Especialista de ESG

The primary mission of the Especialista de ESG is to support the rollout and consolidation of CMOC's corporate ESG strategy across its gold operations in Brazil. This involves coordinating the end-to-end collection, analysis, and validation of environmental, social, and governance indicators from industrial units, ensuring complete traceability and data consistency. Key responsibilities include structuring formal sustainability disclosures aligned with global frameworks such as the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), monitoring performance against corporate sustainability targets, and tracking corrective action plans. The specialist also evaluates multi-dimensional ESG risks, encompassing climate impacts, tailing management, human rights, water stewardship, and biodiversity. Additionally, the role supports internal and external ESG audits, leads due diligence processes, tracks evolving mining-specific sustainability regulations, and crafts high-level presentations and executive reports to guide leadership decision-making.

Working in this position provides significant exposure to complex industrial sustainability governance within a multinational extractives company. The candidate will gain hands-on expertise in navigating both Brazilian regulatory frameworks and stringent international standards for mining assets. The role offers the opportunity to master advanced non-financial reporting methodologies, audit defense mechanisms, and corporate risk matrices. Interacting with global counterparts will also improve cross-cultural corporate communication and expand familiarity with international sustainable finance demands.

The ideal candidate brings a solid track record in corporate sustainability, ESG consulting, or environmental management, ideally developed within mining, heavy industry, or high-impact sectors. A bachelor's degree in Environmental Engineering, Mining Engineering, Business, Law, or related fields provides the necessary foundational background. Essential technical qualifications include proven mastery of GRI standards, comprehensive experience in data consolidation and ESG KPI tracking, and familiarity with due diligence and risk assessment. Fluency or advanced proficiency in English is required for cross-border alignment with global teams, coupled with advanced proficiency in Excel and presentation tools. Behaviorally, the role demands strong analytical capability, high attention to data integrity, persuasive stakeholder management skills, and the flexibility to travel regularly to industrial operations.

To stand out, tailor your application to emphasize rigorous data governance and operational integration rather than generic CSR communication. Show concrete examples where you consolidated disparate site metrics into audit-ready disclosures or successfully monitored complex risk mitigation plans in extractive contexts. Highlight your familiarity with mining-specific material topics such as tailing dams, water recirculation, decarbonization, and community relations. Demonstrating clear communication skills in English and presenting past experience collaborating with international corporate offices will significantly bolster your candidacy.

The position centers on the critical intersection between operational risk management and corporate transparency in mining. Key environmental priorities include tailings and waste management, water stewardship, energy efficiency, greenhouse gas accounting, and biodiversity conservation in operational territories. From a social and governance perspective, the role pays close attention to community relations, human rights, health and safety standards, and diversity initiatives. Governance efforts focus on compliance, third-party due diligence, and strong internal controls to satisfy global investor and customer expectations.

A primary challenge will be standardizing data collection methodologies across diverse operating units where operational priorities often compete with administrative reporting requirements. Ensuring timely, audit-grade consistency from site managers demands patience, diplomacy, and persistent engagement. Another significant obstacle lies in navigating the complex regulatory scrutiny surrounding the mining industry in Brazil. Balancing regional operational realities with stringent global corporate mandates requires strong risk-prioritization frameworks and strong analytical synthesis under tight reporting timelines.

A regular day could start with reviewing data submissions and clarifying anomalies with environmental and safety supervisors based at the gold operations. Mid-morning might involve a coordination call with corporate and international teams to review GRI disclosure alignment or validate emissions inventories. In the afternoon, the specialist may evaluate risk registers for an upcoming sustainability audit, build an executive slide deck summarizing quarterly KPI trends for regional leadership, or analyze emerging regulatory requirements affecting Brazilian mining concessions.

Given the strategic importance of ESG in heavy industry and CMOC's global footprint, this role serves as an exceptional springboard for senior management positions in corporate sustainability, risk governance, or compliance. Demonstrated success in harmonizing operational metrics with corporate goals can open paths toward leading corporate-level sustainability departments, transitioning into international sustainability leadership, or moving laterally into operational risk and investor relations functions.

On a daily basis, the specialist works closely with operational unit managers, EHS teams, and site technical specialists to harvest data and address compliance gaps. Within the corporate office, strong interfaces exist with legal, investor relations, internal audit, and supply chain teams. Externally and globally, key counterparts include CMOC's global sustainability counterparts, external auditors, independent verifiers, industry associations, and benchmarking agencies evaluating the company's non-financial performance.