Project Manager, CSRD Reporting & Disclosure Readiness (Field Based)

ERM; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 124,000; Part time

Job summary

ERM seeks a part‑time Project Manager, CSRD Reporting & Disclosure Readiness to support a multinational CSRD program remotely from the Eastern time zone. This role acts as an embedded member of the client's Sustainability team, managing plans, data, narratives and assurance readiness across workstreams.

The specialist will translate CSRD/ESRS requirements into actionable workplans, coordinate with data and topic owners, and maintain evidence and control readiness for disclosures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in sustainability, environmental science, business, accounting, or related discipline.
• Strong CSRD/ESRS knowledge with ability to translate regulatory requirements into action plans.
• Experience supporting or managing complex sustainability reporting programs within multinational organizations.
• Strong PM skills coordinating multiple workstreams, milestones and dependencies.
• Experience developing narrative and quantitative sustainability disclosures.
• Experience supporting sustainability data validation, data lineage, internal controls, and evidence documentation.
• Experience coordinating with sustainability assurance providers and evidence.
• Experience establishing reporting governance, RACIs, calendars, and review workflows.
• Familiarity with sustainability reporting technology platforms; Workiva preferred.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and manage the integrated CSRD readiness plan, including milestones, dependencies, risks, issues and critical‑path activities.
• Coordinate CSRD readiness activities across ESRS 2 and material sustainability topics with owners to drive actions to completion.
• Establish and manage a cadence across workstreams, including meetings, action tracking and status reporting.
• Coordinate development and review of narrative and quantitative CSRD disclosures for consistency across programs.
• Support follow‑up and remediation of gaps related to policies, metrics, data and evidence.
• Coordinate data validation, data‑lineage documentation, internal‑control readiness and evidence requirements.
• Support assurance‑readiness activities with assurance providers and evidence requests.
• Establish repeatable reporting processes: calendars, RACIs, review workflows and approval pathways.
• Coordinate with internal teams and external consultants supporting reporting tech and CSRD activities.
• Align disclosures, narratives, metrics and timelines across resources to minimize duplicate requests.
• Translate CSRD/ESRS requirements into practical actions for functional teams and escalate material issues.

Skills

CSRD/ESRS knowledge

Stakeholder management

Project management

Regulatory reporting

Narrative disclosures

Data lineage

Assurance readiness

Governance & RACIs

Workiva familiarity

Education

Bachelor's degree in sustainability or related

Tools

Workiva

Job description

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 material 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.