Sustainability Advisor - Toronto, Canada - Institutional Shareholder Services

Institutional Shareholder Services

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Companies increasingly focus on refining their disclosures and management practices around their environmental and social practices, impacts, and risks.

Boards and executive teams seek expert guidance on industry norms and best practices, stakeholder expectations, reporting standards and frameworks, and a better understanding of prevailing ESG ratings, such as ISS ESG Corporate Rating and ISS QualityScore.

ISS Corporate Solutions (ICS) is a subsidiary of ISS that provides publicly traded companies with advisory services and software solutions to help solve a wide range of critical environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues. The Sustainability Advisory
Advisor role on the ICS team is a fastpaced clientfacing role that provides advisory and consulting services on critical environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues to senior executives at the world's largest companies.
The Role
Most of our sustainability work involves helping companies optimize their public environmental and social disclosures to increase transparency in alignment with standards, frameworks, and stakeholder expectations.
Responsibilities
On a daily basis, you will:
Work as a member of sector
focused team specializing on key issues most relevant to the industries the team covers.
Manage a client portfolio by proactively engaging with clients and responding to questions in a timely manner
Form and sustain ongoing relationships with senior client executives and management teams to understand their needs and provide them with context and advice tailored to their challenges and goals.
Analyze evolving ESG trends—including reporting standards, rating systems, and shareholder expectations—to identify key disclosures on which clients should focus.
Produce and deliver polished client deliverables and discuss them in detail with sustainability and legal executives.
Synthesize information from our ESG databases and platform to uncover actionable intelligence on ESG disclosures and practices.
Develop industryleading intellectual capital and thought leadership on ESG topics, including whitepapers, toolkits, webinars, and presentations for individual clients and at industry conferences.
The role requires 10% travel or less, typically for conference attendance and occasional client visits.

Qualifications

Degree in Business, Finance, Sustainability, Environmental Science, or a related field with an exceptional performance record
At least 35 years of successful work experience related to sustainability reporting and strategy, sustainability research, and/or successful work experience related to advisory, consulting, clientfacing role
Familiarity with Sustainable Finance, Responsible Investing, Proxy Advisory
Strong understanding of climate related business risk and climate business strategy development
Familiarity with GRI, SASB, TCFD, and other market standards and guidelines
Effective time management skills and ability to meet deadlines
Excellent organization, multitasking, and prioritization skills
Analytical Skills_
Strong analytical skills
Superior problemsolving skills
Ability to diagnose client needs and identify relevant resources
Proficiency in distilling data using Excel, SQL, or other tools
Extreme attention to detail
Proactive in turning to others for assistance when required
Ability to understand intersection of various sustainability reporting standards
Communication and Client Management Skills_
Team player, working collaboratively with peers and managers to best serve our clients
Ability to present professionally and authoritatively
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Ability to foster and maintain collaborative relationships in a crossfunctional environment
Capacity to quickly establish relationships with executives and be seen as a resource
Demonstrated poise and grace under pressure
Should be solutionsfocused and contribute to team's continuous improvement

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