Senior Project Officer - City Business Alliances

Job purpose and background

Do you care about environmental issues? Would you like to be at the heart of driving changes through environmental disclosure?

We are seeking a highly motivated individual to join CDP’s Cities, States and Regions team as Senior Project Officer to support our team on key initiatives, namely the City-Business Climate Alliance. The City-Business Climate Alliance accelerates climate action and breaks down barriers to joint city and business climate action across key sectors, by supporting cities and businesses to forge non-commercial partnerships.

Key responsibilities include:

• Supporting the implementation of the City Business Climate Alliance (CBCA) initiative in collaboration with key partners
• Providing support to cities in the City Business Climate Alliance cohort in establishing or further developing city-business partnership platforms to achieve their climate goals
• Supporting newly established city-business partnerships to define targets and decarbonisation plans for key sectors such as buildings, energy, transport and waste, with a focus on the built environment
• Coordinating workshops and events facilitating engagement between cities and businesses
• Delivering data insight products to cities to support them in developing work with businesses, including monitoring and evaluation of their progress
• Contributing to the development of tools and resources for cities and businesses to achieve effective climate action through collaboration, including sector-specific decarbonisation
• Supporting the CBCA project team and Senior Partnerships Manager with additional areas of project delivery as required.

You will have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria:

• Knowledge of climate change mitigation and adaptation with experience working with or for city or local governments
• Ability to set priorities and deliver grant/project outputs
• Ability to collect, analyse and draw insights from data including experience of monitoring and evaluation
• Ability to work with global colleagues, and develop strong internal and external stakeholder relationships across multiple teams and time zones
• A team player with the ability to work under pressure
• High proficiency in English language
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel, Word, Power Point)

Desirable criteria

• Experience of driving decarbonisation in high impact sectors such as buildings, energy, transport and waste
• Degree educated or equivalent (Environment/Sustainability- related degree desirable)
• A minimum of 3 years of working experience, ideally in a similar area
• An interest in working for a global environmental NGO.

This is a full-time role based at CDP’s London, UK office reporting to the Senior Manager Partnerships and Fundraising. This is a fixed term position until December 2022.

Salary and benefits: £26,821 - £33,526 per annum, 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, generous non-contributory pension provision, annual discretionary bonus (depending on company performance), 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 are unable to sponsor this role

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How to apply:

Please email your CV and a covering letter setting out how you meet the required skills and experience or key responsibilities, which should be no more than two pages, to [email protected] with ‘Senior Project Officer’ followed by your first name and surname in the subject. The deadline is 6 June.