Corporate Engagement Analyst

Job purpose and background

Do you care about our planet’s climate balance and promoting sustainable development? Do you have a passion for the environment and sustainability in the private sector, and you want to make a difference? Are you passionate about how companies can contribute to a climate resilient, environmentally sustainable future? CDP Latin America is looking for an analyst to join our Corporations and Supply Chains Latin America team to provide a critical contribution to CDP’s mission on promoting a low carbon economy. This is an excellent opportunity to make an impact globally on how companies and suppliers respond to the key environmental challenges of climate change, water security and deforestation. Your work will form part of CDP LA’s team responsible for corporate engagement in Latin America.

About the CDP Latin America Team:

Because of Latin America's diversity, creativity and relevance, our regional office is an innovation hub for creating new business models. Regionally, we mobilize investors, companies and governments to build and accelerate collaborative action for development that works for current and future generations. We offer a variety of solutions for environmental information to be the mainstay of political and business decision making. CDP Latin America is responsible for engaging with more than a thousand companies in the region on transparency and action against climate change, as well as having around 20% of CDP all membership based packages and 10% of CDP’s Signatory Investors. Its magnitude applies to Cities States and Regions program as well, as almost 30% of the total CDP-responding municipalities are in Latin America.

Key responsibilities include:

• Promoting corporate disclosure of companies in Latin America within climate change, water security and forests questionnaires;
• Providing support for members regarding: the CDP questionnaires and scoring process, using CDP data for benchmarking and identifying best practices;
• Supporting companies to clarify technical questions related to environmental topics and promoting business ambition (e.g. SBTi, RE100);
• Providing capacity building to companies and their suppliers on environmental topics;
• Supporting CSC team with analysis, reports and presentations of engagement and sales materials;
• Promoting discussions and gathering feedback from companies, using these results to improve deliverables and propose innovative products;
• Assisting regional projects and studies, as they arise;
• Attending regional events and discussions regarding climate and environmental issues.

Additional responsibilities

• Contribute to the development and delivery of webinars;
• Organize and attend multi-stakeholder dialogue events, workshops and conferences;
• Generate analytical reports from CDP LA’s database of corporate environmental data for members and partner organizations.

Required skills and experience

• A university degree in Forest Engineering, Biology, Environmental Management, Administration, Investor Relations or a related subject;
• At least two years of relevant experience on sustainability with the private sector;
• Good knowledge of corporate governance and environmental practices, including supply chain management practices;
• Fluency in English and intermediate Spanish;
• Excellent presentation and communication skills;
• Good report writing and communication skills in English and Spanish;
• Good understanding of global and regional markets and the sector agendas;
• The ability to explore environmental issues and climate change aspects with different types and levels of stakeholders, from instance, with different departments within the same organization (sustainability, procurement, risks, and finance among others);
• Good knowledge of climate change, including GHG inventory, and other environmental initiatives related to the topic as TCFD, SBTi, RE100, etc.
• The ability to meet deadlines under pressure.

Desired skills & experience:

• Post-Grad/MBA or any other specialization in Sustainability/ Environmental Science or other related areas;
• The ability to spot trends and opportunities as well as focus on detail;
• Good knowledge of the Latin American context on corporate sustainability;
• Analytical skills, including good knowledge of Microsoft Excel;
• Experience of working with global and international teams.

This is a full-time role based at CDP Latin America’s partner in São Paulo/Brazil and will be reporting to CDP Latin America’s Corporate Engagement Manager, also based in São Paulo/Brazil.

Salary & Benefits: Competitive NGO salary, food and transport assistance, health care, private pension fund, 30 days holiday, Spanish classes in company, and home office opportunity (according with CDP Latin America’s policies).

Before you apply:

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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 the e-mail [email protected] with “Corporate Engagement Analyst” in the subject. The deadline is November 1 2021.