Start 1 January 2023
SI Center of Expertise - Active Ownership
Are you a MSc student or MBA student looking to work at the cutting edge of academia and practice in sustainability? We have great research projects for you to learn in our SI Center of Expertise. Robeco has been recognized by Morningstar as one of the six global ESG leaders in asset management in their latest research. You can get a taste of it by becoming one of our SI interns.
Our Active Ownership team is recruiting an intern starting in January 2023.
Candidate profile
The Active Ownership team conducts engagement with more than 200 companies in our investment portfolio to encourage companies to improve their performance on environmental, social and governance (ESG). Interns support this process by taking part in the baseline research project group that defines the engagement objectives. The projects typically take 4 to 6 months and the interns are an integral part of the project working group, delivering significant research output for our clients. You will also participate in the conference calls with the companies we invest in to discuss their sustainability strategy. We are interested to work with final stage MSc students from a broad range of studies from environmental science, sociology, philosophy, biology to business administration and finance. Many former interns started their internship with us during the writing phase of the thesis, to kickstart your professional career while graduating with relevant work experience.
What you’ll do
The projects cover all aspects of the sustainability investing research space. This ranges from individual company review on sustainability performance, to engagement research by conducting a peer group analysis of companies performance on environmental management, human rights or corporate governance in a project group.