Investor Campaigns and Engagement Manager

ShareAction is an independent charity and an expert on responsible investment. We work to build a world where the financial system serves our planet and its people. We set ambitious standards for how financial institutions, through their investment decisions, can protect our planet and its people and campaign for this approach to become the norm. We convene shareholders to collectively push companies to tackle climate crisis, protect nature, improve workers’ rights and shape healthier societies. In the UK and EU, we advocate for financial regulation that has society’s best interests at its core.

This role sits in the Responsible Investment Standards Programme, which aims to define, defend and advance responsible investment standards and drive leadership among asset owners, especially pension funds. The Investor Campaigns & Engagement Manager would play a central role in driving our campaign to change the pension system and deliver ShareAction's investor engagement strategy. The role is key to building relationships with institutional investors, coordinating campaigns and engagement activities, and helping turn ShareAction's research into practical action that raises standards across the investment system.

A typical week could involve meeting with pension funds and other investors, planning an investor roundtable or webinar, coordinating engagement activities with colleagues across the organisation, contributing to campaign plans, or developing communications to share our work with external audiences. You'll also help shape the team's social media output and at times help with media queries.

As part of this role, you'll regularly engage with pension funds, other institutional investors and civil society organisations, building trusted relationships and identifying opportunities to influence responsible investment practices. You'll work closely with colleagues across research, campaigns, communications and policy to deliver coordinated engagement that supports ShareAction's wider strategy. This is a varied and collaborative role that would suit someone who enjoys working with people, managing projects and helping deliver campaigns that contribute to long-term change across the investment system.

Requirements

We're looking for someone with excellent and demonstrable relationship-building and project management skills, who enjoys working collaboratively to deliver shared goals. You'll have experience contributing to or leading impactful campaigns, using a range of tactics to build pressure for positive change, be an excellent communicator who is comfortable turning complex, technical messages into accessible ones and using digital communication channels to amplify the reach of a piece of work or campaign, and be comfortable managing a range of projects and stakeholders at the same time.

This role would suit someone with experience in stakeholder engagement or campaign delivery, who enjoys working with external stakeholders to influence organisational behaviour and drive change. Experience of the investment system or working with institutional investors would be an advantage, but it's not essential. Knowledge of climate change, public health, or food systems, and how these connect to financial markets, is also an advantage. We're keen to hear from candidates with transferable skills and an interest in learning more about responsible investment.

We know that no candidate will meet every requirement. If you think you could be a good fit for the role, we'd encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't match every point in the job description.

We have a formal hybrid working policy in place. As this role involves regular meetings and events with London-based investors and colleagues, you'll be expected to attend the office or meetings on average four times a month, with occasional travel elsewhere in the UK or Europe.

What we will do for you

We are a fast-paced organisation that has grown substantially over the past few years. We recognise that our people work hard to advocate for responsible investment and drive meaningful engagement with those who have the power to create a brighter future. Every day they bring their expertise, passion and persistence to build a world where the financial system serves our people and planet. We want to ensure we provide the right environment for our colleagues to thrive and we are committed to improving our employee offer where possible.

• Commitment to flexible working; over 60% of our employees have some sort of flexible working arrangement in place.
• Hybrid working; we are committed to supporting our staff to work in a way that suits their lifestyle and meets the requirements of their role.
• Internal promotion and development opportunities; we offer a range of ways to improve your skills and focus on what you love, including promotion, secondment, or sideways development opportunities. For some levels of roles, we also offer direct progression.
• Opportunity to help make a difference; we tackle some of the world’s biggest social and environmental challenges. We offer opportunities for you to develop your skills and experience in a friendly, flexible and supportive working environment.
• Unionised work environment; our staff have the opportunity to join the union, and are supported by our recognised union, Unite. We regularly consult and negotiate with our employees on workplace matters ranging from working conditions to pay.
• Regular in-person meetings; including all-staff away days, retreats and directorate strategy days to create connected teams.
• 8% non-contributory pension; invested with NEST and their green funds.
• Healthcare plan; with Bupa.
• Employee assistance programme; advice and support, lifestyle discounts and short‑term counselling.
• Death in Service cover of 3x salary.
• 25 days’ annual leave (increasing with length of service) plus office closure at the end of the year; ensuring everyone gets time to switch off together.
• Enhanced family leave pay; up to 18 weeks’ paid at 90% for either parent.
• Enhanced sick pay; starting at 5 weeks’ full pay from day 1.
• Season ticket loan and cycle to work scheme.

We also actively encourage incoming staff to consider flexible working arrangements; recognising that a better work-life balance can improve employee motivation, performance and reduce stress. Please talk to us at the interview about the flexibility you need. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise not to judge you for asking.

While we embrace hybrid working at ShareAction, we also think there is a lot of value in spending time together in person. We run all-staff away days, a yearly retreat and more regular team and directorate meet‑ups so that we can develop our ideas and plans together. As part of the induction process, we’ll invite you to our office in Aldgate so you can meet and get to know your line manager, team and others from across the organisation.

To be considered for this post you must be legally eligible to work in the UK, unfortunately we are unable to provide visa sponsorship.

Please note that using Artificial Intelligence to answer the application questions is not recommended, and it could negatively impact your chances of success in the application process. While AI can help streamline the writing process, these tools will not accurately reflect your skills, knowledge or experience. It is crucial that you personalise your application by articulating these in your unique voice. If you choose to use AI or other tools to assist in writing your application, we ask you to declare this clearly in your submission.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Flexible working hours
• Paid annual leave
• Paid sick leave
• Paid parental leave
• Parental leave
• Employee discount schemes
• Employee assistance programme (EAP)
• Mental health support
• Pension scheme

Other information

Contract type: Permanent

Who it reports to: Senior Campaigns and Engagement Manager

Salary: £43,364.17 + 8% pension contribution

Deadline for applications: Monday 7th September at 9:00 am

Interview dates: First round online, week commencing 14th September; 2nd round in person at our London office during the week commencing 28th September.

ShareAction values and respects all differences in people (seen and unseen) and welcomes applications from all backgrounds, communities and industries. We are committed to having a team that is made up of diverse skills, experiences and abilities and we are working hard to provide an environment where all can bring their authentic selves to work. We know that some people won’t apply for a role unless they meet all the requirements listed in the job description. If this is the case for you, but you think you would excel in this role, we want to hear from you!

Our hiring process is anonymised, we won’t ask for a cover letter and we don’t look at CVs until the interview stage. We do this so that we reduce the opportunity for unconscious biases to affect our decision making and so we prioritise skills and expertise over how well you can write a CV.