BlackRock Investment Stewardship - Vice President, Communications
Company: BlackRock
Location: New York
Posted on: May 16, 2022
Job Description:
Description About this role About our team: As a fiduciary asset
manager, BlackRock is committed to acting in the best long-term
interests of our clients. We undertake our Investment Stewardship
(BIS) activities to advocate for the sound corporate governance and
sustainable business practices that supply to long-term value
creation for our clients. In this way, we support BlackRock's
purpose of helping more people experience financial well-being. The
BIS team is considered an investment function as it engages in
proxy voting at portfolio companies to advance the economic
interests of clients globally. The BIS team operates in ten offices
across three regions - the Americas (New York, Delaware, and San
Francisco), EMEA (London, Amsterdam, and Frankfurt) and
Asia-Pacific (Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Sydney). This role
is based in BlackRock's New York office. BlackRock aims to take a
common view in-house regarding our engagement and voting policies
and uses the BIS group to develop, communicate and implement these
policies across the 85 markets and approximately 17,000 shareholder
meetings at which the firm votes each year. Interest in the work of
BIS has steadily increased over the past few years, as have
expectations of clients and others in relation to the
communications and transparency of BIS. As BIS is focused on
helping BlackRock meet its fiduciary duty to clients, communication
directed at and reporting to clients, and other stakeholders, on
BIS' work is a key part of the team's output. About the position:
The Vice President - Communications will work as part of a team
responsible for complementing the work of the three regional teams
(AMRS, APAC, EMEA) and communicating it to clients and other
stakeholders. The role reports to the Managing Director - Global
Institutional Relations and Policy and is based in New York. The
intention is for the person in this role to deliver high quality
content for client and public communications on BIS' work,
particularly on engagements with corporates and policy
positions.
- Manage communications to clients and other stakeholders
interested in BIS' work
- Convert information provided by regional team members into
content for regular client reports
- Reports covering voting and engagement activities with case
studies and data
- Annual stewardship report
- Client specific reporting as required
- Ad hoc reports or commentaries as required
- Review and help keep current BIS' suite of publications and
suggest areas for innovation as appropriate
- Initiate improvements to messaging, formats and focus of
materials working with BIS communications colleagues and firm-level
partners as required
- Ensure quality of key publications working with BIS team and
firm-level partners as required
- Manage complex projects such as the production of the annual
report and voting spotlight, which require multiple inputs from
colleagues in BIS and beyond
- Develop effective means to communicate BLK positioning on
emerging trends and issues
- Work with team experts to publish thought leadership pieces,
unique research, and opinion pieces (e.g. blogs)
- Contribute to firm-wide publications (e.g. BlackRock
Sustainable Investing, Investment Institute, Center for Stakeholder
Capital and Global Public Policy papers) and internal talking
points on stewardship and sustainability themes
- Contribute to external engagement
- Provide input into briefings and presentations by senior team
members undertaking client or public speaking engagements
- Lead certain Rapid Response efforts following external
publications covering BIS' stewardship work in relation to
BlackRock's holdings
- Collaborate with relevant subject matter experts to communicate
at scale with companies on thematic engagements, e.g. through
letter writing
- Collaborate with relevant subject matter experts to develop key
messages to communicate to companies on BIS' views on emerging
themes and trends and the likely implications for voting and
engagement
- Innovate in content and delivery so BIS remains at the leading
edge of stewardship transparency
- Work with compliance and other businesses to ensure all
materials are of high quality and have consistent messaging and
appropriate content Desired qualifications include:
- An undergraduate degree in finance, economics, accounting, or
other relevant field that contributed to the development of strong
research, qualitative and quantitative analysis and communication
skills
- At least eight years of relevant experience
- A keen awareness, and ideally knowledge, of sound corporate
governance and sustainable business practices
- Well-developed project management skills, ensuring all parties
a successful project depends on are aware of expectations and able
to deliver within desired timelines
- The ability to build and maintain successful relationships with
colleagues across the firm and with external parties
- The ability to prioritize, analyze, and resolve complex issues
under time pressure
- A diligent, focused, and persistent work ethic to implement
while leading multiple tasks and changing priorities
- An organized, self-reliant, and self-motivated approach to
responsibilities
- The ability to communicate clearly and persuasively in writing
and orally Our benefits To help you stay energized, engaged and
inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong
retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare,
support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can
relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about. About
BlackRock At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to
help more and more people experience financial well-being. Our
clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement,
paying for their children's educations, buying homes and starting
businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global
economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure
projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations
that drive progress. This mission would not be possible without our
smartest investment - the one we make in our employees. It's why
we're dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues
feel welcomed, valued and supported with networks, benefits and
development opportunities to help them thrive. For additional
information on BlackRock, please visit - - - - LinkedIn: BlackRock
is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action
Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race,
color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender
identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses
protected by law. BlackRock will consider for employment qualified
applicants with arrest or conviction records in a manner consistent
with the requirements of the law, including any applicable fair
chance law.
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