ESG reporting Manager

Job Description

The Costain ESG team are responsible for the development of ESG strategy, policies and procedures as well as monitoring project performance and regulatory reporting. ESG is a broad collection of topics, however, this team is principally responsible for social sustainability, and they play an important influencing role across all other ESG topics (carbon, EDI, nature, wellbeing…).

Costain’s ESG managers are responsible for specific topics such as social value and community, EDI and regulatory reporting. They are responsible for setting policies and procedures to enable the business to operate in a responsible way and in turn managing risks and opportunities to meet stakeholder expectations (customer, colleague, investor).

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Managing ESG reporting, working closely with other internal teams to provide high-quality disclosures (Annual Report, ESG Report and additional disclosures (gender pay gap, ethnicity pay gap and modern slavery)).
• Managing ESG communications (internal and external) including maintaining the ESG section of the Costain website, ensuring content is current and compliant with statutory reporting requirements and avoiding greenwashing.
• Responsible for the development of ESG plans and strategies (EDI, social value, ratings) and,
• Project management of [ESG, social value, EDI] initiatives and actions.
• Developing, maintaining and assuring compliance with ESG policies and procedures.
• Managing communities of practice (social value, community and customer, EDI) and setting standards.
• Supporting bid responses as the Costain subject matter expert (social value, community and customer, EDI).Collecting contract performance data, assuring accuracy and feeding into internal reporting.
  
  

Essential

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Experience must include either corporate reporting, social value or EDI
• Proven verbal and written communication skills
• Project management skills and the ability to manage multiple concurrent priorities are essential
• Knowledge of regulatory reporting requirements, or the Social Value Act or Equalities Act.
  
  

Desirable

• Comfortable with budget responsibility
• Experience in bid writing and shaping customer solutions
• An in-depth knowledge and understanding of Costain’s customers' ESG priorities.
  
  

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree in a related discipline (environmental or social science, economics and business management)
  
  

Desirable

• Sustainability leadership qualification
• Social value accredited practitioner
• MA in a related discipline (environmental or social science, economics and business management)
  
  

About Us

Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

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