Closing Date: 10 September 2024

Expected Start Date: 1 October 2024
Duration: 12 months

Location(s): São Paulo, Brazil

Process: Screening questions and one interview

Reports to the Lead of Policy Engagement – Emerging Economies

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Who we are
At CDP, we are on a mission to solve our planet’s biggest environmental challenges: climate change, water scarcity and deforestation. We believe you can’t manage what you don’t measure – so we run the world’s largest environmental disclosure system. For the past two decades, our team has worked tirelessly to create a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term – we accomplish this by engaging the global actors who wield the greatest influence in driving environmental change: companies, cities, governments, and the capital markets.
CDP’s cascading global impact is powered by our tight-knit team of smart, savvy, curious and committed individuals, who share a common passion for creating a sustainable future. It is our people who make our work possible. And we provide our people with a working environment that empowers each individual to reach their full potential: one that is committed to equity; one that provides equal access for growth and development; and one that supports each individual throughout the full employee life cycle.
About the CDP Latin America Team
Because of Latin America's diversity, creativity and relevance, our regional office is an innovation hub for creating new business models. Regionally, we mobilize investors, companies, and governments to build and accelerate collaborative action for development that works for current and future generations. We offer a variety of solutions for environmental information to be the mainstay of political and business decision making.

About the role
CDP is seeking a highly motivated, with excellent relationship-building and analytical skills to support CDP policy strategy and its day-to-day activities. He/she will support project management activities and monitor agenda related to top priorities such as Climate Goals, legislation of native vegetation protection (Forest Code) and sustainable jurisdictions, carbon pricing and disclosure of climate financial related information. This will enable CDP Latin America to have a more proactive and assertive role advocating for better informed policy decision making and greater climate ambition setting among Party and Non-Party Stakeholders.


Who you are

• Must reside and be eligible to work in the location stipulated above.
• Fluency in English is mandatory, Spanish is an advantage.
• Graduation or specialization in International Relations, Economics, Law, Public Relations, Policy Management, Public Management (Administration), Environmental Management/Engineering will be an advantage.
• Analytical skills – working with data and research will be an advantage.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills.
• The ability to meet deadlines.
• Superior writing skills and grammar: must be able to accurately communicate technical information in a concise, yet comprehensive manner to policy markets.
• The desire to take ownership and responsibility for areas of work.
Self-motivation and the ability to work independently.

Your day-to-day

• Project management activities, such as policy programme presentations, policy mailing list, policy dashboard and policy monitoring tools.
• Support the elaboration of policy briefs, factsheets, reports, Mo Us, case studies and disseminate them among different actors.
• Support registration and logistics of CDP national and international events.
• Support day to day implementation of project activities in accordance with an annual project plan.
• Engage with state governments to report States and Regions Questionnaire and support the states in the reporting process.

Please note that we do not conduct phone screens and utilize screening questions in each of our processes. You will receive the questions via email shortly after applying and your responses will be due at 5:00 pm ET on the recruitment closing date. Please send your answers in a PDF or Microsoft Word document in your reply to this message.