Corporate Programme Manager

The Role

You will join us as one of the programme managers of IIGCC's Corporate Programme, specifically focused on supporting the IIGCC’s Engagement Platform. You will develop and manage key workstreams to promote effective investor engagement with companies, collaborating with IIGCC members and other stakeholders, and working across the corporate team and wider IIGCC team. In particular, you will support the management of the Banks Initiative with the Senior Engagement Specialist, Banks and coordinate the roll-out of thematic engagements across sectors. These thematic engagements currently include Climate Accounting and Climate Lobbying.

A key aspect of this role is collaboration with partner networks across the world, with whom IIGCC works on major investor initiatives, such as Climate Action 100+ and initiatives for Banks and Nature. This requires relationship building across geographies to drive shared global priorities.

There will be opportunities to work across workstreams, including stewardship, specific sector work and transition research, while working collaboratively with the Investor Strategies and Policy programmes.

Main responsibilities

The work will comprise the following key activities:

• Assist with the overall project management and research needs of the Corporate Programme in order to support investor engagement with banks and corporates on climate change
• Programme management of key workstreams of the IIGCC Corporate Programme
• Collaborate with relevant external stakeholders across the world on initiatives, such as the IIGCC Banks Research and Engagement Initiative and Accounts workstream
• Coordinate investor engagement with banks and corporates across a range of sectors in Europe by producing tools and guidance, convening working groups and providing technical assistance.
• Analyse bank and corporate transition plans to support investor engagement
• Track and report on engagement progress.

Skills and capabilities

Essential:

• Experience of working on issues relating to climate change and/or investment  
• Understanding of different approaches to investor stewardship
• The ability to work independently to develop and effectively deliver a workplan
• Proven ability to work as a team, and successfully manage internal and external stakeholders
• Strong stakeholder engagement and management capabilities
• Strong project management, coordination and organisational skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a high level of attention to detail
• Strong presentation skills with experience presenting to large groups online and in-person  
• Excellent data management skills, including mastery of Excel
• Competency in routine IT tools including Microsoft Office including Word, Power Point and Adobe PDF.
• Written and spoken fluency in English.

The full Corporate Programme Manager job description can be found here.

Why work at IIGCC?

People join IIGCC because they care deeply about making a difference in supporting our mission that brings the investment community together to make significant progress towards a net zero and climate resilient future by 2030. In return, IIGCC offers its employees a competitive salary with a wide range of benefits and supportive ways of working. You can find the full list of our benefits here.

Applications

Interested applicants should submit a Curriculum Vitae and a cover letter detailing their relevant skills, capabilities and experience for the role by completing the application form here. If you have any queries, please email vacancy@iigcc.org.

Recruitment timeline:

IIGCC will review applications on a rolling basis so would encourage early application.