Corporate Engagement Officer, UK & WW

Job Purpose and Background

The Corporate Engagement team facilitates the company journey for thousands of companies globally from their first response to making bold environmental commitments and beyond. The London based Corporate Engagement team works with companies in the UK and other regions including the Middle East, Africa and Russia and works closely with our global counterparts. In this role, you will support the delivery of CDP’s global corporate engagement strategy and will also undertake direct engagement with companies from a broad range of sectors across all thematic programs (climate, forests and water security). You will work closely with global teams across the organisation to ensure a smooth experience for companies reporting through the CDP platform.

About CDP:

CDP is an international non-profit that drives companies and governments to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, safeguard water resources and protect forests. Over 8,400 companies and 920 cities, states and regions disclose their environmental data to CDP. Our platform is one of the richest sources of information globally on how companies and governments are driving environmental change. By working with institutional investors with assets of US$87 trillion, we leverage investor and buyer power to motivate companies to disclose and manage their environmental impacts. Visit https://cdp.net/en or follow us @CDP to find out more. You can also view these two short videos explaining what we do “Benefits of Environmental Disclosure” and “Sector based disclosure”.

Key responsibilities include:

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• Undertake active engagement with companies to encourage and support their disclosure to CDP on climate change, forests and water security
  
• Join workstreams identified by the Global Engagement Team as essential to efficient and impactful engagement with thousands of non-member investor requested companies globally
  
• Coordination of key engagement materials and training resources for use by global Corporate Engagement team colleagues
  
• Maintenance and use of data in the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system
  
• 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
  

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

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:

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• 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 internal and external 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)
  

Salary and benefits: £25,967, 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.

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