Cities, States and Regions Internship

Internship Purpose and Background in summary

Are you passionate about local and regional climate and environmental action? CDP has an exciting internship opportunity for a motivated individual to join the ‘Disclosure’ team to support engagement with cities, states and region in the Middle East, Africa and the Caucasus on environmental reporting and action. Tasks will range from engaging local and regional authorities on the value of measuring and managing environmental performance, to supporting international webinars, working groups, resources and more.

About CDP

CDP is a not-for-profit charity that runs the global disclosure system for investors, companies, cities, states and regions to manage their environmental impacts. The world’s economy looks to CDP as the gold standard of environmental reporting with the richest and most comprehensive dataset on corporate and city action. In 2021 we launched our new five-year strategy: Accelerating the Rate of Change - find out more here. Visit [https://cdp.net/en> or follow us @CDP to find out more.

Key responsibilities include:

• Supporting the annual reporting process for all participating cities, states and regions in the Africa, Middle East and Caucasus region (including weekly engagement tracker updates and regularly informing partner organisations about engagement progress)
• Encouraging local and regional governments to report their environmental information through CDP by making phone calls, sending personalized emails and mailouts, and supporting webinars and other outreach activities
• Supporting the design and delivery of (online) events and workshops
• Helping improve quality of reported data by providing one-to-one technical support
• Developing relationships and managing contacts through CDP’s customer relationship management (CRM) software
• Supporting data analysis activities and creating resources that showcase the value of disclosure
• Supporting campaigns (e.g., Race to Zero, Race to Resilience) and partnerships with organizations across the region
• Supporting the MEA Cities, States and Regions Manager in their activities

You will have the following skills and experience:

Required skills and experience:

• Recent graduate with experience working on cities and/or climate related topics
• An understanding of the issues of climate change mitigation and adaptation in cities, particularly in the Global South
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, including the ability to explain complex topics clearly and succinctly
  • Experience in delivering support in a customer/client facing role in a multicultural setting
  • Awareness of the role reporting plays in local climate governance and action
  • Very good MS Office skills and ability to quickly grasp new IT systems
  • Attention to detail and commitment to achieving high standards

Desirable skills and experience:

• Degree educated or equivalent in environment/sustainability/urban planning
• Proficiency in French, Arabic, Swahili, Turkish or Portuguese is a plus
• Direct experience of working with government(s)
• Experience of public speaking
• Proficiency in an additional European language

Benefits

For this internship opportunity, lunch costs (8£/day) and reasonable and most cost effective transport costs will be covered. The intern will have access to training and development resources and can make use of CDP's flexible working opportunities.

This is a hybrid or remote role. CDP’s UK office is based in London.

The intern will report to the Manager, Middle East and Africa, Cities, States and Regions.

This is a fixed-term, 3 months contract (3 days/week, 21 hours), subject to a possible extension.

Interested applicants must be eligible to work legally in the UK and have access to a laptop.

Before you apply

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How to apply:

Please upload your CV in the application form along with a covering letter as an additional document setting out how you meet the required skills and experience or key responsibilities, which should be no more than two pages. Please submit your application by Wednesday, 4 September 2024, 23:59 BST.