Esg Development Associate

**ESG Development Associate**

**Paris, France**

**Permanent Contract**

As one of the world's largest real assets managers, and one of the major development manager in Europe, we believe that the decisions we make when investing and developing assets generate financial returns while contributing to a sustainable future, by minimising the environmental impact of our assets, protecting them against the effects of climate change and working collaboratively to unleash the transformative potential of our ingenuity. Our responsible investment strategy is built on three key pillars: Decarbonisation, Resilience, and Building Tomorrow. The built environment contributes significantly to the world's annual carbon emissions, giving us the opportunity to make an important contribution to decarbonisation. We are actively investing towards a low carbon future, be it through developing best-in-class real estate, or regenerating and transforming existing building stock worthy of a place in the low carbon future.

Real Estate Development Managers play a key role in achieving our responsible investment trategy and ensuring assets are developed and managed sustainably and deliver sustainable value. ESG is clearly embedded in each and every AMs responsibilities and represents a key priority for our assets.

**The main responsibilities of the role**

**Support deployment and monitoring of Development ESG policy**
- Coordinate with all local teams of Development in Europe to deploy the ESG police,
- Structure or adjust the ESG policy and guidelines, to best market practice while monitoring the technical and financial feasibility,
- Support the Pan-European Development Coordinator in deploying the ESG strategy at local level and among new geographies (like Australia) and platforms of development (Baytree...),
- Support and coordinate the deployment within local DM team across multiple workstreams, asset clases and initiatives (ex : GRESB reporting, building energy efficiency, solar panels, green procurement...).

**Support the development of the local ESG expertise**
- Educate, train and support Development Managers on strategy / tools / processes,
- Deploy technical guidelines and tools and foster adoption (One Click LCA, ESG rating...),
- Review ESG executive dashboard per project, and support local teams to identify action plans of key properties and deploy best practices,
- Monitor progress made by the DM team vs. targets and follow on KPIs,
- Coordinate reporting and internal communication tools (ex : business cases, best practices),
- Review & co-ordinate ESG data collection, ensure data consistency and quality, with the Global ESG team,

**Support ESG efforts with local internal and external stakeholders**
- Coordinate initiatives with external Development Managers (including awareness & monitoring of ESG targets),
- Monitor service providers at local level in relation with local teams (energy managers, certification advisors, energy/environmental auditors, regulatory montoring...) and contribute to the selection of the new ones,
- Liaise with Legal & Compliance teams to review and assess local laws and legal framework evolutions,
- Monitor industry evolution, benchmark competition, and contribute to interactions with external peers (according to seniority of the profile),
- Advise in ad hoc investment or divestment processes

**Votre Profil**

**Profil**

**Education/Qualifications**
- Master degree in Finance, Management, Engineering or Real Estate.
- Sustainability focused diploma are favourable.
- EPC, BREEAM or other rating schemes accredited would be a plus.

**Experience**
- Min 4 years of experience.
- Prior experience in the development activity with a strong focus on ESG department.
- Good understanding on the real estate industry.
- Knowledge of global real estate sustainability standards and certification schemes.
- Understanding of EU and local ESG regulations (ie. SFDR, Taxonomy, Loi Plage, Decret Tertiaire, etc) is considered a plus.

**Competencies**
- Accomplished interpersonal skills, ability to work efficiently in a team in an international and matrix environment.
- Proven teamplayer.
- Excellent communication skills, both orally and in writing.
- Autonomous, initiative, entrepreneurial and result driven culture.
- Ability to manage complex projects and multiple tasks in parallel.
- Strong analytical and synthesis capacity.
- Verbal and written communications and presentation skills.
- Creative thinking, capability to develop innovative solutions.
- Strong written and oral skills in English.
- Any other European language is considered a plus.

**A propos d'AXA**

Le Groupe AXA est un leader mondial de l'assurance et de la gestion d'actifs, avec 160 000 collaborateurs au service de 105 millions de clients dans 62 pays.
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