• Using your advanced experience on social issues with a business or investment context, foster subject matter understanding and build expertise across the PRI organisation and signatory base.
• Working with the Issues Expert Group - shape PRI's strategic understanding of how social dynamics interact with major global trends and investment themes, identifying where investor action, market practice and policy engagement can most effectively contribute to long-term outcomes. This includes issues at the intersection of social issues and major global trends, such as inequality, social inclusion, rights-respecting business conduct, decent work, technological change and just transition considerations.
• Serve as a trusted adviser to PRI leadership, regional teams and issue experts, providing strategic insight on emerging social developments and their implications for investors, markets and PRI priorities.
• Be a spokesperson for the PRI, at events, with the press or in other senior-level contact and exchanges on social issues and human rights.
• Keep abreast of market-wide developments, building on existing career experience and maintaining a strong understanding of emerging expectations, practices and debates relating to social issues in investment and business.
• Maintain open exchange and dialogue with key stakeholders, including PRI signatories, UN partners, think tanks and research institutes, NGOs and initiatives that contribute to and are aligned with PRI’s strategic objectives.
• Work collaboratively across different teams within the PRI on investment practices, stewardship, policy, data and disclosure to build in-depth understanding and deliver quality resources to signatories on social issues.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to colleagues including sharing technical knowledge and expertise where appropriate.
• Support the Chief Policy and Research Officer in delivering against the team’s business plan and budget.
• Provide regular reporting to Directors and the Executive Team as required.

Person Specification

• Higher education in one or more fields of sociology, human geography, anthropology, labour economics, behavioural economics or related disciplines.
• Significant professional experience and subject matter expertise in assessing and responding to social and human rights issues in business, investment or responsible investment contexts, with the credibility to be recognised as a senior leader in the field.
• Strong strategic and systems-thinking capability, with the ability to shape priorities, identify inter-linkages across issues, including different economic sectors, and translate complex external developments into clear organisational direction and practical support for signatories.
• Excellent networking, relationship management and interpersonal skills, with experience of building trusted relationships with investors, companies, multilaterals, civil society organisations, think tanks and other stakeholders relevant to PRI’s strategic objectives.
• Horizon-scanning capability, with experience identifying emerging social trends and translating uncertainty into strategic priorities and practical decision-useful insights.
• Excellent programme management skills, including a track record of delivering complex work successfully, coordinating across teams and leading work involving colleagues who may not be direct reports.
• Well-developed collaboration and leadership skills, with experience of working across multidisciplinary teams and of coaching, mentoring and developing colleagues in an inclusive and supportive way.
• Excellent written communication, verbal presentation and spokesperson skills, with the ability to represent complex and sensitive issues clearly, credibly and persuasively to internal and external audiences.
• A collaborative and consultative approach, with sound judgement, openness to diverse perspectives, and a commitment to fostering an inclusive environment and continuous professional development.
• Strong operational discipline and digital fluency, including virtual collaboration tools, with the ability to support effective planning, reporting and delivery in a global role; international travel may be required, and additional language skills are desirable.

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.