Job ID: 20343
Location: London, GB
Area of interest: Marketing, Brand & Communications
Job type: Fixed Term Worker
Work style: Hybrid Working
Opening date: 26 Mar 2025

JOB SUMMARY

We have an exciting opportunity to join the team for a 12 month contract (maternity cover) in the role of Sustainability & External Communications Director. We are committed to a fair and inclusive recruitment process, should you require any reasonable adjustments- please let us know so we can aim to accommodate.
The role holder will be supporting the development of our communications strategy, helping us build brand equity and assist in managing and mitigating risks. The candidate will be engaging in external and internal communications campaigns designed to build awareness of and association with the Bank as the partner of choice on the transition. The role holder will be making vital contributions to shaping the Bank’s agenda at key sustainability-related conferences and events, developing and coordinating key content for our website and the annual report. A key sustainability part of the role will be managing the greenwashing risk across the Bank.
This role will help ensure connectivity across the Corporate Affairs, Brand & Marketing (CABM), Strategy & Talent (S&T), Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO), Group Public & Regulatory Affairs (GPRA), Investor Relations, Group Finance teams and wider business segments

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Reputational Risk
• Sustainability Risk
• Strategic Communications
• Content Creation
• Copywriting

QUALIFICATIONS

• A background in communications is a must as is experience within sustainability
• Deep understanding of current sustainability issues, policies, news and politics, including relevant reporting standards and frameworks.
• Senior stakeholder management and communication
• Vast personal experience in communications, within financial services is an advantage
• Ability to develop effective and collaborative working relationships across countries

ABOUT STANDARD CHARTERED

We’re an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we’ve worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you’re looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can’t wait to see the talents you can bring us.
Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you’ll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES

• Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in Corporate Communications and the wider CABM function; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures.