Investment Officer - Sustainable Investing and Stewardship - San Francisco ' Reti

Position: 0922 Investment Officer - Sustainable Investing and Stewardship - San Francisco Employees' Reti[...]
0922 Investment Officer - Sustainable Investing and Stewardship - San Francisco Employees' Retirement System

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Department:
Retirement System
Job class:0922-Manager I
Starting salary range: $ - $ (Range

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Role type:
Permanent Exempt What does this mean?

Hours:

Full-time

About:

Who We Are

The San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System (SFERS) is dedicated to securing, protecting, and prudently investing the pension trust assets, administering mandated benefits programs, and providing promised benefits to the active and retired members of the City and County of San Francisco.

Established in 1889 as a fund for families and orphans of firefighters and police officers, today the San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System serves more than 75,000 active, vested, and retired employees of the City and County of San Francisco and their survivors.

What We Do

The Investment Division serves as a resource to the Retirement Board in the development of investment policies and practices. In accordance with the annual investment plan, the investment team deploys capital with the objectives of enhancing the structure and diversity of the investment portfolio and sustaining long‑term performance. Additionally, the Investment Division’s professional staff analyzes, develops, and recommends asset allocation mixes, manages investment portfolios, and monitors the activities and performance of external investment managers.

• Application Opening:
October 25,2025

• Salary: $134,576 and $171,834 annually

• Recruitment

This job announcement will not close before December 31, 2025. Interested applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.

Appointment Type

This permanent exempt position is excluded by the Charter from the competitive Civil Service Examination process and shall serve at the discretion of the Appointing Officer.

What We’re Looking For

The Investment Officer of Sustainable Investing and Stewardship “IO” assists in the management of SFERS’ Sustainable Investing and Stewardship programs under direction of the Director of Sustainable Investing and Stewardship. The IO is responsible for the following and will keep senior investment staff informed on the relevant issues:

• Assists in analyzing sustainability and corporate governance risks and opportunities that may affect the SFERS portfolio.

• Prepares reports on emerging sustainable investing and corporate governance‑related regulation, public policy, and other trends in the market related to sustainable and responsible investing.

• Performs regular sustainable investing due diligence on existing and prospective investment managers.

• Provides sustainable investing‑related analysis and written reports to support investment recommendations and performance reports.

• Assists in securing relevant quantitative data and information on sustainable investing subject matter.

• Assists in conducting investment stewardship activities such as engaged with underlying companies in the SFERS portfolio and executing proxy votes according to corporate governance principles and proxy voting guidelines.

• Assists in periodic assessment and reporting of cross organizational sustainable investing, corporate governance, and investment stewardship activities, including annual Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) reporting.

• Takes direction from senior investment staff and completes assigned tasks accurately and on time.

• Responsible for representing SFERS with distinction and class to external investment managers and other stakeholders.

How to qualify

• Possession of a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in finance, economics, business administration, accounting, statistics, environmental sciences, sustainability, or similar field; AND

• Three (3) years of investing and/or sustainability and/or investment stewardship experience with an investment management firm, pension plan, university, endowment, foundation, corporation, family office, or consulting/services firm.

Substitution

• Possession of a graduate degree in Business Administration, Finance, Statistics,…