Senior Engagement Officer, UK Cities States and Regions

Job purpose and background

Are you passionate about city climate action? CDP has an exciting opportunity for an individual with proven self-starter skills to support the Cities, States and Regions team with the engagement of UK cities around environmental reporting and climate action. You will be involved in a variety of tasks to support the annual climate change reporting process for all UK cities. These tasks will range from engaging local authorities on the importance of measuring and managing environmental performance to providing high-quality support for local authorities through the development of materials, webinar and working groups and more.

About the Cities, States and Regions Team

We currently work with over 900 city and regional governments worldwide who use CDP’s system every year to report their progress on fighting climate change. Major universities, the UNFCCC, the World Bank, the IPCC, and many other organizations rely on CDP’s city data for research and decision-making.

Key responsibilities include:

• Support the annual climate change reporting process for all participating UK cities and support cities across Europe, Middle East and Africa;
• Encourage city governments to report their environmental information through CDP by: Making phone calls, sending personalized emails, organizing in person meetings, webinars and other outreach modes;
• Manage contacts and ensure they remain up to date for the smooth running of the disclosure cycle;
• Develop engagement materials to help showcase the value of disclosure;
• Prepare and send bulk mailouts to cities across the region.
• Support the UK cities manager in their engagement with UK cities by:
• Conducting analysis with the reported data;
• Coordinate CDP’s relationships with various organizations across the UK
• Represent CDP and the cities program at conferences, meetings, and webinars;
• Help improve the quality of data reported by providing technical support to cities around the data collection process; and
• Support the coordination and implementation of UK workshops and webinars.

Required skills and experience:

• 1-3 years’ relevant experience working on cities and/or climate related topics;
• An understanding of the issues of climate change mitigation and adaptation in cities, states and regions;
• Ability to be adaptable to a fast paced and changing work environment; and hit the ground running across all key responsibilities
• Excellent communication and presentation skills; ability to explain complex or challenging topics clearly and succinctly
• Experience translating complex information into easily understood written or visual materials
• Self-motivation and an ability to take initiative
• Very good MS Office and especially good Excel skills
• Ability to quickly grasp and master new IT systems
• A positive and enthusiastic team player with the ability to work under pressure
• Attention to detail and commitment to achieving high standards

Desirable skills and experience:

• Experience working with local and sub-national governments
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Microsoft SharePoint
• Proficiency in at least one additional European language, with preference given to French, Italian, Spanish or Portuguese

This is a 9-month contract based at CDP’s London office reporting to the UK Cities Manager with a possibility to extend subject to resources.

Salary and benefits: £28,500 per annum, 30 days’ holiday excluding 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 others.

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

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 [email protected] with ‘Senior Engagement Officer’ in the subject. The deadline is 09:00 on 14^th October 2020.