Corporate Responsibility Intern - London 12-month placement 2024-2025

Job Description

At AXA IM, we act for human progress by investing for what matters, actively and responsibly. Join us and youll build a career in a truly diverse, entrepreneurial organization. Youll be part of a mission to tackle some of the worlds most stimulatingchallenges, pushing boundaries and exploring fresh ideas that aim to deliver long-term prosperity. Discover your unique opportunityJust as we are an active player in responsible investment with ESG integration embedded across our investment platforms and RI experts, we recognise our role as a business and employer, to hold ourselves to the same high standards that we ask of others. In Corporate Responsibility, we are guided by three commitments:

• People - we strive for an inclusive work environment built on fairness, equality and wellbeing in which performance and long-term employability can be nurtured.
• Environment - as a leading asset manager, we recognise our responsibility and crucial role we can play as an investor in leading the transition to a low carbon economy. Climate change is our key priority and focus.
• Business resilience - we seek to produce a long-term profit in a responsible, resilient and sustainable manner. Our decision making processes, policies and day to day operations need to made with responsibility at the core.

The role of the Corporate Responsibility team is therefore to demonstrate how AXA IM walks the talk as a business and employer, acting in a responsible and sustainable manner with all key audiences. The team leverages the research, insight, activityand commitments of both AXA Group and AXA IM to develop a roadmap and calendar of activity to define priorities, track progress and measure our impact as an organization. Reporting A key role for the intern is working on the annual reports we perform as a company. There are multiple of these which are focused across our ESG framework. This largely involves data analysis and communicating with relevant data suppliers globally.

• Manage data collection and reporting (under CR Manager supervision) on three key reportings for AXA Group (Environmental reporting, Community Survey and Sustainability Index).
• Support on AXA IMs own environmental report - GEMS
• Contribute to understanding of upcoming CSRD regulation.

Impact philanthropy We are looking to adapt this programme as part of an effort to improve company culture and further incorporate employees into this initiative.

• To work with CR team to develop current philanthropy programme and opportunities to evolve with new activities/approach.
• Continue relevant competitor research on the philanthropy topic.
• Prepare proposal for senior sign off and set up governance for deployment. Manage day to day relationships with the charities and ensure regular reporting on progress is conducted.

Modern slavery and human rights This topic is critical for us as a company to display our values and truly walk the talk. Supporting the team in this topic is central to the role. • To conduct competitor mapping on human rights activity and to assess what more might be done at AXA IM to demonstrate our commitment to be a responsible business. To review local regulatory requirements by company and ensure that AXA IM works to best practicestandards. • To prepare local reporting for submission where required • To work alongside compliance in order to address processes and advance on any recommendations (increased training for staff, revised processes). CO2 reduction strategies We partner with an external consultant in order to further refine our net zero roadmap. A key project within this is the development and implementation of office best practices to be distributed to all our local offices. This holds the aim of decreasing ourremaining scope 1&2 emissions. • Best practice on reducing emissions - support our different offices by implementing best practice guidance sheets on how to reduce key emissions. These hold a focus on power, car fleet, business travel, water, waste, and paper. Working with the supportour consultant, ensure our offices have these available to them. Support local offices with advice and guidance on measures to reduce emissions. Renewable energy transition for our key offices Lead on maintaining renewable electricity supply to offices.

• Assess the feasibility of directly sourcing renewable electricity in 2024, communicating with the local offices and their different suppliers.
• Provide our provider with the correct figures for 2024 electricity consumption.

Day to day management of CR office

• Manage team governance (meetings and discussions, minutes)
• Support implementation of CR projects, activities on governance/administrative processes - monitoring the CR budget and spend
• Be up to date on CR current affairs
• Management of the teams work in progress tracker
• Supporting the business on client RFPs, with metrics and information on progress
• Maintenance of CR SharePoint
• Support the team with writing/updating educational presentations to Teams
• Work on internal communications and engagement programmes

Your ProfileShare your unique expertise Strong project management and organisational skills - ability to maintain material/plans and presentations with updated information and data. Updating of weekly WIP report

• An interest in responsible investment, corporate responsibility and sustainability topics - engagement and curiosity in these areas is important
• Teamworking capabilities
• Good knowledge of IT tools - Microsoft Office in particular (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams)
• Effective business partnering - desire to collaborate and maintain trust-based relationships with key stakeholders
• Multi tasking - a need to work on many activities simultaneously and be aware of multiple deadlines
• A positive and confident personality , happy to work with senior stakeholders
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Have strong numerical capability, particularly data analysis
• Strong attention to detail
• An interest and knowledge of financial services / asset management

About AXAThe AXA Group is a global leader in insurance and asset management, with 160,000 employees serving 105 million customers in 62 countries. We protect and advise our clients at every stage of their lives, offering prod