Intern Analyst, Corporate Affairs (Summer 2025)

Make an impact at a global and dynamic investment organization

When you invest your career in CPP Investments, you join one of the most respected and fastest growing institutional investors in the world. With current assets under management valued in excess of $600 billion, CPP Investments is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure long-term sustainability. The CPP Fund is projected to reach $3 trillion by 2050. CPP Investments invests in all major asset classes, including public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure and fixed-income instruments, and is headquartered in Toronto with offices in Hong Kong, London, Mumbai, New York City, San Francisco, São Paulo and Sydney.  

CPP Investments attracts and selects high-calibre individuals from top-tier institutions around the globe.  Join our team and look forward to:

• Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders
• Stimulating work in a fast-paced, intellectually challenging environment
• Accelerated exposure and responsibility
• Global career development opportunities
• Being motivated every day by CPP Investments’ important social purpose and unshakable principles
• A flexible/hybrid work environment combining in office collaboration and remote working
• A deeply rooted culture of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance

If you share a passion for performance, value a collegial and collaborative culture, and approach everything with the highest integrity, here’s an opportunity for you to invest your career at CPP Investments.

We are looking for a dynamic Intern Analyst to join the Corporate Affairs team in CPP Investments’ Public Affairs and Communications (“PAC”) Department. This role will be in the Toronto Office.

Corporate Affairs

The Corporate Affairs team is focused on preserving, promoting, and enhancing CPP Investments' culture, brand, and reputation. In this role, the successful candidate will dedicate their time to the Employee Engagement & Communications, Digital and Social Communications and Strategic Communications teams while gaining valuable exposure to some of CPP Investments internal and external global activities.

Employee Engagement & Communications plans, executes and delivers high impact, cross Fund communications, initiatives, and activities to ensure leaders and employees are informed, engaged, and contributing to our success.

Digital and Social Communications manage the website (www.cppib.com), the technical elements of our intranet, as well as our Social Channels on Instagram and LinkedIn.

Strategic Communications is focused on driving proactive strategic communications and thought leadership strategies that meaningfully support CPP Investments’ pursuit of its business objectives while enhancing its reputation domestically and internationally.

In this unique internship role, you will work closely with the Corporate Affairs team to develop and distribute dynamic content related to internal and external programs across all channels and platforms. Specifically, you will have the opportunity to contribute to new and fundamental employee communications initiatives, from supporting and creating editorial content and internal speaking events – to externally, planning and executing global and domestic activities, including those related to CPP Investments’ thought leadership strategy, alumni program, and other department business priorities.

Responsibilities

• Use storytelling to engage and inform employees and external stakeholders across multi-channel platforms.
• Support global employee and external stakeholder events.
• Contribute to communications plans.
• Help develop research-driven insights to continually enhance the impact of internal communications programs, creating compelling pieces of communication (presentations, infographics, and videos).
• Research and analyze trends and issues to support our business and communication priorities.
• Assist project management and planning efforts to advance the Fund’s employee engagement programs and strategic communications.
• Support the development of key messages, speeches, PowerPoint presentations, and briefing materials on a range of topics.
• Other duties as assigned.

Summer Program

At CPP Investments, we are committed to helping you grow your skills and gain world-class experience. Working within a strong culture of collaboration, you will discover our rewarding and challenging internships. We have leaders who listen to every member of the team and trust them with meaningful work. This translates into immediate and unparalleled learning.

The summer program begins with an Intern Orientation for you to engage with fellow Interns and learn about the resources and programs available to you. We offer company-wide departmental overviews for you to explore more about what we do at CPP Investments and give you the opportunity to gain exposure to senior leadership across the firm. You will quickly advance your knowledge and expertise through stimulating on-the-job assignments. You will participate in additional summer programming such as our Intern Case Competition and our Speaker Series where each session focuses on a different aspect of our culture including Employee Resource Groups, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion and much more.  We encourage you to bring your full self to work and take every opportunity to excel in your role.

Who We’re Looking For

The successful candidate will be a self-starter with excellent verbal and written communications skills, demonstrable business literacy, including knowledge of global economic trends, and an ability to quickly grasp complexity.

• Candidates in an undergraduate or graduate program that will be returning to school in the Fall of 2025 are eligible to apply. 
• Working towards a degree in Communications, Business, Public Relations, or an associated field of study. Knowledge of the investment management industry is an asset.
• Strategic thinker and strong communicator who can deliver clear and concise communications with a high attention to detail. 
• Experience with audio visual production and event planning are assets.
• Fluency in digital communication channels, social platforms, and visual presentations (i.e. PowerPoint, video production).
• Ability to distill complex information into compelling and concise content for targeted audiences.
• Proactive and high-performing team player with a collaborative approach and actively contributes to Corporate Affairs, Public Affairs and Communications and Fund-wide initiatives.
• Project management skills; able to thrive in a fast-paced environment and exhibit flexibility and adaptability to change.
• Strict adherence to confidentiality and always exhibiting a high level of professionalism.   
• Detail and results-oriented and the ability to manage multiple projects at once.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Exemplifies the Guiding Principles of integrity, partnership and high performance.
• French fluency an asset.

If you have an interest in working with talented professionals in the financial industry in an environment of integrity, partnership and high performance, then you should consider a career in at CPP Investments.

To apply, please include a cover letter, resume and transcripts.

Deadline: Thursday, January 16, 2025, at 11:59pm ET

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At CPP Investments, we are committed to diversity and equitable access to employment opportunities based on ability. We thank all applicants for their interest but will only contact candidates selected to advance in the hiring process.

Our Commitment to Inclusion and Diversity:

In addition to being dedicated to building a workforce that reflects diverse talent, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible experience. If you require an accommodation for any part of the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials, accessible meeting rooms, etc.), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

Disclaimer:
CPP Investments does not accept resumes from employment placement agencies, head-hunters or recruitment suppliers that are not in a formal contractual arrangement with us. Our recruitment supplier arrangements are restricted to specific hiring needs and do not include this or other web-site job postings. Any resume or other information received from a supplier not approved by CPP Investments to provide resumes to this posting or web-site will be considered unsolicited and will not be considered.  CPP Investments will not pay any referral, placement or other fee for the supply of such unsolicited resumes or information.