Technical Manager, Climate Change

Overview

Title - Technical Manager, Climate Change

Location - London

Salary - £39,525 - £49,407

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 globally distributed and focused on balancing people, planet and profit. Visit  to learn more.

Disclosure Content is responsible for the strategic development, maintenance, and delivery of CDP’s disclosure framework (question bank, reporting guidance, and scoring). The Environmental Knowledge team handles end-to-end delivery and maintenance of the disclosure framework, responds to internal technical queries, and oversees the publication of the question bank. We collaborate with other teams across CDP to apply best practices and pioneer new areas of environmental disclosure.

This role provides 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 the resulting data. The role is a climate change specialist providing insight across the disclosure framework.

• Be responsible for and oversee multiple team processes or outputs (e.g., the process for responding to internal technical queries from disclosing organizations).
• Maintain and improve 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. This includes:
• Prioritize data points/metrics from relevant sustainability standards/frameworks and translate into developments for the evolution of CDP’s question bank and reporting guidance.
• Analyse response data and conduct desk-based research to inform decisions.
• Draft and proofread technical documents.
• Provide subject matter expertise to projects and initiatives across CDP’s broader activities.
• Deliver presentations and facilitate workshops internally and externally.
• Coordinate and collaborate with other teams to deliver:
• Internal review processes to ensure the evolution of the question bank and scoring methodologies align with CDP’s strategy for a sustainable economy.
• Platform developments to improve user experience and data quality.
• Identify opportunities to optimize 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.

• Contribute to an effective and engaged team with clear purpose and contributions.
• Maintain regular check-ins, clear objectives, and open performance discussions.
• Foster a respectful and inclusive workplace with open communication and knowledge sharing.

Living the CDP Values and demonstrating the behaviours appropriate to the position.

• 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…