Senior Associate - Corporate Responsibility Specialist

Job description / Role

As a sophisticated global business, EY understands the importance of maintaining a strong, reliable brand. As a Senior Associate, you’ll be right at the heart of that goal, supporting us in maintaining and improving our brand identity to support market-leading growth. It’s a great role, where you’ll see opportunities to influence our brand in a big way right from the start.

The Corporate Responsibility Specialist will be responsible for the regional implementation and delivery of our global CR program, EY Ripples as well as developing initiatives, activities and partnerships that meet the demand for participation locally and build strong stakeholder relationships at a local level, in alignment with the global CR strategy.

This role must build strong relationships with all SLs, Markets Segments, Talent, Finance and other CBS functions beside being and integral part of the MENA Brand, Marketing and Communications (BMC) team.

Success in this role will be the delivery of our global CR strategy through a bigger engagement of our MENA people with the Ripples activities. Additionally, the roll out of a MENA CR vision that brings our purpose of building a better working world for our people and communities.

The opportunity

Your key responsibilities

Portfolio management

• Work with the MENA CE leader on program prioritization, planning and execution
• Budget planning
• Risk, issue and dependency management
• Operationalization of business relationships if required (e.g. contracting, feedback)
• Identify opportunities to engage in and convene external networks
• Participation in local forums and networks to position EY as leader in sustainable and inclusive growth
• Gathering market insights that can help shape global thought leadership

Ripples Portal management

• Ensure sufficient activities to meet Internal demand generation and uploading these opportunities and initiatives to the portal
• Routing participant applications to the correct program owner
• Uploading participant data to the portal
• Participant tracking through the portal
• Local initiative alignment process
• Content creation and management (e.g. portal content, impact stories, credentials etc. )
• Local stakeholder management (e.g. program owners)
• Measurement and reporting
• Coordination of data gathering to populate the CR dashboard and other global reporting frameworks
• Collection of CR business-related data
• Collection of impact measurement data
• Production of CR reporting
• Providing metrics for CR dashboard or other global reporting frameworks

Brand, Marketing and Communications:

• Work closely with MENA Communications & Engagement leader to develop CR CE strategy and execution plan to drive demand generation
• Create content for internal announcements and campaigns
• Support with Employee Engagement Programs
• Coordination of all external CR activities (e.g. PR, social media, CR related events)
• Report to MENA CE leader on Campaign metrics reach and impact of communications and engagement activities
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge on brand, marketing, communications trends.
• Manage and maintain positive relationships with key stakeholders.
• Help prioritize projects to ensure alignment with key areas of focus for BMC and the business.

Skills and attributes for success

• Demonstrate a good understanding of Corporate Responsibility.
• Demonstrate excellent written and verbal communications skills in English and Arabic.
• Be a team player with a flexible can-do attitude and strong interpersonal skills.
• Strong ability to multi-task, with attention to detail and work on several projects simultaneously.
• Good knowledge and skills concerning business fundamentals, code of ethics and cross-cultural sensitivities.
• Ability to summarise information including awareness of what’s happening in the local market.
• Strong ability to work under pressure, prioritize own workload, proactively manage business and people expectations.
• Proactive and responsive.
• Ability to work under own initiative with minimal supervision; demonstrate reliability to stakeholders.
• Develop knowledge of the business through new experiences and projects; actively find opportunities to learn.
• Interest in digital channels, social media platforms and posts, how to engage audiences.
• Demonstrate new ideas, innovative thinking and inspire action.

Requirements

To qualify you must have

• Substantial CR or relevant experience
• Experience in project management within a people organization with proven and demonstrable results
• Proven ability to influence and build collaborative relationships with senior-level stakeholders
• Bachelor’s Degree in relevant area

What we look for

We are looking for people who can combine, great listening skills, collaboration, influencing and commercial acumen. Being able thrive in an ever changing, diverse, multi-cultural environment where we expect exceptional quality and show passion for your work will set you up for success.

What working for EY offers

We offer a competitive compensation package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business. We also offer:

• Exposure to some of the greatest colleagues and clients in the industry
• Support, feedback and coaching in a culture that values operational excellence
• Career potential to grow both within the MENA region and globally
• A culture that will encourage you to grow you skills and strengths for your own betterment as well as that or EY

About EY

As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, we’re using the finance products, expertise and systems we’ve developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime. And with a commitment to hiring and developing the most passionate people, we’ll make our ambition to be the best employer by 2020 a reality.

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

Build your legacy with us.

Apply now.

About the Company

EY is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services. The insights and quality services we deliver help build trust and confidence in the capital markets and in economies the world over. We develop outstanding leaders who team to deliver on our promises to all of our stakeholders. In so doing, we play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, for our clients and for our communities.

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The MENA practice of EY has been operating in the region since 1923. For over 95 years, we have grown to over 7,500 people united across 21 offices and 16 countries, sharing the same values and an unwavering commitment to quality. As an organization, we continue to develop outstanding leaders who deliver exceptional services to our clients and who contribute to our communities. We are proud of our accomplishments over the years, reaffirming our position as the largest and most established professional services organization in the region