Battery Passport 3.0 - Individual consultant scope of work

Battery Passport 3.0 indicator development – Consultant scope of work

Battery Passport Overview

The Global Battery Alliance (GBA) is built on the vision of a circular, responsible and just battery value chain in 2030. The GBA Battery Passport is the GBA’s flagship programme for achieving this vision, by providing a sustainability framework for companies in the battery value chain to meet legislative expectations and to go beyond compliance.

The vision of the GBA Battery Passport, the only global sustainability certification for batteries, is to accelerate the scaling of sustainable, responsible, and circular battery value chains by:

1. Establishing a global battery passport ecosystem, including harmonized sustainability performance expectations for batteries
2. Making company efforts measurable, trusted and comparable
3. Tracking and rewarding improvement actions across the value chain with a comprehensive ESG score for consumers

The GBA Battery Passport will enable benchmarking and comparison of supply chain sustainability performance, at the level of individual batteries. This will contribute to a marketplace where products can compete on independently validated and verifiable sustainability performance, and companies can differentiate themselves to customers, investors and end consumers with robust and trustable green claims. Ultimately, this scoring system will incentivise improved sustainability performance throughout the battery supply chain.   

By Q3 of 2025, the Global Battery Alliance (GBA) will be releasing a Beta version of the Battery Passport - a cohesive framework that sets expectations for sustainability performance in the battery supply chain, guides supply chain companies to demonstrate their sustainability performance, assures the credibility of sustainability performance data, and allows the measurement and comparison of supply chain sustainability performance. The Beta version will also go out to public consultation.

The 2025 edition of Battery Passport will cover the following ESG issue rulebooks (see Figure 1).

Figure 1. Battery Passport issue categories[1]

The GBA has already produced drafts of most ESG issues, regulations and standards of the Battery Passport 3.0 framework, following a refined approach building on lessons from previous phases and the pilots conceptualized by the Secretariat, and incorporate the following key considerations:

• Form a comprehensive framework for benchmarking mineral supply chain sustainability performance.
• Align the Battery Passport indicator framework with the minimum due diligence expectations of the EU Batteries Regulation, OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Business Conduct and Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas, and embedding a risk-based due diligence approach throughout.
• Harness equivalency frameworks for voluntary sustainability standards to allow efficient recognition of sites’ existing sustainability achievements in Battery Passport scoring.
• Identifies gaps in existing standards’ coverage of ESG issues and documenting expectations related to those gaps.
• Lend itself to an ESG scoring framework feeding into the GBA’s product certification for batteries.

The GBA is seeking to engage an individual consultant to support the finalisation of the Battery Passport indicator framework for public consultation, and processing feedback.

Objectives of the assignment

The objectives of the assignment are to:

• Perform quality assurance of and integrate GBA Working Groups and stakeholders’ feedback into draft indicators, maintaining and updating standard equivalency where necessary
• Support with maintaining a log, finding solutions, and facilitating consensus building on sticky issues amongst GBA’s multistakeholder membership
• Support preparation of and processing feedback from standard setting organisations’ review of the indicators and standard equivalency
• Support preparation for public consultation of the framework, incl. an efficient process for collecting, processing and incorporating feedback
• Support with guidance documents on the Battery Passport for supply chain companies
• Support the Secretariat in populating the benchmarking of standards’ governance structures, data assurance practices, transparency, etc. according to existing guidance

Timeline and deliverables

The deliverables are as follows:

Deliverable	Timeline
Draft rulebooks for 2025 / BP3.0 scope revised and consulted within working groups	June-July 2025
Working Group feedback incorporated and sticky issues resolved or documented for later	July-August 2025
Indicator framework ready for public consultation with appropriate user guidance	September 2025
Feedback from public consultation documented and classified, suggestions for incorporation documented	December 2025

Requirements:

Mid- to senior level individual consultant with the following experience and qualifications:

Required:

• A Master’s degree in law, environmental management, political science, economics, engineering/science, or in another discipline directly relevant to the assignment, or demonstrated equivalent professional experience relevant to the battery value chain
• Regulatory, policy and practical understanding and experience on the environmental, social and governance contexts of battery value chains, especially (battery) mineral production and due diligence
• Experience in developing, using and analyzing battery mineral value chain-relevant ESG performance and due diligence standards, especially upstream standards
• An understanding of the key international due diligence and responsible business conduct guidance and conventions: UNGP, ILO, OECD and others
• Demonstrated experience in producing high-quality, concrete tools and deliverables related to the above landscape
• Excellent written and spoken English
• Attention to detail, ability to distill complex information into clear and understandable language and visual presentation
• Excellent command of MS Office suite (including Excel) and other IT tools for managing complex and large sets of data and documents (such as the indicator framework at different levels of depth, feedback logs, etc.)

Desired:

• Experience in working in a multi-stakeholder environment and of consensus building
• Experience in environmental due diligence and stewardship along the battery value chain and especially mining

Roles of the GBA

GBA Secretariat:

• Providing existing drafts and resources, background documents, guidance, feedback and quality assurance of consultant deliverables
• Facilitating Working Group meetings and inputs for indicator development

Working Groups:

• Bringing subject matter expertise on rulebooks/indicators into discussion on performance expectations, based on drafts produced by Secretariat/consultant (verbal and/or written inputs)
• Validating proposed expectations and principles for each issue/rulebook
• Rating/scoring existing standards expectations and principles

Steering Committee:

• Oversee direction and technical quality of work
• Sign off indicator framework
• Sign off overall methodological guidance for rulebooks/indicators (including engagement/endorsement principles of standards)
• Sign off final rulebooks

Estimated level of effort:

The GBA is seeking an individual consultant for (near) full time until end of December, 2025. Ideal start date is the 1^st of June. The consultant will report to a Programme Manager, GBA Secretariat.

How to apply:

Please send your CV, desired daily rate in EUR and motivation letter (max. 2 pages) responding directly to each of the above requirements and demonstrating concrete examples and references. Please provide contact details of at least two references related to previous experience.

Application deadline: 15^th May. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

[1] The detailed scope of each rulebook is being finalised. Greenhouse Gas and Circular design rulebooks will be treated separately to the ESG/due diligence risk categories in focus of Battery Passport 3.0