Job Description
As a Business and Human Rights Specialist, you will play an important role in the planning 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 project scoping and proposal writing. You will be expected to assist in the management of human rights consulting projects on schedule and within agreed budgets.
You will be recognized internally as having robust project management skills with sound commercial acumen and a good grasp of international human rights issues . In the role you will be expected to be a team player, willing to engage in a broad spectrum of challenging work. The team at Verisk Maplecroft is highly collegiate and you will be expected to collaborate constructively with colleagues from across the business.
The role may involve a degree of domestic and international travel for short periods of time (i.e. days rather than weeks), to attend conferences, client meetings and/or to meet project requirements/deliverables.
About the Day-to-Day Responsibilities of the Role
As a valued member of our Sustainable Procurement and Human Rights consulting team, you will work on a range of projects for global clients. This work is likely to include:
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Developing intelligent consulting solutions for clients in the fast-evolving world of sustainability and human rights.
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Organizing, structuring, and managing complex sustainability datasets and preparing core project documents under the guidance of senior project directors
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Helping to develop and implement corporate human rights due diligence strategies for clients
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Advising on responsible/ethical sourcing and labor rights risks in global supply chains
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Supporting key human rights impact/risk assessments for clients
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Developing sector-specific research and analysis to help inform client strategy formulation and decision making
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Supporting business development activities, including project scoping with clients, proposal writing, and creating engaging thought leadership material.
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Qualifications
Three to five (plus) years of relevant professional experience, ideally encompassing consulting and/or client-side business and some human rights experience-
A track record of practical experience delivering consulting projects
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A self-starter, preferably with some experience managing small project teams
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Excellent communications skills across oral,, written and slide deck formats and the ability to think on your feet
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Strong analytical skills and experience using various analytical frameworks and techniques such as gap assessment, benchmarking, risk/impact assessment, etc.
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Microsoft Excel proficiency and the ability to understand complex datasets.
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Some understanding of current and emerging business and human rights-related frameworks and regulatory requirements (Including the UNGPs, OECD Guidelines, and ILO conventions, as well as national and international legislation on human rights and environmental due diligence.
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
Underwriting Solutions — provides underwriting and rating solutions for auto and property, general liability, and excess and surplus to assess and price risk with speed and precision
Claims Solutions — supports end-to-end claims handling with analytic and automation tools that streamline workflow, improve claims management, and support better customer experiences
Property Estimating Solutions — 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
Extreme Event Solutions — provides risk modeling solutions to help individuals, businesses, and society become more resilient to extreme events.
Specialty Business Solutions — 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
Marketing Solutions — delivers data and insights to improve the reach, timing, relevance, and compliance of every consumer engagement
Verisk Maplecroft — 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.
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