United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment, Administrative Assistant, Investor Engagement Team, London, UK

Instiution / Company United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI)

Job Title Administrative Assistant, Investor Engagement Team

Job location London, UK

Job description

The PRI Engagement Clearinghouse is a web-based forum for investor collaboration on shareholder and other engagement activities on environmental, social and governance issues with companies and policy makers. The successful candidate will be expected to provide coordinative and administrative support to the managers of collaborative engagements.

Main tasks / responsibilities

The contractor will be required to perform the following services:

• Posting new collaborative proposals on the Clearinghouse website
• Posting agendas and documentation of online seminars on the PRI intranet
• Organizing conference calls and meetings
• Coordinating joint letters and mailing services
• Taking notes and writing reports
• Preparing power point presentations
• Creating and sending out alerts to signatories on collaborative initiatives and online seminars
• Supporting the organization and providing technical support during online seminars on ESG topics
• Organizing online tests for speakers of online seminars
• Editing audio files
• Responding to queries by signatories about Clearinghouse activities
• Sending requests of updates on collaborative engagements to PRI signatories
• Preparing drafts on Clearinghouse initiatives and online seminars for monthly newsletters
• Collecting and inserting data, running statistics on collaborative engagements and online seminars

Requirements / qualifications

• University degree
• At least 4 year experience in administrative and coordinative activities
• Ability to learn quickly
• Attention to detail
• Knowledge and understanding of shareholder engagement activities
• Good working knowledge of relevant IT (e.g. Excel, Word, Wordpress, Audio editing and databases will be useful)
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• High level written English (‘Plain English’ style), and ideally one other language relevant to financial markets. Writing, editing and proofreading skills will be viewed positively.
• Well organised and reliable
• Willing to conduct conference calls in different time zones where necessary (not a typical 9-5 job)
• Ability to work well in teams and get on with people
• Tact and diplomacy

Start Date ASAP

Duration permanent role, 12 month rolling contracts (with 3 month trial)

Salary £1,667 per month, £20,000 per year (plus 5% pension contribution)

Institute / Company Description The PRI Engagement Clearinghouse is a web-based forum for investor collaboration on shareholder and other engagement activities on environmental, social and governance issues with companies and policy makers. The successful candidate will be expected to provide coordinative and administrative support to the managers of collaborative engagements.

Website www.unpri.org

Application Deadline July 21, 2010.

Contact Please send your CV and covering letter explaining why you are suited to this job to careers@unpri.org. Please attach your covering letter as a separate document, rather than in the email text. Interviews will be in London from 26 July.