The Corporate Citizenship Company is looking for a project assistant to be part of its reporting team. This individual will have excellent writing abilities as well as good research and project management skills. They will be working on non-financial reports that we will be producing for a number of leading reporters in 2007/08.
Primary tasks/responsibilities:
- Supporting the reporting team in delivering client projects. The focus will be on writing copy for clients' corporate responsibility / sustainability reporting (both print and online).
- Pulling out the key messages from a diverse range of sources and crafting crisp, clean copy, often within tight deadlines.
- You will also be providing research and project management support to the reporting team.
- Understanding the key issues around companies' social and environmental impacts.
- Research and writing support to other teams e.g. producing client management briefings, benchmarking studies.
Key competencies/experience:
- Proven writing skills (ideally with a track record of published material). Experience / involvement in corporate responsibility reporting an advantage.
- Research skills (desk-based, benchmarking and face-to-face)
- Project management experience
- Client-facing experience
- Team player
- Able to work to tight deadlines
- Good communication skills
- Passion for corporate social responsibility
This role will suit someone with a few years' work experience seeking to build an excellent foundation for a career in CSR.
Terms & conditions:
Salary: Around £25,000 per annum
Start date: Oct/Nov 2007
Contractual terms: Open for discussion (possibility for short-term fixed contract or full-time permanent post)
Apply with CV, covering letter and a short example of published material you have written to
sarachallinor@corporate-citizenship.co.uk by Monday 17th Sept 2007.