Sustainability Reporting and Policy Technical Lead

The Role

The Asset Management and Sustainability area is responsible for the development of asset policies, strategies and plans to determine the significant investment required into Ireland's infrastructure. The area drives investment and the sustainability and innovation agenda for the organisation and leads on Environmental Regulation and Compliance activities, ensuring the quality of water and wastewater is continuously monitored.

The Policy and Reporting team is responsible for developing sustainability-related policies that will enable the realisation of sustainability commitments. The team also conducts monitoring, evaluation and reporting services against objectives outlined by the organisation internally and by external actors, guides the organisation's policy direction and ensures consistency and clarity across internal functions and the tender development and evaluation process. The team provides internal and external facing reporting and acts as the 'one stop shop' for sustainability-related data.

Reporting to the Sustainability Policy and Reporting Manager, the Sustainability Policy and Reporting Technical Lead assesses and evaluates sustainability related policies and strategies, supports sustainability initiatives, ensures alignment with regulatory requirements, and oversees Uisce Éireann's reporting mechanisms.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Research and communicate key emerging information and trends relating to global sustainability initiatives such as climate change policy, corporate sustainability programs and other relevant market areas.
• Develop and maintain a sustainability dashboard and measure and monitor progress against sustainability strategies, goals, metrics and performance targets, developing evaluation systems as required.
• Stay up to date with reporting frameworks and standards, and relevant regulatory requirements as well as rating agency expectations; identify gaps between these requirements and expectations and the company's practices/activities and provide recommendations and implement changes as necessary.
• Benchmark sustainability performance against peers, industry trends and best practices.
• Interpret and analyse evolving sustainability regulations and frameworks at the local, regional, and international levels.
• Prepare regular sustainability reports, including but not limited to climate risk disclosures and other mandated submissions.
• Analyse sustainability reporting data and key performance indicators (KPIs) to identify trends and actionable insights for improvement.
• Analyse data to ensure accuracy, completeness, and consistency in alignment with recognised sustainability frameworks and standards (e.g., GRI, SASB, WEF, TCFD, ISSB).
• Champion Uisce Éireann's commitment to sustainability, transparency, and responsible business practices.
• Collaborate within and across teams to inspire and advance projects, drive change across organisations as necessary, and ensure accountability for cross functional projects.

General Duties and Responsibilities

• Collaboration with key internal stakeholders across the UÉ business.
• Responsible for promoting and delivering health and safety commitments across UÉ and its supply chain, reinforcing positive behaviours and delivering health and safety objectives and requirements to the highest industry standards.
• Support the delivery of the Uisce Éireann Transformation Programme, driving results required within the Directorate and supporting organisation wide objectives.
• Conduct duties and responsibilities in accordance with Uisce Éireann's Information Security policies, standards, processes and controls to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of UÉ business information and delivery of critical services, in accordance with the NIS Directive and any other relevant cybersecurity regulation.
• Other duties as required.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Relevant third level qualification and/or accreditation is desirable and/or relevant experience.
• A minimum of 5 years' experience in the water, utilities or similar industries is desirable.
• Exceptional writing and editing skills with strong attention to detail.
• Strong data analysis and interpretation abilities to produce accurate, clear and compelling narratives for a variety of audiences.
• Experience in managing end to end processes to ensure delivery meets customer expectations.
• Ability to develop and maintain effective strategic partnerships with key stakeholders internally and externally and offer guidance and support to make the right decisions.
• Highly motivated individual, working to the highest professional and ethical standards with proven ability to deliver results.
• Proactively identifying new areas of improvement by challenging current processes and encouraging creative thinking.
• Skilled in continuously reviewing safety practices and suggest ways for improvement.

Uisce Éireann is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive place of work and have a robust strategy and framework called ibelong to enable this. We welcome and encourage applications from interested and suitably qualified individuals regardless of gender, age, racial or ethnic origin, membership of the traveller community, religion or beliefs, family or civil status, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability.