Avanade Corporate Citizenship Program Manager

Together we go beyond.

Avanade’s Citizenship mission is to enable young people and their communities to achieve more through the power of our people and digital innovation. We care about the people and places where we work and want to make a genuine human impact by inspiring the business and technology leaders of the future. We also care about the future digital workforce, and in particular the diversity of the workforce.

Would you like to be part of this journey and make a great impact, transforming the lives of young people and their community?

We are looking for a passionate, self-motivated, team player and result oriented programs and partners manager to join the Avanade global citizenship team. You will be someone who enjoys working with mínimal structure but empowered to enable change; who thinks and works systematically and logically and brings strong communication and negotiating skills backed up with project management, technical skills and some social sector / citizenship knowledge.

This is part of the Global Corporate Citizenship team with primarily focused on partnership and program management for our citizenship efforts, reporting directly to the Global Citizenship executive. You will work closely with the corporate citizenship leads, team members and citizenship champ network to support volunteering and citizenship efforts and initiatives. The successful applicant will also have responsibility to lead the strategic programs, and collaborating with business teams, and D&I teams, to align and scale impact (internally and externally).

Our Avanade citizenship projects run all the way from planning through execution and measuring impact, with many milestones in between. As Program Manager, you will look after all projects and programs. Your great management and people skills are at the heart of every project, across different businesses and borders, and you create and implement effective plans that meet citizenship objectives. Your multi-faceted role draws on your business knowledge to coordinate scope, schedule, budget, quality and risks, monitoring and reporting to enable a fast response to any issue and make an impact.

**Responsibilities**:
Drive Implementation of Citizenship Activities
- Manage and scale strategic initiatives globally.
- Manage citizenship strategic partnership with leading non-profits
- Work closely with the various business teams, European leadership and clients to identify new activities representing a relevant opportunity for Avanade to further efforts to scale our social impact in communities we live and work
- Manage strategic programs implementations through collaborating with various team champs across various geographic to drive campaigns, execute volunteering activities and scale impact
- Partner with Citizenship Com lead to develop campaigns, related citizenship programs for both internal and public engagements.
- Continue to embed corporate citizenship as an integral part of the Avanade Human Impact story, strategy and business globally.
- Represent Avanade and be the citizenship spokesperson in the community

Internal Engagement and External Outreach
- Identify and partner with key corporate citizenship advocates across the company to catalyse and manage engagement and commitment.
- Build strong relationship with parent companies Microsoft and Accenture in growth markets and leverage resources and support where appropriate.
- Build and maintain robust relationships with leading non-profits, local institutes and foundations.
- Foster and support local community-facing programs aligned to corporate citizenship approach.

Operations and Management
- Work with the business and Corporate Citizenship Executive to develop strategy, goals and business plan, track progress and follow up on accountabilities.
- Manage strategy execution and coordinating various activities.
- coordinate with local champs, team activities, whether dedicated or volunteer.
- Track, manage and measure impact of agreed projects and activities to enable young people to transform lives and create new opportunities.
- Organize program meetings and calls, including building the agenda, facilitating discussions, collecting feedback, and following up on action items.

Process and Project Management
- Track accountabilities and follow up on meeting action items, deliverables and deadlines.
- Assist in preparing presentations

**Your skills**:
You really enjoy working with mínimal structure and you work to enable change. You think and work systematically and logically, and your strong communication and negotiating skills are backed up by a passion and drive for Corporate Citizenship. We are looking for someone with:

- Extraordinary personal skills -- ability to interact productively with all stakeholders.
- Positive attitude, good judgment and common sense.
- Highly motivated, responsive and follows through on commitments.
- Strong time management, prioritization and organizational skills.
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