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Location: London / frequent travel to London

The Data & Tools Senior Associate will play a key role within SBTi’s Research and Technical Development Team, contributing to the scientific and analytical infrastructure that underpins SBTi Standards. The role ensures that SBTi’s target setting tools and pathways data are robust, transparent, and consistently maintained across the organisation’s research and standards development activities. 

This is a technical delivery role focused on maintaining and improving SBTi’s analytical tools and data systems, working under the direction of the Research Governance & Engagement Lead. The postholder will support the maintenance and continuous improvement of SBTi’s sectoral target-setting tools (i.e., Aviation, FLAG, Power, Buildings, Finance) and contribute to the development and governance of the central Pathways Database, which integrates data from bottom up global modelling sources such as the IEA, IPCC, and bottom up models. Working closely with technical experts and product owners across the Technical Department, this role will help translate research outputs into reliable, documented analytical systems that support credible, science-based target setting.

This position will report to the Research Governance & Engagement Lead

Key responsibilities include: 

1. Pathways Data Management

• Support the development and maintenance of the SBTi Pathways Database, integrating datasets from multiple scenario sources (IEA, IPCC, NGFS, and others).
• Document pathway assumptions, scenario metadata, and emissions intensity metrics to ensure transparency and traceability.
• Manage data versioning and updates in coordination with the Pathways & Methods team, ensuring consistency with SBTi’s standards and research outputs.

2. Tool Development and Maintenance

• Maintain and update SBTi’s cross sector and sectoral target-setting tools, ensuring they reflect current pathways, methods, and criteria.
• Collaborate with technical experts and product owners across the Technical Department to translate research outputs into structured, documented analytical tools.
• Conduct testing and validation of tools prior to release to ensure accuracy, reproducibility, and alignment with methodological requirements.
• Ensure consistency between pathway data used in tools and the master Pathways Database.

3. Documentation and Data Governance

• Ensure all analytical tools, datasets, and assumptions are well-documented, transparent, and version-controlled, in line with SBTi’s research governance standards.
• Contribute to internal QA and methodological documentation, including metadata, technical annexes, and release notes.
• Support the publication and external review of datasets and tools, ensuring alignment with SBTi’s scientific governance procedures.

4. Collaboration and Coordination

• Work closely with technical experts across the Technical Department to ensure that tools and datasets are consistent with SBTi’s research outputs, methodologies, and standards.
• Contribute technical support and documentation for analytical deliverables as part of cross-functional project teams.

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Location: London / frequent travel to London

Role Summary:

The Team Coordinator provides essential organisational and administrative support to the Chief technical Officer, their senior management team and the wider team, ensuring smooth daily operations and effective coordination of cross-team activities. This mid-level role is pivotal in managing schedules, facilitating communication, organising offsites and maintaining efficient workflows. With a strong focus on operational excellence, the Team Coordinator enables the team to achieve its objectives in a timely and well-organised manner. The role also includes budget and HR responsibility. It exemplifies respectful behaviour, open communication, and integrity, embodying SBTi’s values and supports a positive, healthy work culture

Key Responsibilities:

• Administrative Support: Manages the Technical Department and CTO calendars, schedules meetings, arranges travel, etc.
• Manages TD staff and Managers' meetings.
• Plans, coordinates and facilitates team events, e.g. offsites, workshops etc.
• Finance and HR focal point: Authorises budget requests, tracks budget vs monthly expenditure and executes operational HR responsibilities
• Prepares for meetings, including agenda creation, gathering materials, and taking minutes. Follows up on action items and decisions made during meetings.
• Documentation & Reporting: Organises and maintains files, documents, and any other relevant records easily accessible.
• Coordinates and manages tasks across multiple teams for smooth execution and goal alignment and ensures knowledge transfer across teams.
• Ensures efficient management of internal and external queries to the Technical Teams and manages the TD query inbox.
• Ensures efficient management of internal Communications queries to the CTO via ticketing system.
• Support the onboarding process for new team members.
• Supports other ad-hoc tasks as required by the organisation.
• Role models respectful behaviour, open communication and integrity as vital pillars of SBTi’s culture.

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Location: London with some flexibility to exceptional candidates that can frequently travel to London from elsewhere in the UK and Europe.

The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) seeks a Director of Engagement, Growth and Insights to lead our strategic efforts in corporate engagement and insights generation. This role is pivotal for enhancing SBTi’s impact in accelerating corporate decarbonisation. 

Reporting to the Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer, this leader will shape and support SBTi’s global, regional and sectoral engagement and growth programs. The overall focus will be to drive growth through engagement programmes and bring insight into standards development. The Director will also supervise the stakeholder engagement team, which runs the consultation stage of our standards development process. 

The ideal candidate will blend a proactive and growth-oriented approach to SBTi’s external stakeholder engagement with deep collaboration internally to unlock value across SBTi. 

Key Responsibilities

Engagement Strategy

• Strategic Leadership and growth: Identify segments and regions of potential growth, in line with organisational strategic priorities, and craft plans to activate funnel of businesses and partnerships. Demonstrate pragmatism in implementing plans based on previous success and resourcefully using the global partner network.
• Regional and Sectoral Program Design: Working closely with regional and sectoral engagement leads, operationalise engagement plans in line with organisational priorities. Provide a framework for operationalizing this strategy across regions and sectors, aligning with overarching organizational goals.
• Market Intelligence: Monitor trends, regulatory changes, and practices within corporate sustainability standards to adapt engagement strategies, ensure SBTi standards respond to market needs and align with and inform SBTi’s overall strategy.
• Insight Integration and unlocking value across SBTi: Create structured feedback loops to funnel insights gathered outside of formal consultations back into SBTi’s standards development.

Programme Delivery

• Regional Team Leadership: Guide and empower regional teams to deliver impactful regional insight and engagement programs directly and through partnerships.
• Sectoral Team Leadership: Support the sectoral leads to develop sectoral approaches and briefs, with a focus on the most challenging sectors and segments and working closely with our technical standards team.
• Stakeholder Consultation Leadership: Provide oversight and support to the Stakeholder Engagement Senior Manager who coordinates stakeholder consultations that inform SBTi standards development, working in close consultation with the Technical Department.

Operational Improvement and Central Support to Regional Programmes

• Resource Development: Collaborate with departments across SBTi to develop and refine educational materials and engagement resources. Support regional teams in customizing these materials to meet local needs.
• Operational Support and Process Development: Establish processes that bridge central functions with regional programs, ensuring cohesive strategy execution.
• Issue resolution: Take issues raised by regional leads back to the broader organization, driving cross-functional solutions to challenges.
• Partnership Development and Management: Strengthen and expand relationships with SBTi founding partners, industry groups, and sustainability organizations. Leverage these partnerships for broader engagement and to gather actionable market insights.

Representation

• Events Strategy: Work closely with the Head of Market Transformation and Strategic Partnerships, the Communications Department, and Regional and Sectoral Leads to define and deliver regional events strategies and bring regional expertise and context to global events such as COP.
• Representation and Advocacy: Act as a spokesperson for SBTi, advocating for science-based target setting at events and in media interviews.

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The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) is looking for a Delivery Manager to support the effective planning, coordination, and delivery of operational work across the SBTi Services function.

As the Delivery Manager, the role will focus on overseeing pooled resourcing, demand forecasting, and cross-functional delivery coordination to ensure that services are delivered efficiently, consistently, and at scale. The role also provides strong administrative, organisational, and governance support to enable smooth day-to-day operations across globally distributed teams.

This position will report to the Head of Target Operations.

Key responsibilities include: 

• Overseeing the pooled resourcing model across SBTi Services, ensuring flexible and effective deployment of operational capacity
• Implementing and maintaining cross-functional resourcing approaches across core operational tasks and ad-hoc, cross-functional projects
• Allocating Services team members in coordination with manager
• Implementing performance requirements to consistently uphold standards within pooled resource model
• Monitoring demand across registration and validation submissions and identifying capacity risks
• Leading monthly capacity planning and forecasting meetings, including preparation of data and materials
• Acting as a point of contact for validation allocation queries and coordinating changes across teams
• Coordinating delivery across international teams, accounting for time zone differences
• Leading agendas, note-taking, and action tracking for department head and management meetings
• Organising off-site meetings and supporting organisational cadence activities (OKRs, performance cycles)
• Supporting governance and delivery-related activities, including preparation for SBTi Services board meetings
• Centralising and maintaining automated customer communications and regular reviews of canned responses
• Leading bi-annual reviews of communications, documents, and work instructions
• Owning internal document organisation and liaising with the Quality team on external document reviews

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Location. London, UK

The Subject Matter Expert, Corporate Standards plays a central role in the development, coherence, and interpretation of the Corporate Net-Zero Standard v2. Acting as a “go-to” expert on the Standard, this role maintains a holistic, bird’s-eye view across chapters, ensuring conceptual clarity, scientific rigor, and alignment with evolving GHG accounting frameworks. The expert leads key technical components of the Standard, supporting cross-departmental collaboration and contributing to harmonized guidance across SBTi’s standards.

The role also ensures interoperability between the Corporate Net-Zero Standard and other net-zero and GHG accounting frameworks. A critical interface with external stakeholders, the expert engages with Expert Working Groups, pilot-testing companies, and third-party collaborators to gather feedback and validate guidance. The role also supports SBTi’s collaborative culture by modeling respectful communication, integrity, and teamwork.

Key responsibilities include: 

• Corporate Net-Zero Standard stewardship: Maintains a holistic, bird’s-eye view of the Corporate Net-Zero Standard v2 and serves as the “go-to” expert for internal and external guidance on the Standard’s interpretation. Leads the development of FAQs, tools, templates, and training materials, and plays a key role in cross-departmental collaboration throughout the standard development process.
• Technical development: Collaborates with senior team members to draft, review, and finalize technical outputs in line with SBTi’s Standard Operating Procedures. Leads and maintains Chapter 1 (Net-Zero Ambition) and relevant GHG accounting components of Chapter 2 (Base Year Performance) of CNZS V2, as well as supporting the Head of Corporate Standards to ensure conceptual coherence across all chapters.
• Interoperability with other net-zero frameworks: Monitors evolving GHG accounting standards (GHG Protocol, ISO, sector frameworks) and advises on implications for the SBTi’s standards. Supports efforts to map and align SBTi standards with other net-zero frameworks.
• Alignment between SBTi standards: Plays a key role in ensuring consistency across SBTi standards, including sector-specific standards such as FLAG, by contributing to the technical development and alignment of harmonized guidance.
• External Engagement Partner: Supports external engagement activities, including coordination with Expert Working Groups, participation in technical discussions, and collaboration with pilot-testing companies to gather feedback and validate technical resources.
• Collaboration and internal culture: Works across SBTi teams to ensure technical consistency and high-quality outputs, and promotes SBTi values of respect, collaboration, and open communication.
• The postholder may be required to carry out additional duties or adapt to evolving responsibilities, beyond those outlined in this job description, in line with organisational needs and changing business priorities.

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Location. London, UK

The Value Chains Subject Matter Expert (SME) provides technical expertise on supply chains, scope 3 emissions, and value chain decarbonisation to support the development, finalisation, and implementation of the Corporate Net-Zero Standard (CNZS), focusing on the updated scope 3 framework.

The role will contribute to drafting and refining scope 3 criteria and methods, digesting public consultation feedback, supporting the collection and analysis of expert and pilot company insights, and developing implementation guidance. The role will also support interoperability of the CNZS scope 3 criteria with SBTi sector standards and help to enable consistency with other global standards where relevant.

The SME collaborates across the Technical Department and with external experts to ensure that SBTi’s outputs are scientifically robust, practical for companies, and aligned with organisational and global climate goals.

 Key responsibilities include: 

• Technical expertise on scope 3 and value chains: Contribute to the development and refinement of the CNZS scope 3 methods, criteria, metrics, and intervention guardrails to ensure clarity, ambition and feasibility
• Support CNZS development: Analyse and synthesise data from public consultations, integrate insights into revised CNZS criteria and support technical documentation and conclusions reporting.
• Engagement with external experts: Support preparation of technical materials, evidence briefs and surveys for Expert Working Group/pilot discussions, synthesise feedback and support integration of insights into the evolving scope 3 framework.
• Implementation guidance and resources: Support drafting of guidance documents, tools, templates, training and FAQs to drive scope 3 target setting and delivery.
• Interoperability with other standards: Monitor developments in relevant standards (e.g. GHG Protocol AMI TWG, AIM Platform, VCI etc), provide technical input into external consultations to help enable coherence across standards where possible.
• Alignment between SBTi standards: Play a key role in ensuring consistency across SBTi standards, including sector-specific standards such as FLAG, by contributing to the technical development and alignment of harmonized guidance.
• Collaboration and internal culture: work across SBTi teams to ensure technical consistency and high-quality outputs, and promote SBTi values of respect, collaboration and open communication.

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