Closing Date: Rolling - Completed applications will be reviewed as they are received

Expected Start Date: 16 January 2025

Location(s): United States or one of three Canadian provinces (British Columbia, New Brunswick, or Ontario) 

Salary Range: $53,326 - $58,000 Annually

Process: Completed screening questions and two interviews 

Reports to the Head of Disclosure, North America

CDP is an equal employment opportunity employer seeking diversity in qualified applicants for employment. We welcome you to inform us confidentially if you may require any special accommodation in order to participate fully in our recruitment process by sending a message to the recruiter connected to the role. They may be contacted directly by responding to any message you receive through our system after applying.

Who we are

At CDP, we are on a mission to solve our planet’s biggest environmental challenges: climate change, water scarcity and deforestation. We believe you can’t manage what you don’t measure – so we run the world’s largest environmental disclosure system. For the past two decades, our team has worked tirelessly to create a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term – we accomplish this by engaging the global actors who wield the greatest influence in driving environmental change: companies, cities, governments, and the capital markets.

CDP’s cascading global impact is powered by our tight-knit team of smart, savvy, curious and committed individuals, who share a common passion for creating a sustainable future. It is our people who make our work possible. And we provide our people with a working environment that empowers each individual to reach their full potential: one that is committed to equity; one that provides equal access for growth and development; and one that supports each individual throughout the full employee life cycle.

We are looking for an Associate to join our North American Corporate Disclosure team to provide critical disclosure support to the Disclosure team, the companies we support, and the broader Department. Your mission: help us further our mission by supporting companies through the disclosure process, making the business case for disclosure and environmental action, and managing relationships with corporations disclosing to CDP.

Who you are

• Must reside and be eligible to work in the locations stipulated above.
• Have a keen interest in corporate environmental action and disclosure.
• Understand the business case for corporate environmental action to manage sustainability issues, specifically related to climate change, water security, and/or commodity-linked deforestation.
• Strong communication and relationship management skills.
• Possess project management and/or project coordination experience.
• Desire to provide customer service and technical guidance to companies navigating the disclosure process.
• Attentive to details, with strong organizational and time management skills.
• Self-starter with an ability to come up to speed quickly and independently.
• Have the ability to meet deadlines under pressure and manage competing priorities.
• You are proficient with MS Office.

Your day-to-day

• Manage local disclosure engagement support inbox and craft accurate, high-quality responses to a variety of disclosure engagement inquiries.
• Manage relationships with companies requested to disclose by investors and customers across several industries, serving as their primary point of contact
• Support content creation and inter-team collaboration.
• Develop and maintain disclosure engagement protocols, procedures, and tools.
• You will help maintain our customer relationship management database.
• You will provide ad hoc support for other projects as necessary.

Please note that we do not conduct phone screens and utilize screening questions in each of our processes. You will receive the questions via email shortly after applying and your responses will be due at 5:00 pm ET on the recruitment closing date. Please send your answers in a PDF or Microsoft Word document in your reply to this message.