Senior Technical Officer, Environmental Knowledge (Climate Change)

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Senior Technical Officer, Environmental Knowledge (Climate Change)

Location: London

Salary: £32,157 - £40,197 per year

Contract: FTC Maternity cover 14 months contract

About CDP

CDP is a global non profit that runs the world's only independent environmental disclosure system. As the founder of environmental reporting, we believe in transparency and the power of data to drive change.

Partnering with leaders in enterprise, capital, policy and science, we surface the information needed to enable Earth positive decisions. We helped more than 24,800 companies and almost 1,000 cities, states and regions disclose their environmental impacts in 2024. Financial institutions with more than a quarter of the world's institutional assets use CDP data to help inform investment and lending decisions.

Our team is truly global, united by our shared desire to build a world where people, planet and profit are balanced.

The Team

Disclosure Content is responsible for the strategic development, maintenance, and delivery of CDP's disclosure framework (question bank, reporting guidance, and scoring). The Environmental Knowledge team provides environmental insights, responds to internal technical queries, and oversees the question bank publication. We work closely with other teams and functions across CDP to implement best practices and pioneer new areas of environmental disclosure.

About this role

This role will provide technical, scientific, and analytical expertise to develop and ensure the high quality of CDP's disclosure framework, driving corporate environmental disclosure and action. You will focus on climate change content across the question bank, reporting guidance, and scoring methodologies.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver at least one team process or output (e.g., translations)
• Maintain and improve at least one content area of the question bank (e.g., Governance, module 4)
• Contribute to the development of the question bank, reporting guidance, and scoring methodologies across environmental disclosure, focusing on climate change content

Specific tasks include:

• Analyse response data and conduct desk based research
• Draft and proofread technical documents
• Provide subject matter expertise and analytical support across CDP's broader activities related to its question bank, guidance, and scoring methodologies, including contributing to projects (e.g., funded projects, publications, consultations, engagement events)
• Deliver internal presentations and webinars
• Support the planning, implementation, and optimisation of processes related to the evolution and delivery of CDP's question bank, guidance, and scoring methodologies
• Author, edit and test questions and guidance content in CDP's online disclosure systems

Additional responsibilities:

• Ensure clarity of expectations through regular 1:1s, clear objectives, and open performance conversations
• Promote a respectful and inclusive workplace, communicating openly, sharing knowledge and respecting differences
• Live CDP values and demonstrate appropriate behaviours

Stakeholders:

• Internal - Scoring, Thought Leadership, Data, and Customer Success Teams
• External - Disclosing Organizations, NGO Partners, Standards and Frameworks setters, Data users

What we're looking for

• Relevant academic qualification
• Professional experience in a role related to environmental issues
• Technical expertise in corporate environmental disclosure, focusing on climate change content
• Demonstrable understanding of the global sustainability agenda and environmental-related risks, opportunities, impacts, and dependencies for companies
• Ability to design, implement and refine operational processes to drive efficiency
• High standard of written English and ability to present complex information simply and concisely
• Excellent research and analytical skills, strong attention to detail
• Ability to organise and interpret qualitative and quantitative data
• High level of motivation, confident and collaborative working style
• Ability to work effectively and efficiently with team members of different technical and cultural backgrounds
• Strong time management and organisational skills, capable of working under pressure

Salary and benefits

The salary band is £32,157 - £40,197 per year, plus 30 days holiday plus bank holidays, generous non contributory pension provision, Employee Assistance Programme, life assurance, training and development, flexible working opportunities and other benefits.

Final offer will depend on multiple factors such as experience, expertise, geographic location, total compensation and market data.

Location and Working Arrangement

This is a permanent role based at CDP's London office. Candidates must be eligible to work legally in the UK, live within a commutable distance of the London office, and be comfortable with two days in the office per week. Sponsorship is not available.