EY is on a journey to transform its impact by becoming an accelerator of sustainable, inclusive growth. This includes significantly increasing our social impact and operating responsibly across all aspects of our business.
The GDS Corporate Responsibility team takes a consistent, global approach to engage and inspire our people to give using their skills, knowledge, experience and energy to work across three strategic focus areas
- Accelerating environmental sustainability (AES)
- Working with impact entrepreneurs (WIE)
- Supporting the next generation workforce (SNG)
The GDS CR Supervising Associate is a key role in the GDS CR function, supporting the GDS CR Central and India Leadership. The role holder should leverage their experience and knowledge of managing medium to large CR portfolio of employee volunteering and project managing impact CR projects. The role will also ensure that local initiatives are optimized and delivered with rigor. The role holder should demonstrate a true passion for driving sustainable inclusive growth, using their position to connect change-makers across our business and networks, while channelling their knowledge, skills and experience to tackle some of society s toughest challenges
Your key responsibilities
- Project manage a suite of existing offerings, which may include skill-based volunteering opportunities that are available to our people, self-service digital tools for beneficiaries and/or ecosystem platforms
- Support and sometimes lead the design, piloting and activation of new global offerings, leveraging leading practice and technology to develop EY s internal capability, increase staff participation and drive considerable external impact
- Support and sometimes lead the continuous development of offerings and associated toolkits and deployment approaches, maintaining a strong understanding of user needs to ensure continued integrity and relevance to beneficiaries and EY people
- Ensure the overall integrity of the project portfolio, mitigating/managing the risks associated with project deployment in the regions.
- Work with the Measurement and Reporting team to ensure that employee participation and impact data relating to central and local initiatives are recorded, tracked and communicated as part of the wider CR functional strategy using appropriate data management tools and other communications formats.
- Effectively partner with the Communications and Engagement team to create content and communication strategies that drive internal demand / participation for initiatives as we'll as raise EY GDS external brand in this area
- Collaborate with enabling functions and virtual teams to ensure the successful delivery of initiatives (e.g. Risk, Legal, Finance, Security etc)
- Identify global synergies through maintaining a strong understanding of aligned initiatives, credentials and impact stories, acting as a point of contact for region.
- Support relationship management with internal EY stakeholders and external relationships with third parties and beneficiaries
- Support and lead pan India strategic projects as necessary.
Skills and attributes for success
- Demonstrate a passion and understanding of the corporate responsibility agenda and trends/market activity relating to our key focus areas
- Delivery-focused with a proven ability to deliver complex portfolios of work, mitigate risk and manage multidimensional dependencies
- Innovative thinker with a strong interest in developing new ideas and the confidence to champion new ways of working with senior stakeholders
- Ability to navigate complexity and deliver significant change using personal style, influencing skills and change methodologies
- Demonstrate ability to influence and build collaborative relationships with senior stakeholders
- Demonstrate the knowledge, skills and abilities needed to establish and refine the strategies that drive brand as we'll as performance and continuous improvement
- Ability to navigate complexity and successfully coordinate multiple initiatives in an evolving, high pressure environment
To qualify for the role you must have
- 7-8 years of work experience including relevant experience in Social Impact/CSR sector
- Experience delivering employee engagement / change programs
- Experience delivering impactful communications
- Experience engaging, influencing and building collaborative relationships with senior stakeholders
- Knowledge of development sector
- Flexibility to travel within India basis project needs
- Excellent project management skills
- Strong MS Office skills Excel, Word, PowerPoint and MS Project, knowledge of AI and Co-pilot will be advantageous
Ideally, you'll also have
- Experience working across geographies and cultures (good to have)
- A masters degree or equivalent or bachelors degree with experience in development sector
- Strong team player who is comfortable working collaboratively, virtually and independently, with a focus on organisational culture and values
- Ability to flex personal style and work across geographies and cultures
- Keen interest to invest time for self-learning
- Vision and capability to understand industry trends
What we offer
As part of this role, you'll work in a highly integrated, globally diverse team with the opportunity and tools to grow, develop and drive your career forward. Here, you can combine global opportunity with flexible working. The EY benefits package goes above and beyond too, focusing on your physical, emotional, financial and social we'll-being. Your recruiter can talk to you about the benefits available in your country. Here s a snapshot of what we offer
- Continuous learning you'll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
- Success as defined by you we'll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
- Transformative leadership we'll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
- Diverse and inclusive culture you'll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.
