Sustainability Assurance Lead

3 days ago


Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom GreenJobs Ltd Full time

Lead/Head of Assurance

GreenJobs Ltd is seeking an experienced professional to lead their ESG assurance and verification service. The successful candidate will work with clients to reduce their environmental impact and develop a successful ESG assurance and verification service.

Role

The role encompasses being a technical/knowledge lead for a service that is required by new and existing clients; to create efficient, replicable products and to ensure they are marketed, sold and then delivered to a high standard.

The ESG Assurance and Verification services covered by this role include:

  1. Delivery of large sustainability assurance and verification engagements for real estate and corporate clients.
  2. Delivery of assurance-adjacent services, including pre-assurance / assurance readiness reviews, assurance-ready ESG reporting methodology development, sustainability strategy validation and more.

What you will need to succeed

The successful candidate will be expected to carry out normal consultancy duties, including project management/direction, client management, proposal writing and project delivery. As this role develops, line management of some members of the delivery team will be required, giving full visibility of workflow, utilisation, performance and development needs.

We are looking for someone to bring the following expertise and experience:

  1. An in-depth technical understanding of corporate sustainability reporting and the data acquisition underpinning it, with insight into emerging trends and evolution of the reporting landscape in the UK and Europe.
  2. A specific knowledge of carbon accounting principles, frameworks and best practice as applied within the real estate investment sector.
  3. An enthusiasm for, interest in, and understanding of assurance and verification, especially as it applies to sustainability data and reporting, ideally with a proven track record.
  4. An ability to work with other members of the senior management team to strategically evolve the existing service offer, own and deliver the service plan, thinking 3 years ahead.
  5. An existing ability to deliver assurance to different specifications and to different standards (e.g. ISO standards, ISAE 3000, etc) is preferable.

Experience

Essential:

  1. Managing large scale projects, project teams and delivering to deadlines.
  2. Complex data management and environmental reporting for real estate portfolios.
  3. Account management and new business development with clients.
  4. Delivery of assurance engagements of sustainability data.

Desirable:

  1. Delivery of marketing content.
  2. Leading, facilitating & presenting at external workshops & seminars.
  3. Leading a team.
  4. Developing a service / business plan.

Knowledge and understanding

Essential:

  1. Carbon accounting principles, frameworks and best practice.
  2. Assurance tools, principles and best practice.
  3. Assurance of sustainability data.
  4. ESG reporting in the sector of commercial real estate.
  5. UK and European energy and climate change reporting frameworks.

Desirable:

  1. Key voluntary and mandatory reporting frameworks and regulations, such as GRESB, CSRD, SFDR, UK SECR, CDP, SBTI, etc.
  2. Wider sustainability issues & carbon management.


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