Sustainability Lead - Reporting

Sustainability Lead - Reporting
Competitive starting salary from £46,935 per annum depending on experience
Up to 10% bonus
Permanent contract 40 hours per week
Located in Leeds  

We have an amazing opportunity for a Sustainability Lead to join our Environment and Sustainability team based at Thorpe Park, Leeds on a permanent contract.  You will lead the development of the sustainability reporting that we prepare to communicate our performance against our strategic commitments outlined in our People and Planet strategy. 

You will lead the continuous improvement of our Environment and Sustainability reporting so it always meets the needs of our stakeholders, is compliant with prevailing requirements and best practice.This is a new role within our Regulation and Strategy Directorate, and you will be supporting to the Head of Environment and Sustainability.

Your key accountabilities and responsibilities will include
•    Managing the end-to-end completion of all NGN sustainability reporting requirements to ensure compliance, consistency, quality and timeliness of submissions. This will include taking a primary author role in significant elements of the reporting, whilst also coordinating the completion of elements prepared by NGN colleagues.
•    Managing incoming data streams to ensure NGN can comply with reporting requirements and work with our colleagues, partners and supply chain to continuously improve the scope and quality of our reporting.
•    Keeping abreast of new developments in sustainability reporting practices/standards and implementing these to enhance NGN reporting quality, including developing new reporting metrics and associated dataflows where appropriate.
•    Leading NGN stakeholder engagement with respect to sustainability reporting submissions to assess level of reporting performance and stakeholder satisfaction, and benchmarking our reporting and rating performance against peers and third parties.
•    Leading the development of strategies and action plans to improve sustainability reporting with respect to streamlining the reporting process (time and resource requirements) and improving NGN ratings and stakeholder satisfaction.
•    Managing the development, preparation and communication of NGN’s People and Planet Strategy performance dashboard for communication of performance with our shareholders, senior business leaders and wider colleagues.

What we are looking for
•    An excellent communicator who can bring sustainability information to life so our stakeholders can easily understand our performance and activities.
•    Experience of leading the preparation of comprehensive written reports to publicly communicate our sustainability strategy, performance and activities, including coordination of multiple data providers.
•    Experience of communicating sustainability performance via non-written media, including infographics and in-person and pre-recorded presentations.
•    Knowledge of sustainability reporting methodologies, standards, metrics and data quality requirements, in particular Greenhouse Gas Protocol, TCFD, SECR, GRI and ISSB.
•    Experience of sustainability data management and analysis – including extraction, manipulation, analysis and effective presentation of quantitative data (eg carbon emissions or waste data) utilising tools including MS Excel, MS Sharepoint and online data platforms;
•    Understanding of the effective development and communication of sustainability KPIs/metrics.

What we offer you
•    A competitive starting salary from £46,935 per annum depending on experience 
•    Up to 10% bonus  
•    40 hours per week, Monday to Friday
•    Free onsite parking at all our sites
•    25 days annual leave (plus recognised bank holidays and 2 half days over the Christmas period) 
•    SSP for the first 7 calendar days then occupational sick pay 
•    A generous stakeholder 5/10 pension scheme 
•    Flexible benefits and salary sacrifice options... from discounts on a variety of UK attractions, gym membership, restaurant discounts, experience days...and much more! 

We are ... Northern Gas Networks.  We deliver gas to 2.7 million homes and businesses in the North East, Northern Cumbria and much of Yorkshire. That’s around 6.7 million individual customers.  We don’t generate or sell the gas, but we transport it to homes and businesses in our region through a vast network of underground pipes.  In fact, we own and maintain more than 37,000km of gas pipes - enough to stretch from Leeds to Sydney and back again.  We cover large cities like Newcastle, Sunderland, Leeds, York, Hull, and Bradford, and our work extends to rural areas like North Yorkshire and Cumbria.  

Next Steps.  Please apply by clicking apply and uploading your CV (and a cover letter, if desired). Once the advert has closed, we will be in contact within one week to let you know if you have progressed to the next stage. We are looking to hold interviews for this role throughout late January early February and we look forward to receiving your application for the role.  

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