Managing Consultant for Human Rights

Job title:

Managing Consultant for Human Rights

Company

Verisk Maplecroft

Job description

Company Description

We help the world see new possibilities and inspire change for better tomorrows. Our analytic solutions bridge content, data, and analytics to help business, people, and society become stronger, more resilient, and sustainable.

Job Description

About the Role

Verisk Maplecroft is a trusted advisor to clients from a range of sectors, including natural resources, financial services and consumer goods. Our international corporate risk and sustainability consulting practice is structured to provide clients with innovative and practical advice, which often leverages our unrivalled risk datasets covering over 180 issues and 198 countries globally. Within our global consulting practice, our well-established sustainable procurement and human rights team has been at the forefront of the ongoing evolution of business and human rights strategy, management, and research for over 15 years.

As a Managing Consultant, you will play a key role in the planning, design and delivery of projects. You will work closely with client teams, building strong relationships characterized by high levels of trust, and take an active role in business development (e.g. scoping, proposal writing and contributing to thought leadership pieces on key business and human rights trends). You will be expected to manage several complex human rights consulting projects simultaneously, delivering them on schedule and within agreed budgets.

You will be recognized internally as a skilled project manager with significant commercial acumen and a good grasp of international business and human rights issues. You will be a team player, willing to engage in a broad spectrum of challenging work. You will also demonstrate leadership skills, motivating and empowering others to succeed. The team at Verisk Maplecroft is highly collegiate and you will be expected to collaborate constructively with colleagues from across the business.

You will work closely with our Director of Human Rights in contributing to the development of Verisk Maplecroft’s overall human rights and business offerings. You will be expected to promote our human rights work through various public engagements, and support delivery of projects across other sustainability fields. In addition to this you will be responsible for supporting updates to our human rights indices.

The role may involve a degree of domestic and international travel for short periods of time to attend conferences and client meetings or to meet project requirements.

This role may also offer the opportunity to relocate and work from our Singapore office for a period of two to three years.

About the Day-to-Day Responsibilities of the Role

As a key member of our Sustainable Procurement and Human Rights team, you will work on a range of projects for global clients. This work is likely to include:

• Developing intelligent consulting solutions for clients in the fast-evolving world of sustainability and human rights
• Developing and implementing human rights due diligence strategies for clients (including corporates, financial services companies, government departments, NGOs)

• Advising on responsible sourcing and labor rights risks in global supply chains

• Conducting human rights impact / risk assessments for clients

• Developing policies, contract wording, reporting and communications support for clients
• Providing training support for clients through workshops and on-site sessions

• Developing research and analysis to help inform client strategy formulation and decision making

• Supporting business development activities, including project scoping with clients, proposal writing and creating engaging thought leadership material

Qualifications

We will expect you to have:

• A strong academic record in relevant subject matter areas
• Five years (plus) of relevant professional experience, ideally encompassing consulting and/or client-side business and human rights experience
• A track record of managing and delivering consulting projects. Experience of grassroots human rights work (for example working in a global south context) would be an advantage
• Experience of managing small to medium size project teams and contributing to business development
• A self-starting attitude and an entrepreneurial approach to business opportunities
• Excellent oral and written communications skills and the ability to think through complex problems ‘on your feet’
• Strong analytical skills and experience using various frameworks and techniques, including gap assessments, benchmarking, risk/impact assessments, etc.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and some experience with data analytics
• An excellent understanding of current and emerging business and human rights related issues, frameworks and regulatory requirements, including the UNGPs, OECD Guidelines, ILO conventions and national legislation on human rights and environmental due diligence.
• A good understanding of the intersection between human rights issues and environmental matters, particularly as it relates to due diligence requirements.

Additional Information

In 2022, Verisk received Great Place to Work® Certification for our outstanding workplace culture for the sixth year in a row and second-time certification in the UK, Spain, and India. We’re also one of the 38 companies on the UK’s Best Workplaces™ list and one of 18 companies on Spain’s Best Workplaces™ list.

For over fifty years and through innovation, interpretation, and professional insight, Verisk has replaced uncertainty with precision to unlock opportunities that deliver significant and demonstrable impact. From our historic roots in risk assessment, we’ve grown to provide analytic insights that help transform industries focused on some of the world’s most critical areas. Today, the insurance industry relies on Verisk to be, and to make the world, more productive, resilient, and sustainable.

Verisk works in collaboration with our customers and at the intersection of people, data, and advanced technologies. Through proprietary platformed analytics, advanced modeling, and interpretation, we deliver immediate and sustained value to our customers and through them, to the individuals and societies they serve, with greater speed, precision, and scale. We’re 9,000 people strong, committed to translating big data into big ideas. We help others see new possibilities and empower certainty into big decisions that impact individuals and societies. And we relentlessly and ethically pursue innovation to help move our customers, and the world, toward better tomorrows.

Everyone at Verisk—from our chief executive officer to our newest employee—is guided by The Verisk Way, to Be Remarkable, Add Value, and Innovate.

• Be Remarkable by doing something better each day in service to our customers and each other
• Add Value by delivering immediate and sustained results that drive positive outcomes
• Innovate by redefining what’s possible, embracing challenges, and pushing boundaries

Verisk Businesses

— provides underwriting and rating solutions for auto and property, general liability, and excess and surplus to assess and price risk with speed and precision

— supports end-to-end claims handling with analytic and automation tools that streamline workflow, improve claims management, and support better customer experiences

— offers property estimation software and tools for professionals in estimating all phases of building and repair to make day-to-day workflows the most efficient

— provides risk modeling solutions to help individuals, businesses, and society become more resilient to extreme events.

— provides an integrated suite of software for full end-to-end management of insurance and reinsurance business, helping companies manage their businesses through efficiency, flexibility, and data governance

— delivers data and insights to improve the reach, timing, relevance, and compliance of every consumer engagement

– offers end-to-end, data insight-driven core capabilities for carriers, distribution, and direct customers across the entire policy lifecycle of life and annuities for both individual and group.

— provides intelligence on sustainability, resilience, and ESG, helping people, business, and societies become stronger

Verisk Analytics is an equal opportunity employer.

All members of the Verisk Analytics family of companies are equal opportunity employers. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, veteran’s status, age or disability.

Unsolicited resumes sent to Verisk, including unsolicited resumes sent to a Verisk business mailing address, fax machine or email address, or directly to Verisk employees, will be considered Verisk property. Verisk will NOT pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume.

Expected salary

£60000 – 65000 per year

Location

London

Job date

Sat, 09 Mar 2024 23:26:32 GMT

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