Role Overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a Responsible Investment (RI) Manager to join the team and carry out the scheme's research and stewardship activities focussing on climate change, nature and biodiversity, and providing strong support on other areas. The role will contribute to ensuring that Nest's reporting, proxy voting and engagement activities continue to be delivered to a high standard and in line with its ESG investment beliefs, policies and regulatory requirements.
The role will require an excellent understanding of ESG issues and themes, stewardship strategies including proxy voting and engagement, and general responsible investment in the UK. The successful candidate will possess excellent written and verbal communication skills, as well as the ability to foster and maintain good working relationships with internal and external stakeholders including Nest's fund managers.
The successful candidate will report to the Head of Sustainability Strategy and will work closely with other members of the responsible investment team and wider investment team. The role will also provide the opportunity to engage with a wide range of stakeholders including Trustees, investee companies, external investment managers, asset owner peers, and policymakers.
Whilst this is a full-time role, Nest is open to and supportive of job sharing, flexible working and providing excellent job opportunities to individuals returning from career breaks. Members of the investment team spend around two days per week working from our office in Canary Wharf.
Nest Invest is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). For the role holder, this means working in a regulated entity, and being required to adhere to certain rules and behaviours included in the FCA's Code of Conduct (COCON), specifically the individual Conduct Rules defined by the FCA.
Directorate/Department Overview
The Nest Invest team is responsible for investing members' contributions in order to grow their retirement pots over the long-term.The responsibilities of the team include:
- Asset allocation and portfolio risk management
- Manager selection and monitoring
- Responsible investment
- Investment communications
- Fund administration
- Investment technology and financial modelling
- Contributing to the development of the investment proposition
The Responsible Investment team is a small and dynamic team that sits within the in-house investment team. Its primary purposes are to develop and manage the scheme's approach to ESG and stewardship and formulate recommendations on policy and investment strategy that will benefit and enhance the investment approach.
The in-house Investment team is likely to grow significantly over the coming years. Our assets under management are growing exponentially and we are predicted to be one of the biggest pension schemes in the UK in the next 10 years. Nest is diversifying its asset allocation at pace and is looking to invest in a number of new exciting and sophisticated asset classes.
The successful candidate will report to the Head of Sustainability Strategy and will work closely with other members of the Responsible investment team and wider investment team
From December 2019, the Nest Investment team was seconded into Nest Invest Ltd (Nest Invest), the investment subsidiary of Nest Corporation.
Organisational Overview
Nest is an award-winning workplace pension scheme, the largest in the country.
Set up by the government to give every worker in the UK somewhere to save, our first-class responsible investment practice and governance are the backbone of what we do, supported by all the functions you'd expect to find in a thriving business. We're committed to creating a workplace where you can be your authentic self and offer an inclusive and flexible working environment.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of their age, belief, disability, gender identity, marital status, national origin, pregnancy or caring responsibilities, socio economic background, sex, sexual orientation, religion or race or any other legally protected status.
We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought and other forms of neurocognitive variation.
We are a level 2 Disability Confident Leader under the Disability Confident Scheme. As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we're part of the guaranteed interview scheme.
Please note that this advert may close early if we receive a sufficient number of satisfactory applications.
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