Our Sustainability team are looking for an experienced Community Impact Manager:
Our global sustainability team leads the delivery of both our environmental and social agendas. The Community Impact Manager is an exciting new position, established to provide additional focus and energy to our community programmes, building on our strong legacy in this area. This is an opportunity to shape and manage a leading community programme in line with our ambition to put people first and create impact that lasts. The Community Impact Manager will have a growing remit covering our global teams. You’ll have the opportunity to work closely with our Finance, People and Consulting teams to optimise our strategic charity partnerships, volunteering and fundraising activities, our pro bono work, and our early careers programmes. You’ll also ensure that we’re measuring the impact that we have in line with leading practice frameworks.
This role will be a part of our internal Baringa Enablement team, the purpose of which is to help the business growand make our peoples’ lives easier. To do this we provide businesscapabilities and services across Finance, IT, HR, Legal, Marketing andOperations & Risk.
What you will be doing
1. Be the custodian of Baringa’s community impact ambition, aligned with our people agenda
2. Own the annual delivery plan
3. Oversee the principles and governance for various community investment activities
4. Lead the process for regularly reviewing and updating our CSR strategy and policy
5. Maximise the impact of the community investment strategy across each area of the programme, liaising with key stakeholders and champions to ensure alignment with our ambition
6. Coordinate the management of relationships with strategic charity partners to ensure effective partnerships and create opportunities for our people to have an impact
7. Lead the network of ‘champions’ across the business, ensuring effective best practice sharing, and maintain impactful linkages with our people programmes
8. Measure the impact of our community initiatives against a recognised social impact framework, ensuring the integrity and credibility of data and associated processes
9. Manage the community investment budget and develop periodic reports for leadership team, focused on progress against key metrics and budget
10. Support the provision of relevant information for various third party assessments
11. Develop and maintain relevant content for our website, external reports, intranet other internal communications channels
Your skills and experience
12. A passion for, and an understanding of, the community investment agenda
13. 5+ years of professional experience in corporate community impact, sustainability / social impact measurement, or management consulting
14. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, ideally with some experience of working with community / social data
15. A natural communicator and collaborator, with strong stakeholder management skills, and a predisposition to ‘join the dots’
16. Excellent project management and organisational skills
17. Able to think strategically and creatively to refine existing programmes, and to identify new possibilities, with the drive to help bring them to fruition
18. Experience of working in the professional services sector preferred
What a career at Baringa will give you
Putting People First.
Baringa is a People First company and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include:
19. Generous Annual Leave Policy: We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.
20. Flexible Working: We know that the ‘ideal’ work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this, we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.
21. Corporate Responsibility Days: Our world is important to us, so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.
22. Wellbeing Fund: We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. We’ve introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.
23. Profit Share Scheme: All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company’s success.