Corporate Programme Officer

We are looking for a self-motivated and well organised Programme Officer to support our Corporate programme. This role will place a motivated individual at the heart of investor action on climate change. The post holder will support investors participating in engagement with European companies and financial organisations. The role will suit applicants with an interest in building out their experience in stewardship, engagement, proxy voting, and reporting with a focus on climate issues.

IIGCC is a founding member of Climate Action 100+, Nature Action 100, and the Net Zero Engagement Initiative. The Programme Officer will have the opportunity to work with the world’s largest asset managers and asset owners on their climate stewardship activities related to those initiatives.

IIGCC oversees and facilitates the most significant investor climate initiatives, typically with investor network partners from across the globe. These include Climate Action 100+, the world’s largest investor engagement and The Paris Aligned Investment Initiative (PAII);

As well as our nature focused initiatives Nature Action 100 and, most recently FSDA.

The Programme Officer’s role will be to support with the coordination of IIGCC’s various engagement initiatives, by assisting with overall project management and research as well as helping to track engagement progress and support investors with delivery of engagement strategies.

The position is perfect for those seeking their first in-depth exposure to the investment community and a great opportunity to learn about best-practice on climate stewardship/engagement, as well as get stuck in technical research on what the net zero transition will mean for corporates across sectors.

While this role is initially offered on a fixed term basis for 12 months, we hope that the contract can be extended.

Main responsibilities

The work will comprise the following key activities:

-Be the key point-of-contact for investors on specific company engagements, and help facilitate investor groups for these engagements, and help them track their outcomes.

-Contribute to IIGCC’s extensive technical resources by conducting research to support investors with company engagement (e.g. on sector transition pathways for banks and corporates, or transition plan best practice).

-Manage distinct projects within work streams you are part of as and when they arise, such as new engagement groups (e.g. focusing on a particular theme or engagement barrier in a sector) or projects (e.g. collating member feedback and research to inform workstream strategy).

-Assist senior members of the team in co-ordinating IIGCC’s cross-initiative (e.g. Banks Engagement & Research Initiative, Net Zero Engagement Initiative) strategy to support investors throughout the year (e.g. helping to maintain our proxy season company focus list).

-Assist senior members of the team with important ad-hoc tasks ranging from project management, data management, research, and stakeholder management.

-Work with IIGCC communications team and external partners to develop materials to promote the activities of the Corporate Programme (e.g. for update emails, newsletters and IIGCC’s website).

-Collaborate with other IIGCC work streams as required.

Skills and capabilities

-Proven interest in climate change and/or sustainability issues

-Excellent organisational and time management skills, with proven ability to prioritise

-Ability to pick up complex topics and synthesize written and numeric data quickly and accurately

-Strong written communication skills with experience in drafting business correspondence, briefs, reports, and other materials

-Strong project and (external) stakeholder management capabilities

-Self-motivated and disciplined with the ability to work on defined tasks

-Collaborative team player

-Flexible and positive approach

-Familiarity with IT tools including Microsoft office

-Fluency in written and spoken English language.

-Understanding of climate change and its implications for the financial sector

-Work experience in a sustainability or investment related role such as an internship

-Proficiency with Excel and ability to interrogate datasets to produce…