Working Student - Corporate Engagement in Berlin bei CDP Europe

CDP is a global non-profit that runs the world’s environmental disclosure system for companies, cities, states and regions. Founded in 2000 and working with more than 680 financial institutions with over $130 trillion in assets, CDP pioneered using capital markets and corporate procurement to motivate companies to disclose their environmental impacts, and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, safeguard water resources and protect forests. Over 14,000 organizations around the world disclosed data through CDP in 2021, including more than 13,000 companies worth over 64% of global market capitalization, and over 1,100 cities, states and regions. Fully TCFD aligned, CDP holds the largest environmental database in the world, and CDP scores are widely used to drive investment and procurement decisions towards a zero carbon, sustainable and resilient economy. CDP is a founding member of the Science Based Targets initiative, We Mean Business Coalition, The Investor Agenda and the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative.

Working Student - Corporate Engagement

English

Location: Berlin, Germany
Application deadline: Rolling on a first come first serve basis
Earliest starting date: 01.04.2023

CDP Europe is seeking highly motivated individuals to support CDP’s Corporate Engagement work in Europe for 6 months. It is a unique opportunity to learn how CDP engages with its corporate stakeholders and to get exposed to CDP´s programs, initiatives, and the work of our corporate teams (Corporate Relations, Reporter Services, Supply Chain).

We are looking for working students (Werkstudenten) that can support us for 6 months, with earliest starting date April 2023.

The role includes

• Supporting the CDP corporate teams in their external engagement work with companies
• Becoming familiar with CDP Systems (e.g. CRM) and use these systems to support our operations
• Supporting the team with troubleshooting client enquiries and outreach logistics (e.g drafting emails)
• Preparing materials for CDP service teams
• Monitoring key client enquiry channels
• Assisting with ad-hoc tasks as required.

• Current enrolment in a University in Berlin
• Professional-working English skills
• An interest in corporate sustainability themes and climate change issues and how we can solve them;
• Flexible in area of work, analytical mindset and has creative problem-solving;
• Comfortable with the MS Office package, in particular Outlook and Excel
• Able to work at least 16 hours per week on average for the April-July time period

• Exciting and challenging tasks in an international team with flat hierarchies and quick decision making;
• A unique opportunity to learn about sustainability topics and strategy based on the work of CDP and the Climate, Water and Forests programmes
• A unique opportunity to understand the operations of the external engagement wing of a leading environmental organization
• Flexible working hours;
• Modern office at Sony Centre/Potsdamer Platz

The successful candidate can work flexible hours per week (pre-agreed with the line manager) taking into consideration the examination schedule. Possibility to work full-time during summer break. This working student role is based at our office in Berlin, Germany. The role is limited to 6 months.

Interested? Interested candidates should submit their application documents/CV via our recruiting platform.

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Please note that we only provide feedback to shortlisted candidates due to the sheer volume of applications. If you do not hear from us within 21 days of the closing date, please assume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Thank you for your understanding.