ERM is hiring a Project Manager, CSRD Reporting & Disclosure Readiness to support a large multinational organization’s CSRD readiness and reporting program remotely based 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 escalate 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 escalate 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.