Manager Sustainability Standards Integration

Join our dynamic Sustainability Standards Integration team! Lead & develop experts in ESG, climate risk & sustainable finance. Apply now! #PioneerDevelopScale

Your role

The Manager Sustainability Standards Integration reports to the Director ESG+ and manages a dedicated team of Sustainability Officers and Associates. These colleagues possess diverse expertise in sustainability and environmental, social, and governance aspects. Their knowledge spans from climate and biodiversity to human rights issues. They also have technical due diligence tooling capabilities. They collaborate closely with our investment officer colleagues. This ensures sustainable finance regulation is well considered throughout the investment process. Climate risk and Paris alignment assessments are also taken into account. Also, environmental, social, and human rights impact and risk are thoroughly considered. The SSI team has a strong focus on ESG data to mainstream due diligence attention to most material ESG and Climate risks and impacts.

In This Role You Are Responsible For

• Lead the new to set up Sustainability Standards Integration team (4-5 experts).
• Overseeing and managing the performance of Sustainability Standards Integration team members and promoting their personal and career development.
• Engaging with the ESG+ Management team to ensure stewardship of FMO’s sustainability policies and processes, and the integration of sustainability considerations in strategic and functional decision making.
• Engaging with and supporting the sector departments to ensure investments are (brought) in line with FMO Sustainability, Climate and ESG risk appetite and sustainable finance regulatory framework.
• Integrating ESG and Climate data is crucial for investment due diligence. This process involves materiality assessment and decision making. The team receives support and guidance in developing methodologies and tools.development of methodologies and tools.
• Representing FMO at events connected to technical screenings in sustainability due diligence.
• Contributing to further strengthen FMO’s sustainability regulatory compliance, policies, and processes.
• Business planning and contribution to corporate sustainability related projects, in collaboration with other ESG+ Managers.
• Staying abreast of dynamic regulatory and industry developments in the sustainability space and supporting translation into practical tools and guidance.

Our offer

• Gross yearly salary of between EUR 90K – 150K (including holiday allowance), depending on seniority, years of appropriate experience and background.
• Premium free pension
• 31 holidays based on a full-time basis working week
• Working remotely abroad for 60 days in a rolling period of 12 months
• Hybrid way of working (50/50)
• For more information, please visit our website Secondary Benefits – FMO

Your team

FMO’s ESG+ Department delivers effective impact, value creation and performance management across the sustainability and ESG risk, and return spectrum, based on harmonized impact concepts and metrics. To achieve this, the department collaborates with various departments across the FMO bank. These include Investment departments and the Impact Measurement team. They also work together with the Integrated Reporting team and the Strategy and Risk department. The goal is to create demonstrable and sought after impact for FMO’s clients beyond the financing FMO provides.

The Department Has Five Teams

• Agribusiness, Food & Water E&S
• Corporate Governance and Financial Institutions E&S
• Energy E&S
• Private Equity E&S
• Sustainability Standards Integration

The Sustainability Standards Integration team is in charge of capacitating the organization to conduct due diligence in line with sustainability focused legislation, regulation and standards. This team develops the requisite tools and due diligence guidance. Focus areas include EU sustainable finance regulation and climate risk. Also considered are Paris alignment assessments for clients and transactions. Supply chain due diligence elements are also included. When very complicated transactions arise, the team may provide due diligence support. This support is for sector departments and complements ESG due diligence.

Your background

Role

You have an interest in FMO’s mission and you are keen to play a key role in the development of the Sustainability Standards Integration team and fulfill the following criteria

• Master’s degree in business administration, economics, sustainability or similar.
• At least ten to twelve years of work experience in a financial institution or a consulting firm with emerging markets activities.
• Proven leaderships skills and experience in managing (small) teams.
• Experience with Sustainability related regulation, including EU Taxonomy and Climate Risk.
• Experience/aware of sustainability focused due diligence including IFC performance standards, OECD Guidelines, Paris alignment) and risk management.
• Experience with building due diligence tools, guidelines, and processes.
• Experience with contracting consultants.
• Change management.
• Fluent in English and preferably other foreign language skills.

You Show The Following Personal Characteristics

• You take responsibility, you are accountable for your behavior, and you serve as a role model.
• Ability to bring structure and make complex concepts practical.
• Self-reflective with strong desire of continuous learning and development
• The ability to speak up and voice views independently.
• You stay positive during hard times and keep looking at the future.

Are you excited about FMO’s mission and do you meet the criteria? We ‘d love to hear from you and learn more about you. So apply today!