AddressThis is an exciting opportunity to lead the sustainability performance of a large utilities provider to enhance business, social and environmental value and reduce any adverse impacts.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and evolve the existing Sustainability strategy, frameworks, and plan, leading a team of subject matter experts with a focus on corporate sustainability, investor frameworks and ratings, sustainability measurement and reporting, sustainable procurement and modern slavery.
- Delivery and improvement of existing disclosures: GRI Sustainability Report (inc. materiality assessment); Carbon Emissions Performance Report; Modern Slavery Statement; SFDR (Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation) report; TCFD (Taskforce on climate-related financial disclosure) report; Shareholder data report; and ESG ratings submissions.
- Prioritise across competing opportunities to improve or increase sustainability disclosures and practices to focus efforts on those that deliver the best outcomes for the business and its stakeholders.
- Identify and prepare the organisation for emerging ESG requirements including ISSB (International Sustainability Standards Board) IFRS1 and 2; any future reporting on the TNFD (Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures), and EU Taxonomy, or changing ESG requirements, e.g., Global Reporting Initiative
- Delivery and improvement of ESG investor communications including within investor documents; investor requests for information and lifting the quality of sustainability data to investor quality more broadly.
Requirements:
- Excellent personal communication skills
- Ability to influence and facilitate change in large, complex organisations, including policy and program innovation, development, and implementation.
- Excellent organisational skills: time management; ability to prioritise workloads of team members, and an ability to tight deadlines.
- Knowledge of corporate responsibility and its context at a state, national and global level including high-level understanding of current and emerging domestic and international sustainability reporting frameworks
- Networks within the sustainability and environment space, in addition to proven leadership and ability to influence.
If you meet the requirements and the role interests you, please submit your latest resume ASAP as this is an urgent requirement!
