CDP is seeking a highly motivated individual to join the Corporate Engagement team in London. This entry-level role represents an excellent opportunity for a graduate looking to start their career in sustainability, or for someone looking to move into corporate sustainability from the NGO perspective.

You will support the delivery of CDP’s global corporate engagement strategy, providing clear and coordinated engagement communications to disclosing companies in all regions and across all thematic programs (climate, forest and water). You will work closely with global teams across the organisation to provide support and background analysis regarding key projects and deliverables. There will also be opportunity for direct engagement with UK FTSE 350 companies.

Key responsibilities include:

• Supporting the Corporate Engagement Manager to develop and prepare CDP’s annual communication plan to corporate stakeholders
• Drafting engaging messaging for corporate stakeholders
• Coordination of key engagement materials and training resources for use by global engagement team colleagues
• Supporting the Corporate Engagement team’s work with other departments, especially CDP’s technical team, to ensure that processes are in-line with the engagement materials and communications
• Engaging directly with FTSE 350 companies to support their disclosure to CDP
• Maintenance and use of data in the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system
• Responsibility for ad hoc projects as required by line-manager such as analysis of key data points within corporate responses to inform campaign outreach

The precise description and nature of your job may be varied from time to time and you may be required to carry out other duties as necessary to meet business needs.

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 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)
• Experience of working in a global organisation (Desirable)
• Additional language skills (Desirable)

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

Benefits: competitive NGO salary, annual discretionary bonus, 24 days’ holiday (increasing to 30 with years of service), generous non-contributory pension provision, life assurance and others.

Interested applicants must be eligible to work legally in the UK.

Before you apply

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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 ‘Corporate Engagement Officer – First name Last name’ in the subject line. The deadline is 9am on Monday, 8 October 2018. Due to volume of applications, if you do not hear from us within two weeks of the deadline you should consider your application unsuccessful.