagement teams during meetings with financial services companies
• Analysing response data to inform questionnaire revisions and development
• Maintaining the financial services sector questionnaire development log and ensuring feedback is appropriated logged and implemented
• Responding to technical queries on the financial services sector questionnaire and guidance

You will have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria:

• An academic qualification in a financial discipline or sustainable development
• At least one year of relevant experience
• Good knowledge of climate change and nature-related issues in the context of financial services businesses
• Excellent qualitative and quantitative research and data analysis skills
• Strong prioritisation, organisational and project management skills
• Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, Word
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English

Desirable criteria:

• Experience in sustainable finance and/or environment, social and governance (ESG) risk management
• A good understanding of banking, asset management or insurance with a passion for sustainable finance
• Good knowledge of the Task force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi), and the Paris Agreement
• Flexible, diligent and collaborative working style with a proven record of working within a team to deliver projects successfully

This is a fixed term contract (12 Months). The Technical Manager reports to the Senior Manager, Financial Services, with flexibility for hybrid working.

Salary and benefits: £37,700 - £42,000 per annum, 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, generous non-contributory pension provision, Employee Assistance Programme, life assurance, training and development, flexible working opportunities and other benefits.

We cannot sponsor VISAs for this role.

Before you apply

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How to apply:

Please upload your CV in the application form along with a covering letter as an additional document setting out how you meet the required skills and experience or key responsibilities, which should be no more than two pages. The deadline is 31st July 2024.