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ESG Analyst
£32,000 – £39,000 plus great benefits, including up to 10% employer pension contributions and an annual incentive scheme (Work Level 6)
Manchester City Centre
We’re now working in a hybrid way, with colleagues dividing their time between home/remote working and the office. For this role, you'll need to be work from our Manchester office at least once per week. You can find out more about our hybrid working policy at colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy

We’re looking for an experienced ESG Analyst to join us at Co-op and join our Social Value & Sustainability Reporting Team within Analytics & Insight. The team is responsible for driving and reporting on our social value agenda and producing our annual Co-operate Sustainability Report. Reporting on the value we bring to society is hugely important and measuring it against our vision of co-operating for a fairer world helps to drive performance across the business.

But we’re not stopping there, we know that Co-op has a bigger role to play to increase community and broader sustainability impacts and increase co-operation in communities. It’ll be your job to support our social value & sustainability reporting manager in measuring the social value we bring to our members and society as a whole.

What you’ll do

• play a key role in the production of our award-winning Co-operate Sustainability Report – our annual review of our ethics, sustainability and community performance – and progress against the commitments we make in our Vision
• lead on environmental sustainability reporting –working with internal partners to collate data and develop narrative
• analyse complex data and prepare high quality copy, accurately presenting progress on sustainability issues
• play an active role in the audit process and link in with the design team and external providers to produce the report
• lead on development and the delivery of the reporting communications strategy (including website content development)
• lead on our approach to addressing external ESG benchmarks and reporting frameworks, keeping up to date with external best practices
• support the social value & sustainability reporting manager to deliver the social value framework and our approach to materiality
• build positive relationships with key partners and leaders across the business

This role would suit people who have

• knowledge of ESG reporting, frameworks and principles, such as GRI (global reporting initiative)
• experience working in sustainability reporting, with a passion for and knowledge of environmental sustainability
• great data handling and analysis skills, able to review and manipulate data and provide commentary for a variety of audiences
• excellent relationship building skills, with a talent for maintaining positive relationships with both internal and external partners
• proven experience in copywriting and producing high-quality external reports and communications
• a good understanding of driving effective communications across different channels

Why Co-op?

Here you will do work that matters. We are a commercial organisation with a purpose beyond profit, and you’ll have an opportunity to help us build a stronger Co-op and stronger communities. You’ll also get a package that includes…

• competitive salary
• coaching, training, and support to help you develop
• pension with up to 10% employer contributions
• annual incentive scheme
• Wagestream – a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
• 28 days holiday (rising to 32 in line with service) plus bank holidays
• YuLife - an app that rewards you for exercising with discounts and vouchers for many of the UK’s biggest brands
• discounts on Co-op products and services

Building an inclusive work environment

We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. We want to build inclusive work environments, where our colleagues have equal opportunities to reach their full potential. We celebrate our differences, and recognise the importance of our teams reflecting the communities they serve.

If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

We'll ask whether you’d like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.

If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process

Please be aware that we may close applications for this role early