About the position
Job Title: Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Associate
Purpose
To overseeing and evolving the environmental, social and corporate governance policies and procedures across our existing and growing portfilio of investments. The portfolio companies are required to be socially and enviromentally sustainable and comply with nationally and internationaly recognised best practices.
Key Responsibilities
The Associate for ESG will manage, monitor and optimise the ESG performance of the company's investment assets. A key focus will be overall mornitoring of ESG across the entire portfolio, ensuring best practice is applied and a consolidated review is reported up to senior managemnet, investors, and other stakeholder groups as needed.
- Responsible for the development and implementation of environmental and social management system (ESMS) and Health and Safety Policies and Procedures.
- Provide technical expertise on key issues related to environmental and social impact assessment and on sustainability risks in the design, preparation, implementation and supervision of projects in the portfolio taking into consideration best industry practices and standards.
- Manage and conduct environmental and social safeguarding due diligence across the portfolio and new projects as they arise.
- Identify all key potential social and environmental impacts and risks and ensure that their magnitude and significance are well understood and appropriately mitigated.
- Ensure that the whole management team understands the applicable ESG policies, guidelines and project-specific requirements, and has the necessary commitment and capacity to manage social and environmental impacts and/or risks.
- Conduct consultations with stakeholders in accordance with relevant policies and guidelines and be responsible for reporting on such.
- Report on and disseminate good practices and generated knowledge.
- Reviewing the ESG aspects of investment opportunities and assisting with ESG focused due diligence to assess compliance by potential investments with UNPRI, Equator Principles, IFC Performance Standards, IFC EHS and Sector Guidelines, ILO and other relevant standards for potential new projects and acquisitions.
- Supporting the team unlocking positive ESG impacts.
- Assisting specialists with project implementation and contractual compliance in respect to the ESG obligations.
- Site visits to the various project locations.
- Preparation of investor reports and responses to ad-hoc investor/shareholder ESG queries.
- ESG data management and analysis .
- Training of the company's team members and other relevant stakeholders in ESG related issues.
- Oversight of Economic Development reporting and compliance to be undertaken by portfolion companies.
- Assist in ESG due diligence and adhoc advisory work for potential new projects.
Experience and Core competencies
- A relevant University degree
- Five years relevant experience
- Appropriate professional registration or certification essential
- Understanding and working knowledge of UNPRI, Equator Principles, IFC Performance Standards, IFC EHS Guidelines, ILO, UN SDGs and any other relevant ESG performance standards.
- Exposure to ESG aspects associated with capital intensive infrastructure projects (thermal power, renewable energy, oil and gas, roads, ports etc.)
- Experience in implementing and monitoring environmental and social management plans on construction and operational sites.
- Experience in energy projects and the REIPPPP including compliance monitoring of the economic development obligations in the Implementation Agreement obligations.
- Ability to manage third party consultants (set terms of reference, review proposals, make appointments, manage budgets and performance).
- Ability to critically review and integrate information.
- Ability to present information in a written and/or verbal form, in a concise manner
- Fluent in English, proficiency in other languages is beneficial.
Personality & Attributes
- Flexible & dynamic - self-motivated, results-driven, ability to deal with change
- Excellent intellectual & conceptual abilities
- Resilience
- Excellence orientation (concern for high-quality work) - follow through; the motivation to ensure the highest standards of quality and productivity are consistently maintained.
- Invests high levels of energy in work
start Date: ASAP
if you have not recieved any form of communication from us by 15 March 2024, please consider your application unsuccessful.
Desired Skills:
- Computer Skills
- Communication (written and verbal)
- Interpersonal Skills
- ability to critically review and integrate information
- ability to present information in a written and/or verbal form
Desired Work Experience:
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