Responsibilities
- Oversee and support ISSB technical staff performing research and standard setting, with a focus on enhancing the SASB Standards
- Project planning and execution, including coordinating within workstream and with other teams, providing visibility to leadership on project plan and progress
- Represent industry-specific technical work that is within scope of responsibilities with internal and external stakeholders
- Provide detailed technical guidance to staff including reviews of staff analysis, papers, and exposure drafts of the standards, and guidance on stakeholder outreach including use of the ISSB’s advisory groups.
- Conduct research and stakeholder engagement, write analytical papers for meetings of the ISSB, present at the ISSB’s public meetings on specific aspects of the work as needed.
Requirements
- Extensive knowledge of the sustainability and financial reporting landscape, including relevant standards, frameworks and regulations.
- Extensive and practical knowledge of capital markets and the links between sustainability-related risks, opportunities and value creation.
- Excellent knowledge of how sustainability-related risks and opportunities manifest in specific industries, and how companies in those industries manage those risks and opportunities
- Rigour, consistency and attention to detail in work.
- Identifies, understands and analyses issues.
- Synthesises information and proposes well-reasoned recommendations, and draws out implications, including cost/benefit analysis.
- Displays impartiality, balance and openness in developing, defending and accepting alternative views.
- Develops feasible solutions.
- Understands the standard-setting process, including the roles of various parties.
- Communicates in a concise, clear and well-structured way, appropriately tailored to the audience.
- Presents issues, evidence, analysis and recommendations in a neutral manner. Persuades based on evidence and balanced analysis.
- Drafts and reviews Board papers and due process documents with robust analyses of alternative views, defensible support of recommendation and clear, simple, logical and consistent articulation.
- Uses innovative design to enhance clarity and visual appeal to best convey the big picture.
- Presents effectively to internal and external audiences and competently manages questions and comments.
- Listens actively; understands and respects others' viewpoints; synthesises and summarises feedback accurately and completely
- Advanced proficiency in both written and spoken English is required.
Nice to Have
- Experience managing teams preferred.
Work Arrangement
Remote (Worldwide) — San Francisco, California, USA, Montreal, Canada, Frankfurt, Germany
Additional Information
- This is a 24 month fixed term contract.
- Applicants must possess the right to work in the location for which they are applying.
- Flexible working arrangements.
