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Title - Senior Technical Officer, Financial Services, Strategic Evolution Location - London Salary - £32,157 - £40,197 About CDP:    CDP is a global non-profit that runs the world’s only independent environmental disclosure system. As the founder of environmental reporting, we believe in transparency and the power of data to drive change. Partnering with leaders in enterprise, capital, policy and science, we surface the information needed to enable Earth-positive decisions. We helped more than 24,800 companies and almost 1,000 cities, states and regions disclose their environmental impacts in 2024. Financial institutions with more than a quarter of the world’s institutional assets use CDP data to help inform investment and lending decisions. Our team is truly global, united by our shared desire to build a world where people, planet and profit are balanced. Visit cdp.net or follow us @CDP to find out more. About the Team: Disclosure Content is responsible for the strategic development, maintenance, and delivery of CDP’s disclosure framework (question bank, reporting guidance, and scoring). The disclosure framework provides environmental information to investors, customers, and other data users, and drives companies’ actions to transition to a sustainable economy. Within Disclosure Content, the Strategic Evolution team is responsible for developing CDP’s disclosure framework in response to strategic projects, standard and framework alignment, and other evolving needs of the organization. We work closely with other teams and functions across CDP to implement environmental reporting best practices and pioneer new areas of environmental disclosure. About this role: This role will provide technical, scientific, and analytical expertise to develop and ensure the high quality of CDP’s disclosure framework, to drive corporate environmental disclosure and action, with a focus on the Financial Services sector. This includes the CDP question bank, reporting guidance, scoring methodologies and resulting data. What you will do: Contribute to the development of the question bank, reporting guidance, and scoring methodologies – across environmental disclosure, focusing on the Financial Services sector. Including: Prioritizing data points/metrics from sustainability standards/frameworks relevant to the Financial Services sector and translating these into developments for the evolution of CDP’s corporate question bank and reporting guidance. Analysing response data and conducting desk-based research on the Financial Services sector. Drafting and proofreading technical documents. Provide Financial Services sector expertise and analytical support across CDP’s broader activities related to its question bank, guidance, and scoring methodologies. Including: Contributing to projects (e.g. funded projects, publications, consultations, engagement events etc.). Delivering internal presentations/webinars on the Financial Services sector. Support the planning, implementation, and optimization of processes related to the evolution and delivery of CDP’s Financial Services questions, guidance, and scoring methodologies. Author, edit and test questions and guidance content in CDP’s online disclosure systems. Actively contributes to an effective and engaged team, clear on its purpose and contribution, by: Ensuring you know what is expected of you, through regular 1:1s, having clear objectives in place, and participating in open and honest performance and development conversations. Ensuring a respectful and inclusive workplace, where team members communicate openly, share knowledge so it can be used, and respect difference. Living the CDP Values and demonstrating the behaviours appropriate to your position. Internal stakeholders include: Scoring, Thought Leadership, Data, and Customer Success Teams. External stakeholders