Current strategic priorities

The Director will play a leading role in:

• Strengthening signatory value, participation and engagement across PRI's sustainability initiatives.
• Ensuring the continued evolution and growth of flagship investor collaborations, including the Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance and the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative, alongside investor network partners and leading investors.
• Deepening engagement with strategically important investor audiences, including private markets investors and investment consultants, and on opportunities for investor collaboration and peer learning across sustainability thematics (nature, social and emerging topics).
• Supporting PRI's efforts to strengthen investor understanding, capability and confidence across different markets and geographies, including emerging markets and developing economies, through research, collaboration, peer learning and knowledge sharing.
• Helping shape PRI's next strategy and strengthening collaboration across teams.

Core Responsibilities

Strategic leadership, direction and performance of initiatives

• Lead the strategic development and delivery of PRI's sustainability initiatives portfolio, ensuring alignment with PRI's mission, strategy and signatory needs.
• Drive the evolution of PRI's initiatives and collaboration models, identifying opportunities for innovation, growth and enhanced signatory value.
• Translate market developments, emerging sustainability issues and signatory feedback into effective priorities, strategies and workplans.
• Ensure the long-term sustainability, effectiveness and growth of PRI's sustainability initiatives, ensuring they continue to deliver value for signatories and contribute to organisational priorities.
• Work closely with the Chief Investor Initiatives Officer and wider leadership team to shape the future development of PRI's investor initiatives portfolio, identify opportunities and risks, and strengthen cross-team collaboration to maximise signatory value and organisational impact.

Signatory engagement & value

• Ensure PRI's sustainability initiatives deliver meaningful value, practical support and measurable outcomes for participating signatories.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with senior leaders across asset owners, investment managers, investment consultants and other financial institutions.
• Lead high-quality convenings, peer-learning opportunities and collaborative activities that help investors address shared sustainability challenges and advance responsible investment practice.
• Ensure signatory insights and market perspectives inform the development of initiatives and PRI's wider programme of work.

Partnerships & external representation

• Act as a senior representative of PRI with investors, international organisations, network partners and other key stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain strategic partnerships that strengthen the reach, credibility and effectiveness of PRI's sustainability initiatives.
• Represent PRI through external speaking opportunities at conferences, roundtables and industry forums globally.
• Promote the lessons, insights and influence generated through PRI initiatives across the wider responsible investment ecosystem.

People leadership & operational excellence

• Lead, develop and inspire a high-performing team, fostering a culture of collaboration, inclusion, accountability and continuous improvement.
• Set clear priorities, allocate resources and manage financial budgets effectively, working closely with initiative managers to ensure delivery against agreed objectives and budgets.
• Uphold and ensure best practice and compliance with PRI collaboration guidelines and related policies.
• Maintain effective governance, planning, risk management and performance management.
• Develop innovative delivery approaches, including technology-enabled and AI-supported solutions, that enhance how PRI supports and engages signatories.
• Identify opportunities to expand the impact and reach of PRI's sustainability initiatives through grant funding and strategic partnerships, ensuring alignment with organisational priorities, signatory value and long-term portfolio development, and contributing to funding proposals and delivery.
• Contribute as a senior leader within Investor Initiatives & Collaboration and PRI more broadly, helping shape organisational priorities, culture, capability and strategic direction.

Person Specification

• Significant experience working within, or closely alongside, institutional investors or other financial institutions, with a strong understanding of responsible investment and sustainable finance.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex programmes, partnerships, collaborations or strategic initiatives in a multi-stakeholder environment, translating external developments and stakeholder needs into impactful strategies and outcomes.
• Strong knowledge of responsible investment and sustainability-related investment issues and processes, including expertise in one or more of the following areas: climate and net zero, nature and biodiversity, social issues and human rights.
• Excellent relationship-building, facilitation and influencing skills, with experience engaging senior leaders across the investment industry and developing productive partnerships with external stakeholders.
• Proven people leadership experience, including setting vision and direction, developing high-performing teams, managing through change and fostering an inclusive and collaborative culture.
• Strong strategic thinking and judgement, with the ability to identify opportunities, navigate complexity and contribute to organisational leadership and decision-making.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to represent an organisation credibly and effectively with senior internal and external audiences.
• A collaborative and inclusive leadership style, with the ability to work effectively across teams, functions and external partnerships while balancing strategic ambition, operational resilience and delivery of organisational priorities.

We particularly welcome candidates from under-represented groups, including Black, Asian, and other People of Colour, those with visible or non-visible disabilities, LGBTQ+ candidates and those who are neurodivergent.

N.B. We reserve the right to close a vacancy before the closing date in the event of an overwhelming response or a change in business priorities.