Duties in the role include:

• Maintaining, enhancing and ensuring the consistent implementation of Fixed Income's ESG integration approach, including the processes used to analyze ESG risks and opportunities as well as the framework for applying its ESG impact ratings.
• Undertaking sector, thematic, and issuer-level ESG research across all fixed income asset classes and regions.
• Partnering with credit research analysts, economists and portfolio managers to identify and incorporate material ESG factors into their investment analyses and decision-making.
• Engaging with issuers on ESG issues, both individually and in partnership with credit research analysts and economists.
• Tracking ESG-related developments from a market, regulatory and thematic perspective and formulating strategies for Fixed Income to adapt accordingly.
• Understanding and analyzing 3rd party ESG data and research, working with the firm's technology support group to constantly improve ways of accessing and applying this data, and investigating potential new sources of such information.
• Producing ESG-related thought leadership for use by Fixed Income and its clients.
• Interfacing with peers, industry groups and other external ESG organizations.
• Partnering withFixed Income's client advisory group to explain the firm's ESG approach to clients, respond to their ESG-related queries and improve the ESG-related reporting they receive.
• Participating in the design and launch of new ESG products and strategies.

To be considered for this role you will need a passion and vision for ESG and have experience of Fixed Income products.  This is a newly created role so ideally you will be keen to work in a role where you will be given a good degreee of autonomy and also key will be the need to have strong communication skills as this role will give you extensive exposure to key stakeholders.