Role Overview
We have an exciting opportunity for an ESG Analyst to join the team and help carry out the scheme's research, stewardship activities and integration of its ESG priorities including climate change, nature and biodiversity, human rights, human capital, health and technology. 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 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 successful candidate will help carry out the scheme's stewardship and reporting activities. The role will assist in researching new ESG issues and develop existing ESG policies as well as ensuring that Nest's reporting and engagement activities continue to be delivered to a high standard in line with its RI objectives, policies and industry initiatives.
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.
We are open to discussing working patterns.
We welcome all internal applicants to apply for our roles, regardless of your current working pattern or hours. We will aim to accommodate your request and match your current working arrangements.
Don't worry if you think you don't have all the key skills, it might be worth taking the few minutes to apply as we're good at spotting potential and offer a generous training budget.
Please download a full job description to find a full scope, deliverables, experience and personal
attributes
required for this role.
Flexible and agile working
Everyone's personal situation is different.
To make the most out of hybrid working, we've introduced different ways of working, which include (subject to role requirements):
- hybrid of office (Canary Wharf, London) and home working (there will be an expectation to attend the office, once - twice a week, or more, as required)
- reduce or vary working hours
- reduce or vary the days worked
- work compressed hours
- job share
Directorate/Department Overview
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.
Nest has a reputation as a progressive and innovative, high quality and responsible investor. It has created an FCA authorised investment subsidiary, Nest Invest, in order to continue its evolution and in which this role will sit. With over £40bn of assets under management, there is a need to ensure that the investment approach remains fit for purpose as the assets scale.
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.
As a Level 2 Disability Confident organisation, we're part of the guaranteed interview scheme. This means should you meet the minimum criteria for this role, you will automatically be put forward for an interview.
Please note that this advert may close early if we receive a sufficient number of satisfactory applications.
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