Booster Financial Services | Wellington

Are you passionate about responsible investment and enjoy turning complex ESG considerations into practical investment strategies and outcomes? Do you thrive in a role where you can combine investment expertise, stakeholder engagement, and strategic thinking to influence how responsible investment is embedded across an organisation?

Booster is looking for a Responsible Investment Strategist to join our Investment team. This is an opportunity to play a key role in shaping and delivering Booster’s responsible investment approach, supporting investment decision-making, strengthening our governance and stewardship practices, and ensuring our responsible investment commitments are reflected across our portfolios, communications, and client outcomes.

About the Role

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Global Investments, you’ll be responsible for supporting the ongoing development and implementation of Booster’s responsible investment strategy, policies, processes, and reporting.

You’ll work closely with our Investment team, Product Owners, Marketing, Risk & Compliance, and external responsible investment service providers to ensure responsible investment considerations are effectively embedded across the organisation.

You’ll also support portfolios with specific responsible investment mandates, oversee key outsourced RI functions, and contribute to Booster’s external profile through thought leadership, industry engagement, and responsible investment communications.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys combining strong responsible investment expertise with strategic thinking, collaboration, and the ability to turn complex concepts into clear and practical outcomes.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Leading the development, review, and ongoing maintenance of responsible investment policies, frameworks, and guidelines.
• Ensuring responsible investment policies and practices remain aligned with regulatory requirements, industry standards, client expectations, and Booster’s investment philosophy.
• Supporting the integration of ESG considerations into investment decision-making, portfolio construction, and risk management.
• Conducting responsible investment analysis and developing strategies to support portfolio managers and analysts across asset classes.
• Monitoring emerging ESG risks, opportunities, regulations, and market best practice, and communicating their implications across the business.
• Acting as a trusted internal adviser on responsible investment matters.
• Overseeing external ESG research providers and outsourced proxy voting services, ensuring quality, consistency, and alignment with Booster’s approach.
• Supporting the development of Booster’s stewardship framework, including engagement priorities, escalation pathways, and outcome tracking.
• Working with Product Owners to understand and manage responsible investment certification and portfolio requirements.
• Supporting portfolios with specific responsible investment mandates through tailored analysis, activities, and reporting.
• Supporting ESG-related company engagement activities, including preparation and follow-up.
• Leading and contributing to responsible investment reporting, disclosures, and communications.
• Ensuring responsible investment disclosures and public statements accurately reflect Booster’s activities and approach.
• Delivering responsible investment training, presentations, and updates to build capability and understanding across the organisation.
• Developing thought leadership on responsible investment and ESG themes.
• Representing Booster through presentations, industry engagement, and media opportunities.
• Building strong relationships across the business and with external stakeholders to support effective responsible investment outcomes.

What We’re Looking For

You’ll bring strong responsible investment knowledge together with the ability to engage stakeholders, influence outcomes, and translate complex responsible investment concepts into practical action.

Ideally, you’ll have:

• Strong knowledge of responsible investment principles and processes, including responsible investment screening, ESG integration, and stewardship.
• Experience in responsible investment policy development, implementation, and governance.
• Experience working with investment markets and responsible investment or ESG-related data and metrics.
• Familiarity with ESG data providers, proxy voting services, and stewardship frameworks.
• The ability to translate complex responsible investment concepts into clear, practical guidance.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills and the ability to influence without direct authority.
• A proactive, collaborative, and intellectually curious approach.
• Strong organisational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Experience in asset management, investment research, responsible investment, sustainability, or a related field.
• A relevant tertiary qualification, with professional qualifications such as CFA, CAIA, or ESG-related credentials being advantageous.
• Familiarity with global responsible investment standards and initiatives, including PRI, stewardship codes, and climate-related frameworks, would be advantageous.

Why Booster?

At Booster, we’re committed to helping New Zealanders build long-term financial confidence and security. You’ll join a collaborative and supportive team that values initiative, thoughtful decision-making, and continuous improvement.

Responsible investment is an important part of how we approach investing, and this role provides an opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to how our responsible investment capability continues to evolve. You’ll have exposure across investment strategy, ESG integration, stewardship, governance, client requirements, and industry developments.

You’ll have the opportunity to apply your responsible investment expertise, influence practices across the organisation, and help strengthen how we communicate and demonstrate our approach to responsible investing.

If you’re looking for a role where you can combine investment expertise with responsible investment thinking, influence outcomes, and help shape the continued development of Booster’s responsible investment approach, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply now and join a team that’s focused on delivering strong investment outcomes while continuing to strengthen our approach to responsible investment.

How to Apply

Interested candidates must apply via this Seek advert. Please note that to be considered for this role, you MUST have the legal right to work in New Zealand.