Sustainability Reporting / Human Rights Senior Manager

About PwC Sustainability

At PwC, working in Sustainability is an opportunity to have a purposeful career to positively contribute to some of the most pressing problems of our time by helping to reshape the whole economy and the society in which we live.

Through speed, collaboration, and imaginative thinking we’re helping our clients to build trust in the climate transition by building credibility of non-financial and climate reporting, helping clients to transform sustainably, ensure the transition to Net Zero is fair, and ensuring our own business is ready to meet the challenge and sharing this story with our clients. As part of The New Equation, PwC is investing $12bn globally over the next 5 years, creating over 100,000 new jobs with a particular focus on strengthening our ESG capabilities across the firm.

Our Sustainability practice is market-leading with over 20 years’ experience in leading and transforming client's approaches to sustainability.

This role is centred around Human Rights and ESG Reporting but you can expect to be working with, and learning from, team members who are also focussing on a broad range of sustainability topics through working with our clients.

The next 24 months will be a critical transitional phase for ESG reporting, given the number of new and emerging ESG regulations that are likely to be applicable in 2024 and beyond. This moving reporting regulatory landscape is placing increased pressures on companies to proactively disclose sustainability data, including both the extent of their social and human rights impacts, as well as measures put in place to mitigate these impacts.

We’re seeking a talented, high performing professional with a focus on Human Rights to take the lead in developing our client proposition in this area. The role sits within our ESG reporting team so experience in wider sustainability reporting would be valuable.

The role includes (but is not limited to) leading project teams to undertake:

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  Current state ESG reporting assessments, particularly around social and human rights related reporting requirements;

• Upcoming regulatory impact assessments and gap analysis, particularly around social and human rights related reporting requirements;

• ESG reporting landscape reviews and horizon scanning, particularly around social and human rights related requirements;

• ESG materiality assessments, including, where relevant, human rights risk assessments and human rights impact assessments;

• ESG reporting implementation design;

• ESG reporting assurance readiness assessments; and

• Advisory engagements related to Human Rights topics.

If you’re successful, you’ll undertake both client and internal engagements, including:

• Managing and leading teams to deliver client facing and internal engagements, including monitoring engagement progress and budget;

• Acting as a subject matter expert, particularly on Human Rights related projects;

• Developing and managing relationships with key client and internal stakeholders;

• Identifying and developing new client opportunities;

• Leading on the development of sales and marketing materials, including proposals and thought leadership; and,

• Developing our Human Rights client proposition.

You will also have people management responsibilities, including:

• Developing junior team members through effective coaching and supervision and training; and,

• Creating a positive and inclusive team environment.

Essential:

• Experience aligned to the activities outlined above

• An understanding of the ESG and sustainability regulatory and reporting environment and a strong ability to proactively keep up to date with emerging regulations and standards, particularly with CSRD and CSDDD. We would also expect an awareness or understanding of other regulations and standard such as ISSB, SFDR, Taxonomy Regulations, GRI, SASB, WEF IBC and UN Principles for Responsible Investment and others

• A good grounding in the value drivers within ESG.

• Solid knowledge of relevant Human Rights regulations, (i.e. Modern Slavery Act, Human Rights Due Diligence regulations, etc.), including voluntary standards (i.e. Ethical Trading Initiative, UN Guiding principles on business and Human Rights, GRI, etc.

• Strong project management skills and a demonstrable experience of working on multiple engagements and managing your time effectively.

• Experience in delivering high quality work to tight deadlines.

• Experience in leading, developing and coaching teams

• Clear and effective communication skills

• Ability to build key stakeholder relationships, both internally and with clients

• On-the-ground experience reviewing and assessing social risks in business environments

Beneficial skills but not essential:

• Experience of owning, managing the process of, and/or delivering sustainability reporting within/for a company

• Assurance experience, including evaluating controls over financial and operational (non-financial) processes

Risk
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