Senior Analyst, SDG's

Principles for Responsible Investment

Location London
Salary Up to £58,000, plus benefits
Team Responsible Investment
  • Closing: 5:00pm, 3rd Jul 2019 BST

Job Description

Senior Analyst, SDG's

Location: London

Salary: £48,000-58,000 p.a

Duration: Permanent

About the PRI

The PRI is the world’s leading proponent of responsible investment. It works to understand the investment implications of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors and to support its international network of investor signatories in incorporating these factors into their investment and ownership decisions. The PRI acts in the long-term interests of its signatories, of the financial markets and economies in which they operate and ultimately of the environment and society as a whole. The PRI is truly independent. It encourages investors to use responsible investment to enhance returns and better manage risks but does not operate for its own profit; it engages with global policymakers but is not associated with any government; it is supported by, but not part of, the United Nations.

Working at the PRI provides an opportunity to engage with highly motivated, culturally diverse professionals on a wide range of cutting edge issues, such as income inequality through the lens of sustainable finance. The PRI provides scope for development at all levels with opportunities for project leadership and management working alongside some of the most influential signatories and leaders across financial markets and economies. In combination with a supportive culture that encourages continuous learning and flexible working policies, PRI is a highly engaging place to work on truly transformative issues.

Job description

As part of the SDG team, we are looking for an experienced individual with working knowledge of the investment industry (both public and private markets) to manage SDG focused workstreams. The objective of the role is to identifying and supporting investors on how they can integrate the SDGs into investment practices across different asset classes within their fiduciary duty remits. To this end, you will be responsible for keeping abreast of global practices, and developing practice guidance, case studies, event content and be active in disseminating investment relevant SDG knowledge to mainstream investors. The role will report to the Head of SDGs.

Core Responsibilities:

  • Foster deep subject matter expertise on SDGs and their relevance to mainstream investment

  • Produce investor focused guidance material, research content and tools.

  • Represent and promote PRI’s work at external events (requires travelling)

  • Collaborate with key industry initiatives, including the Impact Management Project, and identify other initiatives to advance PRI’s SDG strategy

  • Work collaboratively across different teams within PRI and build in-depth understanding of the interplay between investment practices, engagement, policy and disclosure

  • Professionally manage PRI’s investor initiatives, including managing PRI advisory committee, which requires understanding and balancing different stakeholder needs

  • Become familiar with PRI’s Reporting and Assessment Framework and support the R&A team with the revision of the R&A Framework

  • Planning, budgeting and managing projects

  • Proactively managing communications and stakeholder expectations (both internal and external)

Core Competencies:

PRI expects roles at a ‘Senior Associate’ and above within the organisation to demonstrate managerial skills across the following core competencies:

Analytical

•Uses business knowledge and analysis to identify issues, applying fact- based insight to develop and evaluate options, offering solutions in a timely manner

•Identifies gaps in working practices that impact effectiveness and proposes solutions

•Maintains a professional and impartial stance in assessing all information which feeds into decision making

•Balances rigour with pragmatism in conducting analyses that are fit for purpose

•Effectively reviews and quality-checks all analyses

Business Awareness

•Focuses on maximising Signatory or operational value and driving PRI outcomes

•Actively keeps up-to-date with developments both within the PRI and externally

•Utilises knowledge and experience across the PRI to ensure highest quality outputs are delivered

•Balances the internal needs of the PRI and that of Signatory Organisations to deliver outputs

•Understands how own area of responsibility drives value to the PRI and meets its mission

Collaborative

•Builds consensus and trust amongst team members and wider colleagues

•Is responsive to feedback, proactively following up to ensure any issues are resolved

•Proactively engages with colleagues in the wider organisation to gain a broader understanding of issues

•Flexes style and approach based on colleagues’ level of understanding and preferences

Communicative

•Speaks in a variety of settings, varying style based on type of audience

•Uses a variety of innovative methods in presentations to engage the audience and improve their understanding

•Clarifies matters/issues by absorbing and understanding relevant information and feeding them back in concise terms

•Engages the recipient using their language, tailoring communication style for the audience

Developmental

•Knows and leverages own strengths

•Actively seeks opportunities to enhance knowledge/ experience

•Gains input and facilitates challenge to improve processes and new ways of working

•Actively seeks and shares feedback wherever possible, as a means of improvement

•Maintains a local network of contacts to encourage knowledge sharing

Structured

•Has a strong sense of execution and delivery, working to agreed deadlines, involving relevant colleagues and allowing enough time for review and quality assurance

•Monitors and reports on progress, providing regular updates as appropriate

•Builds time into work plans or projects to assess performance and provide feedback

•Captures knowledge at the end of each project/ process/activity, to use and share

Technical Competencies & Requirements:

  • Substantial experience of working within investment industry

  • Masters-level education in the relevant field, ideally with studies in finance / investment management (e.g. CFA) as well as sustainability

  • Subject matter expert in the Sustainable Development Goals and Environmental, Social and Governance issues, strong understanding of the interplay between those issues and investment practices

  • Understanding of fundamental financial considerations in investment management and of both the asset owner and investment manager perspective

  • Knowledge of the key industry players (investors, development finance institutions, governments, service providers, associations, standard setters etc)

  • Strong project management and organisation skills and ability to manage diverse interests and expectations

  • Excellent writing, communication and presentation skills. Experience of writing professional reports is a requisite

  • Strong attention to detail with a creative and innovative mindset

  • A collaborative and consultative approach to working with others, able to take ownership of challenges or complaints and see them through to resolution.

  • Principles driven

  • IT/system skills (Microsoft Office, website management systems, CRM, social media, webcasts, etc.)

  • As this is a global role, international travel may be required.

  • Language skills, other than English, are desirable

Removing bias from the hiring process

Applications closed Wed 3rd Jul 2019

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Removing bias from the hiring process

  • Your application will be anonymously reviewed by our hiring team to ensure fairness
  • You’ll need a CV/résumé, but it’ll only be considered if you score well on the anonymous review

Applications closed Wed 3rd Jul 2019