Senior Sustainability Strategist
On-siteLondon, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Lead on insightful sustainability reporting programmes by acting as a lead strategist for client accounts, setting direction based on latest developments, defining content strategy, and partnering with creatives to deliver rigorous, engaging reports across channels. Support clients' alignment with key frameworks like ESRS and ISSB through gap analysis, benchmarking, and value chain mapping. Deliver progressive sustainability strategies, including double materiality assessments and strategic frameworks. Develop and execute topic-specific communications and campaigns for clients across sectors. Pitch to win by leading proposals and new business meetings. Raise our profile by proactively developing thought leadership content and speaking at events. Build sustainability knowledge internally by upskilling the broader RY team through sessions and training.
Required Qualifications
- You're an entrepreneurial sustainability professional
- You have been in a senior position for some time
- You have worked with a wide range of strategies, topics or clients of different sizes and across multiple sectors and geographies
- You are totally up to speed with the rapidly evolving landscape of sustainability and ESG frameworks
- You have a solid working knowledge of ESRS and ISSB
- You have demonstrable experience applying ESRS and ISSB standards
- You know the more established sustainability and reporting standards and frameworks inside out
- You know GRI
- You know the IIRC <IR> Framework
- You know TCFD
- You have experience with ratings and indices
- You have experience advising on and developing sustainability (and ESG) reporting
- You have experience delivering Double Materiality Assessments aligned with ESRS
- You have successfully assured Double Materiality Assessments aligned with ESRS
- You are familiar with communications strategy
- You can unearth a brilliant audience insight and develop a solid strategy
- You have experience working with creatives and designers
- You are an effective line manager
- You are a strategic sparring partner with gravitas and authority
Desired Qualifications
- Ideally, you're familiar with context-based strategic frameworks
- You are familiar with Future-Fit
- You are familiar with the Sustainable Development Performance Indicators
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