Job Description

• Leading research and stakeholder engagement, including the management of expert stakeholder working groups, to gather best practices in the industry and develop, iterate, and test the standards
• Developing and managing relationships with relevant stakeholders, internal and external to the company, to gather input into the finance standards on an ongoing basis and support their development and implementation
• Considering the concepts of justice, equity, diversity and inclusion in the content of the standards and development processes
• Developing resources to explain the standards for various audiences, including companies adopting them and verifiers assessing a company's performance against them
• Supporting the interpretation of the finance standards on an ongoing basis by companies, verifiers, and other stakeholders
• Planning and developing ongoing improvements over time, following credible best practices, to ensure finance standards are relevant to evolving expectations and market developments
• Maintaining knowledge about existing and emerging best practices and identifying ongoing opportunities to improve the standards over time
• Advising and supporting both existing and new company initiatives that support collective action and/or performance improvement in the finance sector (as necessary)
• Identifying and developing resources to financial service companies as they look to improve on social sustainability related performance aspects of their business
• Leveraging expertise to advise on other aspects of company's standards relevant to the finance sector on an ongoing basis

Benefits

• Additional time off during org- wide closures when the entire organization is closed (not including holidays)
• After your first year of employment - paid time off for community service, paid parental leave, and a professional development budget (we assess this PD budget annually)
• Floating holidays and personal days (prorated to start date)
• Medical and dental supplemental insurance for the employee through BUPA
• Life insurance benefit
• Income protection insurance
• Statutory pension
• Global travel insurance
• A remote-first workplace, with a flexible work environment
• A flexible work environment with the ability to plan your work week around your personal commitments

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• 4+ years of experience in a field directly related to the social and environmental impacts of the finance sector, including "ESG" and/or impact investing
• Familiarity and/or experience with credible standards development processes
• Excellent communication and critical thinking skills, particularly involving challenging and technical topics
• Experience in project and relationship management, with ability to tackle and support multiple complex projects, with a diverse set of stakeholders and significant change management, to deliver them in a timely and effective manner
• Familiarity with and a passion for addressing the intersections of business and social and environmental issues
• Comfort in an entrepreneurial environment
• An expertise or willingness to work in ways that demonstrate a commitment to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion