Job Purpose and Background in summary 

The Corporate Engagement team facilitates the company journey for thousands of companies globally from their first response to making bold environmental commitments and beyond. The London based Corporate Engagement team works with companies in the UK and other regions including the Middle East and Africa and works closely with our global counterparts. In this role, you will support the delivery of CDP’s global corporate engagement strategy and will also undertake direct engagement with companies from a broad range of sectors across all thematic programs (climate, forests and water security). You will work closely with global teams across the organisation to ensure a smooth experience for companies reporting through the CDP platform.

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:

• Undertake active engagement with companies to encourage and support their disclosure to CDP on climate change, forests and water security;
• Join workstreams identified by the Global Engagement Team as essential to efficient and impactful engagement with thousands of non-member investor requested companies globally;
• Coordination of key engagement materials and training resources for use by global Corporate Engagement team colleagues;
• Maintenance and use of data in the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system; and
• Support the Corporate Engagement team’s work with other departments, especially CDP’s technical team, to ensure that processes are in-line with engagement materials and communications.

Required skills and experience:

• Ability to work independently, with strong attention to detail;
• Keen interest in corporate sustainability and related company challenges;
• Ability to work with global colleagues, and develop strong internal and external stakeholder relationships;
• Familiarity and experience working with Customer Relationship Management systems and Excel;

• Degree educated or equivalent (Environment/Sustainability- related degree desirable);
• Minimum of 1-year experience in a similar role, working in NGOs and/or commercial organisations (Desirable); and
• Experience of working in a global organisation (Desirable);
• Additional language skills (Desirable)

This is a full time role based at CDP’s London office reporting to the Senior Manager, Corporate Engagement.  

Salary and benefits:  £25,967 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.

Interested applicants must be eligible to work legally in the UK. We cannot sponsor this role.

Before you apply 

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How to apply: 

Please complete this short form and 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 5th June.