Project Specialist, ESG - (Remote)

🌍 Remote, USA 🎯 Full-time 🕐 Posted Recently

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About the position

The ideal Project Specialist has experience with corporate social responsibility, leads with a unique blend of strategic, project management, and problem-solving skills, takes ownership, and moves with speed to deliver value to our customer. This individual is motivated, results-oriented and committed to supporting the sourcing and ESG teams with data analysis around compliance audits, corrective action plan resolution with suppliers, and foundational ESG data and reporting tasks. This individual is data driven, collaborative, and a problem solver focused on continuously improving the status quo. A day in the life… Support the process and approval of new supplier and partnership set up Supports the new manufacture, partner and factory set up process for Social Compliance Supports overall annual audit processes and pulling audit data Support tactical oversite on existing ESG programming including audits with factories, employee giving and matching gift programs, corporate grant making and broad social impact projects Support education and communication, internally and externally to employees, shareholders, grantees, and suppliers in all aspects of Nordstrom's Social Responsibility program and sustainability efforts Support small cross functional and corporate department priorities, goals, and strategies to exceed company and division objectives. Research, share and maintain knowledge of current industry trends in Environmental, Social, Governance. Support all regulatory and legal requirements and reporting, maintain practices to minimize risk to Nordstrom and exercise due diligence Support ad hoc reporting needs

Support the process and approval of new supplier and partnership set up
Supports the new manufacture, partner and factory set up process for Social Compliance
Supports overall annual audit processes and pulling audit data
Support tactical oversite on existing ESG programming including audits with factories, employee giving and matching gift programs, corporate grant making and broad social impact projects
Support education and communication, internally and externally to employees, shareholders, grantees, and suppliers in all aspects of Nordstrom's Social Responsibility program and sustainability efforts
Support small cross functional and corporate department priorities, goals, and strategies to exceed company and division objectives.
Research, share and maintain knowledge of current industry trends in Environmental, Social, Governance.
Support all regulatory and legal requirements and reporting, maintain practices to minimize risk to Nordstrom and exercise due diligence
Support ad hoc reporting needs

A Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent experience
Apparel/Footwear/Accessories Social Audit remediation experience
Demonstrated ability to gathers data to report status and make decisions
Demonstrated ability to negotiate and facilitate
Ability to quickly learn other applications as necessary
Clear and effective written and verbal communication and strong interpersonal skills