Associate Advisor Advisor Senior Advisor ESG Customer Success Job

Our ESG Customer Success team is seeking to recruit environmental and social Risk Advisors (Advisor). These advisors will become an integral part of a multi-disciplinary advisory team composed of experts in social and human rights assessment, community engagement, labour and occupational health and safety, environmental management, environmental law, climate change and biodiversity, with a specific focus on the international arena.  This is an opportunity for individuals who are resourceful self-starters, that thrive in a dynamic team environment, to work directly on the ever evolving environmental and social (E&S) risk management in the financial sector.  
 
Within the framework of EDC’s legal, international and corporate sustainability and responsibility requirements, an Advisor provides expert advice to EDC in managing E&S risks associated with EDC’s financing and insurance transactions, in accordance with EDC’s E&S review and risk management policies, procedures and legal requirements. 

An Advisor considers the activities of the exporter, the industry and the country context of a financial transaction to provide expert guidance to EDC and the customer on E&S risk management.  In addition, an Advisor leads or plays a key role in developing and/or refining corporate responsibility policies, programs and initiatives. He/she is a key player in defining and negotiating the ESG Customer Success team’s interactions with various internal teams.  
 
Discipline Summary 

• Operationalizes the corporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) risk management framework including determination of risk tolerance, limits and delegations, measurement, and implementation of an integrated risk modeling system.
• Undertakes assessments of potential risks for an organization at every level and aggregates the results at the corporate level to facilitate priority setting and improved decision-making.  
• Identifies and analyzes potential non-credit related sources of transaction risk, from an environmental, human rights and climate perspective and for the operations of the Corporation more broadly, recommends strategies for minimizing risks.
• Communicates information regarding business risks across the organization. 

Key Responsibilities

Associate Advisor

• Performs EDC’s legal, international and corporate E&S due diligence requirements through the identification and assessment of E&S impacts and risks associated with transactions to which EDC may provide support
• Conducts project benchmarking against international E&S standards
• Supports the negotiation and structuring of E&S commitments in financing and insurance documentation
• Assists in the review of monitoring reports and identifies and assesses potential E&S risks and presents findings to asset managers 
• Supports the ESG Customer Success teams’ and the Corporation’s continuous improvement initiatives through the use of problem-solving and other related techniques

Advisor

• Efficiently executes all Associate Advisor responsibilities 
• Assesses the adequacy of proposed mitigation measures to address E&S risks
• Negotiates and structures E&S commitments in financing and insurance documentation in collaboration with the business teams
• Independently reviews monitoring reports, identifies and assesses potential E&S risks and presents findings to asset managers 
• Occasionally participates in site visits for financing projects to assess E&S risk, observe on-site conditions and document findings
• Leads some of ESG Customer Success and the Corporation’s continuous improvement initiatives through the use of problem-solving and other related techniques

Senior Advisor

• Efficiently executes all Advisor responsibilities 
• Oversees and trains team members to ensure that EDC fulfills it’s legal, international and corporate E&S due diligence requirements through the identification and assessment of E&S impacts and risks associated with transactions to which EDC may provide support
• Reviews monitoring reports and identifies and assesses potential E&S risks and presents findings to asset managers
• Leads and coaches others through the ESG Customer Success teams’ and the Corporations’ continuous improvement initiatives through the use of problem-solving and other related techniques

Screening Criteria  

• Completion of a degree in an environmentally related field, such as Environmental Science (or a sub-discipline such as ecology, environmental management, climate change science, water resources, etc.,) Environmental Law, Engineering, International Development
• Knowledge of E&S risk management principles and practices
• Minimum of 3 years (Associate Advisor); 5 years (Advisor); 7 years (Senior Advisor) of experience in risk management or related experience in the area of E&S impact assessment in an international setting

Assets 

• Fluent in Canada’s two official languages (French and English)
• Ability to communicate in other languages, notably Spanish
• Experience or expertise in the areas of international biodiversity and conservation, occupational health and safety in development markets, climate change and/or carbon risk, gender or social issues and human rights
• Familiarity with international E&S standards, including among others, the International Finance Corporation’s Performance Standards and the Equator Principles
• Experience working in a matrix organization
• Professional certifications related to ESG, sustainability, climate change, human rights
• Diploma or advance training in ESG, E&S risk management
• Completion of a degree in Law/Human Rights/Gender Studies
• Work Experience / professional certification in data analytics

Salary Range(s)

• Associate Advisor: $64,100 - $96,100, plus performance-based incentive
• Advisor: $75,700 - $113,600, plus performance-based incentive
• Senior Advisor: $89,000 - $133,600, plus performance-based incentive