Student Assistant for Global Sustainability

Imagine a future where you kick start your career, helping to create a world that runs entirely on green energy in the world’s most sustainable energy company

Join us in this role where you’ll get hands-on experience with developing and implementing best-in-class sustainability programmes and reporting and gain an insight into how an international company works strategically with sustainability.

Welcome to Global Sustainability
You’ll be part of Strategic Environment Programmes where you, together with your colleagues, will help develop and implement our overall strategic approach to climate and environmental sustainability. This includes our work to drive, implement, and report on our ‘net zero by 2040’ target, and to ensure business-relevance and future-fit of our most strategic programmes on supply chain decarbonisation, circular resource use, and net-positive impact on biodiversity. In addition, you’ll also support the work of our strategic social sustainability programmes.

You’ll play an important role in:

• conducting sustainability research and benchmark analysis, mapping stakeholder perspectives to inform the development of our strategic sustainability programmes
• maintaining benchmarks of key performance and stakeholder perspectives across our environmental, social, and governance-related sustainability priorities
• collaborating with the preparation of decision materials for Senior Management, as part of the development and daily management of our sustainability programmes
• engaging in dialogue and consultation meetings with colleagues across multiple departments involved in the implementation of our sustainability programmes
• supporting our engagement with investors and rating agencies to improve our sustainability performance.

To succeed in the role, you:

• enjoy working with a variety of tasks, are self-driven and organised, and strive to deliver high-quality results on time
• can build clear, concise, and top-down structured presentations in PowerPoint, tailored to the target audience
• are analytical, with an eye for detail, and can keep track of data in a structured manner
• are passionate about sustainability and have knowledge of the sustainability and energy fields, incl. sustainability rankings and ESG-ratings, concepts such as net-zero, science-based targets, decarbonisation of hard-to-abate sectors, circular economy, and biodiversity
• are in the final year of your bachelor’s degree or have just started your master’s degree within business administration, economics, environmental science, political science, or similar
• are an excellent communicator, especially in written communication, and speak and write fluently in English.

Join a global leader in renewable energy
Ørsted is a growing green energy major and global leader in climate action. With us you’ll play a part in driving change towards a green energy future. You’ll grow your talent in a fast-paced and high-growth industry where you have plenty of opportunities to learn and develop through challenging assignments and industry-leading experts. Here, you can perform in a friendly work environment based on trust, respect, and collaboration.

Shape the future with us
Send your application to us no later than 9 November 2022. We’ll be conducting interviews on a continuous basis and reserve the right to take down the advert when we have found the right candidate.

Please don’t hesitate to contact Anders Kirkeby Larsen, Senior Sustainability Advisor, on (Denmark +45) 99557081 on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 15:00-16:30 CET if you’d like to know more about the position. If you need to request any adjustments to working practices, working patterns, or the assessment or interview process, we're happy to discuss alternative arrangements.

Please note that for your application to be taken into consideration, you must submit your application via our online career pages and answer the screening questions relevant for your country.