Associate Director & Senior Manager – Corporate Programme

We are looking for two self-motivated climate professionals with strong experience working in the field of climate and decarbonisation and/or experience investor stewardship practices and proxy voting to help ensure the success of Climate Action 100+ and IIGCC’s wider corporate programme. We are recruiting for two roles with one at Associate Director level and a second at Senior Manager level.

IIGCC is a co-founder of the Climate Action 100+ initiative. Climate Action 100+ is an investor initiative launched in 2017 to ensure the world’s 160 largest corporate greenhouse gas emitters take necessary action on climate change. More than 450 investors with over $40 trillion in assets collectively under management are engaging companies to curb emissions, improve governance and strengthen climate-related financial disclosures. IIGCC supports investors with their corporate engagement in Europe carried out as part of Climate Action 100+.

Through its corporate programme IIGCC supports investors with engagement and assessment with companies on how they are managing climate risks and supporting the goals of the Paris Agreement. The programme is currently delivering the following workstreams:
• Sectors – Identifying the pathways, actions and investments required to accelerate the net zero transition overall for critical sectors and technologies
• Companies – Ensuring companies in critical sectors to the low carbon transition develop credible strategies through initiatives such as Climate Action 100+
to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement and manage climate related financial risks
• Investors – Enabling investors to develop best practice investment strategies and tools that support securing changes in company activities (e.g. such as voting practices) and ensuring supportive regulation

Reporting to IIGCC’s Corporate Programme Director, and working closely with IIGCC’s CEO and wider team, the roles will be involved in all three of the programme workstreams. Depending on experience, expertise and how these complement the existing team’s skill set, your responsibilities will be tailored across the three workstreams. For example, a candidate with strong proxy voting experience may take the lead on the Investor workstream while a candidate with strong sectoral decarbonisation knowledge may take the lead on the Sectors workstream.

The successful candidates will be involved in supporting the Climate Action 100+ initiative at global and European level. The successful candidates will also be involved in convening IIGCC working group meetings and members’ events and developing research papers for investors on a range of themes.

Please see the job description here for detailed overview of the role including tasks and responsibilities.

Skills and capabilities
Essential (Associate Director role):
• Extensive experience working on climate change within an investment, consulting or corporate related role
• Expertise in EITHER sectoral decarbonisation and climate scenarios OR proxy voting, stewardship and corporate governance best practices
• Demonstrable experience in constructing funding proposals and/or project workplans

Essential (both roles):
• Strong understanding of carbon footprinting, corporate climate target setting (such as Science Based Targets) and climate reporting systems (such as CDP or TCFD)
• Excellent writing and report writing skills including demonstrable experience editing and coordinating pubic reports
• Strong interpersonal and verbal communication skills
• Strong project management, organisational and time management skills, with proven ability to prioritise
• High levels of accuracy and attention to detail
• Self-motivated, flexible and disciplined
• Enthusiastic and positive approach
• Fluent in routine IT tools including Microsoft office
• Fluency in English language

Highly Desirable (both roles):
• Expertise in investment management, corporate governance or proxy voting
• A second European language is an advantage
There will be a requirement to undertake some international travel and evening calls.

Benefits
In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a range of benefits including:
• 25 days’ annual leave plus public holidays
• Generous company pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Private healthcare

Applications
Interested applicants should submit a Curriculum Vitae and a cover letter detailing their qualifications and experience for the role to info@iigcc.org by 30 June 2020.

Job description – IIGCC Corporate Programme Associate and Senior Manager roles.

Please note that for all three roles:
• Starting date is asap
• Applicants must be eligible to work in the UK
• Only shortlisted candidates will be notified

IIGCC does not discriminate on the basis of race, age, gender, sex, sexual orientation, disability, religion, marital status, or any other basis of discrimination prohibited by law.