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Posted April 10, 2024

Senior Sustainability Counsel

GE
Seattle, WA Full Time
Reference: GER3752697_1

Job Description Summary Job Description Job Description Summary The Senior Sustainability Counsel for GE Vernova will be responsible for...

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Job Description Summary

Job Description

Job Description Summary

The Senior Sustainability Counsel for GE Vernova will be responsible for ensuring global ESG regulatory compliance across the company, tracking, assessing, managing and ensuring businesses are compliant with a growing number of ESG national and regional regulations in the areas of ESG. In this role, the Sustainability Counsel will oversee the regulatory reporting requirements to ensure operational rigor, accurate and credible disclosure, achievement of goals, and improved efficiency. The role will support report directly to the Executive Leader for Human Rights and Sustainability.

Essential Responsibilities

  • Responsible for tracking, assessing and ensuring businesses are compliant with growing number of ESG regulations in areas such as environmental, human rights, modern slavery, child labor, and environmental and human rights due diligence.

  • Manage outside counsel relationships and projects.

  • Counsel for all environmental and human rights related global claims or complaints filed.

  • Partner and work closely with the GE Vernova Corporate Securities team.

  • Support the Sustainability team with various projects and initiatives that support regulatory compliance, ratings and ranking, and disclosures.

  • Responsible for overseeing, reviewing, and engaging with businesses with reporting obligations globally.

  • Work closely with senior leadership team on disclosure and report review.

  • Conduct risk reviews with businesses potential risk and compliance issues related to ESG.

  • Support business-managed Conflict Minerals program through centralized due diligence protocols and reporting line with country/region regulations.

Required Qualifications and Experience

  • Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school

  • Minimum of 5 years of experience at a large law firm and/or in-house working on ESG compliance.

  • Demonstrated experience identifying and resolving issues quickly and effectively and ability to make on the spot risk calls.

  • Strong oral and written communication skills.

Desired Characteristics

  • Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.

  • Strong project management and organizational skills.

  • Experience in understanding and navigating governmental and regulatory agencies requirements and relationships.

  • Ability to deal effectively with people and work in diverse teams.

  • Sound business judgment.

  • High level of influencing skills combined with an ability to build excellent working relationships (cross-functionally, globally and externally).

  • Self-confident, self-directed, solution-focused and collaborative personality.

  • Demonstrated experience prioritizing conflicting demands from multiple business clients in an extremely fast paced environment.

  • Level headed approach to taking feedback and reconciling competing views/priorities among business teams and leaders.

  • Ability to set and meet multiple priorities, initiatives and to take on new challenges.

This listing expired on May 10. Applications are no longer accepted.

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