Director, Sustainability Communications - London, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Role Responsibilities

Background
Sustainability is a significant reputational driver for Standard Chartered, anchored in our brand promise to be here for good.

It is also one of our strategic business priorities and is reflected by our three global Stands:
Accelerating Zero, Resetting Globalisationand Lifting Participation.

As Director, Sustainability Communications, you will be supporting the development and execution of the group-level communications strategy in relation to global challenges, positive impact, business growth and managing reputational risk.

You will be responsiblefor creating content and campaigns related to our Sustainability and ESG (Environment, Social and Governance) strategy, including amplifying the work of our Global Impact team.

You will make an important contribution to writing and coordinating key sustainabilitycontent for our annual report, as well as overseeing the delivery of our Task Force for Climate-Related Disclosures (TCFD) report and other ESG disclosures.

Your role will help ensure connectivity across the Corporate Affairs, Brand & Marketing (CABM), Sustainable Finance, Group Public & Regulatory Affairs (GPRA), Investor Relations and Group Finance teams.

Strategy:

Support the Global Head of Sustainability Communications to develop the Bank's grouplevel multichannel communications strategy for global sustainability and ESG, encompassing campaigning, storytelling and brand building with a view to strengthening ourreputation.
Alongside Group Strategic Media and Global Impact teams, help to track the Sustainability/ESG landscape to identify challenges and opportunities for strategic communications and deliver bestinclass communications across both traditional and digital channelsin order to differentiate and establish the Bank as an industry leader in ESG and Sustainability.
Work closely with the Global Content, Digital and Executive Communications teams on Sustainability content, communications and campaigns

Business:

Support the creation of key messaging and content for thought leadership, including associated social media amplification
Support delivery of ESG reporting/disclosures, in partnership with the Finance/IR and Sustainable Finance teams
Help coordinate speaking events and stakeholder meetings when needed, coordinating with Global Platforms team for flagship events
Support the Group Media team in managing media opportunities, as appropriate
Develop employee engagement content and materials, working closely with Sustainable Finance and Global Impact teams
Be a Brand Champion, ensuring all communications live up to our brand promise of 'here for good' while, at the same time, delivering committed business outcomes, a strong corporate identity, and uplift to our employer branding
Be a champion of best practice sustainability communications and disclosures and share learnings across CABM
Be aware of and understand sustainability and ESGrelated policies, standards and/or regulations that may impact the Bank, as well as upcoming policies and the anticipated direction of travel
Extensive experience of campaigning and working with the media (e.g. as a journalist or PR professional), preferably in financial services
Extensive experience of financial reporting, including ESG disclosures
Understanding of current sustainability issues, policies, news and politics, including relevant sustainability and reporting standards and frameworks
Experience in developing and implementing communication strategies and content campaigns across all platforms
Experience in managing agencies and multiple stakeholders, including senior management and thirdparty vendors, across multiple locations
Ability to develop effective and collaborative working relationships

About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunitiesto grow and do better than before.

If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you.

You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents. And we can't wait to see the talents you canbring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours.

When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

- Do the right thingand are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do

- Never settle,continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well

- Be better together,we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

- In line with our Fair Pay Charter,we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

- Core bank fundingfor retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations

- Time-off including annual, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum

- Flexible workingoptions based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns

- Proactive wellbeingsupport through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sortsof self-help toolkits

- A continuous learning culture to support your growth,with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning

- Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation,one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

- Recruitment assessments -some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you'v