Technical Officer, Climate Change - Scoring

Job purpose and background

Do you have a keen eye for data and passionate about developing a career in environmental sustainability? CDP has an excellent opportunity for you to join the fast-paced and diligent scoring team.

CDP scores companies and cities on their environmental performance. We are looking for a Technical officer to join the CDP Scoring team and contribute to the successful delivery of the CDP scoring process. The successful candidate will be involved in running the annual scoring process. This would involve applying scoring methodologies to various responses predominantly across the climate change theme. For the right candidate this experience could lead to excellent opportunities and supercharge a career in sustainability.

About the Scoring Team

The Scoring team sits within the Disclosure & Assessment department at CDP. The Scoring team assesses the disclosure of thousands of companies in order to generate a score that is a snapshot of a company or cities’ performance in environmental themes: climate change, water security and deforestation.

Key responsibilities include:

• Working with the scoring team to deliver CDP’s annual scoring cycle, including:
• Scoring responses
• Carrying out quality assurance and data quality processes on scoring
• Responding to technical queries on implementation of the scoring methodologies
• Supporting development and quality assurance of scoring automation technology
• Data analysis of scoring trends

Required skills and experience:

• Academic and/or professional experience in climate change, water security and/or deforestation
• High attention to detail and ability to work to tight timelines
• The ability to understand, organize and analyze qualitative and quantitative data;
• Good proficiency with IT tools, MS tools and especially the use of excel for data analysis;
• Flexible, diligent working style with a proven record of working within a team to deliver projects successfully.

This is a full-time contract, initially working from home, but then at CDP’s Central London office (once restrictions are lifted).

Salary: circa £25,000 per annum, until March 2022, plus potential for extension subject to further funding

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

Before you apply

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How to apply:

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 ‘Technical Officer Climate Scoring’. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis with a final deadline of Monday 22^nd March 9am GMT. Please note that, while all applications will be reviewed, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.