Junior Auditor, ESG

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Brazil.

📋 Description

• Support the planning and execution of second and third-party audits, as well as validation and verification (VVB) activities of environmental information, ensuring compliance with ESG standards, environmental regulations, and specific certification criteria.

• Focus particularly on carbon and sustainability projects throughout the food production and processing supply chain, using recognized methodologies and relying on objective evidence.

• Contribute to the technical consistency, traceability, transparency, and impartiality of evaluation processes, with progressive autonomy based on proven competencies recorded in the CIMS.

• Assist in the planning and execution of both national and international audits, including second-party (clients and suppliers) and third-party (external audits).

• Conduct activities such as site sampling, interviews, and defining audit schedules, ensuring alignment with established standards.

• Prepare preliminary audit activities by consulting stakeholders, researching backgrounds, and collecting key documents to optimize time and quality of the process.

• Perform validation/verification activities and remote or on-site audits in accordance with normative requirements of the scope (ISO 19011, ISO 17065, ISO 14065:2023, ISO 17029:2021), with autonomy granted upon demonstration of competencies recorded in the CIMS, relying on collected evidence and ensuring independence, impartiality, and objectivity.

• Draft audit reports and checklists, submitting them for technical review or approval, ensuring the quality and traceability of information.

• Record and monitor non-conformity reports, analyzing clients' action plans and overseeing the implementation of corrective measures.

• Support the application of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission accounting methodologies, ensuring consistency with recognized standards.

• Verify compliance with international sustainability standards, including impact reporting, environmental regulations, and social and environmental safeguards, when applicable.

• Record travel expenses and administrative proofs in accordance with internal policies.

• Keep personal and professional records up to date (audit certificates, logs, visas, passport, driver's license, vaccinations).

• Participate in training and internal meetings, promoting continuous learning in auditing and certification practices.

• Adhere to internal and client health, safety, and compliance standards.

• Identify risks, deviations, and improvement opportunities, communicating with responsible teams to define corrective actions.

• Ensure confidentiality and the absence of conflicts of interest in all activities performed.

⛳️ Requirements

• High motivation and passion for sustainability and climate change, as well as their regulations.

• Commitment to ethics, impartiality, and ESG practices.

• Ability to apply auditing principles according to ISO 19011.

• Ability to support audits in environmental certifications.

• Proficiency in using Excel for analysis and reporting.

• Capability to apply sustainability concepts and remote sensing/GIS tools in carbon project audits and verifications.

• Ability to interpret and apply environmental standards and forestry/agricultural certification regulations in audits.

• Intermediate English (reading, writing, and conversation).

• Bachelor's degree in Environmental Sciences, Animal Science, Veterinary Medicine, Agronomy, or related fields.

• Valid Class B driver's license.

• Experience in auditing or consulting is not mandatory for the Junior level, but possessing a passport, visas, and up-to-date vaccination records is desirable.

• Previous participation in activities related to sustainability or environmental certifications is preferable.

• Prior experience in recognized certifications is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Availability for domestic and international travel.