Responsible Investment Manager - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

End Date

Tuesday 17 March 2026

Salary Range

£61,344 - £68,160

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Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working

Job Description Summary

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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Responsible Investment Manager (12 month Fixed Term Contract)

SALARY: £61,344pa to £74,900pa plus an extensive benefits package. 

LOCATION:  Edinburgh.

HOURS: 35 hours, full time. 

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of your time, at our Edinburgh hub. 

We’re on an exciting journey to transform Lloyds Banking Group and the way we shape finance for good. We’re focusing on the future - investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone, including you!  

Scottish Widows has been helping people prepare for the future since 1815. Now more than 200 years on, we look after over 10 million customers across the UK. Scottish Widows’ product range includes workplace and individual pensions, annuities, life cover, critical illness, income protection as well as savings and investment products.

This role is an opportunity to bring experience in sustainability into an investment and pensions role. The Investment team at Scottish Widows manages approx. £200bn worth of assets on behalf of customers, investing to help their pensions pots grow. You'll also be part of a much bigger network through Lloyds Banking Group, whose mission is to Help Britain Prosper.

Want to hear more?

We’re looking for a proactive and passionate Responsible Investment Manager for a 12-month Fixed Term contract to help deliver our Responsible Investment Framework and Stewardship Policy. You’ll work across a range of environmental and social themes and activities to support a market leading proposition, which has responsible investing at its core, delivering the best outcomes for our customers.

Your accountabilities will include:

• Leading our direct corporate engagement programme across diversity, human rights and nature, developing methodologies, conducting research and engaging with companies alongside supporting colleagues on specific focus areas.

• Managing voting season including working with our partner Minerva to review upcoming votes and conduct research, as well as managing the approval process.

• Supporting the senior RI manager and Head of Team on external investor collaborations and projects, providing research and discussion support. This will also include taking part in external collaborative initiatives such as ShareAction’s Good Work Coalition and PRI’s Spring.

• Drafting content for the annual Responsible Investment report and support client requests through summarising work on engagement and voting with examples and case studies. Support additional reporting for UNPRI and Group Sustainability reports.

• Acting as representative for LBG social work, attending modern slavery working group sessions and staying connected to Group’s work on social topics.

About you

• A deep understanding of social and environmental topics, such as human rights and biodiversity, from study and/or experience, as well as some awareness of the sustainability regulatory landscape.

• Confidence in ability to analyse and monitor companies’ sustainability performance and identify areas for improvement.

• Expertise in engaging companies (or other customers), and the ability to influence and manage relationships to encourage positive outcomes

• Experience and understanding of the investment system and the role of the pension industry as an asset owner either through direct experience or wider collaboration

• The ability to self-direct and problem solve. Activities vary widely from research to engaging companies, and report writing. The individual will need to be able to explore solutions independently and report back to the team with options.

• The ability to absorb knowledge quickly and communicate effectively with colleagues and customers.

About working for us  

Our focus is to ensure we are inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity, or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it is why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We are disability confident. So, if you would like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know. 

So, if you are excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch.  

We would love to hear from you! 

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks.  We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. 

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.