Job position: Principal Sustainability Reporting Consultant
Company name: Digby Wells Environmental
Job type: Permanent
Location: South Africa
Closing Dates: 29 March 2024
As a Principal Sustainability Reporting Consultant, you will be a key contributor to our mission, to move us from the world we live to the world we seek. You will work with clients to produce compelling sustainability reports and strategies that tell the client’s sustainability story and meet reporting requirements and guidelines.
Key Responsibilities:
- Developing compelling sustainability reports that tell clients' sustainability stories while ensuring alignment with the appropriate ESG disclosure standards.
- Delivering comprehensive ESG materiality assessment processes tailored to each client’s unique needs.
- Leading stakeholder engagement exercises including conducting interviews, surveys, and workshops to gather valuable input for sustainability reports and materiality processes.
- Analysing ESG data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities relevant to each client.
- Collaborating with clients to integrate material ESG issues into their corporate strategies.
- Acting as the client lead for key projects, building and maintaining strong client relationships.
- Staying up to date with evolving ESG regulations and industry best practices.
- Mentoring and guiding junior consultants, providing leadership and expertise in Sustainability Reporting.
Required Skills:
- Excellent writing skills to communicate clearly, including the ability to create clear, concise, and compelling sustainability reports.
- Extensive knowledge of ESG reporting frameworks (i.e., GRI, SASB, UN Global Compact), industry-specific sustainability challenges, and emerging trends.
- Strong analytical skills to assess ESG data and metrics, identifying trends, risks, and opportunities.
- Strong client and stakeholder communication skills including influencing, negotiating, presenting, and relationship management.
- Robust project management skills, able to run with a project from proposal to publication, ensuring projects are delivered on time and within budget.
- Flexible and able to see where help is needed and support colleagues as necessary.
- Curious mindset towards learning and development, client relationships, and contributing to the ESG team’s growth.
- Comfortable juggling a variety of tasks in a dynamic, fast-paced operational environment.
Qualifications/Experience Required:
- Postgraduate degree preferably in Environmental Sciences, Sustainability, or Financial Communications.
- Project Management Certificate would be beneficial.
- At least 5 years’ experience in copywriting or editing for publication.
- Proficiency in adapting writing for the audience.
- 10 or more years of relevant experience in sustainability consulting or similar. Experience and knowledge of the resources industry (mining sector, oil and gas, and renewables) would be helpful.
Salary range: Market Related based on experience.
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