Job Description:
Job Title: CSR Project Manager
Corporate Title: Vice President
Location: London
Company Overview:
At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.
One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We're devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.
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Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.
Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!
Role Description:
The Social and Environmental Governance Team in EMEA is based in London and is made up of 8 full-time team members. The team is responsible for driving Social and Environment risk & regulatory advisory, philanthropy. The arts and environment engagement across the EMEA region, coordinating closely with colleagues across other international markets (APAC and LATAM).
Over the past decade, Bank of America has become firmly established as one of the largest active and influential providers of sustainable finance globally and a leading advocate for positive societal change.
This role would work closely with the International Head of Social and Environment group, and the Head of Philanthropy for EMEA to support the day to day operations of the team and the annual process of grant-making in the region.
Responsibilities:
- This role leads on the business support required for International Social and Governance team, including supporting the EMEA grant making process, as part of the bank's Foundation presence in the region.
- This will include: supporting not-for-profits with applications for funding, processing and information flow with colleagues in the US; processing grant applications through Cybergrants platform (online grant-making system) and supporting partners with due diligence; assisting in the creation of materials for the EMEA Philanthropy Board; helping with process of monitoring impact made by grant beneficiaries against their objectives.
- The Business Manager role also has a strong focus on content management, grant operations (see above), data organization, and presentation development.
- Responsibilities will include: developing business presentations and client materials and managing data and op-ex needs of the team, responding to the management team for materials for board entities and Ex-Co meetings. Keeping a data repository of approved materials and responses to E,S &G inquiries.
- In addition, the role will be responsible for preparing education materials in partnership with other LOBs (e.g., risk) and other informational content (e.g, country and line of business environment and social plans, country fact sheets).
- This role will assist with planning leadership routines across the international team - including international town halls, agenda development, meeting materials, as well as scheduling and tracking.
What we are looking for:
- Extensive experience in business support and developing business materials
- An interest in social and environmental issues and an understanding for the business rationale driving the social and environment agenda
- Ability to take large amounts of information/data and synthesize it into a cohesive, actionable storyline
- Demonstrated history of strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to effectively influence and communicate across all levels of the management
- Highly organized with critical thinking abilities at both the strategic and tactical levels
- Strong attention to detail
- Self-starter and team player
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic working environment
- Adaptable and flexible approach to the working day
- Strong Excel skills, PowerPoint presentations and data management system
Skills that will help (optional):
- Experience and/or understanding of the banking industry and / or ESG role advantageous
- Advanced Excel skills, PowerPoint presentations and data management system
- Strong and demonstrated writing skills
- Experience with monitoring & evaluation/impact data collection
- Grant-making experience/experience with a grant-making platform (i.e. Cybergrants)
Benefits of working at Bank of America
UK
- Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner
- Competitive pension plan, life assurance and group income protection cover if you become unable to work as a result of a disability or health reasons
- 20 days of back-up childcare including virtual tutoring and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum
- The ability to change your core benefits as well as the option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits to suit your personal circumstances including access to a wellbeing account, travel insurance, critical illness etc
- Use of a flex fund to use towards benefits
- Access to an emotional wellbeing helpline, mental health first aiders and virtual GP services
- Ability to donate to charities of your choice directly through payroll and the bank will match your contribution
- Opportunity to access our Arts & Culture corporate membership programme and receive discounted entry to some of the UK and Ireland's most iconic cultural institutions
- Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local area
Bank of America
Good conduct and sound judgment is crucial to our long term success. It's important that all employees in the organisation understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk. Individual accountability and an ownership mind-set are the cornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well.
We are an equal opportunities employer, and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, gender identity, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, age, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, responsibilities for dependants, physical or mental disability. The Bank selects candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications and experience.
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