ESG Associate - Portfolio Management

Job Description

Clarion Partners has been a leading real estate investment manager for 40 years. Headquartered in New York, the firm maintains strategically located offices across the United States and Europe. With $75.9 billion in total real estate and debt assets under management, Clarion Partners offers a broad range of real estate strategies across the risk/return spectrum to 500 institutional investors across the globe. Clarion Partners Europe invests in logistics and industrial properties located across Germany, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, and other European countries, and is majority-owned by Clarion Partners. Clarion Partners is a subsidiary investment manager for Franklin Templeton. More information is available at www.clarionpartners.com.

Location: New York or Dallas

Responsibilities

• Support Head of ESG in incorporating ESG initiatives and programs across the organization and work with various departments including acquisitions, asset management, portfolio management and others to develop ESG processes
• Support client management through completion of ESG sections of RFPs and RFIs, presentation materials, and fund reporting
• Work with external consultants on ESG data management. Be responsible for initiatives around ESG data management, collection, and governance
• Work with various consultants and vendors to manage ESG projects such as renewable energy, resource efficiency, and climate risk and resilience projects
• Do research and stay up-to-date on ESG initiatives in the real estate industry, vendors, technologies and peers
• Support ESG Committee meetings and initiatives
• Work with asset management and portfolio management teams to identify and implement ESG initiatives
• Support DEI Council and initiatives on presentations, research, programming and partnerships

Qualifications

• 4-5 years of direct experience
• Candidate must have a strong understanding of ESG in real estate
• Strong communication and writing skills
• Working knowledge of ESG reporting programs such as GRESB, TCFD, UNPRI and green building certification programs such as LEED, WELL and Fitwel

• Comfort with large data sets, strong knowledge of excel, and be comfortable with ESG data in real estate and commonly used data platforms such as Energy Star Portfolio Manager and Measurabl
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment, organized and willing to take initiative and work independently

• Excellent analytical skills with ability to independently problem solve

• Advanced Excel skills, basic SQL skills and familiarity with business intelligence tools, Power Query, Power BI and Excel VBA are a plus