Principal, Sustainable Investing

Why you’ll love working here:

• high-performance, people-focused culture

• our commitment that equity, diversity, and inclusion are fundamental to our work environment and business success, which helps employees feel valued and empowered to be their authentic selves

• learning and development initiatives, including workshops, Speaker Series events and access to LinkedIn Learning, that support employees’ career growth

• membership in HOOPP’s world class defined benefit pension plan, which can serve as an important part of your retirement security

• competitive, 100% company-paid extended health and dental benefits for permanent employees, including coverage supporting our team's diversity and mental health (e.g., gender affirmation, fertility and drug treatment, psychological support benefits of $2,500 per year, parental leave top-up, and a health spending account).

• optional post-retirement health and dental benefits subsidized at 50%

• yoga classes, meditation workshops, nutritional consultations, and wellness seminars

• the opportunity to make a difference and help take care of those who care for us, by providing a financially secure retirement for Ontario healthcare workers

Job Summary

Reporting to the Managing Director, Sustainable Investing, the Principal, Sustainable Investing will play a key role in the implementation of HOOPP’s new Sustainable Investing strategy, a key initiative in the 2030 Strategic Plan. In this role, you will be a leading contributor to generating sustainability insights to inform portfolio resilience. You will bring a strong technical foundation and a passion to contribute to the continued advancement of Sustainable Investing at HOOPP.

What You’ll Do

• Analyze the impacts of sustainability factors on total portfolio characteristics to inform portfolio resilience.

• Design and support climate stress testing and portfolio analysis to assess systemic risk drivers and concentrations. This includes top-down and bottom-up risk assessments based on climate pathways and asset-specific characteristics and working with climate risk tools or environmental datasets to assess climate physical and transition risks.

• Integrate large-scale datasets from diverse sources, including climate model outputs, geospatial data, emissions inventories, and financial performance metrics, to support climate risk and sustainability factor analysis.

• Stay abreast of state-of-the-art research and practices in climate modeling and act as a subject matter expert in the physical and economic impacts of climate change and energy transition pathways.

• Collaborate with internal and external partners on sustainability-related portfolio analysis and research.

• Lead research and write thought leadership papers on the relationship between and implications of sustainability factors and portfolio characteristics.

• Support additional Sustainable Investing priorities, including board and executive-level reporting.

What You’ll Bring

• 7-10 years of experience in related role with direct experience in multi-asset class climate pathway analysis

• Demonstrated ability to analyze and interpret complex, multivariable datasets related to climate, environmental, and financial systems.

• Capacity to evaluate scenario-based modeling frameworks, such as IPCC pathways, to inform portfolio resilience analysis

• Familiarity with data tools and programming languages for statistical analysis and model development an asset

• Ability to synthesize complex quantitative outputs into concise, strategic insights for senior stakeholders

• Proactivity, with high level of self-motivation and a track record of using critical thinking to address complex problems and develop pragmatic solutions

• Strong team orientation and drive to cross-pollinate ideas across the team’s workstreams

• Clear and confident oral and written communicator who can effectively explain analytical or quantitative concepts in simple, practical and high impact manner

• Commitment to constructive feedback and continual learning

• Advanced degree(s) in an analytical, financial and/or technical field such as Economics, Environmental Science, Engineering or other relevant area strongly preferred

• Additional professional designations like CFA an asset 

• Alignment with HOOPP’s core values: accountable, compassionate, and trustworthy