Sustainability Advisor (Nature and Environmental impacts)

Do you want to help bringing about a change for a more sustainable future? Join Group Sustainability as a Sustainability Advisor and help tackle urgent sustainability challenges related to nature and the environment in our business, products and operations.

You and your job
You are our sustainability advisor with environmental expertise focused on food & agribusiness (“F&A”) systems. In these areas, you deal with key business-, environmental- and nature-related challenges related to the F&A system dependencies of, and impact on nature and ecosystems. This means that you provide your expertise on, for example,  challenges related to fertilizer and pesticide use, sustainable water management, and pollutionof food and agribusiness systems, including people and animal health and safety, and environmental impacts of logistics.

Get results

• You challenge and innovate our strategy, environmental and nature-related client due diligence requirements and actions to help make Rabobank more sustainable;
• You present compelling analyses and provide subject-matter expertise to improve the sustainability performance of Rabobank.

Facts & Figures

• 36 hours per week
• Highly experienced team, working on sustainable transitions at a bank with a high sustainability profile
• 9.5 million customers around the world

Top 4 responsibilities

• You are the go-to expert to challenge improve our sustainability ambitions and standards, especially with regard to water, waste, pollution and biodiversity challenges of F&A systems.
• You identify and assess sector dependencies and impacts on natural resources, you know how to translate those in acceptance and performance requirements for client and product assessment and advise your colleagues on business decisions linked to the above-mentioned challenges.
• You know major international policy developments, regulations and industry standards, external stakeholder needs, and best practices in your area of expertise
• You collaborate in a wide Rabobank and external network and deliver key components in our sustainability programs and projects

Context

Within our Sustainability department, we work in in several teams and programs, working on Strategies and Standards, Regulations and Commitments, Reporting & Communications, the Sustainability Transformation Office, the Paris Alignment program and the Nature program. Your role is part of the Sustainability Expertise team, embedded in the Strategy & Standards team. As part of the Expertise team, you work closely together with subject-matter specialists in environmental and social topics, contributing to vision, strategy, and standards we apply in our financing and  other services, contributing to improving our social and environmental impacts, and to diminishing our risks.

Together we achieve more than alone
We believe in the power of difference. Bringing together people’s differences is what makes us an even better bank. So we are very curious about what you can bring to our Sustainability Expertise team.

“As climate, nature and biodiversity factors become ever more critical to the success of our business and of our clients, we wish and need to address environmental challenges and solutions regarding water, pollution and waste with tangible solutions.”

Olaf Brugman, Head of Sustainability Expertise

Group Sustainability’s mission is to inspire change and accelerate the sustainability transitions to grow a better world for current and future generations to prosper.  The 50+ people at Group Sustainability contribute to a more sustainable world and at the same time to deliver on our sustainable goals and ambitions, regulations, commitments and policies. We act as a centre of expertise, advising on a variety of sustainability topics and accelerating the embedding of sustainability in our organization on an ongoing basis. Working together is the way we work; as one determined team at Rabobank.

Speaking of Rabobank: We are a Dutch bank that operates in 38 countries for over 9,500,000 customers. Together with these customers, our members and partners we stand side by side to create a world in which everyone has access to enough healthy food. In the Netherlands we work to create a country in which people are happy with how they live, work and do business.

You and your talent

• You have a drive to make Rabobank more sustainable.
• Proven expertise and experience regarding F&A systems’ environmental and nature-related challenges related to air, water, land and life, preferably (also) in banking or industry.
• At least master level higher education in a relevant subject-matter theme (e.g, Biology or Environmental Science).
• Fluent in English, Dutch is a plus.
• Excellent effective personal communication and writing skills, especially in translating complex subject-matter into compelling analyses, proposals and solutions.
• Ability and willingness to explore (also) other related environmental topics and questions as they occur in the team and need to be addressed.

This is what we offer you

• up to €  6.741,24gross per month (scale 10)
• a thirteenth month, holiday pay and 11% flexible budget (salary, pension, …)
• flexible working times and location-independent working

This is selection of the terms of employment for an Advisor Sustainability – Nature and Environmental Impacts based on a 36-hour working week. This vacancy is for 36 hours per week. You can find all our terms of employment on rabobank.jobs/en/conditions-of-employment.

You and the job application process

Reply to the vacancy for Advisor Sustainability – Nature and Environmental Impacts at Rabobank at the latest 29 June 23.59h with resume and motivational letter.

• Any questions about the job content? Contact Olaf Brugman, head of sustainability expertise, via olaf.brugman@rabobank.nl
• Any questions about working at Rabobank and the process? Contact Ingrid Dillen, Recruiter, via ingrid.dillen@rabobank.nl
• We will hold the interviews through a video call
• You can find answers to the most frequently asked questions on rabobank.jobs/en/faq
• A security check is part of the process
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