Sustainability Advisor - Human Rights

Company Description
Vattenfall is one of Europe’s largest producers and retailers of electricity and heat. Our main markets are Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the UK. The Vattenfall Group has approximately 20,000 employees. We have been electrifying industries, powering homes and transforming life through innovation for more than 100 years. We now want to make fossil free living possible within one generation and we are driving the transition to a sustainable energy system.


Job Description
Fossil free living...in a sustainable way. We are looking for a Sustainability Advisor who will guide us in implementing social and human rights best practices and fuel our commitment to a brighter, more sustainable future!
Your role as a Sustainability Advisor - Human Rights
In your role as Sustainability Advisor, you will join the Corporate Sustainability team in its work to secure Vattenfall’s position as a frontrunner in sustainability. To do this, you will primarily be supporting the team to understand social and human rights best practices, as well as supporting colleagues throughout the organization to implement them.
Your daily activities:
Perform research and analysis on topics including best practices in sustainability reporting, valuation of social and environmental impacts, national and international social and environmental strategies and policies, regulatory trends as well as ad hoc requests
Identify sustainability gaps and improvement needs, implement related actions
Support our business units and top management with sustainability knowledge or on specific sustainability projects
Raise sustainability awareness and drive engagement within the organization on relevant sustainability topics
Support our business units in knowledge and awareness of best practices with regards to stakeholder and community engagement, particularly related to indigenous peoples
Boost transparency externally via targeted communications and reporting

The above will have an emphasis on human rights, but is not limited to the topic.


Qualifications
Who are you?
As a Sustainability Advisor we believe that you are a big picture thinker, with strong analytical ability and attention to details as well. You have the ability to extract, synthesize, and convey relevant, understandable insights from very complex topics, and communicate it to others. Furthermore, you recognize yourself in the following:
A proactive self-starter with the ability to inspire and motivate change
Humility as a key element of your collaboration philosophy, coupled with a sense of determination
A desire to have a positive impact on society as a core motivating principle

To succeed in this role, our ideal candidate will have:
A relevant academic background
A few years working experience in international environments dealing with strategy and sustainability topics
Strong communication and project management skills
The ability to prioritize and manage multiple different tasks and topics simultaneously

Topic-specific expertise is greatly advantageous but not a must:
Demonstrated professional experience with human rights (UNGPs and OECD guidelines) and indigenous peoples
Familiarity with existing and coming sustainability legislation, including reporting (EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive) and due diligence (EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive)
Experience from the energy or extractives industry

The position require fluency in Swedish and English, with a big emphasis on the first due to communication with key stakeholders and work with complex reports, policies and guidelines.


Additional Information
Location
You will be working in the department Sustainable Business Performance & Transparency and the position is located at Vattenfall’s headquarters in Solna in Sweden. The role requires occasional travel, both in Sweden and to our other international offices. And of course, you identify yourself with our principles: active, open, positive and safe.
Our offer
Sustainability is the heart of Vattenfall’s strategy, and that means our team has an outsized impact on the organization. You will get to be on the pulse of the company, driving Vattenfall to make sustainable change. You will be a part of a dynamic, supportive and experienced team and collaborate with multiple parts of the business and colleagues all the way from Executive Management to operational level. We offer attractive employment conditions (smart working, flexible working hours and a good-work-life balance) and opportunities for personal and professional development. Click here for further information.


For more information about the position you are welcome to contact hiring manager Jesse Steele, jesseevan.steele@vattenfall.de. For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact our recruiter Elnoosh Farhoudfar, elnoosh.farhoudfar@vattenfalll.com.


Trade Union representatives in Sweden are Shahriar Badie (Akademikerna),Christer Gustafsson (Ledarna), Juha Siipileht (SEKO), Anders Bohlin (Unionen). To get in contact with the representatives, please call Vattenfall´s switchboard +46 8 739 50 00.


We welcome your application in English no later than September 17th. We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website.

At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to build a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be a good role model regarding diversity. Vattenfall works actively for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, transgender identity or expression, religion or other belief, disability or sexual orientation. Click here for further information.


The security of Vattenfall and its employees is essential. For that reason, a pre-employment screening will be part of your recruitment process. The screening is based on the role you will fulfill within Vattenfall. The screening will be performed by a third party, Validata.


Since Vattenfall is a part of the Swedish critical infrastructure, many of our services are security classed. If this position is security classed the final candidates might be subjected to a security vetting process, according to the Swedish legislation.


We look forward to receiving your application!