Technical Manager, Climate Change

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.

About 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 disclosure framework provides environmental information to investors, customers, and other data users, and drives companies’ actions to transition to a sustainable economy. The Environmental Knowledge team is responsible for end‑to‑end delivery and maintenance of CDP’s disclosure framework. The 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, to drive corporate environmental disclosure and action. This includes the CDP question bank, reporting guidance, scoring methodologies and resulting data. This role will be a climate change specialist providing insight across the disclosure framework.

What you will do:

• Be responsible for and have oversight of multiple team processes or outputs (e.g. the process for responding to internal technical queries from disclosing organizations).
• Responsible for the expertise, maintenance and improvement of at least one content area of the question bank (e.g. the business strategy module, environmental performance modules).
• Lead and contribute to the development of the corporate question bank, reporting guidance, and scoring methodologies – across environmental disclosure, focusing on climate change content.
• Prioritise data points/metrics from relevant sustainability standards/frameworks and translate them into developments for the evolution of CDP’s question bank and reporting guidance.
• Analyse response data and conduct desk‑based research to inform.
• Draft and proofread technical documents.
• Provide subject‑matter expertise to projects and initiatives across CDP’s broader activities.
• Deliver presentations and facilitate workshops both internally and externally.
• Coordinate and collaborate with other teams in CDP, for example, to deliver internal review processes to ensure the evolution of CDP’s corporate question bank and scoring methodologies reflect CDP’s strategy and ambitions for a sustainable economy.
• Support platform developments to improve question bank user experience and data quality.
• Find opportunities to optimise the planning and implementation of processes related to the evolution and delivery of CDP’s disclosure framework.
• Represent CDP externally as an expert on environmental disclosure.

Ensure you know what is expected of you, through regular 1:1s, having clear objectives in place, and participating in open and honest performance and development conversations. Ensure a respectful and inclusive workplace, where team members communicate openly, share knowledge so it can be used, and respect difference.

We're looking for:

• A relevant academic qualification.
• Professional experience in a role related to climate change or environmental issues.
• Technical expertise in corporate environmental disclosure.
• Problem‑solving skills – the ability to think critically and make decisions on the work and challenges faced by the team.
• Project management experience – of one or more projects.
• A demonstrable understanding of the global sustainability agenda and of environmental‑related risks, opportunities, impacts, and dependencies for companies.
• Ability to design, implement, and refine operational processes to drive efficiency.
• A high standard of written English and the ability to present complex information in a simple and concise way.
• Excellent research and analytical skills, and strong attention to detail.
• The ability to organise and interpret qualitative and quantitative data.
• Strong time‑management and organisational skills, with an ability to work effectively and accurately under pressure.

Salary and benefits: The salary banding for this role is £39,525 - £49,407 per year, 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 amount depends on multiple factors such as candidates’ experience and expertise, geographic location, total compensation, and market data. This is a permanent contract based at CDP’s London office. Interested applicants must be eligible to work legally in the UK and live within a commutable distance of the London office and be comfortable with 2 days in the office per week. We cannot sponsor this role.

How to apply: Please upload your CV in English via the application form. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis so early applications are encouraged.