We are seeking a dedicated Stewardship Reporting Specialist with strong communication, writing and planning skills to join our dynamic team. This role is pivotal in further developing the comprehensive reporting strategy for our engagements and voting activities, and for contributing to the continuous improvement of our stewardship initiatives. We have ambitious sustainable investment commitments, and we are seeking someone to help us effectively communicate our progress and results.

Your team

Cardano is a frontrunner on sustainability investing and in this fast-moving industry, we want to retain our leadership position. The Cardano Sustainability Group is a team of driven professionals. Within Cardano, we are responsible for the development and implementation of the Sustainable Investment Policy. This includes our stewardship activities. We work closely with the commercial teams, portfolio managers, and other functions within our offices in Rotterdam and London to achieve our goals. We also work together with data and research providers, as well as collaboratively with other global institutional investors to conduct engagements.

The Cardano Sustainability Group consists of 25+ individuals, where this is an addition to the Stewardship sub-team currently consisting of 3 team members.

Your role

Your role is within the Stewardship domain and your responsibilities include:

• Developing a vision for articulating and communicating our stewardship activities.
• Coordinating the content for annual and quarterly reporting cycles, as well as for client commitments as needed.
• Overseeing and improving the system used to track engagement activities and create statistics.
• Developing presentations, reports, content drafts and other materials that describe engagement and proxy voting activities for a broad range of stakeholders and uses (clients, website, third party evaluators etc.)
• Conducting benchmarking and analysis to identify opportunities to improve reporting content and introduce concepts for thought leadership.
• Managing the delivery of stewardship services including having an overview of clients and commitments.
• Supporting the stewardship team in responding to RfP’s and assessments of our activities.
• Working closely with the Cardano Sustainability Group, Marketing and Stewardship teams to support the implementation of the stewardship strategy.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and ambitious colleague that enjoys contributing to the team and company goals.

We ask for

• You have a university degree with a focus on sustainability, finance, corporate responsibility or similar.
• Minimum of three years relevant experience, for example RfP writing, investment marketing, sustainability reporting, or stewardship specialist.
• Strong understanding of the asset management industry and sustainable investing.
• Excellent writing, editing, report development and proofreading skills.
• Professional level English and Dutch language skills are required.
• Proven project management and business planning skills with the ability to develop strategic plans.
• Ability to establish productive relationships between various leaders, divisions, and functions across business groups within the company.
• Ability to design and carry out relevant tasks including content reviews, metrics analysis, client consultation & analysis, and presentation development.
• Knowledge of ESG-data systems and comfortable with data sets.
• Proactive attitude and a flexible mindset.

If you don’t meet all the criteria, not to worry. Cardano will invest and support you in your development.

What does Cardano offer?

Cardano offers good employment conditions in addition to ample development opportunities. We will work with you to create a development plan including internal and external trainings. In addition to your salary, holiday allowance, 13th month and discretionary profit sharing, you will get a free lunch when you work in the office (we work hybrid), join the company fitness scheme and you can be part of our regular social events. Cardano is located in Rotterdam right opposite central station and a 1st class train ticket (if you live outside Rotterdam) is also part of the employment conditions. Interested? Send your CV and motivation to Greta Fearman g.fearman@cardano.com

About Cardano

Cardano Risk Management was founded in 2000 from the conviction that in an uncertain world everyone should be able to count on a fair pension. We believe in a just society in which our financial system contributes to the quality of life. In an irrational, uncertain world with a financial system that regularly runs amok, we feel responsible to watch over other people's money. We therefore help to secure people's ability to live in their good old age. We do this by eradicating unwanted and unrewarded risks and embracing the risks that are necessary to make people and society more resilient. Since its foundation in 2000, Cardano has supported many European pension funds, insurers and other financial end users with strategic advice, implementation and management of investment strategies, manager research and selection. Every year, Cardano executes €150+ billion worth of transactions on behalf of clients, including interest rate, currency, inflation and equity derivatives and (government) bonds. Cardano Asset Management (formerly known as ACTIAM) is the leading responsible asset and fund manager in the Netherlands. As an authority in the area of sustainable and impact investing, we are proud of the results we have achieved. We put ourselves in the client’s position and are not afraid of making decisions. We are fully aware of our responsibility towards society, and we have taken this responsibility seriously for many years. Sustainable investment management is our edge in which we continue to invest. Cardano has offices in UK (London and Nottingham) and the Netherlands (Rotterdam) and has employed over 600 experienced specialists.