Employees Dedicated to Social and Environmental Performance (OI6370)

This metric is intended to capture the number of employees managing an organization’s social and environmental performance.

In calculating the number of full-time equivalent jobs (FTEs), organizations should convert part-time jobs to full-time equivalent jobs on a pro rata basis, based on local definitions. (For instance, if the standard working week equals 40 hours, a 20 hour/week job would be equal to 0.5 FTEs). In this calculation, organizations should also consider the share of employees’ duties allocated to managing social and environmental performance. For instance, if an organization had 4 full-time employees working on social and environmental performance issues each for half of their work time, they would report 2 FTEs under this metric.

This metric is multi-dimensional with regard to the five dimensions of impact: it may help describe the WHO dimension when the stakeholder group represented by the metric is the stakeholder group targeted by the investment or organization. It may also help measure the HOW MUCH Scale dimension, which helps estimate the number of the targeted stakeholders experiencing the outcome. For more on the alignment of IRIS metrics to the five dimensions of impact, see IRIS+ and the Five Dimensions of Impact (https://iris.thegiin.org/document/iris-and-the-five-dimensions/). No single metric is sufficient to understand an impact; rather, metrics are selected as a set across all dimensions of impact. When possible, the selection of metrics to measure and describe the five dimensions should be based on best practice and evidence.