Role:

This new senior role will join ACCR’s Company Strategy team, expanding our company engagement and campaign oversight capabilities, working in strategic alignment with ACCR’s wider team in Australia and Europe. The position holder will consider the available strategies, networks and levers that can be harnessed to facilitate more rapid and meaningful decarbonisation by specific companies and/or sectors. This role will identify opportunities to deploy the legal rights and tools of institutional investors and collaborate with key stakeholders as needed to enable real world emissions reduction by listed companies.

You’ll love this job if:

• You are driven to co-design strategies that can impel genuine decarbonisation from some of the largest emitters in Australia and globally 

• You thrive when leading complex projects in a fast changing environment  

• You are a skilled collaborator and relationship builder 

• You can effectively communicate complex, evidence-based information, explore opportunities and navigate nuanced organisational partnerships 

• You get energy from setting clear and ambitious long-term strategic goals and outlining the steps required for implementation

• You want to achieve outcomes working alongside diligent and motivated colleagues

• You are nimble to adapt to changing realities - you see the whole picture and don’t mind jumping into the little details to make big outcomes happen.

Responsibilities:

The role will include the following responsibilities:

• As a core part of the ACCR Company Strategy team, develop and execute multi stakeholder engagement and advocacy strategy for companies of interest - facilitating and driving the process, involving, for example, filing shareholder resolutions, related company research, collaboration and media. 

• Contribute perspectives and analysis into the target company selection process for ACCR.

• Work with expert analysts from the ACCR Research team, and third-party researchers, to establish and implement research plans that underpin company strategies, with a lens to advancing investor knowledge, engagement and ambition. 

• Working with the Communications Lead, develop communications strategies for each company. This may also include representing ACCR in relevant conferences, events and in time, media opportunities. 

• Schedule, prepare for and attend engagement meetings with companies and relevant colleagues. 

• Work with the ACCR Investor Engagement team to develop and implement investor engagement plans to support company strategies.

• Liaise with other civil society organisations that are also focused on those companies to identify opportunities to collaborate.

Criteria:

You may not have done this type of role before, but we are looking for someone with substantial relevant experience, including the following: 

• Industry knowledge or experience in one or more of the following areas: mining, utilities, steelmaking, oil and gas, and/or financial services, ideally with a focus on decarbonisation

• Experience working with investors or listed companies, ideally on climate or other ESG issues

• Excellent organisational and project execution skills, including prioritisation and attention to detail, ability to work to tight deadlines, and move quickly if the opportunity presents itself

• Strong intellectual acumen and curiosity - able to digest and effectively communicate a range of complex information, with the ability to direct your thinking towards possibility and potential pathways

• Ability to think strategically and strong instincts when it comes to risk and opportunity

• Excellent relational skills - with external parties and colleagues

• Ability to lead company engagements and negotiations 

• Excellent written English skills

• Commitment to addressing climate change

Not required but would be an advantage:

• An understanding of shareholder rights and levers for influencing listed companies

• Media experience

• Demonstrated aptitude for network style collaboration

• Policy or behaviour change campaigns experience, particularly with companies

If you don’t meet every point above, please still apply if you can see your skills well used in this role.

Contract:

This role is a permanent position starting ASAP. 

Accountable to:

Company Strategy Lead

Key Relationships:

The role works alongside and builds strategy in particular with ACCR’s Company Strategy, Research and Investor Engagement teams. 

Background:

ACCR challenges companies to respond to the most important issues of our time, like climate change and human rights, and in how they treat all of their stakeholders, including workers and First Nations communities. We were founded as a non-profit organisation in 2012, and since that time we have promoted ethical investment and assisted investors through education, research, collaboration, engagement and advocacy. Thanks to a heightened awareness of the importance of our work, and the urgency of the issues - like climate change - that we work on, we are growing rapidly. More information about our latest work can be found in our FY22 Annual Review: https://www.accr.org.au/2021-2022/.

ACCR has a dynamic team of over 25 driven and experienced staff, mostly based in Australia, working globally. Our growing team has a wide range of relevant expertise - climate science, communications, engineering, law, equities analysis, finance, investor relations, IT and more. Due to our high levels of staff satisfaction and engagement, ACCR won one of Voice Project’s Best Workplace Awards for 2021.

What we offer: 

• We enjoy flexible work hours and supportive home-based working for those who want it. 

• Personal leave is double the statutory requirement, plus additional paid leave from Christmas to New Year. Option to purchase additional leave.

• We value peer learning and each of us has a professional development budget. 

• Our Employee Assistance Program also includes our employees’ households. 

• ACCR offices are accessible and further detail can be provided.

Application Guidelines

• We use Applied as our recruitment platform, helping us reduce the risk of unconscious bias in our hiring process.

• The application will require answering short questions so give yourself time to complete it. Once started, you can save and return to your application before submitting.

• For example; Explain how your work history has exposed you to carbon intensive corporations. What do you consider to be the key drivers that affect change within such companies? (250 word max response)

Please note ACCR is only able to employ those who have the pre-existing legal right to work in Australia.

We value diversity, equity and inclusion in our workplace. ACCR encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people of all cultures, abilities, sex and genders.

ACCR is committed to improving accessibility to enable the full participation of a diverse workforce. If there are any alterations to this recruitment process that would assist you in applying, please let us know.