Associate, Corporate Action and Research

Corporate Action & Research Associate

The Organization

The mission of JUST Capital, an independent nonprofit, is to demonstrate how just business – defined by the priorities of the public – is better business. We work with the largest publicly-traded companies in the United States, and we have strong relationships with several hundred of the best known and most impactful companies in the world. Our goal is to help companies create value for all their stakeholders – their workers, customers, communities, the environment, and shareholders – by focusing on the issues that matter most to Americans. To date, we've polled more than 170,000 Americans on the issues they believe companies should prioritize when it comes to just business behavior, and those insights guide our work. We believe that business and markets can and must be a force for the greater good and that by shifting the resources of the $21.6 trillion private sector, we can drive competition to build a better future for all. Our research, rankings, indexes, initiatives, and new offerings like the JUST Jobs Scorecard help track, analyze, incentivize, and scale corporate stakeholder performance. JUST Capital publishes the annual list of America's Most JUST Companies, the JUST 100, in partnership with CNBC.

JUST Capital is supported by some of the country's premier foundations, including the Ford Foundation and the Gates Foundation, and has forged partnerships with an array of elite research institutions, including MIT, Stanford, and The Harris Poll. The organization is chaired by the hedge fund manager and philanthropist Paul Tudor Jones and is led by a high-profile board.

The Opportunity

The Associate, Corporate Action and Research will support JUST Capital's research, analysis, initiatives, and communication across different parts of our work, with a specific focus on research and data-based offerings. Their primary objectives will include supporting the team's core research tasks and the rollout of the soon-to-launch Corporate Impact Lab. The Associate, Corporate Action and Research will report to the Senior Manager, Corporate Action and Research.

Salary range: $63,500 - $67,700 annually

Essential Job Functions/Responsibilities:

• Support JUST Capital's core Research tasks (including, but not limited to metric development, data collection, data analysis) & the Corporate Impact Lab, a membership network of company leaders.
• Support development of JUST's tools, content, and resources, including those for Impact Lab members and those available to JUST's broader audience.
• Provide support as needed for JUST's core Rankings and non-rankings research work streams.
• Support the development and implementation of Impact Lab member experience and materials, including onboarding, membership offerings, with a specific focus on research and data-based offerings (e.g. members-only analyses and research reports, newsletter content, benchmarking data support).
• Serve as a bridge between the Corporate Action & Research team's research responsibilities and its corporate experience role by providing analytical perspective and logistical oversight.
  
  

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• A positive, can-do attitude, a sense of humor, resilience, determination, and passion for the JUST Capital mission
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; experience with analytical writing for a general audience is a plus
• Ability to effectively balance multiple priorities in a fast paced, dynamic environment
• Ability to quickly acquire and apply new skills and knowledge
• Ability to work independently while also engaging with teammates on collaborative projects
• Strong project coordination and time management skills
• Ability to consistently deliver high quality work with keen attention to detail and accuracy
• Strong work ethic and disciplined approach to tasks
• Familiarity with Asana, Salesforce, and G-suite preferred
• Knowledge of SQL or Python preferred
• Understanding of and interest in human capital, labor or ESG issues preferred
• Relevant work experience within a business/nonprofit preferred
  
  

Expectations in the first 90 days:

• Get to know your colleagues! Reach out and don't be afraid to ask questions. Overcommunication is encouraged.
• Familiarize themselves with JUST Capital's network, initiatives, and engagement objectives, and research and data.
• Familiarize themselves with our research structure and processes, including the rankings, tools and offerings, current research projects, and our data more broadly.
• Gain the ability to navigate research workflow and understand metrics across stakeholders with a particular focus on workers issues.
• Begin to develop an in-depth understanding of workers data, scoring, etc.
• Begin getting plugged into Corporate Impact workstreams; have gained enough understanding of our work and processes to be able to contribute meaningfully and begin to take ownership over tasks or processes.
• Get trained for corporate review period enough to participate (i.e., answer comments); understand ins-and-outs of Workers data.
• Learn our current communication systems and business practices including Salesforce, Mailchimp, YAMM, Corporate Engagement inbox management, Asana, Salesforce, and activity tracking spreadsheets.
• Support and begin to lead maintenance of contact and engagement information across the Corporate Impact team.
• Begin identifying and recommending improvements for how we currently store and track contact and engagement information across the Corporate Impact team.
• Join conversations with corporate contacts to begin to develop relationships with company stakeholders.
• Participate in development of 2024 corporate communications plan.
• If not already proficient, gain foundational knowledge of SQL and be able to write queries for basic data pulls and analyses. Training will be provided as needed.
  
  

JUST Capital is an Equal Opportunity Employer – people with disabilities are encouraged to apply

Benefits

The compensation and benefits package at JUST Capital has been thoughtfully designed to ensure we model what we measure when it comes to just business behaviors. Benefits include:

• 20 personal time off days, 5 sick days, 15 annual holidays – and other paid time off when the office generally closes the last week of the year.
• Best-in-class health, vision, and dental care benefits for you and your family, 100% covered by JUST, including membership in One Medical Group for on-demand primary care and access to Health Advocate, the nation's leading healthcare advocacy and assistance company.
• Personalized health, wellness, and lifestyle benefits – selected by you!
• Fulfilling, mission-driven purpose, with the opportunity to push real change through ESG-related conversations with corporate leaders and other stakeholders.
• "Focus Friday" afternoons to increase flexibility in schedules.
• High growth opportunities and an annual professional development stipend for conferences, courses, or anything that may help you progress your career.
• Supportive of growing families with fully paid parental leave of up to 12 weeks.
• 401(k) retirement plan, with an employer match of up to 4% of salary.