Project Manager, CSRD Reporting & Disclosure Readiness

ERM; United States; A distancia; USD 55.000 - 110.000; A tiempo parcial

Descripción de la vacante

ERM is seeking a part-time Project Manager to support CSRD readiness and disclosure across a multinational client. This remote role is based in the Eastern Time Zone, with weekly availability and peak-period flexibility.

The ideal candidate brings strong CSRD/ESRS knowledge, sustainability reporting experience, and proven project management skills to coordinate cross-functional workstreams and assurance readiness.

Formación

• Bachelor’s degree in sustainability, environmental science, business, accounting, finance or a related discipline preferred.
• Strong knowledge of CSRD and ESRS with ability to translate requirements into action.
• Experience in complex sustainability reporting, CSRD or disclosure programs.

Responsabilidades

• Maintain and manage the integrated CSRD readiness plan with milestones, risks, and dependencies.
• Coordinate CSRD readiness activities across ESRS 2 and material topics with owners and data stewards.
• Establish and manage working cadences across workstreams including meetings, action tracking and status reporting.
• Coordinate disclosure development and review to ensure consistency across narratives, metrics and evidence.
• Support remediation of gaps in policies, programs, data, controls and disclosure readiness.
• Coordinate data validation, lineage documentation, and internal-control readiness.
• Support assurance-readiness activities and coordination with assurance providers.
• Establish repeatable reporting processes including calendars, RACIs and approval pathways.
• Coordinate with internal teams and external consultants on reporting technology and CSRD activities.
• Align disclosures, narratives and timelines to minimize duplicative requests.

Conocimientos

CSRD knowledge

ESRS

Sustainability reporting

Project management

Stakeholder management

Written and verbal communication

Independent work

Hands-on program-management

Educación

Bachelor’s degree in sustainability or related

Herramientas

Workiva

Descripción del empleo

ERM is hiring a Project Manager, CSRD Reporting & Disclosure Readiness to support a large multinational organization’s CSRD readiness and reporting program remotely base in the Eastern time zone. This individual will serve as an extension of the client’s Corporate Sustainability team, providing hands‑on program management and reporting/disclosure support across multiple functional workstreams. The position requires strong knowledge of CSRD and ESRS, combined with experience in sustainability reporting, program management, data and controls, and assurance readiness. This is anticipated to be a part‑time (16 hours per week), limited‑term assignment, requiring consistent weekly availability with the ability to flex during peak reporting and assurance periods.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Maintain and manage the integrated CSRD readiness plan, including milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions and critical-path activities.
• Coordinate CSRD readiness activities across ESRS 2 and material sustainability topics, working with topic owners, functional owners and data owners to drive actions to completion.
• Establish and manage an effective working cadence across workstreams, including meetings, action tracking, status reporting, issue resolution and escalation.
• Coordinate development and review of narrative and quantitative CSRD disclosures, helping maintain consistency across sustainability programs, metrics, methodologies, narratives, claims and supporting evidence.
• Support follow-up and remediation of gaps related to policies, programs, metrics, methodologies, data, controls, evidence and disclosure readiness.
• Coordinate data validation, data-lineage documentation, internal-control readiness and evidence requirements with appropriate internal stakeholders.
• Support assurance-readiness activities, including coordination with assurance providers, evidence requests, open-item tracking and remediation.
• Establish and maintain repeatable reporting processes, including reporting calendars, RACIs, review and approval pathways, decision logs, templates and controlled reporting language.
• Coordinate with internal teams and external consultants supporting reporting technology, IT and other CSRD activities to ensure dependencies are effectively managed.
• Coordinate with sustainability reporting resources to align overlapping disclosures, narratives, metrics, evidence requests and timelines and minimize duplicative requests to internal stakeholders.
• Translate CSRD and ESRS requirements into practical actions for functional teams and appropriately escalated significant policy, risk, resource or disclosure issues.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree in sustainability, environmental science, business, accounting, finance or a related discipline preferred.
• Strong working knowledge of CSRD and ESRS , with demonstrated experience translating regulatory requirements into actionable workplans and reporting requirements.
• Demonstrated experience supporting or managing complex sustainability reporting, CSRD, disclosure or regulatory-readiness programs, preferably within a large multinational or matrixed organization.
• Strong project and program management skills, including experience coordinating multiple workstreams, stakeholders, milestones and dependencies.
• Experience developing or coordinating narrative and quantitative sustainability disclosures.
• Experience supporting sustainability data validation, methodologies, data lineage, internal controls, evidence documentation and/or assurance readiness.
• Experience coordinating with sustainability assurance providers and supporting development of assurance-ready evidence and documentation.
• Experience establishing reporting governance and repeatable disclosure processes, including RACIs, reporting calendars, review workflows and approval pathways.
• Familiarity with sustainability reporting technology platforms; Workiva experience is strongly preferred.
• Excellent organizational, stakeholder-management and written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently as an embedded member of a client team, create structure from ambiguity, proactively drive actions to completion and appropriately escalated significant policy, risk, resource or disclosure issues.
• Must be comfortable performing hands‑on program-management and reporting work, including maintaining plans and trackers, coordinating stakeholders, reviewing disclosure content and supporting evidence and assurance activities.