Environmental & Social Associate

Your Role

As Environmental and Social Associate, you support with assessing and monitoring the environmental, social and human rights impacts and risks of FMO investments, primarily within Financial Institutions and Private Equity, while supporting other sectors where needed. You will support E&S due diligence and monitoring against the requirements of the IFC Performance Standards on Environmental and Social Sustainability (IFC PS) and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGP). You will also contribute to assessing E&S risks and performance at portfolio level and help us further develop a risk-based, data-driven approach to E&S management. An important part of your role will be to explore and apply digital and AI-enabled solutions to strengthen risk identification and analysis, identify trends across the portfolio, and make due diligence and monitoring more effective and efficient.

Next to that you will:

• Take responsibility for E&S monitoring of the lower-risk part of the portfolio by providing E&S input for Client Credit Reviews (CCRs), including monitoring client E&S performance and following up on agreed actions.
• Conduct country, contextual and human rights risk assessments, combining these with information on customers and their investment portfolios to determine the nature and level of E&S risk for FMO.
• Support Environmental and Social Officers with the due diligence and monitoring of higher-risk or more complex investments, contributing research, analysis and follow-up as required.
• Track and analyze E&S performance at portfolio level, identifying trends, emerging risks and areas requiring increased attention, and contribute to periodic portfolio reporting.
• Support the identification and management of potential technical assistance opportunities in collaboration with Environmental and Social Officers and investment staff and monitor implementation thereof.
• Contribute to continuously improving E&S processes, tools and ways of working, including through digitalisation and responsible use of AI, to increase team efficiency, quality and customer value.
• Contribute to effective E&S reporting, tracking, knowledge management and sustainability information, and respond to relevant support requests from across FMO.

Our Offer

For this position we offer you:

• Gross yearly salary ranging from EUR 55-65K (based on 40 hours/ week, including 8% holiday allowance and 13th month) depending on your seniority, years of relevant experience, and background .

• Working hours: 40 hours per week

• Pension scheme, partly paid by FMO.

• 31 holidays

• Hybrid way of working (50/50).

• Working remotely abroad for maximum 60 days in a rolling period of 12 months.

For more information, please visit our website Secondary Benefits - FMO

Your Team

The ESG+ department consists of five teams:

• Agribusiness, Food & Water E&S
• Energy E&S
• Financial Institutions and Private Equity E&S
• Corporate Governance
• Sustainability Integration Standards

Through these five teams, ESG+ delivers effective impact management across the ESG risk and return spectrum, based on harmonized impact concepts and metrics. This role sits within the dedicated Financial Institutions & Private Equity E&S Team, while providing support to other E&S teams where needed. The team consists of 15 environmental and social professionals with different areas of environmental and social expertise (including this vacancy), led by an E&S Manager.

Your Background

To execute this position successfully, you must have or need to be:

• A Master's degree in a relevant social and/or environmental science.
• A minimum of four years of relevant working experience in environmental, social and/or human rights assessment and management, preferably in a private sector environment and/or emerging market context.
• An understanding of the IFC Performance Standards, with the ability to apply these to E&S assessment and monitoring.
• An understanding of applying a risk-based perspective, identify material E&S risks and determine where further analysis, monitoring or attention is required.
• Affinity with digitalisation, data-driven ways of working and AI-enabled solutions, combined with proficiency in Excel for data analysis and trend identification, and an interest in applying these tools to strengthen E&S risk assessment, due diligence, portfolio analysis and monitoring.
• Excellent English communication skills, both written and verbal.
• A team player with the ability to work effectively in interdisciplinary teams and manage multiple activities and priorities simultaneously.
• Intrinsic motivation to aim for a better world, combined with a can-do mentality.

It would be of added value if you have:

• Experience working in developing and emerging markets.
• Experience with portfolio-level E&S analysis and identifying trends, emerging risks and areas requiring increased attention.
• Experience with country, contextual and/or human rights risk analysis.
• Experience or affinity with one or more of the sectors in which FMO invests.
• Experience supporting private sector clients in applying international E&S good practices.
• Proficiency in French or Spanish.

In general, we are looking for a self-starter with strong analytical skills, curiosity and a drive for quality. You take initiative, are self-reflective and enjoy working collaboratively with colleagues from different disciplines. Given the nature of the role, we feel it is important that you are comfortable working with data and are curious about how digitalisation and new technologies can help us work smarter and more effectively. And, because collaboration is an important part of how we work, you know how to build relationships and contribute positively to the team.

Are you interested and do you think you meet the criteria. We would love to hear from you.

Please note, to be selected for an interview you must reside in the Netherlands.