Thought Leadership, Social

The SI Thought Leadership team drives research, analytics, and strategy on Robeco’s Sustainable Investing (SI) priority areas, such as climate change, biodiversity, social rights, sustainable development goals, ESG integration and SI data. Interns support our work though focused projects that typically take 4 to 6 months. These projects aim to further develop Robeco’s SI strategy and IP, giving you an opportunity to interact with, and learn from, colleagues across Robeco’s teams.

The intern will support the Thought Leadership team in enhancing our forward-looking social traffic light. The project aim to improve our existing social traffic light methodology. The project can include:

• Analyse the biases (sector, in the traffic light universe and come up with suggestions for improvement

• How to handle high impact sectors vs low impact sectors

• Start working on selecting (trends in) outcome based social KPIs and look for forward looking metrics.

• Use our Artificial Intelligence tool to scrape new innovative data points.

The intern will report to a senior researcher and collaborate with colleagues across Robeco’s SI Centre of Expertise and investment teams to bring the model to usage.

• Current master students that have a strong academic background in fields like (quantitative) finance or sustainability.

• Analytical and programming skills, affinity with sustainability

• Proficiency in Python, MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint

• Availability to work full time in Rotterdam for a period of 4-6 months. Starting date: March 2025

• All the internship vacancies at Robeco in Rotterdam are open to students enrolled at a university during the entire duration of their internship. Our interns must also be eligible for a residence permit to do an internship in the Netherlands. This means we can recruit EU citizens studying at a global university or non-EU citizens studying at a Dutch university.
  

You can apply by sending your application to SI_Internships@robeco.nl by 6th January 2025
Make sure to include the following information in your application:

• 2 minutes motivation video and/or a one-page motivation letter;

• Your CV mentioning date until you are enrolled at university;

• Writing sample that helps us assess your writing and research skills on an environmental-related topic.

All applications will be treated with the utmost confidentiality. An assessment and integrity test may be used in the selection procedure.