Regional Coordinator position at S&P Global Corporate responsible for leading regional Corporate Responsibility activities, strengthening partnerships, and enhancing employee engagement through volunteer opportunities in the region. The role involves managing Foundation grants, supporting CSR efforts, and developing communication materials for internal and external use.
S&P Global Corporate
The Role: Regional Coordinator, Corporate Responsibility
The Team: The Corporate Responsibility (CR) team is essential in bringing our values of integrity, discovery and partnership to life. Our mission is to build more inclusive and sustainable economies and communities through our people, products and partnerships.
The Impact: Provide leadership for regional Corporate Responsibility activities, with a primary focus on deepening employee engagement. Secondary focus includes identifying and managing strategic partners and elevating regional commitments to CR. Partner with S&P Global Foundation to support its local market goals.
What’s in it for you: Working together with local committees and leadership, the role will avail and deepen meaningful volunteer opportunities to increase employee engagement. This individual will lead the scoping of new Foundation grants as well as the management and governance of existing grants and partners. This position supports S&P Global’s corporate responsibility efforts in the region including programs, partnerships, communications and stakeholder engagement.
Responsibilities:
- Lead regional CR activities; liaise with senior business and functional leaders, support local employee engagement, including year-round volunteering activities to build culture of service especially around skills-based volunteerism, CoRe Teams, Green Teams, utilization of matching gifts and other employee engagement programs
- Establish and build relationship across senior leadership teams to strengthen CR programming and increase measurable outcomes
- Support CR’s implementation of new technologies and practices, with a focus on a more modern and effective process for gift matching, grant making and partnership proposals
- Develop and build key resources and materials to communicate CR efforts, including presentations and impact stories for internal or external communications
- Identify, cultivate new partnerships, and strengthen existing partnerships, work with S&P Global Foundation grantees on proposal submissions, onboarding, impact and reporting with strong alignment to CR key focus areas
- Manage the full lifecycle of Foundation grants from concept to closing, ensuring responsive and timely decisions and follow up
What We’re Looking For:
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with strong service orientation
- Bachelor’s degree and experience in corporate responsibility, CSR or related field
- Experience in volunteer and/or events management and partner management
- Proven ability to prioritize, work independently, handle multiple, complex tasks simultaneously
- Generate pragmatic solutions to real or potential problems and recognize and leverage key opportunities
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Office 365, Box, SharePoint, Excel, Word and PowerPoint
- Knowledge of corporate foundation processes and procedures is recommended
- Experience with CSR technology platforms or quick to learn technology skills
- Knowledge of the developments in corporate philanthropy, social impact and sustainable development
- Ability to navigate complex environments, and help build relationships with a variety of stakeholders and organizations
- Strong EQ and ability to work in a fast-paced, highly matrixed, geographically diverse organization
- Strategic, collaborative and practical
- Ability to travel as needed
- For APAC roles this will be EMEA shift with flexibility
