CSR Leader India – IBM India Private Limited

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Category: Communications
Required Education: Bachelor’s Degree
Position Type: Professional
Employment Type: Full-Time
Contract Type: Regular
Company: (0063) IBM India Private Limited
Req ID: 634776BR
Travel Required: Up to 20% or 1 day a week

Your Role and Responsibilities
We are looking for a Leader of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in India & South Asia. This senior role will be responsible for regional IBM CSR representation and execution of key programs and initiatives to continue advancing IBM’s performance and global recognition as a socially responsible and sustainable company.
IBM WW CSR consists of four major areas:

STEM Education and Workforce Development, a highly impactful group of initiatives at the core of IBM’s commitment to skill 30 million people globally by 2030. It offers platform-based hybrid programs on Cloud and Artificial Intelligence(AI) for exploratory level, entry-level and professional reskilling and upskilling to two major groups: a) Social Impact – traditionally underrepresented underserved areas of our society with a focus to potentialize access to IT entry-level jobs throughout a network of alliances and partnerships b)Academia focused on professional content and brand advocacy, faculty members and train to train models.

• ESG/Sustainability – Materiality assessments for all areas related to global ESG report; ‘Sustainability
• Accelerator’ – specific initiative for developing AI/Cloud apps applied to sustainability issues.
• Volunteerism and Employee Engagement programs supporting these initiatives.
• CSR/ESG Communications both external and internal
• The CSR Leader I&SA drives local implementation of global polices and strategies for these four major areas to meet and exceed stakeholder expectations, specifically applying the local framework of 2% CSR
• Law in India, managing a multimillion dolar budget.

The role manages corporate social responsibility teams in India, evolving the social responsibility strategy and framework and operating internal governance and coordination bodies in this region. Target audiences for CSR programs – young adults in STEM mainly focused on women, girls and veterans, that we reach out throughout alliances with NPO’s, schools, community colleges and multiple alliances with public and private initiatives; secondary and vocational education public systems; alliances with Academia – typically tier 2 and 3 universities; it also includes large volunteer programs in this India; Communications internal and external and specifics assignments around global ESG reporting and Sustainability Accelerator program.

• The CSR Leader is also responsible for the 2%CSR Law budget approval by the CSR Board of India, its governance, execution and compliance.
• The CSR Leader I&SA also helps represent the company in external corporate social responsibility and sustainability organizations, initiatives, collaborations and events.

This position reports to the Global Director of Geo’s & Markets and at local level to GM Office of India; This role will be staffed in Bangalore.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Understand, communicate and strategize for trends and developments about STEM applied to corporate social responsibility and academia among key stakeholders (clients, shareholders, employees, governments, consumers)
• Local implementation and execution of global IBM’s STEM Education and Workforce Development strategy, related to Academia Programs – platform-based content offered for Academia; Social
• Responsibility platform-based Skills Build program for multiple audiences – high school students, teachers, job seekers, NGOs and strategic alliances.
• Foster IBM’s Sustainability Accelerator initiatives in India, driving new models, innovation and adoption.
• Lead at ISA level the materiality assessments and data collection related to annual ESG Reporting as requested by CSR CHQ
• Evolve IBM’s corporate social responsibility approach and framework, including periodic materiality assessment processes driven by CSR CHQ
• Support IBM’s engagement with key stakeholders on responsibility and sustainability topics
• Lead execution of Volunteerism and Employee Engagement programs
• Prioritize and engage strategically with external stakeholders, including organizations, alliances, coalitions, initiatives, partners and events
• Serve as resource for internal partners for formal ESG reporting and broader communications needs and opportunities
• Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with internal partners / functions that contribute to responsibility and sustainability to drive toward coalitions, consensus and action
• Manage agency resources (as available) to support programs and initiatives
• Expand and manage measurement activities focused on responsibility and sustainability
• Local execution of global Communications strategy both internal and external, supporting and enabling stories of impact, working closely with partners and our internal teams to support communications of efforts

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• A passion for innovation and CSR; societal impact leveraged by Cognitive and Cloud digital transformation around talent acquisition, jobs and careers; an opportunity for CSR to effectively reduce gaps and potentialize untapped talent
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically
• Multi-national corporate experience managing 2% CSR Law in India is required including governance model, impact evaluation and outcome-base programs.
• Breakthrough Thinking – STEM Business Acumen applied to Social Responsibility and Academia Programs; deep understand of Cloud and AI market, major players, portfolio and solutions and how this is impacting career paths, talent acquisition and untapped talent leveraged by programs focused on reskilling and upskilling, with high-school students, NPO’s target audience, Academia- typically tier 2 and 3 universities.
• Think global act local -proven capacity to drive local execution of global strategies and models
  A minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible experience in similar roles, experience implementing similar programs in a corporate environment is strongly preferred
• Understanding of leading corporate social responsibility standards and frameworks and experience conducting gap analyses and action plans in India.
• Ability to work within a complex and often ambiguous environment, to drive rigorous, fact-based recommendations to senior management, other executive, functional, or geographic management
• Experience managing and advancing broad-based corporate education and workforce development programs
• Experience managing and advancing broad-based environmental sustainability STEM programs and initiatives
• Understanding of India ESG and CSR landscape, frameworks and standards, ratings agencies, evolving legislation and trends affecting technology companies
• Involvement in developing and managing social responsibility and sustainability strategies, including the materiality assessment process
• Understanding of the evolving expectations for social responsibility and sustainability among various stakeholders (e.g., shareholders, ESG ratings firms, governments, non-governmental organizations, etc.)
• Exceptional ability to develop positive relationships and lead through influence with internal partners, build consensus and prioritize action and results
• Outstanding communicator with excellent presentation and strong written and oral communications skills
• Professional presence to be a trusted representative of the company with external stakeholders
• Team oriented, collaborative, diplomatic and flexible
• Self-starter with a demonstrated ability to thrive in a team-based environment that is fast-paced and rapidly changing

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) degree required