Responsible Business Assistant Manager

Job description:

Role Title: Responsible Business Assistant Manager

Division: Executive

Location: London

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Hybrid

About the Role

Join Rathbones’ Responsible Business team and play a hands-on role in helping us make a positive impact on our people, communities and the environment. You’ll help run our community investment programmes, building relationships with charity partners and supporting initiatives around climate, nature, financial education, social mobility, culture and values.

Working collaboratively with teams across the business, you’ll help identify the opportunities we have to operate more responsibly and strengthen how we demonstrate our responsible business commitments to clients and wider stakeholders.

What you’ll be responsible for

This is a varied and highly collaborative role where you’ll have the opportunity to make a tangible contribution to Rathbones’ Responsible Business agenda. You’ll take ownership of key programmes and partnerships, work with colleagues across the Group and use data and insight to help us understand, demonstrate and strengthen our impact.

• Deliver our community investment programmes, supporting the running of the Rathbones Foundation and helping create meaningful societal impact.
• Own and enhance our Responsible Business data, analysing information, supporting accurate reporting and identifying opportunities to make our processes more efficient.
• Collaborate with teams across the business to coordinate, promote and build engagement with Responsible Business initiatives.
• Contribute to our Responsible Business reporting and disclosures, including CDP and FTSE4Good submissions, while monitoring progress against relevant frameworks, regulations and external ratings.

Building partnerships and creating social impact

• Build and manage relationships with our community and charity partners, supporting programmes that contribute to Rathbones’ wider societal impact.
• Coordinate employee volunteering and matched giving, helping colleagues get involved with the causes and communities that matter to them
• Manage relationships with key external partners, including the Charities Aid Foundation, helping ensure our partnerships are effective and impactful.
• Coordinate stakeholder engagement, gathering feedback and insight to help shape and strengthen our Responsible Business approach.
• Act as a key point of contact for Responsible Business, building relationships with colleagues and external stakeholders.

Keeping us informed and moving forward

• Stay informed on emerging Responsible Business issues and developments, helping the team understand their relevance and potential impact for Rathbones.
• Identify and develop case studies and impact stories that showcase our Responsible Business activities and achievements.
• Coordinate Responsible Business papers and updates for relevant committees and working groups, helping ensure progress and priorities are communicated effectively.
• Take ownership of the Responsible Business, Foundation and donations inboxes, ensuring enquiries and opportunities are managed effectively.

About you

If you meet some of these criteria and are excited about the role, we encourage you to apply

• Experience working within Responsible Business, sustainability, ESG or social impact, ideally within financial or professional services.
• A good understanding of relevant regulatory and reporting frameworks, alongside confidence working with data, analysis and reporting.
• Strong stakeholder skills, with the ability to build relationships, influence others and turn ideas into action.
• Experience coordinating projects and producing clear, accurate and insightful reporting.
• A proactive and adaptable approach, able to balance planned priorities with new opportunities and emerging issues.
• Excellent attention to detail, particularly when working with data, reporting and external submissions.
• A collaborative approach and a commitment to bringing Rathbones’ values to life through the way you work.

We offer:

Our offer to you

We want everyone at Rathbones to fulfil their potential, in an environment where you are proud to work and feel like you belong.

We offer a comprehensive remuneration package, which we review regularly, and benefits include:

·       A company pension - 9% non-contributory or 10% if you contribute 5%

·       Private medical insurance …